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OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Astra, their first model trained on an older
model's output. Intelligence score matches GPT-5.6-Sol at 61. Where it shines: computer use and cybersecurity. $10/M input, $50/M output — 2.5x Sol. But it finishes tasks faster and eats fewer tokens.

Turns out the 9router extension I wrote for pi has way more users
than I expected. Genuinely thought I was the only one using it.

Meituan shipped LongCat-2.5
. 1.6T params, ~48B active, native multimodal, aimed at long-horizon agents, trained start to finish on Chinese hardware. Images get quantized into multi-level discrete tokens, and that's where Visual Coding and 3D pick up. On the RL side, failed trajectories get turned back into verifiable training tasks. W4A4 inference, 43% faster prefill. Meituan's own evals put it between Claude Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.

SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova Loop-9B-Preview.
It stacks layers instead of parameters. The decoder has 32 layers, but layers 4 through 27 run twice with shared weights, so a forward pass does 56 layers of work while the checkpoint stays at 9B. Their own eval numbers: 71.38 on BIRD-Dev and 13.72 on AutomationBench, both above Qwen3.5-27B. Terminal Bench is still behind.
