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title: "Model Drops"
url: "https://handyai.news/model-drops"
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description: "Every Model Drop post from handyai.news — focused write-ups published whenever a notable new AI model is released."
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# Model Drops

> Every Model Drop post from handyai.news — focused write-ups published whenever a notable new AI model is released.

RSS: https://handyai.news/model-drops.xml

- **May 28, 2026** — [Claude Opus 4.8](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/claude-opus-48): Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.8 an hour ago, and on paper it’s the kind of release that’s easy to shrug at. Benchmarks tick up. Price stays flat ($5 per…
- **May 19, 2026** — [Gemini Omni](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/gemini-omni): Today at Google I/O: Gemini Omni, the “create anything from any input” multimodal family Google DeepMind shipped alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash. This is the first…
- **May 19, 2026** — [Gemini 3.5 Flash](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/gemini-35-flash): Google DeepMind just shipp Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O 2026, an agentic Flash-tier model. This is the first Flash release in the series that beats its…
- **May 18, 2026** — [Composer 2.5](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/composer-25): Composer 2.5, the in-house coding model Cursor shipped to its IDE today. Built on the same open-source Moonshot Kimi K2.5 checkpoint as Composer 2, with 85%…
- **May 12, 2026** — [GPT-Realtime-2](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/gpt-realtime-2): Model Drop: GPT-Realtime-2Seventh edition of Model Drop. Today: GPT-Realtime-2 and the two companion voice models OpenAI shipped through the Realtime API on…
- **April 24, 2026** — [DeepSeek V4](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/deepseek-v4): Rise and shine! While you were sleeping, DeepSeek dropped V4 of their frontier model… and she’s a bit underwhelming.Model: DeepSeek V4 preview, two variants…
- **April 23, 2026** — [GPT-5.5](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/gpt-55): The SpecsModel: GPT-5.5 (gpt-5.5 on the OpenAI API once it rolls out, plus gpt-5.5-pro). Ships in three consumer surfaces: default GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Thinking…
- **April 22, 2026** — [Kimi K2.6](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/kimi-k26): Model: Kimi K2.6 (kimi-k2.6)Model type: Text + vision, with native image and video inputShip date: April 20, 2026Maker: Moonshot AI (Beijing)Pricing: $0.60 /…
- **April 21, 2026** — [GPT Image 2](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/gpt-image-2): Today: GPT Image 2, which OpenAI just shipped into ChatGPT and the API.Model ID: gpt-image-2Max Resolution: 2K standard, 4K beta via APIAspect Ratios: 3:1…
- **April 19, 2026** — [GPT-Rosalind](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/gpt-rosalind): Today’s subject: GPT-Rosalind. This model is OpenAI’s first domain-specialized frontier model, shipped last week, is named after Rosalind Franklin, whose…
- **April 17, 2026** — [Claude Opus 4.7](https://handyai.news/modeldrop/claude-opus-47): I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. The release cadence for frontier models is rapid (in the last thirty days alone we’ve had Mythos Preview tease…