AI in week 40.

GS

GPT-6.1 Sol

Model · OpenAI

9

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol: near-GPT-6 Astra performance on coding and agent tasks at one-fifth of Astra's API price.

CS

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Model · Anthropic

3

Anthropic's mid-tier Claude 5.5 model: faster and cheaper than Sonnet 5, aimed at everyday coding and knowledge work.

AR

AREX-2

Model · BAAI

1

27B open-weights agent model from BAAI that iteratively proposes, tests and refines solutions on coding and ML tasks.

SD

Strands Decider 2B

Model · Amazon

1

Small open model from Amazon's Strands agents team, reportedly built for agent decision-making; details unverified.

I4

Ideogram 4.5

Model · Ideogram

2

Ideogram's image generation and precise-editing model, offering multi-turn edits at native 2K via app, MCP and API.

IW

InSpatio World 1.5

Model · InSpatio

1

Spatial world model that turns images, panoramas or video plus a camera path into explorable, consistent novel-view video.

SR

Sol Refiner

Model · Nvidia

1

NVIDIA one-step refiner that upscales low-resolution generated video to up to 4K across different base video generators.

P2

Phonon 2

Model · Fermion Research

1

Open 164 MB English speech recognition model from Fermion Research, derived from Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3.

Compact 16.9 MB speech-to-text model from Cactus that runs on CPU with no dependencies.

MS

Microsoft Streaming Transcription Model

Model · Microsoft

1

Microsoft AI's streaming speech-to-text model for near real-time transcription, succeeded by MAI Transcribe 2.

Microsoft AI's text-to-speech voice model with expressive output across multiple languages.

PA

PAMI

Research

1

Research method generating text-conditioned 3D human-object interaction motion using body-part anchors and a contact refiner.

PO

Point2Part

Research

1

Research model that splits a 3D mesh or single image into non-overlapping, gap-free parts from one 3D point prompt per part.

OD

OpenAI Dots

Agent · OpenAI

4

Always-on ChatGPT agents that own ongoing tasks and work on their own cloud computers between conversations.

OS

OpenDots (Suparagent)

Library

1

Open-source, self-hostable workspace for named AI agents with memory, routines, and approval controls; bring your own model.

GT

Grok Team Bots

Agent · xAI

1

Team version of xAI's Grok Bot: a shared agent built around a role or workflow with shared context, plugins and memory.

CI

Codex in the cloud

App · OpenAI

2

OpenAI's cloud-based coding agent that runs engineering tasks in remote environments, accessed via ChatGPT.

IQ

IQuest Q1

Model · IQuest Lab

1

320B-parameter MoE model (15B active) from IQuest for agentic coding and tool use, with 512K context.

CC

Claude Code Mods

App · Anthropic

1

TypeScript functions that hook Claude Code events to rewrite prompts, block commands, add UI or replace built-in features.

CC

Codex CLI (refreshed)

App · OpenAI

1

OpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal, with voice control and a new code review experience.

CS

Codex Security Cloud

App · OpenAI

1

OpenAI cloud-based security agent that scans code for vulnerabilities and reports findings.

CC

CodeRabbit Change Stack

App · CodeRabbit

1

AI pull-request review interface from CodeRabbit that explains, ranks and checks code changes, including agent-written code.

AS

AstaBrief

Model · Allen Institute for AI

1

Open 8B Qwen3-based model from Ai2 that turns a prompt and papers into a cited research report in one pass.

CM

ChatGPT Meetings Plugin

App · OpenAI

2

OpenAI's ChatGPT plugin that records and transcribes meetings and saves summaries and next steps into ChatGPT.

CS

ChatGPT Spaces

App · OpenAI

2

Shared, collaborative workspace in ChatGPT where teammates and ChatGPT work together on documents and projects.

CP

ChatGPT Pages

App · OpenAI

1

Document type inside ChatGPT for human and agent collaboration on writing, research, charts and images.

HB

Humanoid Badminton

Research · Tsinghua University

1

Tsinghua research system in which a humanoid robot learns to play badminton rallies from limited human motion data.

TS

Tactile Step

Research

1

Research framework adding sole pressure-insole tactile sensing to humanoid locomotion policies, tested on Unitree G1.

DM

DMAD

Research · ByteDance

1

ByteDance and Texas A&M research method distilling image and video diffusion models into few-step generators adversarially.

PD

PDMD

Research · ByteDance

1

ByteDance research method for few-step diffusion distillation, adding a one-line projection to the DMD update.

PI

PixelUMM

Model · Nvidia

1

Nvidia research model that understands and generates images and video directly in pixel space, with no VAE or vision encoder.

PC

Plasma conjecture disproof

Research

1

Counterexamples to Grad's conjecture in plasma physics, with a Lean 4 formalization of the main result.

NC

Napoleon code cracked

Research

1

Independent write-up of a 1809 Napoleonic cipher letter to General Marmont, decrypted with GPT-6 Astra.

Research on how AI models respond to pain- and pleasure-like tradeoffs, used to probe possible AI distress.

OD

OpenAI Decisions API

API · OpenAI

5

OpenAI API that returns bounded decisions such as probabilities, choices from a set, or scores instead of free text.

OC

Olmo Core 3

Library · Allen Institute for AI

1

Ai2's open-source PyTorch library of building blocks and training scripts for OLMo language models, including MoE training.

PI

Private Intelligence

App · OpenAI

1

OpenAI confidential-computing option for running OpenAI models without OpenAI accessing or training on user content.

Documentary film exploring whether AI systems could be conscious, featuring AI safety researcher Cameron Berg.

P5

Pro 500

App · OpenAI

1

OpenAI's $500/month ChatGPT subscription tier with higher usage limits than Plus, reported at 25x Plus usage.