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AIMeituan LongCat has officially launched its international site, offering overseas users a smoother experience. The API platform and chat interface are available at longcat.ai, with a Discord channel for support.

AIJetBrains says its AI development expenses rose roughly 10x over six months as developers adopted three to five AI tools each. It built the JetBrains Central CLI, which routes third-party agent traffic through its AI platform so managers can set per-developer and team limits and view consumption reports. The CLI opened to early access on July 8 for anyone with JetBrains AI credits.

AIManus has launched an ElevenLabs connector that lets users generate speech, transcribe recordings, clone voices, and build audio apps through a single chat. Users connect their authorized ElevenLabs account via Integrations, and audio is processed within their own ElevenLabs environment according to its policies. Availability depends on users having an active ElevenLabs account, with capabilities tied to their ElevenLabs plan and credit balance.

AIOpenRouter has released Ori Eval, an agent-driven tool that runs your app's prompts against candidate models and returns a comparison table of catch rate, latency, cost per PR, and pass/fail results. The tool asserts on called tools and grades open-ended answers with an LLM judge, pinning the harness and model during each run. Its evals are code files that can run in CI to block regressions and re-run when new models ship.

AISkywork's first batch of its Skywork Note AI hardware device sold out one week after launch, prompting an accelerated rollout of the wider family, including the recording clip, the Recall pendant, and the TriRing AI ring. The company says the device is meant to capture real-world conversations and moments outside the screen, so users spend less time typing and more time away from it.

AIThinking Machines announced that its Inkling and Inkling-Small models are both available on Tinker with a limited-time discount. All Tinker models can now also be chatted with on the Tinker Playground.

AISebastien Bubeck says AI reached math ability he expected by 2030 already in 2026, and that science is being transformed now. He argues AI will accelerate science only if scientists can access state-of-the-art models, and presents ChatGPT for Academics as built for that purpose.

AIGoogle is rolling out Lyria 3.5, its newest music generation model, in Google Flow Music today. The update improves musicality, lyric quality and prompt adherence, and vocal expressiveness and pronunciation, and gives users more control over tempo and duration.

Why it matters: The post names the specific capability changes and where users can access them, which helps readers judge fit for music creation workflows.

AITri Dao reports that connecting an LLM as the "brain" to robot control policies quadruples state-of-the-art performance with no extra training. He says he was surprised by how well it works and expects agents running on robots to arrive soon. Background from a quoted post reports real-robot success rising from 16.7% to 97.3% and simulated LIBERO-PRO success from 12.8% to 53.3%.

AICursor says its India user base tripled in the past year and that Indian users make more agent requests per user than any other country. It is launching Cursor Start, a ₹649/month plan with generous access to Grok 4.5 and Composer for Indian developers.

AISkywork Video is presented as an AI studio that covers the full workflow from idea and script through storyboard, video clips, editing, and final export. The post shares an advertisement video created with Skywork Video and includes a coupon code, "Bishal."

AIMoonshot AI has open-sourced MoonEP, a high-performance communication library for distributed MoE workloads. The library is designed to reduce communication overhead in expert-parallel training and inference at scale. The code is available on GitHub under MoonshotAI/MoonEP.

AIMoonshot AI's Kimi, in collaboration with kvcache-ai, has open-sourced AgentENV, a distributed system for running agent environments at scale. Its components power agentic RL training for Kimi K3, supporting fast snapshot, resume, and fork for large-scale parallel agent workflows. The project is available on GitHub at

AIMoonshot AI has open-sourced FlashKDA, a high-performance CUTLASS-based implementation of Kimi Delta Attention kernels. It delivers a 1.72×–2.22× prefill speedup over the flash-linear-attention baseline on H20 and works as a drop-in backend for flash-linear-attention.

AIThe University of Pittsburgh's RAMMP team is integrating Meta's DINOv3 and SAM models into on-device assistive robotics to detect door buttons, cups, and curbs for navigation assistance. The models run on compact, battery-powered hardware, with optimizations such as reduced memory footprint and lower precision, enabling real-time perception without network connectivity. RAMMP's perception system pairs SAM-based auto-labeling with an RF-DETR detector fine-tuned on DINOv2 embeddings, and the team is now testing voice and touch input for object selection.

AIFireworks AI made the open-weight Kimi K3 available for inference and training on its platform, with US-only serverless endpoints and Zero Data Retention. In its own head-to-head with Opus 5, the post reports K3 at 92.7% accuracy and $0.52 per task on SWE (480) against Opus 5's 94.8% and $1.05, with the vendor claiming up to 5x better cost efficiency per task.

Why it matters: The post compares Kimi K3 with Opus 5 on accuracy and cost per task, giving readers concrete figures to judge the open model against closed alternatives for their own workloads.

AIFireworks AI has made Kimi K3 available for Multi-LoRA serving and training in private preview through Fireworks Serverless Training. The post explains how small LoRA adapters can be trained on K3 and served with live merge or multi-LoRA deployment, and it reports two example tasks, Countdown and Frozen Lake, with reward curves.

AICohereLabs has published North-Mini-Code-1.0-eagle, an Eagle draft model for its North-Mini-Code-1.0 target model. The three-layer draft uses dense transformer blocks and sliding window attention, and it is compatible with fp8 and w4a16 target checkpoints in vLLM.

AIBerkeley's STAR Lab packaged multiple LLM-based "autoresearch" algorithms into a single API within the GEPA package, letting users mix and match them. The optimizers can be applied to tasks including prompt writing, agent design, and code optimization. The quoted thread adds that GEPA, AutoResearch, and Meta-Harness each win on different tasks, and that the new optimize_anything omni meta-optimizer beats every standalone optimizer at a matched budget.

AIGoogle's Gemini Notebook has rolled out Collections to 100% of web users, letting people group notebooks like photo albums or playlists. Notebooks can belong to multiple collections or stay only in the main "My Notebooks" tab, with no rigid folder structure. The account asks users which features they want next.

AISkywork (@Skywork_ai) posted a story created with Skywork Video and linked to the product's sign-up page. A quoted post from @ivnways says the tool gives users more control over AI video output than typing a prompt and hoping for a useful result.

AISkywork's X post directs readers to a video creation page at with no further product details given. The post contains only a link and a call to create content, so no features, models, or specifications can be confirmed.