Leaks: Opus 5.5 stealth-tested with cheaper pricing, while Qwen 4, Kimi K3.1, Step 5 loom
WorldofAI · youtube · 2026-09-21
This AI news roundup covers a batch of rumored model releases:
- Anthropic Opus 5.5: reportedly in stealth testing, with leaks pointing to cheaper pricing, a huge context window, and an imminent release
- Qwen 4: possibly revealed at the Apsara Conference; Qwen-Image-2.1 is a 7B open-weight image generation/editing model with native transparency support
- Kimi K3.1: being teased by Moonshot AI
- MiniMax M3.1 / M3Pro: references spotted in recent code
- Step 5 Preview: a 600B MoE model with only 27B active parameters
All items are rumors or previews, not officially confirmed.
More from Models
- Grok Bot now auto-detects and blocks prompt injection hidden in web pages — heypearlai · 2026-11-12
- ChatGPT now links to brand homepages far more, reshaping brand-mention tracking — lilyraynyc · 2026-11-12
- YC-backed Monte launches post-training platform to build proprietary models from your agents' real work — ycombinator · 2026-11-12
- Leak Claims OpenAI Will Launch Entire GPT-6.2 Family Tomorrow to Counter Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.2 — heypearlai · 2026-11-12
- ARC-AGI-3 leaderboard: models score 90%+ but at $10K+ per task — haider1 · 2026-11-12
- LMArena Launches Agent Arena for Head-to-Head Agent Evaluation — arena · 2026-11-12