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Muse Wonder Full + 15 new AI models: 12 Oct–18 Oct

16 new models incl. Muse Wonder Full, Muse Wonder and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, Mimo v2 Omni up 1.3, 29 price cuts, 1400 new benchmark results: what moved on the BenchLeader Index this week.

The week of 12 Oct 2026 to 18 Oct 2026, from 7 daily updates.

Three things that happened

Index movers

Change in BenchLeader Index, 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18; best configuration per model.

| Model | Provider | 12 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 | Change | |---|---|---:|---:|---:| | Devstral Medium | Mistral AI | 43.3 | 39.8 | -3.5 | | Qwen3.8 27B | Alibaba | 58.5 | 56.3 | -2.2 | | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | 61.1 | 59.7 | -1.4 | | Mimo v2 Omni | Xiaomi | 56.4 | 57.7 | +1.3 | | Gemini 4 Argon | Google | 70.0 | 71.2 | +1.2 | | Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B | NVIDIA | 56.6 | 55.6 | -1.0 | | Openchat 3.5 | OpenChat | 38.1 | 39.1 | +1.0 | | Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 70.8 | 69.9 | -0.9 | | Agnes 2.5 Pro Beta | Sapiens AI | 60.0 | 59.1 | -0.9 | | Mistral Large 4 | Mistral AI | 57.8 | 58.7 | +0.9 |

New models

  • Muse Spark Open 816B A42b (xhigh) (Meta) appeared with 5 benchmark results, entering the BenchLeader Index at #166. (details)
  • Beam 1.0 (Reflection) appeared with 7 benchmark results, entering the BenchLeader Index at #182. (details)
  • Nemotron 3.5 Super Vl 120B A12b Nvfp4 (NVIDIA) appeared with 3 benchmark results. (details)
  • Beam 1.0 501B A23B (Reflection) appeared with 2 benchmark results. (details)
  • Seed2 1 Pro (ByteDance) appeared with 1 benchmark result. (details)
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) is now listed at $0.26/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
  • Salesforce Launa Omni 1 (Unknown) is now listed; no independent results yet. (details)
  • Muse Spark Open (xhigh) (Meta) appeared with 5 benchmark results, entering the BenchLeader Index at #94. (details)
  • Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (NVIDIA) appeared with 4 benchmark results. (details)
  • Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (NVIDIA) appeared with 4 benchmark results. (details)
  • Glm Legal (max) (Zhipu AI) appeared with 1 benchmark result. (details)
  • Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B (NVIDIA) is now listed; no independent results yet. (details)
  • Musespark 1.3 (Meta) appeared with 1 benchmark result. (details)
  • Lfm 2.5 24B A2b (Liquid AI) is now listed at $0.21/M blended; no independent results yet. (details)
  • Muse Wonder (max) (Meta) appeared with 5 benchmark results, entering the BenchLeader Index at #31. (details)
  • Muse Wonder Full (max) (Meta) appeared with 4 benchmark results. (details)

Price changes

  • Qwen3 14B (thinking) output price moved from $4.20/M to $0.24/M (94% down).
  • Qwen3 Coder 480B input price moved from $1.50/M to $0.30/M (80% down).
  • Qwen3 30B A3B (thinking) output price moved from $2.40/M to $0.55/M (77% down).
  • Qwen3 Max (max) output price moved from $6.00/M to $1.43/M (76% down).
  • Qwen3 8B (no reasoning) output price moved from $0.70/M to $0.20/M (71% down).
  • Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct input price moved from $0.45/M to $0.15/M (67% down).
  • Qwen3 235B A22B (thinking) output price moved from $8.40/M to $2.80/M (67% down).
  • Grok 4.20 (thinking) output price moved from $6.00/M to $2.50/M (58% down).
  • QwQ-32B input price moved from $0.66/M to $0.29/M (57% down).
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro (high) output price moved from $1.98/M to $0.87/M (56% down).
  • Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 output price moved from $0.80/M to $0.40/M (50% down).
  • Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct (thinking) input price moved from $0.40/M to $0.22/M (45% down).
  • Qwen3 Coder Next cost per task moved from 0.8 to 0.5 (40% down).
  • gpt-oss-120b (low) input price moved from $0.15/M to $0.10/M (33% down).
  • Mistral Small 3.1 input price moved from $0.11/M to $0.08/M (27% down).

Top five as of 25 Oct 2026

  1. Claude Opus 5.5 — 72.6
  2. Gemini 4 Argon — 70.7
  3. Muse Wonder Full — 70.6
  4. Claude Fable 5.1 — 70.5
  5. GPT-6 Astra — 70.4

More: New AI model releases this week, and the full LLM leaderboard 2026.

Generated from the week's daily updates; every line links to the page where the numbers and their sources can be checked.

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