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Frontier AI Models & Flagships Cohort (July–September 2026)
GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6 Sol & Luna, Grok 4.7, and GLM-5.3.
Formula: V_L = (0.35*S_bench + 0.30*S_hf + 0.20*S_gh + 0.15*S_query) · e^(-0.045*d) · I_m Cadence: Hourly Stream Ingestion Standard: ZIP-1.0 20-Source Verification

Frontier AI Models & Flagships Cohort (July–September 2026)

GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6 Sol & Luna, Grok 4.7, and GLM-5.3.

Rank Release Date Model & Lab Category Architecture Score Action
#1 Sep 3, 2026
GPT-6 Astra Computer-Use Flagship
OpenAI
Frontier Models & Flagships Dense Autoregressive Frontier Transformer with Computer-Use API 99.8 Try →
#2 Sep 22, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 (#1 Intelligence Index)
Anthropic
Frontier Models & Flagships Frontier Mixture-of-Reasoning Transformer 99.6 Try →
#3 Sep 28, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Fast Workhorse
Anthropic
Frontier Models & Flagships High-Throughput Autoregressive Transformer 99.3 Try →
#4 Sep 30, 2026
Gemini 4 Argon (1M Token Single Response)
Google DeepMind
Frontier Models & Flagships Multimodal Sparse MoE with Long-Horizon CoT 99.1 Try →
#5 Sep 2, 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash & 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google DeepMind
Frontier Models & Flagships Compact Multimodal Transformer with Real-Time Audio 98.2 Try →
#6 Sep 29, 2026
GPT-6 Sol (Efficient Frontier Variant)
OpenAI
Frontier Models & Flagships Distilled Frontier Transformer with Speculative Decoding 98.0 Try →
#7 Sep 22, 2026
GPT-6 Luna (Ultra-Compact Edge Frontier)
OpenAI
Frontier Models & Flagships Compact Quantized Transformer with Native Voice Heads 97.3 Try →
#8 Sep 1, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 (Creative & Narrative Frontier)
Anthropic
Frontier Models & Flagships Extended-Coherence Narrative Transformer 96.8 Try →
#9 Sep 14, 2026
Grok 4.7 Colossus Real-Time Knowledge Engine
xAI
Frontier Models & Flagships Colossus-Trained Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) 96.4 Try →
#10 Aug 28, 2026
GLM-5.3 Multilingual & Enterprise Logic
Zhipu AI
Frontier Models & Flagships Autoregressive MoE with Dual-Attention Heads 95.4 Try →
#11 Aug 22, 2026
DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash High-Speed MoE
DeepSeek AI
Frontier Models & Flagships Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) Sparse MoE 95.2 Try →
#12 Sep 15, 2026
Mistral Large 3 Frontier Multilingual
Mistral AI
Frontier Models & Flagships Dense Decoder-Only Transformer (GQA) 94.9 Try →
#13 Sep 19, 2026
Qwen-2.5-Max Flagship MoE
Alibaba Cloud
Frontier Models & Flagships Massive MoE Transformer with GQA & RoPE 94.6 Try →
#14 Sep 8, 2026
Command R+ v2 Enterprise RAG
Cohere
Frontier Models & Flagships Autoregressive Transformer with Citation Heads 93.9 Try →
#15 Aug 19, 2026
AI21 Jamba 1.7 Large Hybrid SSM
AI21 Labs
Frontier Models & Flagships Hybrid Mamba SSM & Transformer Attention MoE 93.4 Try →
#16 Sep 10, 2026
Baichuan 4 Turbo Domain Reasoning
Baichuan AI
Frontier Models & Flagships Dense Decoder Transformer with Medical/Legal Priors 92.8 Try →
#17 Sep 5, 2026
MiniMax-abab 7 Conversational MoE
MiniMax
Frontier Models & Flagships Sparse Mixture-of-Experts with Audio Feature Tokens 92.2 Try →
#18 Aug 16, 2026
Snowflake Arctic 2 Enterprise Intelligence
Snowflake
Frontier Models & Flagships Dense-MoE Hybrid with Enterprise SQL Grammar 91.8 Try →