More Than 10 AI Models May Launch Around China’s Mid-Autumn and National Day Holidays

Summary

The article surveys more than 10 AI models that may launch or receive updates around China’s Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, while separating confirmed releases from rumors and predictions. OpenAI is expected to expand its GPT-6 lineup with Sol, Terra and Luna after GPT-6 Astra, partly because the article says Astra’s price limits its use for heavy everyday workloads. Anthropic is described as potentially skipping version 5.1 and moving to Opus 5.2 and Fable 5.2, with a restricted Mythos 5.2 also considered possible. Google may introduce Gemini 4.0 Pro and Flash, although the article says leaked benchmark results are impressive but not highly reliable; xAI’s delayed Grok 4.7 is also mentioned, while Microsoft, Meta and Amazon show no clear signs of major launches. In China, Step 5 Preview has already gone online, and Kimi K3.1, Alibaba’s Qwen4 family, Xiaomi’s Mimo V2.6 line, Zhipu’s GLM-5.5, MiniMax M3.1, a possible Tencent HY4 Pro and DeepSeek V4.1 Pro are presented as upcoming or expected candidates. The article says Qwen4 may include a locally deployable 27B model, Xiaomi has been livestreaming reinforcement-learning post-training at a reported cost of $2.4 million, and both GLM-5.5 and M3.1 are rumored to exceed one trillion parameters. DeepSeek’s V4.1 Flash, released on September 10, is described as receiving strong feedback and having a significantly upgraded architecture; a possible V4.1 Pro could use the CED architecture and reach roughly three trillion parameters, but the article frames this as an expectation rather than a confirmed specification.