Short, same-day coverage of notable AI model releases and announcements. These briefs give you the core facts — what was released, how it compares, and where to find more — without the padding.
xAI launched Grok STT 1.0, a standalone speech-to-text API with speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and support for 25+ languages, priced at $0.10 per hour.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber — matching its predecessor's intelligence score but cutting cost and output tokens, while the promised Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing.
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite alongside 3.6 Flash — a budget model at $0.30/$2.50 per million tokens built for high-volume, low-reasoning work, with a full 1M-token context window.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber finds, validates, and patches software vulnerabilities faster than Google's mainline Flash models — but it's restricted to governments and trusted partners, with no public API or pricing.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 — a 2.8T parameter open-weight MoE model with a 1M token context window that ranks #4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Open weights land July 27.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 — a more agentic mid-tier model priced well below Opus 4.8, edging ahead on Terminal-Bench 2.1 while trailing on most other published benchmarks.