Release8d ago
Microsoft makes MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash generally available in Foundry as MAI-Image-2.7-Preview reaches #3 in Image Edit Arena
Microsoft AI announced on Oct 27 that MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are generally available in Microsoft Foundry, with multi-reference editing from up to five images, Bing web grounding, output up to 1.5K and published per-token pricing. The same day its next image editing model, MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, reached #3 overall in Arena's Image Edit leaderboard at 1470 points, 45 points above 2.6; for now it is available only for editing in MAI Playground.
Release2d ago
OpenAI's Tibo Says Dots Will Expand Its Model Family to Include GPT-6.1 Terra for Speed and Wider Reach
At 15:50 UTC on Nov 2, Tibo (@thsottiaux), whose X bio reads "Codex & ChatGPT @OpenAI", posted that OpenAI is working on expanding the family of frontier models that power dots, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Terra, with others to come. He said Terra brings speed and "a nice personality upgrade" and will help bring dots to more people. Dots are the always-on agents in ChatGPT with their own cloud computer, launched on GPT-6 Astra. This is a first-hand post by an OpenAI employee, not a formal company announcement; no timing or plan details have been published.
Release14d ago
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud: Model Garden access, bought via Marketplace against existing GCP commitments
On Oct 21, OpenAI and Google Cloud announced a partnership bringing OpenAI frontier models and Codex agentic workflows into Google Cloud Model Garden, transacted through Google Cloud Marketplace so enterprises can draw down existing GCP commitments. OpenAI models will also come to Google Antigravity and Gemini Agent soon. General availability is planned in the coming weeks, and Microsoft remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner. After AWS, this puts OpenAI models on all three major US clouds.
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