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The latest Artificial Analysis news, : Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters.

Artificial Analysis is an organization that develops and publishes benchmarks to evaluate AI models, including the Intelligence Index, Cyber Index, and Smartphone Inference Ranking. Recent coverage details the launch of the open-source AA-AgentPerf-Local tool for measuring local agent performance and the formation of the Cyber Index Alliance with partners like IBM and Nvidia to standardize enterprise cyber defense evaluations.

22 stories mentioning Artificial Analysis since 21 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. Follow to see new ones on your front page.

  1. Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters

    Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Inkling 2 Small, its second-generation Mixture-of-Experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters. The…

    7 sources
    The DecoderLatent SpaceMarkTechPostartificialanalysis.ai +3 more
  2. Hardware & Compute new

    NVIDIA boosts MoE inference speed 42.5% on DGX Spark with Ling-3.0-flash

    NVIDIA detailed three optimizations for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) inference on its DGX Spark system, improving decode throughput by 42.5% for Ant Group’s inclusionAI Ling-3.0-flash model. The 124B-parameter model, with…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  3. A new way of measuring AI models suggests China's threat to OpenAI and Anthropic may have been overblown

    A revised ranking by Artificial Analysis reveals a larger performance gap between leading US AI models and Chinese open-weight models. Under the updated system—with secret tests to prevent benchmark hacking—the best…

    5 sources HN 32
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  4. OpenAI hints at GPT-6.1 Astra release amid funding and model speculation

    OpenAI is reportedly preparing to launch GPT-6.1 Astra, with internal model trackers showing its imminent arrival. The company has introduced token limit resets, suggesting users should save tokens for the new model.…

    1 source
    wccftech.com
  5. Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon for cybersecurity defenders via Fairwind at $2/$10 per million tokens

    Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its newest frontier AI model, emphasizing state-of-the-art cybersecurity capabilities. The model is initially available to selected cybersecurity defense companies through the Fairwind…

    12 sources primary source HN 182
    The Rundown AISmall Business Trendsnote.comLatent Space +7 more
  6. NVIDIA releases open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe model and Granary v2 dataset

    NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight speech model that combines multilingual transcription, speaker attribution, translation, and audio question answering in a single checkpoint. The model…

    13 sources primary source HN 124
    AWS Machine Learning BlogMarkTechPostnote.comThe Decoder +7 more
  7. Artificial Analysis ranks Claude Opus 5.5 first in updated Intelligence Index v5

    Artificial Analysis updated its AI benchmark this week, shifting 60% of scoring to private datasets labs can’t preview. The change put Claude Opus 5.5 at the top with a score of 58, ahead of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra (57)…

    2 sources HN 42
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  8. Code2Video-AA benchmark places Claude Opus 5.5 first in marketing video generation

    Artificial Analysis released the Code2Video-AA benchmark on October 26, 2026, ranking 27 AI models by their ability to create marketing videos from code. The test requires models to generate HyperFrames HTML…

    1 source
    cryptobriefing.com
  9. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T open-weight model closing gap with proprietary leaders

    Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a post-trained version of its K3 model with 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion active parameters. The model features a 1-million-token context…

    24 sources
    The Rundown AInote.comcryptopolitan.comlapaasvoice.com +13 more
  10. Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 tops Coding Agent Index with 61.7 score

    Artificial Analysis released its Coding Agent Index v2.0, which evaluates AI models on 290 software tasks and measures real‑world code mergeability. In the new ranking, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 leads with an overall…

    1 source
    cryptobriefing.com
  11. Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tie for top on medical reasoning leaderboard

    On October 21, 2026 Artificial Analysis updated the MLCR‑AA leaderboard, a benchmark created by insurtech platform Wisedocs to test AI synthesis of long medical and insurance records. The update shows Anthropic’s…

    1 source
    cryptobriefing.com
  12. Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full agentic AI models

