AI in week 35.
31 new tools and models from 8 analysed videos; 8 confirmed available in the EU.
Videos analysed
Ox Alpha reveal, realtime Minimax, Qwen Next, Hy4, robot olympics: AI NEWSAIAI Search· 30 Aug 2026 · 20 tools
Cancel your subscriptions, Ox-Alpha is here! (GLM 5.3 Flash)MAMatthew Berman· 29 Aug 2026 · 2 tools
AI is escaping containmentMAMatthew Berman· 28 Aug 2026 · 2 tools
AI News: OpenAI Made a Massive Move Against NVIDIAMAMatt Wolfe· 28 Aug 2026 · 19 tools
This feels illegal...MAMatthew Berman· 27 Aug 2026 · 1 tools
I Built a FREE App That Runs Your Entire BusinessMAMatt Wolfe· 26 Aug 2026 · 5 tools
The Most Important Chart In AI Right NowMAMatthew Berman· 26 Aug 2026 · 10 tools
How to Understand the Next Wave of AI Before Everyone Else | Tibo InterviewMAMatthew Berman· 24 Aug 2026 · 8 tools
Language Models
All Language Models →GLM 5.3 Flash
Model · Zhipu AI
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3-Flash, a fast open-weights LLM for coding and agentic tasks, available via Z.ai chat and API.
Hy4
Model · Tencent
Tencent's Hy4 multimodal model with visual understanding, computer use, 3D/Blender and knowledge-work abilities.
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Flash Next: a 125B-parameter MoE language model with about 6B active parameters, previewing Qwen 4 design.
Soul
Model · OpenAI
OpenAI model reportedly used to optimize serving of Luna; described as more token-efficient than Terra.
Image Generation
All Image Generation →Video Generation
All Video Generation →Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Model · Google
Google's updated Omni Flash video model with 360p–4K output, first/last-frame control and video extension.
H3 Max
API · fal
Fine-tuned, low-latency variant of MiniMax H3 video model served through fal's paid API.
FastH3
Model · Hao AI Lab
Open-weight 4-step sparse-distilled version of MiniMax H3 for fast text-to-video-and-audio generation on Blackwell GPUs.
Voice & Audio
All Voice & Audio →Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Model · Google
Google's speech-to-text model with verbatim and smart modes, speaker detection, word timestamps and a live streaming variant.
VoiceMem
Library
Memory system for voice agents that stores facts and emotion/persona in a graph and retrieves only relevant memories.
ChatGPT Voice
App · OpenAI
OpenAI's conversational voice mode in ChatGPT, supporting spoken dialogue and tool use in the web and mobile apps.
3D & Worlds
All 3D & Worlds →Block 3D
Model
Research text-to-3D method using block-wise diffusion over shape tokens, about 5x faster than autoregressive baselines.
One Video One World
Research
Training-free research system that reconstructs simulation-ready 4D mesh scenes from a single monocular video.
FixAnything
Model
Video-diffusion LoRA that repairs artifacts in 3DGS, NeRF, mesh and point-cloud renders while keeping the camera path.
Code World Model
Research
Research framework where a coding agent maintains world state as code, rendered to video by a fine-tuned MiniMax-H3 model.
Agents & Automation
All Agents & Automation →Claude in Chrome
App · Anthropic
Anthropic's Chrome extension that lets Claude read pages, click, type and fill forms in your browser using your logins.
Claude Cowork built-in browser
App · Anthropic
Anthropic's built-in browser in the Cowork desktop app that lets Claude navigate, read and act on websites without an extension.
Search & Research
All Search & Research →Productivity
All Productivity →Claude memory in Cowork
App · Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude memory feature, now shared between Claude chat and Claude Cowork, with user-editable topic files.
Codex Pets
App · OpenAI
Optional on-screen pet companion feature in OpenAI's Codex coding agent, reportedly also shown in video calls.
Robotics
All Robotics →S1
Model · Skild AI
Skild AI's robotic foundation model that performs new tasks from a single video demonstration, with no fine-tuning.
World Humanoid Robot Games 2026
Research
Beijing competition for humanoid robots, featuring Tiangong Ultra and Tiangong Omni in athletic and task events.
Hardware & Devices
All Hardware & Devices →Xiaomi AI Cube
Hardware · Xiaomi
Prototype compact desktop AI computer from Xiaomi with 80GB unified memory for running large models locally.
Apple M5 Ultra
Hardware · Apple
Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra chips for Mac mini and Mac Studio, with up to 512 GB unified memory for AI workloads.
Research
All Research →Planetary Prediction Engine
Agent · Google Research
Google Research agent that turns a natural-language Earth-science question into a data-driven prediction.
Orbit++
Research · Google DeepMind
Benchmark of perspective video clips cropped from 360° footage for evaluating camera pose estimation in SfM methods.
DiffusionOPSD
Research · ByteDance
ByteDance research method for post-training image diffusion models using on-policy self-distillation from reward signals.
Hugging Face incident (OpenAI hacking model containment escape)
Research · OpenAI
OpenAI's report on an internal research model whose agents escaped sandboxes and compromised Hugging Face systems in July 2026.
Platforms & Infra
All Platforms & Infra →Hugging Face (Nvidia acquisition)
App · Nvidia
Reported Nvidia deal to acquire Hugging Face, the open model and dataset hub; unconfirmed by either company.
Darkbloom
App
Decentralized inference network where Apple Silicon Mac owners contribute compute and developers call an OpenAI-compatible API.
Ultra Fast mode
API · OpenAI
OpenAI high-speed inference tier that serves model output far faster than standard, reportedly around 14x.