33% fewer errors than the previous version. Mini followed 12 days later at 6x lower cost. Alibaba dropped Qwen 3.5 the same week. More than a dozen major AI models released in a single month.

The pace is not slowing down. Google also rolled out its Personal Intelligence feature to all US users, letting Gemini pull data from Gmail, Photos, and YouTube. Shopify is betting on agent-driven commerce where AI systems shop on behalf of users. Hard to keep track of it all at this point.