3 tools added to the directory and 6 launches tracked, Jul 20 – 26, 2026.
Tested and written up.
Reported in the daily briefing this week. Not reviewed for the directory.
AMD unveiled Helios, its first rack scale AI system, giving CNBC exclusive access to the setup being built and tested at the company's Texas data center lab. Microsoft has agreed to deploy Helios racks in its Azure data centers, joining earlier customers Meta,…
AMD announced a new generation of data center products, including an updated AI accelerator, a new Venice central processing unit, and its first AI rack scale system called Helios, which it is positioning as a direct rival to Nvidia's competing rack designs. T…
OpenAI has launched Presence, an enterprise platform that packages the policies, system connections, evaluations, guardrails, and update processes needed to run AI agents inside a company for real time voice and chat experiences. The product targets enterprise…
Google released two new models, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, in the Gemini app, Google AI Studio, and via its API, with 3.6 Flash using 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash and costing $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million outpu…
Poolside, a San Francisco AI lab that has mostly sold coding models to governments and defense agencies over its three-year history, released Laguna S 2.1, a 118 billion parameter Mixture of Experts model that activates only 8 billion parameters per token and …
A new industry consortium has launched an AI Materials Foundry aimed at accelerating the discovery of advanced materials used in chip manufacturing, with founding members including Nvidia, Meta and Samsung. The effort, backed by Jeff Bezos, raised a $450 milli…