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Mistral Voxtral 3, a model family and voice agent SDK

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
22 Oct, 2026

Introduction A voice agent chains three building blocks : transcription, reasoning and speech synthesis. On October 20, 2026, Mistral AI launched Voxtral 3, a family of four voice model

Mistral Large 4, an open model built for cybersecurity

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
08 Oct, 2026

Introduction Mistral AI launched, on October 6, 2026, a public preview of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed ML4 or "Le Chonk". Presented as Mistral's most capable model to date, ML4 target

Anthropic unveils Claude Sonnet 5.5

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
30 Sep, 2026

Introduction Anthropic announces Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family after Opus 5.5. The model generates responses more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and

Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
24 Sep, 2026

Introduction Anthropic announces Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the new Claude 5.5 family. It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks, at a cost 40% lower than

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
02 Sep, 2026

Introduction Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, two variants of a single model succeeding Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Beyond the capabilities, the

OpenAI unveils Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol in preview

Maxime Hiez
OpenAI
31 Aug, 2026

Introduction OpenAI announced on August 13, 2026 Ultrafast, a new API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster than standard processing. The model is the same, with

Mistral Agentic Search, the iterative document search

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
29 Aug, 2026

Introduction Mistral AI announced on August 20, 2026 Agentic Search, a document search layer meant to replace the classic RAG in the cases where it fails. The principle changes : inst

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
24 Jul, 2026

Introduction Anthropic made Claude Opus 5 generally available on July 24, 2026, as the successor to Claude Opus 4.8. Pricing remains unchanged at 5$ / 1M input tokens and 25$ / 1M out

Anthropic unveils Claude Sonnet 5, outperforming Opus 4.8

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
01 Jul, 2026

Introduction Anthropic announced on June 30, 2026, the availability of Claude Sonnet 5, now the default model on the Free and Pro plans of Claude.ai. The model is designed for com

Mistral OCR 4, an OCR model for document analysis

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
25 Jun, 2026

Introduction Mistral AI announced Mistral OCR 4 on June 23, 2026, its next-generation optical character recognition model. The model introduces bounding boxes, typed block classificatio

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
10 Jun, 2026

Introduction Anthropic announces the launch of Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, two models built on the same foundation, with capabilities surpassing those of any previously releas

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
28 May, 2026

Introduction Anthropic made Claude Opus 4.8 generally available on May 28, 2026, as the direct successor to Claude Opus 4.7. Pricing remains unchanged at 5$ / 1M input tokens and 25$

Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4.7, with a new tokenizer

Maxime Hiez
Anthropic
12 May, 2026

Introduction Anthropic announced on April 16, 2026 the General Availability of Claude Opus 4.7, the direct successor to [Claude Opus 4.6](https://maxime.hiez.ca/en/blog/2026-02-13-ai-

Voice-native agents in Foundry in Public Preview

Maxime Hiez
Foundry
05 May, 2026

Introduction Microsoft announced on March 16, 2026 the Public Preview of Voice Native Agents in Microsoft Foundry, a native combination of the Voice Live API and the *Foundry Agent

Mistral Small 4, one model for reasoning, visioning, and coding

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
30 Apr, 2026

Introduction Managing multiple specialized models within a single AI pipeline adds deployment complexity and multiplies infrastructure costs. Mistral AI announced on March 16, 2026 the la

How to download Cisco Webex recorded calls via API

Introduction Cisco Webex Contact Center offers advanced call recording capabilities, essential for quality, compliance, and continuous service improvement. Supervisors can easily listen t

Mistral Voxtral Transcribe2, real-time transcription

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
05 Feb, 2026

Introduction Mistral AI has just unveiled Voxtral Transcribe 2, its second generation of speech transcription models with improved transcription quality, ultra-low latency and advanced

Mistral OCR 3, a precise, structured and affordable OCR

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
15 Jan, 2026

Introduction In December 2025, Mistral AI announced the launch of Mistral OCR version 3, an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) API that sets a new standard for document understanding

Mistral OCR, new benchmark in character recognition

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
18 Apr, 2025

Introduction In March 2025, Mistral AI announced the launch of Mistral OCR, an optical character recognition (OCR) API that sets a new standard in document understanding. This advance

Mistral Large 24.11 transforms industries with AI

Maxime Hiez
Mistral AI
15 Dec, 2024

Introduction Microsoft recently announced the release of Mistral Large 24.11, an advanced language model (LLM) available in the Azure AI model catalog. This new version sets a new benchma