OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Instant on March 3, 2026, replacing GPT-5.2 Instant as the default model in ChatGPT. The update reduces hallucinations by 26.8% on high-stakes queries, eliminates the preachy tone users complained about, and ships to all ChatGPT users including the free tier
Zhipu AI released GLM-5 on February 13, 2026, a 744 billion parameter open-source model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips without a single NVIDIA GPU
Apple just admitted it cannot build a competitive voice assistant alone. On February 12, 2026, the company announced a multi-year partnership with Google to rebuild Siri from the ground up using Gemini AI
Perplexity launched Model Council on February 5, 2026, a feature that runs the same query across multiple frontier AI models simultaneously and synthesizes a single, cross-validated answer. The feature is available to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month