News
Short updates on model releases and announcements. Each item is labeled, and rumors are not written as fact.
Qwen 4 has no published release date; a Max preview is listed
Alibaba said on September 22, 2026 that Qwen 4 was in training and gave no date. Token Plan docs list qwen4-max-preview from November 11 to November 25, 2026, then say it will be retired.
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base weights
On November 5, 2026 Baidu published ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, a 280B sparse MoE pretrained checkpoint with 14B active parameters. The post-trained ERNIE 5.5 Flash model is not out yet.
Google ships Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash for 15-second video
On November 5, 2026 Google said Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud, at $0.07 per second for 720p. Gemini app access is still rolling out.
Tencent releases Hunyuan Hy4, and says weights will follow
Tencent’s November 4, 2026 post says Hy4 is live in its products, adds vision and computer use, and keeps preview pricing. Open weights are described as coming later, not as a download link.