About

What Is The Latest is a live scoreboard for AI. It answers one question fast: what just happened, and what is the newest thing from each lab and tool.

How it works

Every two hours a scheduled job reads the sources below, keeps the headline, date and link for each item, and rebuilds the site. The daily digest is put together from those same items, line by line, and each line links to where it came from. If a source can't be reached, its block stays hidden until fresh data comes back.

Last check: Oct 23, 10:45 PM ET, 27 of 27 sources read.

How "latest" answers are built

Each lab page puts three facts side by side: the newest model the lab has listed on OpenRouter, the lab's best placing on the LMArena Text leaderboard, and its most recent official post. The newest model and the best model are often different, so both are shown with their dates.

Sources

• OpenRouter models API: New model listings, context sizes and prices
• LMArena leaderboard dataset (CC BY 4.0): Text, WebDev, Vision and Text to Image rankings
• OpenAI News RSS: OpenAI announcements
• Anthropic newsroom: Anthropic announcements, read from its public sitemap
• Google DeepMind blog and Google AI blog RSS: Google AI announcements
• xAI news: xAI announcements, read from its public sitemap
• Mistral AI news: Mistral announcements, read from its public sitemap
• Qwen blog RSS: Qwen announcements
• Hugging Face blog RSS and Hub API: Hugging Face posts and trending open models
• Hugging Face Papers: Daily AI papers with arXiv links
• Hacker News (Algolia API): AI launches and discussions
• GitHub Releases API: Latest versions of AI tools
• TechCrunch, Crunchbase News and SiliconANGLE RSS: AI funding headlines

We show headlines, short facts and links, not full articles. Names and trademarks belong to their owners. Leaderboard data is from LMArena under CC BY 4.0.

Labs we track

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Meta, Mistral AI, DeepSeek, Qwen (Alibaba), Moonshot AI, NVIDIA.