AI — Page 16
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, says it matches Fable 5 intelligence for half the price
The new model, now on all paid Claude plans, hits state‑of‑the‑art scores on coding, ARC‑AGI‑3 and alignment tests, according to Anthropic.
- AMD's MI455X delivers 432GB HBM4, enough for trillion‑parameter model weights in one server
In a July 24 X post, AMD disclosed a new MI455X GPU that packs 432GB of HBM4, enough to store FP8 weights of a trillion‑parameter model in a single server.
- Ant Open Source releases LLaDA2.2-flash, an agent‑oriented MoE diffusion LLM with Levenshtein self‑editing
The open‑source community unveiled LLaDA2.2-flash on July 24th, combining mixture‑of‑experts diffusion with token‑level edit operations for on‑the‑fly correction.
- Orca adds one-click resume for Codex and Claude Code sessions
The open-source agent platform lets developers continue a halted coding session when hitting usage caps on OpenAI's Codex or Anthropic's Claude Code.
- Jensen Huang uses first X post to back industry open-weight AI push
Nvidia's chief executive joined Satya Nadella and other industry leaders in signing an effort linking accessible model weights to US competitiveness, economic opportunity, and national security.
- Midjourney buys Co-Star as it builds its first standalone image app
The spring deal gives Midjourney an established mobile audience as David Holz expands beyond image models, Discord and the web.
- Mimic Robotics connects FLUX 3 to industrial robots at Audi
The Zurich startup added factory data and an action decoder to Black Forest Labs' multimodal backbone for Audi manipulation tests.
- Letta releases open-source Trajectory package to standardize coding-agent data
The new format cuts token usage by up to fivefold and lets agents learn across Claude Code, Codex and Letta Code sessions.
- SANA-Video 2.0 launched, promising efficient high-quality video generation
Enze Xie announced the model on X, highlighting a hybrid attention backbone and a new training pipeline that cuts compute while preserving quality.
- Sakana AI releases Fugu-Ultra v1.1, the latest version of its Fugu model family
The update adds unspecified upgrades and follows strong user adoption of Sakana AI's language models.
- Velmeni announces FDA clearance for AI-assisted 3D dental scan software
Velmeni is extending from 2D X-rays into CBCT, betting a unified imaging, voice and claims platform can beat standalone tools.
- Palabra.ai claims fastest TTS latency at 104 ms in Coval benchmark
Artem Kukharenko posted on X that Palabra.ai's new text-to-speech model hit 104 ms time to first audio, half the industry average.
- VEED launches Multi-Shot Characters AI feature to automate multi‑camera video creation
The video‑editing platform announced the new tool on July 23, 2026, and is giving the first 100 users 500 free AI credits.
- Head to head: AuraFlow vs Rundiffusion Photo Flux
One model brought flash; the other brought control. Across prompt-following tests that punish sloppiness—text, counting, layout, object assignment, and emotional specificity—Rundiffusion Photo Flux separated itself decisively.
- Ant Ling launches Ling-3.0-flash, a 124B-parameter MoE model for production agents
The new hybrid‑reasoning model runs with 5.1B active parameters per token and is free on OpenRouter through Aug 3, 2026.
- High‑schooler releases LLM‑driven tool that claims 60+ bugs in Linux, V8 and other open‑source projects
Ruikai Peng posted a preview of Rolling in the Diffs, an LLM‑based vulnerability‑discovery system he says uncovered over 60 flaws while still in high school.
- Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode with Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models
The new voice option lets Claude run longer, tool‑integrated conversations and pick the latest text model by default.
- Vercel adds real-time streaming transcription to AI Gateway, enabling voice agents at the edge
The new streamTranscribe SDK method lets developers feed live audio and receive instant transcripts, expanding Vercel's AI edge capabilities.
- Sonilo launches first Sound World Model, adds AI-generated audio to video
The startup's Sound Effects 1.0 claims top performance on multiple video-to-audio benchmarks and demos for phone footage, ads and games.
- Google says Gemini app hits 950 million monthly active users
The company reports the Gemini consumer AI app now serves almost a billion users, with daily usage three times higher than a year ago.
- GPT 5.6 sol leads AutoCAD-Bench with 46% one-shot success rate
On July 23 2026, Dev released a benchmark that measures how well large language models can operate AutoCAD via computer-use.
- Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash in public preview
The new models deliver higher‑fidelity image generation and faster, cheaper speech synthesis for Microsoft products.
- Google launches AI & Economy ATLAS to map usage of its AI products
Google's first ATLAS report, based on 15 million de‑identified interactions, offers the most comprehensive look at how users adopt its AI tools.
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health with Apple Health and medical record connections
The U.S. rollout lets adults connect Apple Health and supported medical records, with permission controls and a promise that connected data will not train foundation models.