AI in week 27.

CS

Claude Sonnet 5

Model · Anthropic

5

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 LLM, with a high-effort "Max" setting; since succeeded by Claude Sonnet 5.5.

Smaller, efficient OpenAI model reportedly cut in price by 80% after efficiency work; details are limited.

AA

Agents A1

Model

1

35B Mixture-of-Experts open-weights model from InternScience for long-horizon agentic search, engineering and tool use.

L2

LongCat 2.0

Model · Meituan

1

Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts LLM (48B active), aimed at agentic coding and reasoning tasks.

NB

Nano Banana 2 Light

Model · Google

2

Google's faster, cheaper variant of Nano Banana 2 image model, generating images in about 4 seconds.

MR

MrFlow

Library

1

Training-free staged sampling method that speeds up pretrained flow-matching text-to-image diffusion models.

RD

RDM

Research

1

Research method that trains one-step image generators by matching feature distributions under frozen encoders.

GO

Gemini Omni Flash

Model · Google

2

Faster Gemini Omni variant from Google for generating and editing video from references and text prompts.

LI

LiveEdit

Model

1

Research framework for real-time, causal streaming video editing with diffusion, running at about 12.66 FPS.

NS

NotebookLM Shorts

App · Google

1

NotebookLM feature that turns user sources into roughly 60-second vertical short video overviews.

CM

Comfy MCP

API · ComfyUI

1

MCP bridge from ComfyUI that lets AI agents build, edit and run ComfyUI workflows from natural language.

GC

Genspark Claw

Agent · Genspark

1

Genspark's hosted OpenClaw-based agent that connects to Slack, Teams and WhatsApp, with a desktop version.

CF

Cursor for iOS

App · Cursor

1

Cursor's iOS app for launching cloud coding agents and controlling agents running on your computer from a phone.

GM

Gemini Meet Notes

App · Google

1

Gemini feature in Google Meet that transcribes meetings and produces summaries and action items saved to Google Docs.

Anthropic desktop workbench app for scientists, comparable to Claude Code and Cowork, on paid plans for Mac and Linux.

UU

UBTECH U1 series

Hardware · UBTECH Robotics

2

UBTECH U1 series: humanoid robots from UBTECH Robotics with realistic faces and hair, reportedly in first deliveries.

OM

OmniContact

Research

1

Hierarchical humanoid loco-manipulation framework that chains meta-skills via contact flow, accepted to CoRL 2026.

Research system from Invideo that writes robot control code, repairs failures and stores fixes in a reusable skill library.

CH

CHORD

Research · Nvidia

1

NVIDIA research framework that teaches dexterous robot hands manipulation from human demonstrations via contact wrenches.

Research method that turns a single photo or video into a simulation-ready 3D scene for robot reinforcement learning.

OC

OpenAI Codex Hardware

Hardware · OpenAI

1

Codex-branded macro pad from OpenAI and Work Louder with programmable keys for shortcuts in the Codex coding tool.

BU

BuseyBench

Research

2

Informal benchmark that scores how well AI models draw SVG images of Gary Busey, ranked on an LLM-judged leaderboard.

DeepSeek research component for multi-token output, intended to speed up LLM text generation.

PH

PhysiFormer

Model

1

Diffusion transformer that generates rigid and elastic 3D mesh dynamics in world coordinates from initial velocities and materials.

Meta research model that decodes non-invasive MEG brain signals into typed text; v2 trained on roughly 10x more data.

MU

MusViT

Model

1

Vision Transformer foundation model for sheet music, pre-trained with masked autoencoding on 9.7M IMSLP pages.

VI

VidiHand

Research

1

Research method that reconstructs 4D hand motion (MANO) from video using a fine-tuned video diffusion model.

XM

X MCP Server

API · X

1

Hosted MCP server from X that lets MCP-compatible AI tools access the X API using a user's own account permissions.

IN

Inference.net

API · Inference.net

1

OpenAI-compatible inference API and gateway for open-weight and closed models, with provider failover and pass-through pricing.