RADAR ARCHIVE

Week 16, 2026

3 tools added to the directory and 6 launches tracked, Apr 13 – 19, 2026.

Added to the directory (3)

Tested and written up.

Frontier Opus model with higher-resolution vision and xhigh effort
Added Apr 16, 2026
Anthropic's frontier Opus-tier model announced on April 16, 2026, with substantial gains on the hardest coding tasks, higher-resolution vision input, a new xhigh effort level, file-system-based memory...
Why: Opus 4.7 introduced the xhigh effort level and file-system memory recall, making it a notable step between Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.8.
Enterprise Best for Hard Coding Tasks Visit
Mistral's flagship open-weight multimodal frontier model
Added Apr 15, 2026
A 675B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with 41B active parameters and a 262K context window, released under Apache 2
Why: Mistral Large 3 is one of the most capable permissive open-weight models available, offering frontier performance with the deployment flexibility of Apache 2.0 licensing.
Freemium Best for Open-Weight Frontier Visit
Mistral's edge family of small, dense open-source models
Added Apr 15, 2026
A family of 3B, 8B, and 14B parameter dense models released under Apache 2
Why: Ministral 3 brings Mistral's open-weight lineage to edge devices, offering a strong 14B reasoning option and smaller variants for local and on-device use.
Freemium Best for Edge Deployment Visit

On the radar (6)

Reported in the daily briefing this week. Not reviewed for the directory.

The Verge 2026-04-15

Google launches a Gemini AI app on Mac

Google is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull up a floating chat bubble, where you can ask Gemini questions…

Bloomberg Technology 2026-04-14

OpenAI Releases Cyber Model to Limited Group in Race With Mythos

OpenAI is letting a select group of users access a new artificial intelligence model that's meant to be more adept at spotting software security vulnerabilities, one week after rival Anthropic PBC announced a limited release of an AI tool called Mythos.