AI in week 26.
42 new tools and models from 7 analysed videos; 21 confirmed available in the EU.
Videos analysed
"The best thing since OpenClaw" (Hermes Tutorial)MAMatthew Berman· 28 Jun 2026 · 5 tools
GPT 5.6, Mythos ban lifted, realtime avatars, Seedance 2.5, brain ultrasound: AI NEWSAIAI Search· 28 Jun 2026 · 22 tools
Dario got his way....MAMatthew Berman· 26 Jun 2026 · 3 tools
AI News: The New Model That's As Good As FableMAMatt Wolfe· 26 Jun 2026 · 9 tools
Anthropic is coming for EVERYTHINGMAMatthew Berman· 25 Jun 2026 · 3 tools
The 9 Best Claude Skills (Free) That Feel Like Cheat CodesMAMatt Wolfe· 24 Jun 2026 · 9 tools
You NEED to try these 12 open-source AI projects RIGHT NOWMAMatthew Berman· 24 Jun 2026 · 12 tools
Language Models
All Language Models →GPT-5.6 Sol
Model · OpenAI
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol frontier model, with an Ultrafast API tier on Cerebras reaching up to 750 output tokens per second.
Fable
Model
Frontier LLM reportedly from Anthropic, priced at $10/M input and $50/M output tokens; details unverified.
DeepSeek R1
Model · DeepSeek
DeepSeek's open-weights reasoning LLM (671B MoE, 37B active) trained with large-scale reinforcement learning.
Sakana Fugu
Model · Sakana AI
Sakana AI's orchestration API that routes tasks across a pool of LLMs through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
GPT-5.4 mini
Model · OpenAI
Smaller, lower-cost OpenAI language model in the GPT-5.4 family, offered through the OpenAI API and ChatGPT.
Seed 2.1
Model · ByteDance
ByteDance Seed's closed multimodal model family (Pro and Turbo) aimed at agentic, real-world productivity tasks.
Unlimited OCR
Model · Baidu
Baidu's open-weights vision-language OCR model for parsing very long, multi-page documents.
Image Generation
All Image Generation →Un-0
Model · Unconventional AI
Proof-of-concept image generator from Unconventional AI that uses coupled oscillators instead of diffusion.
DanceOPD
Research · ByteDance
ByteDance research framework that distills multiple specialist image models into one via on-policy velocity matching.
Video Generation
All Video Generation →Seedance 2.5
Model · ByteDance
ByteDance Seed's video generation model supporting multi-reference inputs and one-take creation.
Seedance 2.0
Model · ByteDance
ByteDance Seed's multimodal video generation model, producing video from text and reference inputs.
Manim
Library
Community-maintained Python library for programmatically creating mathematical and explanatory animations.
Remotion
Library · Remotion
React framework for creating and rendering videos programmatically, with a Studio, Player and agent skills.
Domain Shuttle
Model
Subject-driven text-to-video model that keeps multiple reference characters and objects consistent across art styles.
Happy Horse 1.1
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba's AI video generation model with native audio and lip sync, text, image and reference-to-video up to 1080p.
Wan Streamer
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba research model for real-time conversational avatars using one transformer over text, audio and video.
OpenMontage
Agent
Open-source agentic video production system that turns an AI coding assistant into a video studio.
Voice & Audio
All Voice & Audio →3D & Worlds
All 3D & Worlds →Agents & Automation
All Agents & Automation →Claude Tag
Agent · Anthropic
Anthropic feature that lets Slack teams tag Claude as a teammate to take on tasks and work in the background.
Hark Pro
Agent · Hark
Computer-use AI agent from Brett Adcock, founder of Figure, reported to be in private beta.
DeerFlow
Agent · ByteDance
ByteDance's open-source super agent harness that runs sub-agents, memory and sandboxes for long-horizon tasks.
SkillSpector
Library · NVIDIA
NVIDIA's open-source security scanner for AI agent skills, checking repos, URLs, zips and files for vulnerabilities.
Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills
Library
Open-source library of 800+ cybersecurity skills for AI coding agents, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF and other frameworks.
Coding
All Coding →GStack
Library · Garry Tan
Open-source set of Claude Code slash-command skills that act as a virtual engineering team, by Garry Tan.
Ornith 1.0
Model
Open-weights family of agentic coding models (9B to 397B) that learns to generate its own task-specific scaffolds.
Understand Anything
Library · Egonex AI
Claude Code plugin that builds an interactive knowledge graph of a codebase or wiki using a multi-agent pipeline.
Graphify
Library · Graphify Labs
Open-source CLI and agent skill that turns code, docs, PDFs and media into a queryable local knowledge graph.
Taste Skill
Library · Leonxlnx
Agent Skill that guides coding agents to build company websites with one design system, real photos and browser-checked output.
Frontend Design skill
Library · Anthropic
Anthropic agent skill that steers Claude toward distinctive, intentional frontend design instead of generic AI-looking UI.
Codebase Memory MCP
Library · DeusData
Local MCP server that indexes code, docs and infrastructure into a knowledge graph for AI coding agents.
Productivity
All Productivity →Nexos
App
Multi-model AI workspace giving access to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other models, with a no-code agent builder.
Stop Slop
Library
MIT-licensed skill file that instructs Claude or other LLMs to remove common AI writing patterns from prose.
Robotics
All Robotics →Hardware & Devices
All Hardware & Devices →OpenAI Jalapeño Chip
Hardware · OpenAI
OpenAI's custom in-house AI accelerator chip, codenamed Jalapeño, discussed in industry analysis.
IBM sub-1nm chip technology (nanostack)
Hardware · IBM
IBM Research's 0.7 nm (7 angstrom) chip technology using a 3D "nanostack" transistor architecture, announced June 2026.
Meta Ray-Ban glasses new styles
Hardware · Meta
New Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses styles, including the Meta Adventurer and Meta Fury, with camera, audio and Meta AI.
OpenAI inference chip
Hardware · OpenAI
Custom AI inference chip announced by OpenAI and Broadcom, built to serve ChatGPT-style workloads faster and cheaper.
Research
All Research →Autodata
Research · Meta
Meta research framework where an AI agent acts as a data scientist, iteratively building training and evaluation datasets.
Aleph ultrasound brain imaging
Research · Aleph
Research ultrasound method using injected microbubbles to map blood flow in the living human brain in 3D.
PerceptionDLM
Model · ByteDance
Diffusion-based vision-language model from PKU MSALab and ByteDance that captions multiple image regions in parallel.