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xAI launched a free Google Workspace add-on bringing Grok 4.5 to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, enabling formula building, chart creation, presentation drafting, and document editing powered by web and X data.
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.
Midjourney promoted V8.2 to default for all subscribers, featuring significantly enhanced Personalization that better understands aesthetic taste and bolder, more sophisticated visual output compared to V8.1.
Bolt.new introduced Skills -- reusable bundles of context, rules, and workflows (tech stack, design standards, code review rules) that Bolt applies during development, shareable across individual projects or entire workspaces.
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.
xAI released a suite of free Microsoft 365 add-ins integrating Grok 4.5 into Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. Grok in Excel helps write formulas and pivot tables; in Outlook it summarizes threads and drafts replies in the user's voice.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash with improved coding (+12pp on DeepSWE), the ultra-fast 3.5 Flash-Lite (350 tokens/s), and security-specialized 3.5 Flash Cyber — but the long-awaited 3.5 Pro is still absent.
Linear launched Loops — recurring AI automations triggered by schedule or events. The model uses full workspace context and connected tools to triage issues, analyze root causes, and dispatch to coding agents.
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.
Google made gemini-omni-flash-preview available in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API — a natively multimodal video API priced at $0.10/sec of output with automatic SynthID watermarking. Also launched Nano Banana 2 Lite — Google's fastest and cheapest image model.
Stable Gemini CLI v0.51.0 (July 16, 2026) closes path traversal vulnerabilities, prevents model thought leakage into session history, and hardens the macOS sandbox. Nightly v0.52.0 (July 18) adds LLM triage orchestrator and ReAct loop mitigation.
xAI launched Grok Automations: users can schedule recurring AI jobs or trigger them via incoming email. Each execution starts a fresh Grok conversation, with results delivered via email, notification, or Slack.
Google Vids now supports personal AI avatars (selfie + voice recording = SynthID-watermarked digital stand-in) and Gemini Omni Flash for text-prompt video generation and conversational editing of existing clips.
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and introduced new features: in-notebook code execution, integration into Google Search AI Mode and Gemini app, Gemini 3.5 model, and the Antigravity agentic coding platform.
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.
xAI released a major Grok Voice API update with 21 new flagship voices in 25+ languages, personal voice cloning from a 60-second sample, and expressive speech tags for developers.
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.
The Gemini app gained Study Notebooks: a space to upload syllabi and notes, where Gemini diagnoses your knowledge level, creates adaptive lessons, and tracks progress across 100+ learning objectives. Launching on web for personal accounts.
Google significantly upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think with iterative reasoning rounds for complex scientific problems. The model identified a logical flaw in a technical math paper missed by peer review. Available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.
Gemini CLI version 0.50.0 (July 8) introduces Tool Registry Discovery — automatic discovery and registration of external tools for AI agents.
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.
Google, alongside the Gemini Spark expansion to the AI Pro tier (July 24), rolled out key improvements: the agent is 50% faster via parallel source retrieval and can now edit shared Workspace files.
xAI released Grok 4.5 — its first model purpose-built for coding and agentic tasks, co-trained with Cursor on real engineering tasks. Available via xAI API at $2/M input tokens and $6/M output tokens, with a 500K-token context window and configurable reasoning effort (low/medium/high).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Qwen-AgentWorld is the first model trained to predict the next environment state (not the next action) across seven agent domains. Two MoE sizes, 256K context, Apache 2.0.
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.
Midjourney added automatic random styles to Draft Mode. Each batch now injects stylistic variations to broaden creative exploration.
xAI becomes the third independent lab on Bedrock after Anthropic and OpenAI. 1M context, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25/$2.50 per M tokens.
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 models are now natively available in Databricks Agent Bricks. Agents can reason directly over Lakehouse data without exfiltration, with governance through Unity Catalog.
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 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.
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.
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.
Google deprecated temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters for the latest Gemini models. The API also now allows combining built-in tools (Google Search, code execution) with custom function calling in a single request.
