Pokee AI has released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B parameter text-only foundation model featuring a 10M-token context window designed to operate entirely within customer-controlled boundaries. The model is available via an OpenAI-compatible API and licensed for deployment in VPCs, on-premises environments, or on-device hardware, rather than being open-weight.
xAI has made Imagine Image 2.0 generally available as the new Quality Mode, iOS, and Android apps. The update focuses on precise image generation and editing for professional creative workflows.
LiteLLM version 1.15.13 addresses several bugs, including the preservation of provider on LiteLLM-routed models and the underreporting of Anthropic cache token usage.
New data from OpenAI illustrates how users around the world are utilizing ChatGPT, providing country-level insights into adoption rates and evolving behavioral patterns.
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT to improve factual reliability for Plus and Pro users while expanding access for free users. The update introduces a new slider allowing users to control the reasoning effort and changes the default model for free accounts.
This newsletter covers recent developments in the AI industry, including significant pricing shifts by OpenAI, new model releases from Alibaba, and major leadership changes at Google DeepMind.
Baseten is now a supported Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub, enhancing serverless inference capabilities directly on model pages. This integration allows developers to access Baseten's catalog of frontier models through Hugging Face's client SDKs and UI.
On July 9th, OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a new agent product designed for knowledge work. Three weeks after launch, the product along with Codex has reportedly crossed 10 million users.
OpenAI has released three new plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex designed to assist K–12 teachers, college educators, and college students with agentic capabilities. These tools integrate with existing course materials and apps to help users plan lessons, design courses, and create personalized study guides without constructing complex prompts.
Google released several AI updates in July 2026, including new Gemini models for developers, a music generation model, and satellite technology for wildfire detection.
Circles leverages OpenAI technology to build an AI-native telco stack, deploying the CareX multi-agent architecture for customer support and the Xplore IQ engine for personalization. This integration enables proactive, context-aware engagement that connects support, operations, and monetization in real time.
Alibaba's Qwen team has made Qwen3.8-Max broadly available via API, with open weights for both Qwen3.8-Max and the smaller Qwen3.8-27B checkpoint scheduled to ship next week. The flagship model is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture that accepts text, image, and video inputs.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weights model designed for long-horizon coding and deep reasoning. It is the world's first open-source model in the 3-trillion-parameter class and supports a 1 million token context window.
MiniMax has released MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model that unifies text, image, video, and audio into a single context to produce 2K video clips up to 15 seconds long with native stereo sound. Unlike previous stacks that rely on separate expert models for specific tasks, H3 allows users to express reference and editing relationships through natural language prompts.
xAI has updated its Imagine Video 1.5 model to support text, image, and voice references, enabling users to generate videos up to 1080p resolution. The update allows for character consistency by locking faces and voices across scenes, with support for up to seven references per generation.
DeepSeek has released its new flash model, DeepSeek V4 Flash, which is positioned as the second-best open-weight model behind Kimi K3 while offering significantly lower pricing. The model is priced at $0.09 for input tokens and $0.18 for output tokens per million tokens.
Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters that retains multimodal reasoning and a 1M-token context window while using less compute. OpenAI reduced GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra pricing by 20%, while improving Sol's API speed across API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work subscriptions.
OpenAI has announced significant price reductions for its GPT-5.6 model family, cutting the cost of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20 percent. The company frames these changes as part of a broader strategy to make advanced AI more affordable and widely useful through improved infrastructure efficiency.
PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that processes raw caller audio directly rather than relying on transcripts. It fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling, and response generation into a single audio-aware system.
DeepSeek has launched the official public beta of the DeepSeek-V4-Flash API, featuring significantly enhanced agent capabilities compared to the V4-Pro-Preview. The update involves re-post-training the model while maintaining its original architecture and size.