AI in week 39.
48 new tools and models from 10 analysed videos; 16 confirmed available in the EU.
Videos analysed
Waifus incoming, GPT 6 Sol, Grok 4.7, Opus 5.5, Mimo 2.6, Step 5, OpenMuse: AI NEWSAIAI Search· 27 Sept 2026 · 24 tools
AI News: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, Jev, Muse and More!MAMatt Wolfe· 26 Sept 2026 · 18 tools
SemiAnalysis MOTS: AI Chip Shortages, SpaceX, China, Neoclouds, and more!MAMatthew Berman· 25 Sept 2026 · 4 tools
8 Jev Use Cases That Feel Like CheatingMAMatthew Berman· 24 Sept 2026 · 10 tools
Claude Opus 5.5 is ridiculousAIAI Search· 24 Sept 2026 · 6 tools
GPT-6 Sol and Luna Are HERE!MAMatthew Berman· 23 Sept 2026 · 4 tools
Anthropic went CRAZY (Opus 5.5)MAMatthew Berman· 23 Sept 2026 · 5 tools
Claude Opus 5.5 Didn’t Need to Go This HardMAMatt Wolfe· 22 Sept 2026 · 2 tools
Finally! New best local AI image editor is hereAIAI Search· 22 Sept 2026 · 6 tools
Did Elon catch up? (Grok 4.7 is here)MAMatthew Berman· 22 Sept 2026 · 4 tools
Language Models
All Language Models →Claude Opus 5.5
Model · Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 model for agentic coding and knowledge work, priced lower per task than Opus 5.
GPT-6 Sol
Model · OpenAI
OpenAI's mid-tier GPT-6 model, positioned below GPT-6 Astra and above Luna, priced at $2/$10 per million tokens.
Step 5 Preview
Model · StepFun
StepFun's Step 5 Preview: a large MoE model (reported ~600B total, 27B active, 1M context) for coding and reasoning.
Limite 1B Violetto
Model · Paradigma
1B-parameter model from Paradigma specialized for hard competitive math problems, released with code and weights.
Dots3 Note
Model · Rednote
Open MoE language model from Rednote (Xiaohongshu) with 208B total and 16B active parameters.
Aikido Altar
Model · Aikido
Open-weight cybersecurity model from Aikido, fine-tuned from GLM 5.3 and compressed to 328 GB.
Image Generation
All Image Generation →Qwen Image 2.1
Model · Alibaba
Alibaba Qwen's image generation and editing model, accessible through Qwen Chat and used as an open editing baseline.
Ming Image 0.1 Design
Model · inclusionAI
Open-weights 6B text-to-image model for UI, infographics and posters, with 2K output and RGBA transparency.
Supra2 Img
Model · SupraLabs
Tiny 100M-parameter open-weights text-to-image diffusion transformer from SupraLabs, generating 256×256 images.
Qwen 2.1 Anime Consistency LoRA
Model · WarmBloodAban
Experimental LoRA for Qwen-Image-2.1 that improves character consistency in anime-style image editing.
Video Generation
All Video Generation →Gemini Omni in Google Vids
App · Google
Google Vids' Gemini Omni feature generates and edits video clips with native audio and avatars inside Google Workspace.
Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar
Model · Google
Google Gemini 3.8 Live feature pairing real-time video generation with speech for conversational face-to-face avatars.
Clipfast
App
App that cuts long videos into multiple short clips from a typed text prompt, with one-click download.
Ray 3.2
Model · Luma AI
Luma AI's Ray 3.2 video generation model with frame-level control and cross-cut continuity, via app and API.
Voice & Audio
All Voice & Audio →Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
Model · Google
Google's Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech model for expressive, controllable speech generation via the Gemini API and AI Studio.
GPT Live 1
API · OpenAI
OpenAI API for realtime voice assistants that keep talking while background agents work.
Music
All Music →3D & Worlds
All 3D & Worlds →WorldCrafter
Model · Tencent ARC Lab
Video world model from Tencent ARC Lab that turns an image or text into camera-controlled explorable scenes with 3D-aware memory.
GAE
Model
Research autoencoder with a geometry-native latent space for 3D-consistent video and world generation.
Mira Scene
Model
Model that reconstructs a single image into a 3D scene with separate, individually usable objects.
