3 tools added to the directory and 5 launches tracked, Jul 13 – 19, 2026.
Tested and written up.
Reported in the daily briefing this week. Not reviewed for the directory.
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup backed by Alibaba, released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model that the company says is the largest ever released, with benchmarks showing it rivals top proprietary systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. The …
Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation for Elorian, a visual AI startup he founded after leaving Google. Dai, whose prior research helped inform the development of ChatGPT, argues that visual un…
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, its first major language model, under an enterprise-friendly Apache 2.0 open source license. The 975 billion parameter mixture-of-experts system reasons natively acro…
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, giving verified K-12 educators in the US a full year of premium Claude access for free if they sign up by June 30, 2027, a plan that normally costs $20 per month. The package includes higher usage limits, Claude Code, an…
Canva launched Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences from plain-language prompts and then edit the output as easily as tweaking a Canva design. The feature is available to all of Canva…