The "Model Wars" have intensified with major releases from all top providers, focusing heavily on reasoning and efficiency. GPT-5.2: OpenAI’s latest step is less “bigger model” and more “better worker

Nano Banana Pro: A standout tool this month for visuals. It can compress entire earnings PDFs into infographics, generate insights from papers, and create slides.

Intellect-3: A 100B+ parameter MoE Mixture of Experts model released by Prime Intellect PI, trained using decentralized computing. It shows state-of-the-art performance in math and code.

NotebookLM got Deep Research

OpenAI is silently testing its next-gen image backend that people are informally calling "Image 2", allegedly considered in the same frontier tier as Nano Banana Pro.