"The wait is over. Release season has arrived. After a relatively quiet June, the pace has picked up again. GPT-5.6 was the breakthrough I had been hoping for. I’ve never burned through my rate limits so quickly. Fable 5 is back, Meta has released another competitive model with Spark 1.1, and..."
The wait is over. Release season has arrived.
After a relatively quiet June, the pace has picked up again. GPT-5.6 was the breakthrough I had been hoping for. I’ve never burned through my rate limits so quickly. Fable 5 is back, Meta has released another competitive model with Spark 1.1, and SpaceX followed with Grok 4.5. According to SpaceX, however, their truly flagship model is still on the way. It looks like the Cursor deal is already paying off.
As many know, the Fable 5 saga continues. Its availability in the subscription plan has already been extended twice, while Opus 5 has meanwhile become visible in Vertex. That strongly suggests Opus 5 will be released soon, likely as a replacement for Fable 5.
Even more interesting, though, is that GLM-5.2 turned out to be the real “aha” and “wow” moment for many people. It made it clear that open source has now reached a level where, at least in key areas, it stands as a genuinely viable and competitive alternative to Western closed source models.
What makes this even more surprising is that the company’s founder once again hinted today that their next model is also coming soon. Not long ago, during a discussion with Elon Musk, he also said they still plan to release their own Mythos-class open source models before the end of the year.
As if that weren’t enough, leaks suggest that Kimi K3 will be released tomorrow. It’s worth remembering that Kimi K2.6 was, only a few weeks ago, arguably the most popular open source model around. Time moves unbelievably fast in the AI era. That was until GLM-5.2 captured everyone’s attention. Kimi K3 is expected to launch with a one million token context window, a significant leap that makes it even more compelling.
In short, Opus 5, GLM-5.3 or perhaps GLM-6, and Kimi K3 all appear to be just around the corner. At the same time, the rumor mill suggests that ChatGPT 6 could arrive within a matter of weeks, featuring an entirely new pre-training pipeline.
The long winter of waiting is over. The summer of acceleration has begun. — Chubby I'd prefer it to be GLM 5.5 honestly. With how good 5.2 came out, some effort on RL would definitely squeeze a lot from it's base. — Eidzoku Yeah, I get your point and I agree. GLM-5.2 is such a strong model that 5.5 or whatever is called could make a big change and have a huge impact — Chubby
Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2077128828808499407