September's Model Calendar Is Packed — and Half of It Is Rumor

Confirmed launches from Google and Anthropic sit alongside a swirl of unverified drops: GPT-6 Sol, Opus 5.2, Grok 4.7, and a wave of Chinese models.

The frontier release calendar is jammed enough to be worth tracking, though the signal-to-rumor ratio is poor. On the confirmed side, @DreyXAI reported Google launching Gemini 3.8 Live, Anthropic shipping a Claude product for financial advisors, and StepFun releasing its StepAudio 3 series. Those are shipped or shipping products, not speculation.

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