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AIxAI has made Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 available through its API and in the Agent Builder for building voice agents. Developers can build, tune, and deploy voice agents at console.x.ai, with more details in the linked announcement.

AIStarlink is using Grok Voice to handle over 15,000 inbound customer support and sales calls per day. Grok diagnoses hardware issues, ships replacements, and fulfills over 3,000 orders a week across voice calls and chat.

AIReplicate is offering a 30% discount on Alibaba's Wan 3.0 video model, available at The background post says Wan 3.0 generates native single-take videos up to 30 seconds long with synchronized audio.

AIReplicate has made Alibaba's Wan 3 available to try through a hosted demo page. The post links to the model page at and provides no further details on capabilities, specifications, or pricing.

AIMeta designed MetaRoCE, a clean-sheet RDMA transport for AI workloads on commodity Ethernet, and is releasing its specification, reference software and compliance test suite through the Open Compute Project. On a 64-node AMD GPU cluster running RCCL collectives, the post reports MetaRoCE delivering higher throughput and lower flow completion times than RoCEv2, with about 86% throughput maintained at 1% packet loss.

Why it matters: The post explains how per-path endpoint intelligence replaces lossless fabric assumptions, with measured throughput and loss results against RoCEv2 on a 64-node AMD cluster.

AIMeta's MTIA 300, the first chip in its MTIA family optimized for training ranking and recommendation models, integrates two network chiplets with six 800 Gbps RDMA NICs each, providing 1.2 TB/s of I/O bandwidth without crossing a PCIe bus.

AIMeituan LongCat has made LongCat-2.0 available in opencode Go, according to the post. The post describes LongCat-2.0 as a 1.6T-parameter model with 48B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and fully open-source release. Meituan LongCat invites users to try the model in opencode and share what they build.

AISkywork, through its official X account, promotes its platform and directs readers to skywork.ai to begin building. The post provides no specific features, models, pricing, or release details.

AIGrok Bot access is opening to a small set of enterprises this weekend. Interested companies can reply to request an in-person onboarding visit to their San Francisco office tomorrow or Monday.

AITinker announces Coco, a local assistant that proactively offers help when users are unsure what to ask, with a voice interface powered by Inkling on Tinker. According to the background post from @EchoShao8899, the voice trigger is a "Hi Coco" feature, and the part was open-sourced first.

AIThinking Machines announced that its Inkling and Inkling-Small models are available to try on OpenRouter. The post links to the Thinking Machines provider page on OpenRouter, with no further details on specifications, benchmarks, or pricing.

AIAntigravity now supports remote control from its app and headless operation from the terminal, making it accessible in more settings. The post notes that usage limits are quite generous.

AISky Lab's FreeToken runs official checkpoints of large models such as Qwen3.6 35B on an 8GB RTX 4060 laptop at 39 tokens per second. The same approach reportedly serves DeepSeek-V4-Flash 284B at 22-25 tokens per second on an RTX 5090 desktop, and GLM-5.2 753B at 15 tokens per second on an RTX PRO 6000 workstation.

AILMSYS Org published a blog post about fast recovery in SGLang, the serving framework. The post body provides no further technical details, figures, or benchmarks beyond the link.

AIZ.ai is extending its Build Week into an ongoing series, giving 50,000 new ZCode users 100M free GLM-5.3 tokens each. The offer runs until August 23 at 6 PM PT, with the linked event page noting that unused tokens expire when the event ends.

AIDeepSeek's API now accepts multimodal input through the model deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp, supporting mixed text and image requests. Each image is billed at up to 384 tokens at V4-Flash pricing, and it works with Chat Completions, Messages, and Responses endpoints. Images can be supplied as base64, external URLs, or via the Files API.

AIDeepSeek's Files API is now live and free to use. Users upload an image once and reference it by file_id, saving request bandwidth and avoiding re-uploads across requests.

AIMeituan LongCat has extended free access to LongCat-2.0 with Hermes Agent for another two weeks on the Nous Research Portal. The extension follows an initial one-week free trial announced in the quoted post.

