Category: AI Products
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Google’s New Model Lands, But Only A Few Get In
Google just put its newest model out into the world, and it didn’t throw a big public party for it. Gemini 4 Argon showed up this week, built for the kind of work that actually grinds people down: untangling legal contracts, digging through financial research, chasing bugs through a million lines of code. Google says…
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OpenAI Just Pulled Its Own Model Off The Table
OpenAI built a new model called GPT-6.1 Astra. Then they looked at how it behaved in testing and decided not to ship it. That is rare. Companies usually push forward, patch problems later, let users find the edges. OpenAI’s own head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, said the model “didn’t quite meet the bar.” It…
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Google Gave Gemini a Face That Speaks 97 Languages
Google just gave its Gemini assistant something it never had before, a face. Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar is now generally available for enterprise customers, and it does something that sounds simple until you actually watch it work. It listens, it talks back, and its face moves in real time to match, lips included. The part…
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OpenAI Just Slashed Its New Model Prices in Half
OpenAI dropped two new models this week, Sol and Luna, and buried in the announcement is the part that actually matters to anyone paying an API bill: prices are cut in half compared to the previous generation. Sol is built for the heavier lifting, coding, multi-step tasks, the stuff where you need the model to…
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China’s StepFun Just Undercut Every AI Price Tag
A Chinese AI company most people outside the industry have never heard of just shipped a model that’s nearly caught up to the best open model available, and priced it to make everyone else sweat a little. StepFun released Step 5 Preview this month. It’s a big model, 600 billion parameters total, though only about…
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Firefox Just Let You Pick an AI That Isn’t American
Firefox just added an option nobody was really shouting for, but a lot of people quietly wanted. Mozilla’s built in AI panel, called Smart Window, now runs on Mistral’s models too, sitting right next to the usual American names instead of being stuck with just one choice. Smart Window is the little assistant living inside…
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Claude Just Stopped Asking You to Pick a Lane
Anthropic just did something small that actually matters. They took Claude Cowork, the tool built for handing off bigger, longer jobs, and folded it straight into regular Claude chat. No more picking a mode before you even start typing. If you have used Claude at all, you know the moment. You open the app and…
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Anthropic Just Quietly Shrank Claude Code’s Limits
If you use Claude Code every day, you probably felt this change before reading about it anywhere. On September 14, Anthropic cut the weekly usage limits on Claude Code by seventeen percent. Here is the confusing part. Anthropic is also calling this a twenty five percent increase, and that is true too. Back in May,…