    Meta released two AI models on October 12: Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. Designed for agentic multi-step tasks, both models support a context window of about one million tokens. Muse Wonder is available via Meta's…

    4 sources
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  13. Agents & Tools new

    xAI releases Grok Voice 3.0 for voice agents at $0.08 per minute

    xAI launched Grok Voice 3.0, a speech-to-speech model for voice agents, on October 14, 2026. The model is available via the Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute—the same price as its predecessor—claiming top scores on…

    2 sources
    MarkTechPostUnite.AI
  14. Anthropic cuts Haiku 5.5 pricing to match OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna

    Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 6, 2026, positioning it as a cheaper, faster alternative to OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna at the same price. The model supports 1M-token context (up from 200K) and includes effort…

    1 source
    Latent Space
  15. Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with 1M token output, claims lead on DeepSWE and cybersecurity benchmarks

    Google has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model designed for complex, long-horizon tasks in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense. The model features an…

    24 sources primary source HN 43
    note.comblockonomi.comcoincentral.comCNBC Technology +13 more
  16. Hardware & Compute new

    Artificial Analysis releases open-source tool to benchmark local AI agents on laptops and workstations

    Artificial Analysis has launched AA-AgentPerf-Local, an open-source benchmarking tool designed to measure how fast AI agents perform on laptops and workstations. The tool replays real agent trajectories—eight recorded…

    1 source
    artificialanalysis.ai
  17. Agents & Tools new

    ElevenLabs launches v4 speech model with 10,000-character limit and Turbo variant

    ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, a speech model that better follows tone, pacing, and context cues while keeping voices consistent across long productions. The update supports over 90 languages, up from about 70 in v3,…

    1 source
    The Decoder
  18. Research new

    Artificial Analysis launches Cyber Index to benchmark AI models on enterprise vulnerability defense

    Artificial Analysis launched its Cyber Index (v1) on September 25 to evaluate how well AI models can discover, validate, and patch security vulnerabilities in enterprise systems. The index combines three benchmarks:…

    1 source
    cryptobriefing.com
  19. Research new

    Artificial Analysis releases smartphone inference ranking showing model scores drop under one-minute cutoff

    Artificial Analysis published its 'Smartphone Inference Ranking' on August 24, 2026, evaluating small AI models on iPhone 17 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra devices. The ranking, developed with Liquid AI, measures…

    1 source
    note.com
  20. Claude Opus 5.5 tops benchmark over OpenAI’s Astra and Fable 5.1

    Anthropic’s new model, Claude Opus 5.5, ranked first in the Intelligence Index benchmark by Artificial Analysis, surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic’s own Fable 5.1. The index aggregates scores from ten…

    8 sources
    note.comheise.de
  21. Research new

    Artificial Analysis launches Cyber Index Alliance to benchmark AI agents on cyber defense

    Artificial Analysis introduced the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index Alliance, a partnership with Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to create a standardized benchmark for evaluating AI agents in enterprise cyber defense…

    1 source
    artificialanalysis.ai
  22. Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL, a 1.02T/42B open omnimodal model trained via scaled RL

    Xiaomi has released the MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL model, a flagship open-weight omnimodal AI model with 1.02 trillion total parameters and 42 billion activated parameters, supporting text, image, video, and audio modalities…

    6 sources primary source
    note.comThe DecoderLatent Spacehuggingface.co

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What is the latest Artificial Analysis news?

As of 6 November 2026: Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Inkling 2 Small, its second-generation Mixture-of-Experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters.

What is Artificial Analysis?

Artificial Analysis is an organization that develops and publishes benchmarks to evaluate AI models, including the Intelligence Index, Cyber Index, and Smartphone Inference Ranking. Recent coverage details the launch of the open-source AA-AgentPerf-Local tool for measuring local agent performance and the formation of the Cyber Index Alliance with partners like IBM and Nvidia to standardize enterprise cyber defense evaluations.