News & Updates

Welcome to the News & Updates section! Here you'll find the latest developments, changes, and announcements related to AvalAI.

• 2026-08-26: New Flagship Model Added: GLM-5.3-Flash
• 2026-08-18: New Flagship Model Added: GLM-5.3
• 2026-08-16: Request ID Header Change: avalai-request-id Replaces x-request-id
• 2026-08-15: Qwen3.8 Open-Weight and Qwen Image 3 Models Added
• 2026-08-14: DeepSeek V4 Fixed Pricing and Automatic V4-Pro-0813 Upgrade
• 2026-08-14: New Flagship Model Added: Gemini 3.7 Flash
• 2026-08-13: New Fireworks.ai Models and Cache-Aware Routing
• 2026-08-03: Qwen3.8-Max Added and DeepSeek-V4-Flash Upgraded
• 2026-07-27: New Flagship Model Added: Claude Opus 5
• 2026-07-21: New Models Added: Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
• 2026-07-17: New Models Added: Kimi K3 and Mistral OCR 4
• 2026-07-10: New Models Added: GPT-5.6 Family and Grok 4.5
• 2026-07-01: New Model Added: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite)
• 2026-07-01: New Flagship Model Added: Claude Sonnet 5
• 2026-06-18: New Models Added: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code, and New Provider Fireworks.ai with Nemotron-3-Ultra
• 2026-06-07: New Flagship Model Added: MiniMax M3
• 2026-06-05: New Models Added: Gemini 3 Pro Image, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Stable, and Qwen3-Max
• 2026-05-28: New Flagship Model Added: Claude Opus 4.8
• 2026-05-22: New Flagship Model Added: Qwen3.7-Max
• 2026-05-19: New Flagship Gemini 3.5 Flash Added and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Stable Released
• 2026-05-01: New Model Added: Grok-4.3
• 2026-04-25: New Flagship Model Added: GPT-5.5
• 2026-04-24: New Flagship Models Added: DeepSeek-V4-Flash and DeepSeek-V4-Pro
• 2026-04-23: New Models Added: Grok 4.20 Stable, GPT-Image-2, Qwen3.6 Series, Kimi K2.6, and Gemini Embedding 2
• 2026-04-17: New Model Added: Claude Opus 4.7
• 2026-04-12: New Models Added: GLM-5.1, GLM-5v-Turbo, Nemotron-3-120B, Gemma 4, Qwen3.6-Plus, and Qwen-Image-2.0
• 2026-03-18: New Models Added: Grok 4.20 Beta, GLM-5-Turbo, GPT-5.4 Mini/Nano, and MiniMax M2.7
• 2026-03-10: New Models Added: GPT-5.4 Series and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview
• 2026-02-27: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview (Nano Banana 2) Now Available
• 2026-02-25: New Models Added: GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-Audio-1.5, Qwen3.5 Flash, Qwen3-Coder-Next, and Seedream 5.0
• 2026-02-19: New Model Added: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
• 2026-02-19: New Model Added: Claude Sonnet 4.6
• 2026-02-17: New Models Added: Qwen3.5 Plus, Qwen3.5-397B and MiniMax M2.5
• 2026-02-14: New Models Added: GLM-5, Gen-4.5, and Seedream 4.5
• 2026-02-06: New Model Added: Claude Opus 4.6
• 2026-02-05: New Models Added: Eleven v3, Kimi k2.5, and Qwen3 Updates
• 2026-02-03: New Provider: ElevenLabs Speech Models and 12 New Cloudflare AI Models Added
• 2026-01-29: New Models Added: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.7-FlashX from Z.AI and GPT-5.2-Codex from OpenAI
• 2026-01-01: Files API Beta Launched: OpenAI-Compatible File Management
• 2025-12-28: MiniMax Provider Support Added: M2.1 Reasoning Models Now Available
• 2025-12-23: Alibaba Credit Packages Now Available: Save 20-30% on Qwen Models
• 2025-12-23: New Models Added: GLM-4.7 from Z.AI and Qwen3-VL, Image, and Translation Models from Alibaba
• 2025-12-17: New Model Added: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
• 2025-12-17: New Models Added: GPT-Image-1.5, FLUX.2 Pro, and DeepSeek-V3.2 on Azure AI
• 2025-12-15: Veo 3.1 Stable Video Models Released
• 2025-12-15: Flex Service Tier Launched: 50% Reduced Pricing for Select OpenAI Models
• 2025-12-14: New Cohere Models Added: Rerank v4 and Azure Embed v4
• 2025-12-11: New Models Added: GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2 Pro
• 2025-12-06: New Models Added: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max and Mistral Large 3
• 2025-12-01: New Model Added: GPT-5.1 Chat and DeepSeek-V3.2 Upgrade
• 2025-11-28: Claude Base Models with Smart Routing: Higher Rate Limits Across Multi-Cloud Providers