AIAntigravity is now available to all Gemini enterprise subscribers, broadening its access across the board. It can also be installed as an extension in all the major IDEs.

AIUnsloth Desktop released a new version featuring experimental auto compaction for any model, LAN and remote access tabs, faster and smoother chatting, and over 200 merged PRs. Auto compaction combines RAG, a forced first-turn RAG, and a tail, according to the post.

AIMistral has released Agentic Search, a multi-step retrieval layer available through its Search Toolkit and Libraries. On FinanceBench, the company reports accuracy rising from 26.7% to 86% over one-shot RAG, and on OfficeQA Pro a gain from 6.3% to 51.9%. The system also reports up to 39.6% lower p90 latency and up to one-third lower token use from fewer repeated searches.

AILiquid AI released DSpark speculative decoding draft models for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, LFM2.5-2.6B, and LFM2.5-8B-A1B on Hugging Face. The draft models reach up to 3.18x throughput improvement on an H100 GPU and up to 2.87x on-device, and the outputs match baseline greedy decoding by construction. Support is available in llama.cpp and SGLang, with the speedup varying by model and dataset.

Why it matters: The release reports measured speedups on both H100 and MacBook hardware, with per-dataset results and acceptance rates that show where speculative decoding helps most.

AIAir's latest release lets users open several projects in one window and run agents across them in parallel, with tasks grouped by project in the sidebar. Markdown files now render as formatted text while editing, with syntax shown only when editing, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other IMEs now work on Windows. The release also adds a Customize screen for keymap, theme, and accent color, and lets users choose the agent and model for Agent Review.

AITinker has made Qwen3.8-27B available today. The model is natively multimodal, handling images and video, with flexible thinking control. Tinker says it performs meaningfully better at coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon agentic tasks.

AIUnsloth has released 1-bit quantized versions of Qwen3.8-27B that run on 8GB of RAM while retaining about 77% of BF16 accuracy. The team originally hesitated to publish them but was surprised by how well they performed in internal testing. The release accompanies new Qwen3.8-27B GGUFs that the company says deliver 10% higher accuracy.

AICursor's update lets cloud agents subscribe to PRs, Slack threads, and scheduled tasks, and wake when something happens. It also adds custom modes that pin a skill in chat, subagents that run on their own virtual machines, and a /goal command for long-lived objectives. Users can also send steering messages while an agent works, with follow-ups applied at the next tool call.

Why it matters: The release lists concrete agent controls such as event subscriptions, custom modes, subagent VMs, and /goal, showing how cloud agents may run longer tasks with less manual steering.

AISentence Transformers now supports Answer.AI's ColBERT model, which has only 30M parameters, for local embedding index creation and querying in Python. The update comes with Sentence Transformers v6.0, which adds MultiVectorEncoder for ColBERT-style late interaction models alongside dense, sparse, and reranker models.

AIGoogle Labs has opened a waitlist for CC, its experimental AI productivity agent in Gmail, in Australia and New Zealand, and is expanding availability in the US and Canada. CC now helps manage calendars by connecting to Gmail and automatically creating events in a dedicated Google Calendar that update as plans change. Invitations to waitlisted users in the US and Canada begin rolling out today.

AIMicrosoft AI is opening sign-ups for early access to a model on Microsoft Foundry. The post itself gives no model name, features, pricing, or availability details beyond a sign-up link.

AIMicrosoft AI is inviting users to try a model today on its MAI Playground, linked in the post. The post, shared by the @arena account, does not name the model or give details about its capabilities.

AIReplit has launched Free Mode, a new way to use its Agent that lets Core subscribers create up to 30x more on their monthly subscription, with everyday tasks no longer consuming credits. Free Mode is powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna and is available to Core and Pro users until they reach usage limits that reset every 5 hours. Core subscribers also receive up to 30 hours per month of chat, and the company is offering the plan for $20 per month.