Today's Model Releases Flash
NEW AI MODEL RELEASES - April 13, 2026
No major AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Cohere, Stability AI, Hugging Face, Microsoft, or other notable labs were released or announced in the past 48 hours (April 11-13). Here are the most recent notable releases from the past week:
•Gemma 4 by Google — Most capable open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows with industry-leading intelligence-per-parameter; available in Effective 2B (E2B), Effective 4B (E4B), 26B MoE, and 31B Dense sizes (31B ranks #3 and 26B #6 on Arena AI leaderboard); open source under Apache 2.0 license, runnable on user hardware.[1] [https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/]
•MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Image-2 by Microsoft — Foundational multimodal models for transcription (speech-to-text in 25 languages, 2.5x faster than Azure Fast), voice generation (60s audio in 1s with custom voices), and image/video generation; available via Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground, priced from $0.36/hour.[2] [https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/microsoft-takes-on-ai-rivals-with-three-new-foundational-models/]
•Veo 3 / Veo 3.1 by Google — Latest generative video model with enhanced realism, prompt adherence, and native audio support.[5] [https://aistudio.google.com/models/veo-3]
What This Means: The past week highlights a push toward efficient open models like Google's Gemma 4 for reasoning tasks and multimodal capabilities from Microsoft and Google, emphasizing accessibility, cost-efficiency, and edge deployment amid a competitive landscape favoring smaller, high-performing architectures over massive parameter counts.[1][2][5]
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