News
Every entry here is generated from the same changelog that drives the
Signal Room report itself
(data/market-state.json) – model roster additions, benchmark refreshes,
and fixes, in the order they happened.
Corrected the GPT-5.6 pricing history from OpenAI's July 30 announcement: Terra fell...
Friday, August 07, 2026 in News
Pricing · Corrected the GPT-5.6 pricing history from OpenAI’s July 30 announcement: Terra fell 20% from $2.50/$15 to $2/$12 per MTok and Luna fell 80% from $1/$6 to $0.20/$1.20. The report now records lower paid Codex and ChatGPT Work credit …
Updated GPT-5.6 Terra to $2/$12 per million input/output tokens and Luna to...
Saturday, August 01, 2026 in News
Pricing · Updated GPT-5.6 Terra to $2/$12 per million input/output tokens and Luna to $0.20/$1.20 from OpenAI’s live model pages. Recomputed the tracked 30/70 workload blends and effort-burn ratios. Superseded on August 7 with OpenAI’s …
Updated DeepSeek V4-Flash to the 0731 public beta with 1M context, 384K max output...
Saturday, August 01, 2026 in News
Model roster · Updated DeepSeek V4-Flash to the 0731 public beta with 1M context, 384K max output, thinking/non-thinking modes, $0.14/$0.28 per-million pricing, $0.0028 cached input, and vendor-reported agent results including Terminal-Bench 2.1 82.7 …
Added Thinking Machines Lab and its first model, Inkling: a 975B-parameter (41B...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 in News
Model roster · Added Thinking Machines Lab and its first model, Inkling: a 975B-parameter (41B active) open-weight (Apache 2.0) multimodal MoE with 1M-token context, released 2026-07-15. No first-party per-token API pricing is published (monetized …
Added Claude Opus 5: general availability, 1M context, 128K maximum output, adaptive...
Saturday, July 25, 2026 in News
Model roster · Added Claude Opus 5: general availability, 1M context, 128K maximum output, adaptive thinking by default, $5/$25 per MTok base pricing, and official cloud-platform availability. Added independent Artificial Analysis evidence (61 …
Refreshed current-source evidence: added OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch table, Google's...
Friday, July 24, 2026 in News
Benchmarks · Refreshed current-source evidence: added OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch table, Google’s Managed Agents update, and Scale’s public SWE-bench Pro leaderboard. Clarified that vendor launch tables and the public leaderboard are …
Recorded Google’s broader Flash shift: Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber remains restricted to...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 in News
Data · Recorded Google’s broader Flash shift: Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber remains restricted to governments and trusted CodeMender partners; Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite remain specialized media models rather than general-purpose roster …
Made the selected reference propagate through open-weight quality headlines...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 in News
Fix · Made the selected reference propagate through open-weight quality headlines, market-signal history, comparison headings, model analytics, self-hosting quality and capability market position. Replaced the model and harness inventory mini-lines …
Added Google’s GA Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with stable model IDs, 1M...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 in News
Model roster · Added Google’s GA Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with stable model IDs, 1M context, 64K output, current API pricing, Artificial Analysis intelligence and throughput measurements, and Google’s published coding and agentic …
Refreshed five open agent harnesses from their canonical GitHub releases: Codex CLI...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 in News
Agent harnesses · Refreshed five open agent harnesses from their canonical GitHub releases: Codex CLI 0.144.6, Gemini CLI 0.51.0, OpenCode 1.18.4, Cline 4.0.10, and Goose 1.43.0; updated repository star snapshots and notable release capabilities.