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Verified AI Launch Intelligence

See what launched, what changed, and what it costs.

Track AI product launches, model updates, pricing changes and tested workflows. Each record separates official sources, company claims, Kingy testing and third-party evidence so you can see what is known and what remains unverified.

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Search source-backed launch records, then use common filters first and advanced filters only when you need a narrower view.

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AI Agents

OpenAI expands Codex for every role, tool, and workflow

OpenAI expanded Codex across roles, tools, and workflows, positioning it as a broader professional agent for software-adjacent and knowledge-work tasks.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoCreator-friendlyDeveloper-friendly
Launch readiness
6.1 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

OpenAI expanded Codex across roles, tools, and workflows, positioning it as a broader professional agent for software-adjacent knowledge work (openai.com). Developers, Product Managers, Data…

AI Agents

Vibe gets to work.

Mistral AI relaunched Le Chat as Vibe, a unified agent for long-horizon work and coding with Work Mode, Code Mode, VS Code support, CLI updates, and mobile access.

Recheck due Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendly
Launch readiness
7.1 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

Mistral relaunched Le Chat as Vibe, a unified agent for long-horizon work and coding with Work Mode, Code Mode, VS Code support, CLI updates,…

AI Agents

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved coding, agentic task performance, professional work quality, effort controls, and Claude Code dynamic workflows.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendly
Launch readiness
7.9 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved coding, agentic task performance, effort controls, and Claude Code dynamic workflows, priced at $5 per million input…

AI Agents

Cohere launches Command A+ as an open-source model for agentic enterprise workflows

Cohere released Command A+ as an Apache 2.0 open-source MoE model optimized for reasoning, multilingual, multimodal, RAG, and agentic workflows.

Recheck due Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Launch readiness
7.2 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

Cohere released Command A+ as an Apache 2.0 open-source MoE model built for reasoning, multilingual, multimodal, RAG, and agentic enterprise workflows (cohere.com). Developers, Enterprises,…

AI Agents

Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API

OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper for realtime voice reasoning, translation, and streaming transcription in the API.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal

A high-signal API launch because it moves voice AI toward realtime agents that can reason, translate, transcribe, and act during a conversation.

AI Agents

Introducing GPT-5.5

OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and research workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Launch readiness
8.0 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, and research workflows, shipping across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API with documented rates…

AI Agents

Google launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents in Gemini API

Google introduced Deep Research and Deep Research Max in the Gemini API with MCP support, native visualizations, planning controls, and richer long-horizon research workflows.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseDeveloper-friendly

This is a major research-agent launch because Google exposed long-horizon research as a developer-facing agent, not just an app feature.

AI Agents

Claude Opus 4.7 launches as an Anthropic frontier model update for agent work

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 as a frontier Claude update relevant to demanding coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendly

A frontier Claude release is relevant to the agent market because high-capability models determine what long-running agents can reliably complete.

AI Agents

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark for real-time coding in Codex

OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller ultra-fast Codex model designed for real-time coding collaboration and low-latency edits.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoDeveloper-friendly

Codex-Spark matters because speed changes how coding agents feel in interactive sessions.

AI Agents

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex for frontier agentic coding work

OpenAI introduced GPT-5.3-Codex, describing it as a more capable agentic coding model for Codex, long-running tasks, and broader professional computer work.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoDeveloper-friendly

A major agentic coding model release because OpenAI positioned it as moving Codex from code generation toward broader computer work.

AI Agents

Claude Opus 4.5 launches as Anthropic’s frontier agentic model update

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 as a frontier Claude model update with emphasis on advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic work.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendly

A relevant model launch because the strongest Claude tier often becomes the default choice for demanding agent tasks.

AI Agents

Google expands Vertex AI Agent Builder with more ways to build and scale AI agents

Google Cloud announced expanded ways to build and scale AI agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder, reinforcing the platform’s agent development and deployment story.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoDeveloper-friendly

A platform-level update that matters for enterprises standardizing agent infrastructure on Google Cloud.

