2 tools added to the directory and 5 launches tracked, Aug 10 – 16, 2026.
Tested and written up.
Reported in the daily briefing this week. Not reviewed for the directory.
OpenAI has opened a preview of Ultrafast, a new API service tier that runs its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model at up to 14 times normal speed, delivering as many as 750 output tokens per second. The tier is powered by Cerebras wafer scale hardware rather than conve…
SpaceXAI, the company formerly known as xAI, released Grok 4.6 on August 12, a new flagship model tuned for long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work. The company says it scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matchin…
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, only three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash shipped, an unusually short gap that Google attributes to algorithmic gains in the model's reasoning core rather than a larger training run. Coding scores moved sharply in t…
DeepSeek released the production build of its flagship model, DeepSeek V4 Pro, ending a preview that ran nearly four months. The version, designated V4 Pro 0813, appeared on August 12 as the general availability release on OpenRouter's model page, and DeepSeek…
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30 billion parameter mixture of experts model that companies can download, modify and deploy for free without asking permission. Nvidia claims it delivers up to four times faster output and 30 percent faster task compl…