Agents & Automation
All Agents & Automation →OpenMuse
Agent
Open-source MIT-licensed personal agent app with browser, terminal, files and Gmail/Calendar, built on CopilotKit and AG-UI.
Zapier
App · Zapier
No-code automation platform connecting 9,000+ apps with deterministic workflows, AI steps and agents.
Claude Managed Agents
Agent · Anthropic
Anthropic's hosted service for building and running Claude-based agents with custom harnesses in the cloud.
Coding
All Coding →Horizon Create
App · Meta
Meta Horizon tools that turn a text prompt into a 2D or 3D mobile game, via a phone app (Create) and a browser (Studio).
Jev real-time web page builder
App
Tool that assembles web pages in real time from a preconfigured UI element library, as shown in creator demos.
Productivity
All Productivity →YouTube Made On YouTube AI features
App · YouTube
AI features announced at Made on YouTube: Ask YouTube search, custom feeds, Ask Music, auto dubbing and creator tools.
Microsoft Copilot (new)
App · Microsoft
Microsoft's redesigned Copilot app combining chat, Cowork, code and autopilot modes across web, desktop and mobile.
Jev email prioritizer
App
Email prioritization feature that sorts an inbox by response priority, shown in a creator demo of Jev.
Unclutter
App · Kitsy
App that automatically removes ads, cookie banners and upsells from web pages, using your own API key.
Fuzzy find-in-page search
App
Open-source fuzzy find-in-page tool that highlights semantically matching content rather than exact keywords.
Robotics
All Robotics →Flux 3 Action
Model · Black Forest Labs
7B open-weights world action model from Black Forest Labs that jointly predicts video and actions for robot control.
Unitree Dex 5S
Hardware · Unitree
Human-sized dexterous robot hand from Unitree with 22 degrees of freedom and impact torque protection.
Skild AI S1 soccer self-play
Research · Skild AI
Skild AI research result: humanoid soccer policy trained by self-play in Isaac Sim on the S1 model, transferred to a real robot.
Hardware & Devices
All Hardware & Devices →Project Suncatcher
Hardware · Google
Google research initiative to put TPU-equipped satellites in orbit as a prototype space-based AI data center.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio
Hardware · Meta
Camera-free Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with open-ear speakers, microphones and Meta AI voice assistant.
Meta Ray-Ban Display
Hardware · Meta
Meta smart glasses with a monocular in-lens display, AI assistant and Meta Neural Band wristband controller.
Muse Charm
Hardware · Meta
Handheld keychain device from Meta for giving instructions to the Muse AI agent; announced, still in production.
Meta VR glasses
Hardware · Meta
Meta's announced lightweight VR glasses with a tethered compute and battery puck, reported for spring 2027.
Cerebras
Hardware · Cerebras
Wafer-scale AI chips (CS-series) and a cloud inference API serving open models at high token speeds.
Groq
Hardware · Groq
Inference provider built on its custom LPU chips, offering fast LLM inference via cloud API (GroqCloud) and dedicated capacity.
Research
All Research →Claude gene discovery (novel enzyme system)
Research · Anthropic
Anthropic research result: Claude agents found a CRISPR-like array-associated reverse transcriptase system in phage DNA.
CLM v0.1 8B
Model
Open-weights contrastive "System One" scorer: projection heads on a frozen Qwen3-8B that rank actions against states.
Platforms & Infra
All Platforms & Infra →Ovis Embedding
Model · AIDC-AI
Open multimodal embedding models from AIDC-AI that map text, images, video and documents into a shared vector space.
ClusterMAX 3.0
Research · SemiAnalysis
SemiAnalysis's rating system that ranks GPU cloud (neocloud) providers, with CoreWeave and Nebius highlighted.
Claude Plugin Evals
Library · Anthropic
Anthropic tooling to check whether Claude skills and plugins are up to date with the newest model and update them.
Qwen Image 2.1 GGUF
Model · Abiray
Community GGUF quantizations of Qwen-Image-2.1 for low-VRAM text-to-image and image editing in ComfyUI.
Other
All Other →Jev emoji finder
App
App that suggests the emojis most associated with whatever text you type, shown in a YouTube demo of Jev use cases.
Jev color palette demo
App
Demo app that generates color palettes from any typed concept, such as 80s disco, Mario or the Matrix.