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Model launches, product updates and notable industry moves, grouped by date. Each item opens a full article on this site.
Google DeepMind announced AlphaGenome 2 on 11 November 2026. The model conditions predictions on a specific cell type or state rather than tissue averages. DeepMind says it identifies nearly twice as many variants that change gene expression as the previous model, and it is available to non-commercial researchers through an API.
Source: Google DeepMind
Read on 88z.aiOn 10 November 2026, Google said Gemini 4 Carbon is opening more widely to paying developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers. Officially, Carbon is for longer-horizon, more demanding tasks. It shares Argon’s introductory unit price, but Google also says it uses more tokens than Argon on difficult work.
Source: Google
Read on 88z.aiAnthropic updated Claude Fable and Mythos to 5.2 on 9 November 2026. Officially, they share an underlying model but differ in safeguards and verification. Announced standard prices are $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, with a faster and more expensive Fast mode. For most everyday work, Anthropic still suggests starting with Opus or another generally available model.
Source: Anthropic
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