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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the production inference framework powering its large-scale services, supporting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with speculative decoding (DSpark), deterministic sampling, and structured outputs on NVIDIA SM100 and Huawei Ascend 950.
DeepSeek V4 graduated from preview to general availability with a 1M-token context window, V4-Pro and V4-Flash variants, MIT-licensed open weights, and the AI industry's first structural peak/off-peak API surge pricing.
Perplexity expanded its Agent API with GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Gemini 3.6 Flash, and Grok 4.5 at first-party pricing. Sonar Chat Completions is now consolidated into the unified Agent API.
Perplexity Computer gains Brain — a private context graph built across sessions that boosted answer accuracy by 25%. New features include website publishing and full Microsoft 365 integration.
Notion Agents gained calendar tools: the AI can check schedules, reschedule meetings, send invites, and create scheduling links via natural language in Notion chat. Requires connecting a calendar under Settings.
DeepSeek introduced peak-hour pricing for its V4 API — token rates double during Beijing business hours (9–12 and 14–18 CST). The deepseek-chat alias retires July 24; migration to deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek-v4-pro is mandatory.
LM Studio released Bionic — a new dedicated AI agent for local open-source models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma). Fully local-first: no data leaves the device. A direct alternative to Claude Code and Codex for developers with sensitive data.
DeepSeek will deactivate legacy aliases deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner on July 24, 2026 at 15:59 UTC. Developers must update calls to deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash — note critical mapping caveat for deepseek-reasoner.
Perplexity expanded the Sonar API with access to GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 models and added a new finance_search tool for real-time financial data.
DeepSeek's official V4 release is coming mid-July with a 1-million-token context window and the platform's first-ever peak/off-peak API pricing — calls during Beijing business hours will cost 2x the off-peak rate.
Perplexity AI introduces a hybrid orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models based on data sensitivity and compute requirements — no manual configuration needed.
Notion released version 3.6 on July 1, 2026, introducing External Agents support (Claude and Cursor as the first two), native Excel and PowerPoint file handling for Notion AI, speaker labels in meeting notes, and expanded MCP connections with stronger admin controls.
Perplexity Deep Research upgrades to Claude Opus 4.6 for Max users. Finance equity pages gained analyst ratings, 52-week price targets, and AI-synthesized news. The Agent API adds GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna and Grok 4.5 as first-party options.
Comet for iOS shipped its eighth round of improvements: one-tap phone-number actions (Call, FaceTime, Message, save to Contacts), a refined iPad sidebar, and Finance Deep Dive opening as a real browser tab.
Notion AI added External Agents — Claude and Cursor are the first external AI agents available directly in Notion. Shared multi-agent workflows let teams automate end-to-end processes. Five new MCP connections were added including Mixpanel, Miro, and Box.
