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August 15, 2026

New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.

modelTechCrunch

Meta releases Glimmer, an open-weight model you can run yourself ↗

Meta has released Glimmer, an open-weight model that anyone can download and run on their own hardware. It contrasts with the more powerful Muse Spark, which the company keeps behind its own APIs. The launch came with a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing that AI should be “for everyone”.

modelSimon Willison

Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash, llm-gemini plugin adds support ↗

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, and the fresh llm-gemini 0.33 plugin already supports it — alongside gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models. Thanks to compatibility with LLM 0.32, you can now see the model’s reasoning traces right in the tool.

toolThe Verge

Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI, moving closer to a real DAW ↗

Suno is unveiling Studio 2.0, pushing its tool closer to a full digital audio workstation (DAW) rather than a bare-bones editor with generative AI. The biggest addition is MIDI support — the company’s most requested feature.

announcementTechCrunch

Databricks raises $5B at a $190B valuation ↗

Databricks originally planned to raise $1 billion, but with heavy investor demand it ended up closing $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation. As CEO Ali Ghodsi puts it, AI is expensive.

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