4 launches tracked, Jun 8 – 14, 2026.
Reported in the daily briefing this week. Not reviewed for the directory.
Google DeepMind open-sourced DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE text-diffusion model that generates text up to 4x faster than comparable autoregressive models for on-device AI workloads.
Cohere open-sourced North Mini Code, a 30-billion-parameter MoE coding agent that runs on a single H100. Independent tests show it can triple output tokens versus comparable models, a verbosity tradeoff teams must budget for in high-volume agent pipelines.
Mastercard unveiled Agent Pay for Machines, a protocol letting AI agents send micropayments and settle with each other, joining a wave of big-company moves to build payment rails for agentic commerce.
Google released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for near-real-time speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages, rolling out through Google Meet, Translate, and the Gemini Live API with SynthID audio watermarks.