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GPT-6 Astra saturates benchmarks and raises the bar on computer use, coding, and cybersecurity. Teams must now reconsider whether open-weights or smaller fine-tuned agents remain cost-effective.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash delivers frontier-level coding and reasoning at Flash speed and cost ($0.75/1M in tokens). A Cyber variant targets vulnerability discovery and patching.
DeepSeek's re-post-trained DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 scores 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 — reportedly beating its own near-6x larger V4-Pro-Preview — and now speaks the Responses API natively for Codex-style harnesses. What actually shipped, how to split high vs max effort, and the verbosity caveat that quietly resets the per-task math.
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, with a seven-point SWE-bench jump, the 1M context window now generally available with no premium, and a new task budget primitive for agent loops.
Anthropic's latest model achieves state-of-the-art results in agentic coding and brings meaningful improvements across reasoning, mathematics, and everyday tasks.