Perplexity API: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, and the finance_search Tool
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.
Categories: Linear, xAI, Perplexity, Meta (AI features)
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Nedeľa 12. júla 2026
Sobota 11. júla 2026
Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
Meta Superintelligence Labs launched the Meta Model API (public preview) with Muse Spark 1.1 — a multimodal agentic model with 1M token context. The model outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on MCP Atlas, JobBench, and HLE+tools. Priced at $1.25/$4.25 per MTok, $20 free.
Streda 8. júla 2026
Grok Build: /goal Long-Running Autonomous Mode and /voice Dictation Now Live
SpaceXAI added /goal to Grok Build for handing off large implementation tasks autonomously, and /voice (Ctrl+Space) for hands-free prompt dictation — the first native voice interface in Grok Build.
Pondelok 6. júla 2026
Perplexity: Hybrid Local-Server Inference Orchestrator Arrives on Perplexity Computer in July
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.
Piatok 3. júla 2026
Grok Build 0.2.66–0.2.73: Sandbox Profiles, No-Restart MCP Management, and Agent Dashboard
xAI shipped a rapid series of Grok Build patches (0.2.66–0.2.73) over three days: sandbox profiles with kernel-deny lists, no-restart MCP server management, new agent dashboard with model visibility, and a fix for stdio hangs on Windows.
xAI Adds 21 Multilingual Voices to Grok and Launches No-Code Voice Agent Builder
xAI added 21 multilingual voices to Grok Voice on July 6 (25+ languages) and launched a no-code Voice Agent Builder for production voice agents with built-in telephony, MCP connectors, and observability.
Utorok 30. júna 2026
xAI Grok audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway
xAI's Grok audio family — realtime voice, TTS, and STT — is now routable through Vercel's AI Gateway with the same observability and spend controls as Grok's text models. Developers can compose voice agents with grok-voice-think-fast-1.0, grok-tts and grok-stt straight from AI SDK 7.
Pondelok 29. júna 2026
Perplexity launches hybrid local-server inference orchestrator on Windows
Perplexity AI launches on Windows (July 2026) a hybrid inference orchestrator that automatically routes AI tasks between local device and cloud frontier models without user involvement. The system decides where each part of a task should execute.
Sobota 27. júna 2026
Introducing /goal in Grok Build
xAI added /goal to Grok Build — a long-running autonomous mode that plans, executes and verifies multi-step coding tasks with status, pause, resume and clear controls.
Utorok 23. júna 2026
Grok 4.3 Available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI becomes the third independent lab on Bedrock after Anthropic and OpenAI. 1M context, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25/$2.50 per M tokens.
Introducing Grok for Microsoft Word
Free Grok add-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint with live web research, inline source citations, X data lookups, Mermaid diagrams, and connectors for email, SharePoint and Google Drive.
Grok Comes to Databricks Agent Bricks
Grok models are now natively available in Databricks Agent Bricks. Agents can reason directly over Lakehouse data without exfiltration, with governance through Unity Catalog.
Pondelok 22. júna 2026
Perplexity Comet for iOS: phone actions, iPad sidebar, Finance Deep Dive tab
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.
xAI Grok Build: Voice Agent Builder Beta — No-Code Voice AI at $0.05/min with SIP and Voice Cloning
xAI launched Voice Agent Builder in beta — a no-code platform for production voice agents on Grok Voice with telephony, SIP, voice cloning, and observability at $0.05/min. Available from July 1, 2026.
Nedeľa 21. júna 2026
Linear: release pipeline changelogs, private sub-teams and per-tab desktop history
Linear adds auto-generated changelogs to release pipelines, ships private sub-teams for Business/Enterprise, and rebuilt desktop tabs so each tab keeps its own navigation history.
Grok 4.3 hits GA on Amazon Bedrock with 1M context on the new Mantle inference engine
The first xAI model on Bedrock — Grok 4.3 with a 1M context window, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25 in / $2.50 out per MTok. Cheapest US-lab frontier reasoner on Bedrock.