GPT-5.1 for developers
GPT-5.1 is available on all paid API tiers with pricing and rate limits the same as GPT-5, plus gpt-5.1-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini.
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What shipped in AI, week of
17 rows are listed for in The Deploy Log, from 8 companies. OpenAI shipped the most, 7 rows, then Anthropic with 3. Models first seen in the record this week: GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.1 Codex. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
In figures
| Company | Rows |
|---|---|
| OpenAI | 7 |
| Anthropic | 3 |
| Vercel | 2 |
| Google DeepMind | 1 |
| Google Research | 1 |
| Notion | 1 |
| Waymo | 1 |
| Y Combinator | 1 |
| Figure | Value |
|---|---|
| Rows | 17 |
| Rows the week before | 14 |
| Change against the week before | +3 |
| Companies | 8 |
| Companies seen for the first time | 0 |
| Models seen for the first time | 2: GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.1 Codex |
| Rows with no shipped date, placed by their edition or the day they were added | 13 |
| Lane | Rows | Rows the week before |
|---|---|---|
| Models and APIs | 10 | 4 |
| Tools and products | 3 | 5 |
| Robotics, hardware and chips | 1 | 1 |
| Breakthroughs | 1 | 2 |
| Funding and acquisitions | 1 | 0 |
Leads
Models and APIs
AI-orchestrated espionage
Anthropic reports a Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated Claude Code to attempt infiltration into roughly thirty global targets, with AI performing 80 to 90% of the campaign.
Free ChatGPT for veterans
U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation can receive a free year of ChatGPT Plus.
Group chats in ChatGPT
Group chats roll out to all logged-in users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans globally over the coming days, with responses powered by GPT-5.1 Auto.
Maryland Claude partnership
Maryland will deploy Claude across multiple state agencies to connect families with benefits and help caseworkers verify more than 150,000 documents each month.
NYT privacy fight
OpenAI says the New York Times is demanding 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and that OpenAI is fighting the demand while developing client-side encryption.
OpenAI for Ireland
OpenAI launches OpenAI for Ireland with an SME Booster programme in 2026, a Dogpatch Labs partnership, and a three-year Patch partnership for founders aged 16 to 21.
Philips AI literacy
Philips is scaling AI literacy across 70,000 employees with ChatGPT Enterprise, moving from individual productivity to workflow-level automation.
Political even-handedness
Anthropic open-sources an automated evaluation showing Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores 94% on political even-handedness, compared with GPT-5 at 89% and Llama 4 at 66%.
SIMA 2
SIMA 2 integrates Gemini models to reason about goals, converse with users, and improve itself through self-directed play in virtual 3D worlds.
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking roll out to all users, with warmer tone, adaptive reasoning, and faster simple tasks. API release includes no-reasoning mode, 24-hour prompt caching, and new apply_patch and shell tools.
Tools and products
GPT-5.1 Codex on AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway now serves GPT-5.1 Codex and GPT-5.1 Codex mini with no other provider accounts required.
GPT-5.1 on AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway now serves GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking with no other provider accounts required.
Notion Agent reads CSVs
Notion Agent can now read CSVs up to 1,000 rows to create analyses or visualize data as charts or boards.
Robotics, hardware and chips
Waymo freeways
Waymo begins freeway rides in San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, expanding to Austin and Atlanta later.
Breakthroughs
Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Google Quantum AI introduces Decoded Quantum Interferometry, a quantum algorithm that converts certain optimization problems into decoding problems and could solve OPI examples with a few million quantum operations versus over 10^23 classical operations.
Funding and acquisitions
Groww goes public
Groww, Y Combinator's first India listing, goes public, with YC selling a small portion of shares to increase float.
One line every time AI actually ships, around the clock, free on Threads and Bluesky. Every one is in The Deploy Log with its source.