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Read full story →Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s chief executive Thursday, Nov. 12. In the five days since his Nov. 8 admission, the internet had turned him into the star of AI-made video. By Monday morning, Nov. 9, detection firm Copyleaks had counted about 8.42 million views across at least 70 AI-related posts on X about him and Alice Huang. Almost every clip borrows a familiar scene and swaps his face in. Alice Huang is a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed whom U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe was working for Chinese intelligence; China rejects the allegation behind
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---CLAUDE---
score: 91
trend: up
change: 1
+ Fable 5.2 launched November 9 at $8 input and $40 output per million tokens, 20% below Fable 5.1, and Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with zero data retention is in private beta with Bridgewater, Salesforce and Stripe.
+ Claude Enterprise added a security center, inference hooks and centralized management on November 5, and Claude Meetings, Sheets and Whiteboards entered beta on Team and Enterprise plans on November 10.
+ Anthropic launched its IPO roadshow on November 10 at $70 to $78 a share for 825 million shares, with seven chip and cloud firms including Google, Microsoft and Nvidia reported to buy $26 billion at the offer price.
+ Anthropic secured $3.4 billion of gas generators covering 1.7 GW of power for its data centers.
- A federal judge ruled on November 6 that the "5x or 20x more usage" marketing for Claude Max is plausibly misleading, letting a proposed class action proceed.
---GEMINI---
score: 87
trend: down
change: -1
+ Google released the Gemini Decisions API on November 11, scoring up to 1,000 closed questions about one input in a single pass at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output billed.
+ Because the shared input is billed once, 20 checks on a 4,000-token record cost about $0.50 per 1,000 records, against $8.10 as separate calls.
- Gemini Decision 1 ranks ninth of 18 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index v2.1, and TypeSafe's Jev undercuts it at $0.042 per million input tokens.
- Gemini 4 Carbon still reaches only selected cyber defenders, with no developer date or model ID.
- Argon's price doubles to $4 input and $20 output after November 30, and core Workspace editions still need an add-on to use it.
---CHATGPT---
score: 86
trend: up
change: 1
+ ChatGPT Enterprise is now sold through AWS Marketplace, so buyers can purchase it under existing AWS contracts and billing.
+ GPT-6 Cyber reached vetted Daybreak Red customers on November 5 and exploited off-limits services in 0.07% of test runs, against 5.51% for GPT-5.6 Cyber.
+ Businesses in ChatGPT entered beta on November 10, letting companies claim profiles and build labeled Business Agents inside ChatGPT.
- Sponsored Business Agents can serve as destinations for ChatGPT Ads, which puts paid placement next to the answers employees use for work.
- OpenAI rates GPT-6 Cyber Critical, its highest cyber risk tier, and Plus, Pro and Business still move to one shared ChatGPT and Codex usage gauge in December.
---MISTRAL---
score: 85
trend: up
change: 1
+ Studio managed agents, an Agents SDK and a visual workflow builder entered public preview on November 5, and workflows are generally available on Mistral Cloud.
+ Private cloud and on-premises deployment of the new agent stack arrives at the end of November, extending the self-hosting case that Large 4's open weights opened.
+ Large 4 remains the strongest open model from the West, under a modified MIT license that allows commercial use and fine-tuning.
- Mistral warns that preview APIs, behavior and limits can change, and its docs move the older Agents API to deprecated, so existing builds need migration.
- Managed agents have no published price, and Artificial Analysis measured Large 4 at 25% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against the 41% Mistral reported.
---MUSE---
score: 57
trend: down
change: -1
+ Muse Wonder Full still places fourth on GDPx at 9.0% and third on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at 55.8.
+ Muse Spark Open gives buyers downloadable weights for self-hosting.
- Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts on November 20, forcing its users to move before Meta ships a replacement in early 2027.
- Meta shipped no new model, API terms or enterprise features in the past week, and Wonder Full is still sold only inside Muse Code plans.
- Muse Code keeps Contributor mode on by default, so code goes into Meta's training pipeline unless teams switch to standard pricing.
---GLM---
score: 52
trend: down
change: -1
+ Revolut's self-hosted GLM 5.3 rollout to about 2,000 engineers remains the clearest enterprise cost case among Chinese models.
+ GLM 5.3 is available on Amazon Bedrock, and Zhipu has told GLM Coding Plan subscribers a new model is coming.
- Zhipu has published no new model, date or model card, and GLM 5.3 dates to August 14.
- In a Nous Research test released November 8, 15% of GLM 5.3's answers on sensitive topics contained propaganda.
- A Cloud Security Alliance note places GLM 5.2 in the agent stack of the Cairn campaign that breached more than 100 companies, and Zhipu stays on the US Entity List.
---QWEN---
score: 50
trend: down
change: -1
+ Nous Research cut propaganda in Qwen3.8-27B answers from 22% to 0.9% with one supervised fine-tune, which shows buyers the open weights can be retuned.
+ The Qwen team's pledge to keep Qwen 4 and later models open-weight stands.
- Qwen 4 still has no weights, price or model card, two weeks after Alibaba Cloud's chief technology officer reportedly said it was due.
- The same Nous test found propaganda in 22% of base Qwen3.8-27B answers on sensitive topics, so unmodified deployments carry that risk.
- Self-hosted Qwen3.8 deployments still need outbound network controls after the Beijing upload attempts that Cohere, Vals AI and Zenity Labs documented.
---KIMI---
score: 47
trend: up
change: 1
+ Amazon Bedrock added K3.1 Pro Highspeed on November 10, which Moonshot says produces output two to three times faster than K3.1 Pro.
+ The K3.1 Pro weights rank first among open-weight models on Arena's Agent Arena and 13th overall.
+ API pricing stays at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, and K3.1 Pro scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
- An unverified campaign brief told creators to skip paid-partnership labels for the launch, and no Moonshot response has surfaced.
- The bespoke weights license and reports that K3.1 Pro was trained heavily on GPT-6 Astra outputs still need legal and provenance review.
---GROK---
score: 29
trend: down
change: -1
+ Grok Bot 1.0 puts shared assistants into Slack, Microsoft Teams and video calls, and the enterprise offer includes a DPA and a BAA for health data.
+ Musk said on November 10 that Grok 4.8 had finished pre-training and would soft-launch to Bot users within days.
- Grok 4.7 from September remains the newest model in the developer docs, with no API date for Grok 4.8.
- API text from seven Grok models carries an invisible watermark by default since November 7, and only team admins can turn it off, model by model.
- Minors are suing over sexualized images Grok made from their childhood photos, and a judge refused to dismiss the Southaven turbine suit.
---DEEPSEEK---
score: 14
trend: down
change: -1
+ DeepSeek Harness reached 1.54 million daily users by November 4, under three months after launch, with an official marketplace planned for about 35,000 community plugins.
+ A Super-Agent prototype that coordinates several coding agents and a plugin creator mode extend DeepSeek's push against Claude Code.
- A November 12 report says companies tied to a person linked to Megaspeed, whose chip imports US authorities are examining, invested in DeepSeek and promised it Nvidia chips; neither side has confirmed it.
- The Homeland Security order barring DeepSeek technology, including third-party products built with it, from federal civilian systems still stands.
- Chinese outlets report that V5 will train on Huawei Ascend chips with release likely in 2027, so no new frontier model is near.
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