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xAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, making the model generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and inside. The Arena placement puts xAI's image line in direct competition with OpenAI and Google's.
The United States has moved to ban Chinese-made humanoid robots, cutting off China from its largest export market. This ban has profound implications for both the robotics industry and international trade.
Meta's Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built specifically for always-on local agent workflows. Local agentic models change the economics of AI deployment.
Google's Gemini app has officially surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Monday, making it the 14th Google product. Google's Gemini app has officially surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, CEO Sundar.
Hassabis steps back from DeepMind day-to-day ops but keeps the science brief: Alphabet chief scientist, DeepMind chair, and Isomorphic Labs CEO after a \$2.1B Series B. Here is the portfolio that remains.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 6B activated parameters and 51B N-gram embeddings. The open-weight preview of Qwen4's architecture cuts training cost to one-ninth of its predecessor while leading coding and office-task benchmarks.
SpaceXAI, the AI division formed from Elon Musk's xAI after its merger with SpaceX, has launched Grok Bot in beta — a product it describes as "always-on. Grok Bot arrives as the industry converges on "digital labor" — agents that do.
Related angle: OpenAI and Anthropic’s summer 2026 release tempo — the competitive pressure behind DeepMind’s shipping-speed remake.
July 24, 2026: Claude Opus 5 lands near Fable 5 intelligence at \$5/\$25 per million tokens — Max default, Pro’s strongest model, still behind Mythos on the sharpest edges.
A JPMorgan note relayed by Reuters and CGTN forecasts a Zhipu AI model exceeding 1 trillion parameters for August 2026. Zhipu has not confirmed the model, its specs, or the date — leaving developers to separate analyst signals from vendor commitments.
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753B open-weight model with MIT licensing that matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on agentic benchmarks at roughly one-fifth the token cost. The 1M-context model is already running in Cursor and Claude Code, shifting enterprise leverage toward self-hosted inference.
NVIDIA Dynamo now offers a preview shadow engine recovery feature that cuts LLM failover from 283 seconds to 7.3 seconds on B200 GPUs. The GPU Memory Service keeps weights resident across process crashes, letting a pre-warmed standby take over almost instantly.