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Gemini 4 is in post-training and may ship before year-end
Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4's base training is done and the model could ship well before the end of the year.
Read News · Models 1 min readMeta Connect: camera-free glasses and 100-gram VR
At Connect 2026, Meta showed the camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio, the third-generation Ray-Ban Meta and VR glasses weighing about 100 grams.
Read News · Models 1 min readOpenAI releases an open test for mental health chats
MentalHealthBench scores how models answer in mental health conversations, using criteria written by 80+ psychologists and psychiatrists in 19 languages.
Read News · Models 1 min readChatGPT Voice on mobile handles email, calendar, Slack
OpenAI opened ChatGPT's mobile voice mode to agent tasks: drafting documents, emails and Slack summaries by voice. Paid plans also get the Work tab on phones.
Read News · Models 1 min readClaude Opus 5.5 is out: Fable-level results, lower price
Anthropic released Opus 5.5, the first model of its 5.5 family. It beats Fable 5.1 on agentic work and costs 20% less than Opus 5.
Read News · Models 1 min readOpenAI halves API prices with GPT-6 Sol and Luna
OpenAI released two new models trained with methods similar to Astra. Sol focuses on reasoning, Luna on speed and volume.
Read News · Models 1 min readXiaomi's open MiMo-V2.6 catches up with Grok 4.7
Xiaomi released the MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6 family. Its Pro model tied Grok 4.7 on an independent intelligence index.
Read News · Models 1 min readxAI ships Grok 4.7: a bigger model at the same price
xAI's new 2.1-trillion-parameter model is 40% bigger than Grok 4.6 at the same price. It placed second on key benchmarks.
Read News · Models 1 min readChatGPT now works inside Microsoft Word, even on free
OpenAI put ChatGPT inside Microsoft Word through an add-in. From October 1 it will be on by default for business workspaces.
Read News · Models 1 min readFigure's robot did chores in 30 homes it had never seen
Figure tested Helix 2.5 in 30 homes with no prior data. The robot tidied rooms, folded towels and made beds, succeeding 56% of the time.
Read News · Models 1 min readAlexa+ launches in India with Hindi support
Amazon opened its Alexa+ AI assistant in India in Early Access. It can switch between Hindi and English even mid-sentence.
Read News · Models 1 min readGoogle launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice models
Google announced two live voice models. The Extended Thinking version can reason and run background tasks without stopping the conversation.
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