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.
A new project called vLLM Launcher has been released as a Windows desktop application designed to manage local large language model inference through WSL2. This tool allows users to control multiple engine backends, including vLLM, SGLang, and llama.cpp, from a single graphical interface.
The llama.cpp project released build b10331, which includes a fix for the server's `get_info` endpoint. Previously, when no explicit current working directory was provided, the function incorrectly fell back to the server process's working directory, even if a tools runtime was configured.
Anthropic is making auto mode the default setting for new sessions in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans starting on August 14th. This change reflects the company's confidence in the feature's ability to mitigate risks like prompt injection and data exfiltration more effectively than human review.
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.