AI in week 29.
41 new tools and models from 7 analysed videos; 11 confirmed available in the EU.
Videos analysed
Kimi K3, dancing waifus, robot UFC, song to MIDI, GPT Red, hoverboards: AI NEWSAIAI Search· 19 Jul 2026 · 20 tools
This model just changed everything...MAMatthew Berman· 18 Jul 2026 · 2 tools
AI News: Claude's New Browser, Spotify Gets AI & OpenAI's New HardwareMAMatt Wolfe· 17 Jul 2026 · 21 tools
New #1 open source AI model is here! Kimi K3AIAI Search· 17 Jul 2026 · 5 tools
The New ChatGPT Playbook & Prompting GuideMAMatt Wolfe· 15 Jul 2026 · 7 tools
OpenAI vs AnthropicMAMatthew Berman· 15 Jul 2026 · 6 tools
You aren't using Codex like me...MAMatthew Berman· 14 Jul 2026 · 10 tools
Language Models
All Language Models →Kimi K3
Model · Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model family, with K3.1 Pro as the current release in the Kimi app and API.
Inkling Small
Model · Thinking Machines
Open-weights multimodal MoE model (276B total, 12B active) from Thinking Machines; text, image and audio in, text out.
Bonsai 27B
Model · PrismML
Ternary/1-bit compressed 27B-parameter model from PrismML, about 3.9–5.9 GB, built to run on phones and laptops.
Inkling
Model · Thinking Machines Lab
Open-weight 952B-parameter language model from Thinking Machines Lab, its first public open-weight release.
Image Generation
All Image Generation →PiD v1.5
Model · NVIDIA
NVIDIA's open-source image upscaler, v1.5, for latent, Flux and Z-Image outputs, targeting fast 2K results on consumer GPUs.
Meta Instagram AI Muse
App · Meta
Meta AI feature that let users generate images by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts; withdrawn within a week of launch.
Video Generation
All Video Generation →Wan Dancer
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba's hierarchical music-to-dance video model generating minute-scale, 720p/30fps dance videos from music and a reference image.
Mobile Wan
Model · Qualcomm AI Research
Qualcomm research model that runs a distilled, pruned Wan2.2 5B video diffusion model on a mobile device.
Wan Streamer v0.3
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba's real-time audio-visual interactive character video model that renders speech and free-form actions.
Motion4Motion
Research
Training-free, skeleton-free video motion transfer across subjects using TransPE on a frozen WAN-T2V diffusion transformer.
HeyGen
App · HeyGen
AI video platform for creating avatar-led videos from text, with voice cloning and lip-synced translation in 175+ languages.
Voice & Audio
All Voice & Audio →Music
All Music →3D & Worlds
All 3D & Worlds →Lucida
Research · ByteDance
ByteDance research pipeline that turns indoor captures into editable, simulation-ready 3D scenes of separate object meshes.
Ardy
Model · NVIDIA
NVIDIA autoregressive diffusion model for real-time, text- and constraint-controlled 3D human motion generation.
GNM
Model · Google
Google's open-source parametric 3D statistical head model with controls for identity, expression, pose and eye direction.
Agents & Automation
All Agents & Automation →Luma Agents
App · Luma AI
Creative AI platform from Luma AI with agents that plan and generate video, image, audio and text assets using Ray and Uni models.
Claude 1Password integration
App · Anthropic
1Password browser integration that lets Claude log into sites for tasks without exposing passwords or MFA codes to the AI.
Grok Automations
App · xAI
Scheduled and trigger-based automations in xAI's Grok assistant, running recurring tasks such as daily runs or on incoming email.
Codex Browser
Agent · OpenAI
Browser built into OpenAI's Codex app that lets the Codex agent navigate sites and act on web tasks.
Coding
All Coding →Grok Build
App · xAI
xAI's coding agent for Grok, bundled with Grok subscriptions and working alongside Cursor, with background memory.
Claude Code in-app browser
App · Anthropic
In-app browser in the Claude Code desktop app with element annotation for requesting edits to web pages.
Kimi Code
Agent · Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI's terminal coding agent and VS Code extension, powered by Kimi models; successor to the archived Kimi CLI.
Matt Pocock's skills
Library · Matt Pocock
Collection of agent skills for AI coding assistants such as Codex, published by developer Matt Pocock.
Codex Hooks
App · OpenAI
Pre-tool-use hooks for OpenAI Codex that intercept and block destructive shell commands before they run.
Search & Research
All Search & Research →Productivity
All Productivity →Control Center
App · Matt Wolfe
Free open-source business dashboard by Matt Wolfe that aggregates news, mentions, tasks and newsletters with optional AI.
ChatGPT improved search
App · OpenAI
Unified search in ChatGPT's sidebar across chats, projects, images and documents, with filters.
Claude for Teachers
App · Anthropic
Free Claude access and teaching resources from Anthropic for verified US K-12 educators.
Kimi Work
App · Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI's desktop app that lets Kimi models work with files on a user's local computer.
Robotics
All Robotics →Engine AI T-800
Hardware · Engine AI
Full-size T-800 humanoid robot from Engine AI, shown in a teleoperated humanoid MMA event in Shenzhen.
Act-2 Preview
Model · Sunday Robotics
Robot control model from Sunday Robotics for household tasks such as laundry folding, reportedly running offline.
Run Robotics centaur robot
Hardware · Run Robotics
Hybrid industrial robot with a humanoid upper body on a four-wheeled base, reportedly rated for loads up to 210 kg.
Hardware & Devices
All Hardware & Devices →CoolFly Urban
Hardware · CoolFly
Hoverboard-style electric VTOL aircraft from CoolFly, shown carrying a humanoid robot in a robot-fighting event.
Codex Creator Micro
Hardware · OpenAI
Limited-run 13-switch macro pad from OpenAI and Work Louder for monitoring and controlling Codex agents.
OpenAI screenless smart speaker
Hardware · OpenAI
Rumored screen-free, movable AI smart speaker from OpenAI; unconfirmed by the company.
Research
All Research →GPT Red
Model · OpenAI
OpenAI's internal red-teaming model trained via self-play to discover prompt-injection attacks; not publicly released.
GenCeption
Research · Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind research that turns a text-to-video diffusion model into a single feed-forward, multi-task vision model.
Platforms & Infra
All Platforms & Infra →Nemotron 3 Embed
Model · NVIDIA
NVIDIA family of multilingual text embedding models (8B and 1B) for retrieval, RAG and coding agents.
Sunrun distributed AI compute
Hardware · Sunrun
Sunrun pilot placing small compute nodes in solar-and-battery homes to sell distributed AI compute to enterprise buyers.