Western labs · 5 tracked
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Token Volume Share
~30%
OpenRouter, mid-2026
VENTURE FUNDING
$255.5B
PitchBook, Q1 2026
Infrastructure Investment
$725B
US hyperscalers, 2026
Lab Activity Index
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Llama 4 ScoutMeta AI10M tokenscontext window · lab spec
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TechCrunch · The Verge · VentureBeat · more- 2026-11-05Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval systemReleaseTechCrunch · NVIDIA
- 2026-11-05A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AIReleaseTechCrunch
- 2026-11-05Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usageReleaseTechCrunch
- 2026-11-05After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be comingComputeTechCrunch
- 2026-11-05Tech is about to get hammered in CongressReleaseThe Verge
- 2026-11-05Exclusive: Aina’s Smart Ring Wants to Be a Remote Control for Your AI AgentReleaseWIRED
- 2026-11-05Finding New Drugs Is Laborious. This AI Startup Is Skipping The Lab WorkReleaseWIRED
- 2026-11-05AI’s Next Trick? Speaking DolphinReleaseWIRED
- 2026-11-05He Trolls AI Labs for a Living. Now They All Want to Work With HimReleaseWIRED · OpenAI
- 2026-11-04AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they faredReleaseTechCrunch
Top Models Currently
index by#1 · Google DeepMind
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)
60
index
- Released
- 2026-10-28
- Coding
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- Speed
- 91.7 t/s
- $/1M
- $8
#2 · Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)
59.1
index
- Released
- 2026-09-22
- Coding
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- Speed
- 96.6 t/s
- $/1M
- $8
#3 · Google DeepMind
Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium)
58.3
index
- Released
- 2026-10-28
- Coding
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- Speed
- 75.7 t/s
- $/1M
- $8
#4 · Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)
57.4
index
- Released
- 2026-09-22
- Coding
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- Speed
- 77.2 t/s
- $/1M
- $8
#5 · OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra (Max)
56.9
index
- Released
- 2026-09-03
- Coding
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- Speed
- 48.7 t/s
- $/1M
- $20