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DeepSeek V4-Pro matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench at a fraction of the cost - a thorough review of what it gets right, where it still trails, and whether the price gap justifies the switch.
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DeepSeek V4-Pro matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench at a fraction of the cost - a thorough review of what it gets right, where it still trails, and whether the price gap justifies the switch.

Three new papers expose systematic failure modes in LLM agents - from unnecessary tool calls to jailbreaks that emerge only under quantization.

OpenAI's first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5, targeting agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work at $5/$30 per million tokens.

Grok 4.3 Beta adds native video input and document generation to xAI's flagship, with a confirmed 0.5T-parameter checkpoint and 2M-token context window, at $300/month for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers.

Gemini 3.1 Pro leads GPQA Diamond at 94.1% and HLE at 44.7% as AIME 2025 saturates; Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K2.6 join the top tier in April 2026.

Three new papers show AI scientific agents skip evidence, tool-integrated agents are vulnerable to adversarial poisoning, and reasoning model safety can be fixed with 1,000 examples.

GPT Image 2 (ChatGPT Images 2.0) brings 99%+ text accuracy, 2K resolution, web-search grounding, and a Thinking mode for character-consistent storyboards.

Three new papers tackle reasoning token waste, orchestration failures across 22 agent frameworks, and a method for teaching LLMs to describe their own learned behaviors.

LG AI Research's first open-weight vision-language model packs 33B parameters, 262K context, and STEM scores above GPT-5-mini - but ships under a non-commercial license.

OpenAI's first domain-specific reasoning model for biology and drug discovery, launched April 16 2026 as a US-only research preview with a 0.751 BixBench score.

Three new papers challenge assumptions in MoE routing design, prompt optimization workflows, and LLM reasoning chains - all published this week on arXiv.

Arcee Trinity-Large-Thinking is a 400B sparse MoE open-source reasoning model that ranks #2 on PinchBench at $0.85/M output tokens, 28x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6.