October launch roundup lists Gemini 4 Carbon as Argon's successor
A roundup of expected late-October model launches includes Gemini 4 Carbon as Google's next step over Argon, plus a possible new Gemini Flash model.
The last week of October could get crazy for AI. There are so many models that could launch soon, and I'm curious to see how many actually make it before the month ends. - Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's next upgrade over Argon. I want to see if it can finally compete with the best coding and reasoning models. - Fable 5.5: This is the one I'm watching most closely, and it can arrive as soon as this week. - GPT-6.1 Terra: coming in the next few weeks. - Qwen 4: Another release I'm keeping an eye on, with a possible launch next week. - Mistral Large 4: An open-weight release would be interesting to see. - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B: A small on-device model expected around October 23. - A new Gemini Flash model: This could show up too. - Opus 5.6: Possible, but I'm keeping my expectations low for now for this launch. - OpenAI's three image models: These could also launch, although their current outputs haven't impressed me much. Personally, I'm most interested in Carbon and Fable 5.5. I want to see whether Google can close the gap and whether Anthropic can push its models even further. If even 70-80% of these launches happen by the end of October, it's going to be a massive month for AI. And if they don't, November could be even crazier.