---CHATGPT---
score: 88
trend: up
change: +1
+ GPT-5.6, which OpenAI's chief scientist calls a meaningful leap, is tracked about 83% to ship June 22-28, keeping the field's fastest model cadence inside the window
+ GPT-5.5 (Instant, Thinking, Pro) is fully live across Plus, Business, and Enterprise on AWS, Azure, and on-prem MCP, the multi-cloud reach Claude just lost
+ API pricing holds at $5/$30 per 1M tokens with half-rate batch and flex, the cost predictability buyers reward when a rival's flagship vanishes
- GPT-5.5 still trails Opus 4.8 by about ten points on SWE-bench Pro, ceding the top of the coding-agent quality band
- Projected 2026 losses near $14B against a vast compute commitment keep the financial overhang in place
---GEMINI---
score: 87
trend: up
change: +1
+ The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform stays the deepest enterprise stack on the board, with Salesforce Agentforce, Databricks, Ramp, and Xero aboard
+ With Claude's Mythos-class flagship offline, Google is the only US frontier vendor shipping uninterrupted across the consumer app and Vertex
- Gemini 3.5 Pro (2M context, Deep Think) slips general availability a fourth straight week, still limited Vertex preview, June-30 GA odds only about 50-55%
- Pentagon classified-network and DeepMind defense-work questions remain unresolved
- Flash's tripled token price narrows its cost edge over the cheapest rivals
---CLAUDE---
score: 78
trend: down
change: -4
+ Opus 4.8 keeps the enterprise coding crown and the compliance stack (ISO 42001, FedRAMP, HIPAA) plus the October IPO track stay the strongest durability signals on the board
+ Trump eased national-security objections after meeting Dario Amodei at the G7, putting a Fable 5 restoration back in play within days
- A proposed class action filed June 15 alleges the $100 and $200 Max plans oversold usage, with hidden weekly caps throttling the heavy Claude Code work buyers pay for
- Fable 5 and Mythos 5 stayed dark through day eight, refunds went out to June 9-14 subscribers, and a reported NSA red-team breach hardened the export block
- Reddit rate-limit complaints compound a consumer-trust problem now sitting on top of the unresolved Pentagon blacklisting suit
---MISTRAL---
score: 75
trend: up
change: +1
+ The reported about-€3B raise at a roughly €20B valuation (Bloomberg, June 12) anchors the European-sovereign pitch as a US lab's flagship stays banned into a second week
+ The open-weight argument paid off as four open models filled the gap Fable 5's takedown left, validating the no-export-risk case
+ Mistral Large 3 stays live on Amazon Bedrock and Azure Foundry, anchored by Airbus and the €4B France/Sweden build
- The raise is still early-stage talks, not closed, with the amount and valuation movable
- Top-end benchmarks trail Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.5, and Mistral is still off the Pentagon classified-network roster
---GROK---
score: 33
trend: up
change: +1
+ Grok V9 finished training at 1.5 trillion parameters, about triple the prior model, with a mid-to-late June release targeted
+ Grok Imagine expanded to full video generation June 11, rounding out the Voice and Imagine assistant stack
- A New Republic report that the Pentagon used Grok in Iran strike targeting renews reliability and credibility concerns buyers cannot ignore
- No federal, compliance, or procurement progress, and the structure still reads as GPU landlord, its largest deal the about $1.25B/month Colossus contract with Anthropic
---DEEPSEEK---
score: 21
trend: up
change: +2
+ DeepSeek closed its first external round June 16 at about $7.4B and a $52-59B valuation (Tencent, CATL, founder Liang about 40%), now China's highest-valued AI startup
+ Permanent V4-Pro price cuts hold it under a tenth of GPT-5.5 on input tokens, keeping the cost floor
- The round routed state-fund capital into voting equity, deepening China-state-adjacent backing and sharpening the US-procurement problem
- US government-device bans and the full compliance perimeter hold, and a more security-charged Washington only hardens the wall

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