#234 - Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-codex, Seedance 2.0, GLM-5

#234 - Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-codex, Seedance 2.0, GLM-5

From Last Week in AI by Skynet Today

February 16, 2026 · 1h 31m · Episode 274

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The episode discusses major AI news including model launches and business updates.

Our 234th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/02/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or  hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Major model launches include Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 with a 1M-token context window and “agent teams,” OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Codex and faster Codex Spark via Cerebras, and Google’s Gemini 3 Deep Think posting big jumps on ARC-AGI-2 and other STEM benchmarks amid criticism about missing safety documentation. Generative media advances feature ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 text-to-video with high realism and broad prompting inputs, new image models Seedream 5.0 and Alibaba’s Qwen Image 2.0, plus xAI’s Grok Imagine API for text/image-to-video. Open and competitive releases expand with Zhipu’s GLM-5, DeepSeek’s 1M-token context model, Cursor Composer 1.5, and open-weight Qwen3 Coder Next using hybrid attention aimed at efficient local/agentic coding. Business updates include ElevenLabs raising $500M at an $11B valuation, Runway raising $315M at a…

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Hosts: Andrey Kurenkov, Jeremie Harris

Topics covered

  • AI news
  • model launches
  • generative media
  • business updates
  • industry drama

Keywords

  • AI
  • Opus 4.6
  • GPT-5.3 Codex
  • Seedance 2.0
  • GLM-5
  • business updates
  • model launches

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Organizations: Anthropic, Google, Alibaba, xAI, Zhipu, DeepSeek, ElevenLabs, Runway, Apptronik, Waymo

Products: Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3 Codex, Codex Spark, Gemini 3 Deep Think, Seedance 2.0, Seedream 5.0, Qwen Image 2.0, Grok Imagine API, GLM-5, Cursor Composer 1.5

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