Build Interactive 3D Worlds With GPT-6 & Blender
97 articles
Google shipped agentic video understanding on Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite: the model decides which frames, audio, and transcripts to inspect instead of swallowing video at a fixed frame rate. Verified numbers: up to 88% fewer tokens, up to 66% lower cost, and up to 7% better accuracy on video benchmarks. Here is what changed and where the agentic loop still leaks.
Tencent's Hy4 preview ships 770B total parameters with 49B active under Apache 2.0 - a 1M-context text MoE with DeepSeek-style sparse attention, posted Terminal-Bench 85.4 and DeepSWE 64.3, and an OpenRouter price of $0.834/$2.501. Verified against the model card and the live OpenRouter page on August 31, 2026.
Google made Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash generally available today: 10-second scene-extension context, first and last frame interpolation, 360p drafts at a third of the cost, and 4K upscaling. Verified pricing: about $0.10 per second of 720p video.
DeepSeek shipped experimental vision for V4 Flash as deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp. JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP; three input methods; 384 tokens per image. Here is the API contract and how to run it in OpenCode today.
OpenCode dropped Ox Alpha as a free stealth model on August 20, 2026: 1M context, multimodal, near-unlimited for about a week. Here is what is confirmed, where OpenCode and OpenRouter disagree on retention, and how to run it today.
Qwen3.8-27B is a 27B dense Apache-2.0 model that scores 61.7 on SWE-bench Pro and 42.2 on DeepSWE 1.1 - ahead of Opus 4.6 Max on both - while running on consumer hardware. Benchmarks, hardware math, and an honest when-to-use-it guide.
xAI shipped Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026: it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the AA Intelligence Index (61), beats it on CursorBench 3.2, and keeps Grok 4.5's $2/$6 per million token pricing. Available in Cursor and Grok Build today, and in OpenCode as opencode/grok-4.6.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B on August 12, 2026: a 3.1B open-weights vision-language model that averages 80.7 on ScreenSpot-v2, doubles ToolSandbox to 59.5, and decodes at 228 tokens/s on an M5 Max in about 3 GB of memory. Here is what shipped, the benchmark caveats, and how to run it.
Cactus open-sourced Needle 2, a 45M-parameter agentic LLM in a single 14MB binary that runs a full tool-calling session in 28MB of RAM. 500 tok/s on a Raspberry Pi 5, ESP32-S3 class parts, Apache 2.0. Here is what the benchmarks actually show.
A new arXiv paper shows the encrypted reasoning blocks that Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return to API clients can be replayed into weaker models from the same provider and transcribed verbatim. The authors decoded 315,320 blocks from public repositories and recovered 367 PII artifacts and 182 credentials.
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B Apache 2.0 multimodal agent model that runs in a 24GB envelope at up to 233 tok/s. MCP Atlas 75.5, SWE-Bench Verified 76.0, 131K context. Here is what the numbers actually say.
xAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com and mobile, ranked second worldwide on both text-to-image and image-editing leaderboards. A 2.0 preview build is already callable through Vercel's AI Gateway with the AI SDK, before xAI's own API access goes live.
WeatherNext Cyclones adds a full day of lead time to tropical cyclone forecasts - roughly a decade of meteorological progress - and now the weights, code, and data feeds are public. What the paper actually shows and how to run it.
Showing 12 of 96 articles
New tutorials, open-source projects, and deep dives on coding agents - delivered weekly.
Explore 922 topics
Browse All Topics