Machine Learning

SDAIA Academy has launched the Applied Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp in Riyadh, running from March 29 to May 21, 2026, targeting technical professionals with registration closing March 12.

xAI launched Grok 4.2 with 2.5 million token context and aggressive API pricing starting at $2.50 per million input tokens, targeting real-time applications.

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4.6 on February 17, 2026, with enhanced coding capabilities and expanded free-tier features at competitive API pricing.

Z.ai launches GLM-5, a groundbreaking open-source AI model with 744B parameters, achieving top performance in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks while supporting professional document generation.

Alibaba’s Qwen team releases Qwen3-Coder-Next, an 80-billion-parameter open-source AI model that activates only 3 billion parameters per pass, delivering elite coding performance while challenging proprietary giants.

Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4.6, the latest advancement in their flagship AI model series, promising enhanced capabilities for enterprise and research applications.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, the most advanced agentic coding model that participated in its own development, achieving breakthrough performance across software engineering and professional knowledge work benchmarks.