Outer Biosciences, a 19-person company led by Michael Polansky, has raised approximately $23 million to build a skin-assay licensing business that uses machine learning and human skin tissue viable fo…
Darius Monsef, a three-time Y Combinator founder, launched OzBrain, a staged, Markdown-based knowledge layer that gives AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor a shared memory, priced from free to …
Cloudflare product manager Jin-Hee Lee will roll out Bot Preference Sync, a feature that writes AI crawler preferences from Cloudflare's dashboard into robots.txt, closing the gap between published co…
Base Compute, an AI inference company operating in Melbourne and Berlin, released results on August 20 from its Base Optimization Stack (B:OS), a system that uses AI agents to port and tune open-weigh…
Rillet, an AI accounting software maker, raised $100 million in a Series C round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1 billion after its annualized revenue rate doubled in one quarter. The company,…
SpaceXAI, the Elon Musk-founded company formerly known as xAI, announced on August 21 that its Grok 4.6 large language model is now available in Google Cloud's Vertex AI Model Garden as a Preview offe…
MiniMax hinted at its M3 model running on SambaNova hardware in an undated post, but the linked SambaNova demonstration identifies the model as M2.7 and provides no M3 benchmark results. MiniMax relea…
OpenAI cut API and purchased-credit pricing for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model by up to one-third for three months, effective August 21 through at least November 21. The price for output tokens droppe…
Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures co-led an undisclosed initial funding round for Discovery Loop, the AI research startup founded by Jeff Dean and three Google veterans, with participation from Kle…
Shanghai AI Lab published a technical paper on August 13 detailing Intern-S2-Preview-397B, an open 397-billion-parameter scientific-agent model that combines visual pretraining, tool use, and long-hor…
SpaceXAI widened access to Grok Bot on August 21st, bringing its cloud-computer agent to SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and all Cursor Teams subscribers, while every other user gets a limited-usage free…
NVIDIA's AVO coding-agent system scored 100% on the public ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, completing all 183 levels in 6,624 environment actions, according to NVIDIA AI. The system, powered by Claude Opus 5, us…
Anthropic has placed Claude Security, its hosted vulnerability scanner for GitHub repositories, into public beta for Claude Enterprise customers as of late April 2026, while keeping its more capable M…
Moonshot released the weights for its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model on July 27, 2026, 11 days after launching the model across Kimi, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API, extending CEO Yang Z…
Z.ai, the Tsinghua-founded AI company led by chairman Liu Debing and CEO Zhang Peng, is offering 100 million free GLM-5.3 tokens to 50,000 new users through August 23 at 6 p.m. Pacific, with a maximum…
Starcloud, an orbital-compute developer founded in 2024, raised a $250 million extension to its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, led by Manhattan West Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Ci…
MyDataWork founder Gib Bassett made the analytics context platform available through AWS Marketplace on August 21st, offering a 20-user team license for $7,500 per 12-month contract, which includes a …
Argentic, a pseudonymous project by builder RevolutionaryTrash56, is testing whether AI agents will pay 10 satoshis via Bitcoin's Lightning Network for a one-hour proxy token, but after seven weeks li…
VLM Run, founded by CEO Sudeep Pillai, launched an OpenAI-compatible gateway on August 19 that routes document-processing work across six open OCR and vision-language models, including GLM-OCR, DeepSe…
DeepSeek announced deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp on August 21, 2026, an experimental vision model supporting Chat Completions, Messages, and Responses request formats, with each image billed at no more…