modelSimon Willison
DeepSeek has released a new version of its Pro model, labeled 0813. For now it is available via API only and showed up on OpenRouter, without a dedicated announcement page. Whether open weights will follow, as with the earlier V4-Pro and V4-Flash, is not yet confirmed.
announcementThe Verge
Google announced that a billion people use Gemini every month, joining ChatGPT, which was the first AI app to pass the mark. According to Sundar Pichai, Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever and its fourteenth product to reach a billion users.
announcementTechCrunch
At Made by Google 2026, Google unveiled the new Pixel 11 lineup, a competitor to Apple’s AirTag and a raft of new Gemini features. The Pixel 11 series brings upgraded cameras and performance, with Gemini’s AI features taking a more prominent role across devices.
toolThe Verge
SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot, a service of always-on AI agents meant to behave like independent “teammates”. The bots have their own cloud-based computer environment, can sign into the apps and tools you already use and complete multi-step workplace tasks, returning only once their assigned work is done.
researchGoogle
Google introduced AMIE, a research medical AI system that demonstrated real-time clinical video consultations in a first-of-its-kind study. The testing was carried out in a simulated setting.
announcementOpenAI
New OpenAI research maps how enterprises are adopting agentic AI and tools like ChatGPT and Codex. It finds that frontier firms are pulling ahead of the rest of the market in AI adoption.
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