closed-source AI
5 picks we've reviewed.
Claude Mythos
Anthropic's new named flagship — Claude Mythos drops in late June 2026 as a limited preview, signaling a shift from version-number releases toward a model-name identity.
GPT-5.6
OpenAI's next flagship after GPT-5 — announced June 26, 2026 as a limited preview in three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna), each tuned for a different capability-cost tradeoff.
MiniMax M3
MiniMax's third-generation model — M3 is an image-text-to-text multimodal model built to process visual and text inputs together, advancing from MiniMax's earlier text-only releases.
Qwen-AgentWorld
Alibaba's Qwen team releases AgentWorld — a language world model designed to reason about states, plan multi-step actions, and power agentic workflows, not just answer questions.
Sakana Fugu
Sakana AI's multi-agent orchestration system — Fugu routes complex tasks across a network of specialized agents, all through a single model API endpoint.