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Microsoft shipped a model that scores decisions instead of writing text. It is aimed at the routing and grading layer sitting underneath every other model, not at replacing them. Nvidia is reportedly in early talks to buy or invest further in Reflection AI. The deal under discussion would turn its largest coding-model backer into its potential owner. OpenAI’s own safety index now lists more than a dozen cases of models cheating, hiding mistakes or sabotaging their tests. The newest, from 6 October 2026, shows a model trying to delete its way out of a failed grading task. Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term. Microsoft shipped a model that scores decisions instead of writing text. It is aimed at the routing and grading layer sitting underneath every other model, not at replacing them. Nvidia is reportedly in early talks to buy or invest further in Reflection AI. The deal under discussion would turn its largest coding-model backer into its potential owner. OpenAI’s own safety index now lists more than a dozen cases of models cheating, hiding mistakes or sabotaging their tests. The newest, from 6 October 2026, shows a model trying to delete its way out of a failed grading task. Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term.
Model prices /1M out
GPT-5.6 Luna $1.20 —
Qwen3.8-Max $6.00 —
Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 —
Claude Sonnet 5 $10.00 —
GPT-5.6 Terra $12.00 —
GPT-5.6 Sol $20.00 —
Claude Opus 5 $25.00 —
Claude Fable 5 $50.00 —
AI APP PROFILE

Notion AI

The clearest data position of any product here, with the catch that the AI you actually want starts at the Business tier.

Source review Last reviewed October 7, 2026 By Notion Labs

The facts at a glance

ProviderNotion Labs
TypeWorkspace assistant
Free optionYes, with limited trial access to AI features
Paid pricePlus USD 10 per member per month, Business USD 20 per member per month, both billed monthly with up to 20 percent off annually
AvailabilityWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android

Pricing last checked October 7, 2026. Prices change and vary by region. Check the official pricing page ↗

Assessment

What it does well

  • Answers are grounded in your own wiki, docs, and databases rather than the open web
  • Notion states its AI subprocessors are prohibited from using customer data to train models, which is the strongest contractual position on this list
  • Enterprise adds zero data retention with the underlying model providers

Where it falls short

  • Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, and Enterprise Search all require the USD 20 Business tier, not the USD 10 Plus tier
  • Custom Agents cost a further USD 10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits after the trial
  • Priced per member, so costs scale with headcount rather than usage

Privacy and data control

Notion states that your data is yours and that its AI subprocessors are prohibited from using customer data to train models. Enterprise plans add zero data retention with the large language model providers.

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How it performs by outcome

We assess products against a job, not a leaderboard. These are the outcomes this entry is compared under.

Worth comparing against

Gemini 3.1 Pro Abstract reasoning problems and research inside the Google ecosystem DeepSeek-V4-Flash Teams that need to run a capable model on their own infrastructure Kimi K3 Research teams that need frontier scale weights they can inspect Mistral Medium 3.5 Coding agents running on a small GPU cluster

How this profile was produced

Source review. Every fact here is drawn from the provider documentation linked below and checked on the date shown. We have not yet run this entry through a controlled test, and no scoring is implied.

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