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The new Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is not just another open model from NVIDIA: it is a 30B mixture-of-experts design built for always-on agents, claiming up to 4x faster token generation and 30% faster task completion than comparable open models. What Was Released On August 11, NVIDIA announced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning as the newest member of … Read more
A new open-source project from Alibaba’s Qwen team, Qwen-MM-Plugins, gives any agent harness native multimodal abilities, from reading images and long videos to driving Blender and FreeCAD. What Was Released On August 10, the Qwen team at Alibaba announced Qwen-MM-Plugins, a new open-source project on GitHub under an Apache-2.0 license. The pitch is short and … Read more
On August 9, NVIDIA released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech model that listens and speaks at the same time, with roughly 450 ms turn-taking latency and live tool calling, the first open full-duplex model of its kind. What Was Released NVIDIA published the weights and a container for NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B on … Read more
Meta’s local agent bet now has a name: Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight multimodal model released on August 10 under Apache 2.0, built to run always-on agent workflows on a single consumer GPU. What Happened The announcement arrived on August 10 through three channels at once. Meta’s AI account posted the model card, Mark Zuckerberg … Read more
xAI shipped Imagine Image 2.0 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and its mobile apps, adding precise editing tools and a smart resize feature, with Elon Musk highlighting instant hover-to-edit. What’s New The image editor inside Grok just got more surgical. xAI announced Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, and Elon Musk followed up … Read more
OpenAI has added ChatGPT Voice to its desktop app, so you can now speak commands to control AI agents and run multi-step tasks on your computer. What Changed The most direct way to tell a computer what to do is now built into the ChatGPT desktop app. OpenAI announced on July 23 that the app … Read more
From August 14, Claude Code will use auto mode as the default permission mode for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans, meaning fewer approval prompts and a classifier guarding risky commands instead. What Changes Starting August 14, Claude Code will stop pausing for approval on every command for most paid users. Auto mode … Read more
Cloudflare is taking a serious swing at the browser problem, but for AI agents, not humans. Kitesurf is a browser built specifically for agents, running entirely on Cloudflare Workers in V8 isolates, and it is available free in beta through Browser Run. The pitch is straightforward: Chromium was built for people, with tabs, themes, extensions, … Read more
Claude Code has shipped a feature that sounds futuristic until you use it: your terminal sessions can now send messages to each other. Rolling out in Claude Code v2.1.224 on macOS and Linux, cross-session messaging lets one session hand off a finding, ask a question, or coordinate work with another session, without you re-explaining the … Read more
OpenAI has paused the rollout of Astra, its next frontier model, after internal and external evaluations found it hits a level of capability the company was not prepared to ship immediately. Under OpenAI’s own Preparedness Framework, Astra is the first model the company has classified as “critical” for cybersecurity risk, the highest threshold on the … Read more