• 2025-11-27: User API Launched: Precise Cost Tracking and Usage Analytics
• 2025-11-25: New Model Added: Claude Opus 4.5
• 2025-11-22: Nvidia NIM Platform Support Added: Research-Focused Open Weight Models
• 2025-11-22: New X.AI Models Added: Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning and Non-Reasoning
• 2025-11-20: Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and groq Provider Support Added
• 2025-11-19: RunwayML Provider Support Added: Video Generation, Image Editing, and TTS Models
• 2025-11-18: New Advanced Models: Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Kimi K2 Thinking
• 2025-11-18: Veo 3.1 Video Generation Models Added
• 2025-11-16: New Video Generation Models and Advanced Codex LLMs Added
• 2025-11-14: GPT-5.1 Model Added
• 2025-11-13: OpenAI GPT Audio Models Now Available
• 2025-11-10: Moonshot.ai Provider and Alibaba Embedding Models Now Available
• 2025-10-28: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 Preview: Gemini's First AI Model for Robotics Now Available
• 2025-10-26: Perplexity Sonar Models Now Available
• 2025-10-26: Search API Now Available: 8 Search Tools from Leading Providers
• 2025-10-20: Advanced TTS and Transcription Models Added
• 2025-10-15: New Models Added: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Cohere Embed v4
• 2025-09-12: Performance Improvements
• 2025-10-09: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Stable Release
• 2025-10-08: New Model Added: GPT Image 1 Mini
• 2025-10-06: GPT-5 Pro Model Now Available
• 2025-10-04: New Model Added: GLM-4.6 from Z.AI and DeepSeek-V3.2 Upgrade
• 2025-10-01: Seedream 4.0: State-of-the-Art Image Generation Model Now Available
• 2025-09-29: New Model Added: Claude 4.5 Sonnet
• 2025-09-29: Stability AI Specialized Image Editing Services Now Available
• 2025-09-28: New AI Models Added: GPT-5 Codex, Gemini Flash Latest, and Qwen3-Max
• 2025-09-27: Google Gemini 1.5 Series Models Deprecation Notice
• 2025-09-23: New X.AI and Alibaba Qwen Models, DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus Update, and Enhanced Image Generation
• 2025-09-18: Expanded Gemini Native API: Embedding Support and Performance Improvements
• 2025-09-14: DeepSeek-V3.1 Models, Grok Code Fast 1, and Enhanced Streaming Performance
• 2025-09-09: New Model Added: Qwen3-Max-Preview with Enhanced Performance and Stability Improvements
• 2025-09-01: Cloudflare AI Models Now Available on AvalAI
• 2025-08-26: New Image Generation and Editing Capabilities: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview and Expanded Edit Endpoint Support
• 2025-08-24: New Models Added: Stable Imagen 4.0, DeepSeek-V3.1, and FLUX Models
• 2025-08-12: New Models Added: OpenAI's First Open-Source Models and API Performance Upgrades
• 2025-08-08: New Frontier Models Added: GPT-5 Series and Claude Opus 4.1
• 2025-07-31: Full Alibaba Models Support Now Available
• 2025-07-22: Native Gemini API Support Now Available
• 2025-07-14: New X.AI Model Added: Grok-4
• 2025-07-08: New OpenAI Research Models and Google Imagen 4.0 Added
• 2025-07-07: Credit Packages Now Available: Save Up to 70% on AI Model Usage
• 2025-06-28: Gemini 2.5 Series Stable Models Released: New Model Names Available
• 2025-06-15: Expanded API Access Through Three Domains
• 2025-06-09: Anthropic SDK Now Supports Multiple Providers and New Models Added
• 2025-06-03: Official Anthropic SDK Support Added to AvalAI
• 2025-05-29: New Models Added: Gemini TTS Models and Mistral Small
• 2025-05-25: New AI Models Added: Codestral, Gemma 3, and Imagen 4.0
• 2025-05-24: Claude 4 Models Added to AvalAI
• 2025-05-22: New Dashboard Features and Gemini 2.5 Flash Update
• 2025-05-15: New Model Added: Mistral OCR Latest
• 2025-05-14: Adding o1-pro and o3 Models to AvalAI Tier Levels
• 2025-05-13: New Alibaba Qwen3 Model, Web Search Tool, and Rerank Endpoint Added to AvalAI
• 2025-05-04: API response update & New Models Added - OpenAI, Stability
• 2025-04-26: New Models Added - OpenAI - GPT Image 1
• 2025-04-25: New Models Added - OpenAI, Google
• 2025-04-12: New Models Added - XAI, Meta, OpenAI, Alibaba