AI in week 21.
48 new tools and models from 5 analysed videos; 12 confirmed available in the EU.
Videos analysed
AI scientist, DNA editors, AI NPCs, new Qwen, open-source robots, new video editors: AI NEWSAIAI Search· 24 May 2026 · 21 tools
AI News: These Google Updates Are Dividing PeopleMAMatt Wolfe· 22 May 2026 · 21 tools
This made me sad.MAMatthew Berman· 21 May 2026 · 1 tools
Google strikes back! Gemini Omni, AI glasses, new modelsAIAI Search· 21 May 2026 · 12 tools
Google CEO: Agents, Open Source, Race to AGI, Cybersecurity, Chips, ChinaMAMatthew Berman· 20 May 2026 · 5 tools
Language Models
All Language Models →Gemini 3.5 Flash
Model · Google
Google's faster, lower-cost Flash model in the Gemini 3.5 family, aimed at agentic and coding workloads.
Qwen 3.7 Max
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba's Qwen flagship large language model, offered as a hosted proprietary model via Qwen Chat and Alibaba Cloud.
Gemma
Model · Google
Google DeepMind's family of open-weights models built from Gemini technology, from phone-sized to laptop-class variants.
HY-MT2
Model · Tencent
Tencent's open multilingual translation model family (1.8B, 7B, 30B-A3B MoE) covering 33 languages.
Marlin 2B
Model · NemoStation
2B-parameter open-weights video-language model that writes scene descriptions and timestamped event captions.
Image Generation
All Image Generation →L2P
Model
Pixel-space text-to-image diffusion model transferred from latent diffusion models, without a VAE, supporting 4K output.
Krea 2 LoRAs
App · Krea AI
LoRA training on Krea's platform to teach Krea 2 a custom style, character, face or product from a few images.
Google Pics
App · Google
Google image creation and editing app built on Nano Banana, with object-level edits and Docs, Slides and Drive integration.
Video Generation
All Video Generation →Gemini Omni
Model · Google
Google's Omni video generation model, available in the Gemini app and used for video creation and editing in Google Vids.
CogOmniControl
Research
Research framework for controllable video generation from sketches, pose or line art, a reference image and a text prompt.
Lance
Model · ByteDance
ByteDance research model unifying image and video understanding, generation and editing in a 3B active-parameter network.
FashionChameleon
Model · Alibaba
Research model for real-time video virtual try-on that swaps garments mid-generation on a single GPU.
LongCat Video Avatar 1.5
Model · Meituan
Open-weights audio-driven avatar video model from Meituan, built on LongCat-Video, with 8-step distilled inference.
Voice & Audio
All Voice & Audio →Mega ASR
Model
Speech recognition model trained for noisy, reverberant and distorted real-world audio, with RL post-training.
WavFlow
Model · Meta
Meta research model that generates audio directly in raw waveform space, without a VAE, for video-to-audio synthesis.
Qwen 3.5 LiveTranslate
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba Qwen model for live speech translation across 60 languages that uses visual context and streams translations early.
Alexa+ AI Podcasts
App · Amazon
Alexa+ feature that generates on-demand, podcast-style audio episodes on a chosen topic.
Spotify Personal Podcasts
App · Spotify
Spotify feature for generating private AI-made audio episodes from a prompt and asking questions about podcasts.
Music
All Music →Stable Audio 3
Model · Stability AI
Stability AI's family of text-to-audio models for music and SFX, with open-weight Small and Medium variants and an API-only Large.
Spotify AI Covers and Remixes
App · Spotify
Spotify's licensed feature for fan-made AI covers and remixes, developed with Universal Music Group and sharing revenue with artists.
3D & Worlds
All 3D & Worlds →Atlas
Model · World Labs
World Labs' world model that generates and reconstructs explorable 3D worlds from images, text, video or 3D input.
LiTo
Model · Apple
Apple research model that generates 3D assets with view-dependent appearance from a single input image.
PanoWorld
Model
Research generative world model that creates consistent whole-house panorama tours from a floorplan and style reference.
ReactiveGWM
Model
Research game world model that assigns player or NPC roles per character and generates reactive NPC behavior from rules.
Project Genie
App · Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind app for generating interactive, explorable worlds from prompts, including places grounded in Street View.
Agents & Automation
All Agents & Automation →OpenClaw
Agent
Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own machine and connects to chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack.
AI co-scientist
Agent · Google DeepMind
Gemini-based multi-agent system from Google that generates, debates and ranks scientific hypotheses for researchers.
Universal Cart
App · Google
Google shopping cart spanning multiple merchants, with agent checkout via the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2).
Coding
All Coding →Composer 2.5
Model · Cursor
Cursor's in-house coding model, used in the Cursor editor and by sub-agents for lower-cost coding tasks.
Antigravity
App · Google
Google's agent-first development platform with desktop app, terminal CLI, IDE and SDK for running coding agents.
Google Antigravity 2.0
App · Google
Google's agent-first development platform with desktop app, CLI, IDE and SDK for running parallel coding agents.
Stitch
App · Google
Google's AI design tool that generates mobile and web app UIs from text prompts.
Code Mentor
Agent · Google
Google DeepMind AI agent that finds software vulnerabilities and generates, tests and verifies security patches.
Search & Research
All Search & Research →Productivity
All Productivity →Gemini voice in Gmail, Docs and Keep
App · Google
Conversational Gemini voice interaction inside Gmail, Google Docs and Google Keep for paid Google AI plan subscribers.
Pomelli
App · Google
Google Labs tool that builds a brand profile from a website and generates on-brand marketing content for small businesses.
Granola Briefs
App · Granola
Granola feature that prepares a pre-meeting Brief for external meetings from calendar data and past conversations.
AI Inbox
App · Google
Gemini-powered inbox assistant in Gmail that summarizes threads, drafts replies and answers questions about your email.
Gemini Daily Brief
App · Google
Personalized morning digest in the Gemini app that summarizes Gmail, Calendar and other connected apps.
Robotics
All Robotics →Unitree G1 voice control
Hardware · Unitree Robotics
Unitree G1 is a compact humanoid robot from Unitree Robotics, shown in demos following spoken commands.
LeRobot Humanoid
Hardware · Hugging Face
Open-source 3D-printable humanoid robot platform from the Hugging Face LeRobot project, with parts list and software.
Hardware & Devices
All Hardware & Devices →Google Gemini AI Glasses
Hardware · Google
Gemini-powered Android XR smart glasses from Google, built with Samsung, Qualcomm, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.
TPU 8t
Hardware · Google
Google's eighth-generation TPU for large-scale AI pre-training, scaling to 9,600 chips per superpod.
TPU 8i
Hardware · Google
Google's eighth-generation Cloud TPU for post-training and low-latency inference of large MoE models.
Research
All Research →Carbon
Model · Hugging Face
Open-source DNA foundation model family from Hugging Face, 500M to 8B parameters, with ~400k base-pair context.
Flash GRPO
Research
Single-step GRPO training framework for aligning video diffusion models with human preferences, tested on Wan2.1 1.3B–14B.
Gemini for Science
App · Google
Google suite of science tools whose "science skills" connect Gemini to 30+ life science databases such as UniProt and AlphaFold.