AI Agents

OpenAI AgentKit launches tools for building, deploying, and optimizing agents

OpenAI launched AgentKit with Agent Builder, Connector Registry, ChatKit, and new Evals capabilities for agent development and optimization.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseDeveloper-friendly

AgentKit was one of OpenAI’s clearest attempts to package the agent stack beyond raw model access.

AI Agents

Claude Sonnet 4.5 launches with major coding-agent and computer-use gains

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, positioning it as a top model for coding, complex agents, and computer use while also launching related Claude Code and Agent SDK upgrades.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseDeveloper-friendly

A high-signal model release for agents because Anthropic explicitly tied it to coding, computer use, and the Claude Agent SDK.

AI Agents

Kiro preview release

Kiro launched in preview as an agentic IDE focused on spec-driven development and AI-assisted software delivery.

Recheck due Free: Yes API: No Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Launch readiness
6.6 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

Kiro launched in preview as an agentic IDE focused on spec-driven development — specs, hooks, and AI-assisted delivery — marking AWS's entry into the…

AI Agents

Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API

Mistral AI launched an Agents API with built-in connectors for code execution, web search, image generation, MCP tools, memory, and orchestration.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendly

Mistral launched its Agents API in May 2025 with built-in code execution, web search, image generation, MCP tools, persistent memory, and multi-agent orchestration. It…

AI Agents

Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

OpenAI released o3 and o4-mini, reasoning models designed to solve harder multi-step tasks and use tools such as web search, Python, file analysis, vision, and image generation.

Recheck due Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Launch readiness
7.6 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

OpenAI released o3 and o4-mini, reasoning models built to solve harder multi-step tasks while using tools like web search, Python, file analysis, vision, and…

AI Agents

Grok 3 Beta – The Age of Reasoning Agents

xAI unveiled Grok 3 beta and Grok 3 mini, positioning the release around reasoning, coding, math, world knowledge, and agent-style behavior.

Recheck due Free: No API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoDeveloper-friendlyTraction signal
Launch readiness
6.6 / 10
Demo evidence
Not scored yet
Creator-story fit
Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric

These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.

Launch readiness

How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.

Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.

Demo evidence

Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.

Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.

Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.

Creator-story fit

Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.

Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.

Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.

Scale
0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
Assigned by
Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
Rubric and check date
Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
Confidence and missing data
Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
Freshness
Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
Disputes
Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 beta and Grok 3 mini, positioned around reasoning, coding, math, world knowledge, and agent-style behavior (x.ai). The record describes a…

Daily radar

Latest verified AI launches

A Radar edition publishes only when the day has enough source-ready signal; the tracker continues to show the newest verified records.

No source-ready records are tagged for today yet, so this section is showing the latest public launch records available in the tracker.

AI Voice/Audio Tools

gamedai live AI sports radio

Summary: gamedai says its live AI sports-radio service went live on August 7, 2026 for the NFL preseason. The launch page describes coverage for all 16 Week…

Why it matters: gamedai is an interesting vertical-agent launch because it joins live data, retrieval, voice generation, and an evaluation layer around one narrow listener job. The…

Pricing
The official homepage lists a free Casual tier, Premium at $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial, and a $99.99 one-time Lifetime unlock. The reviewed Join Now link returned a deployment-not-found page, so signup and billing availability were not independently confirmed.
Verification
Source-verified; 4 sources
AI Agents

Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B

Summary: Liquid AI released the base and post-trained LFM2.5-2.6B checkpoints on August 4, 2026. The post-trained text model targets agentic workloads and ships in native, GGUF, MLX,…

Why it matters: LFM2.5-2.6B is a credible option for high-volume, privacy-sensitive local agents where compact size and tool use matter more than frontier reasoning. Treat it as…

Pricing
The model weights are downloadable under Liquid AI's LFM1.0 license. Liquid AI did not announce a paid hosted API price for this release, and the reviewed Hugging Face page says no inference provider currently deploys the model. Self-hosting avoids a vendor per-token fee but still carries hardware, electricity, engineering, and support costs.
Verification
Source-verified; 5 sources
AI Agents

DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 launches in API beta with native Codex support

Summary: DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 as the official V4-Flash API public beta. The checkpoint keeps the preview model’s architecture and size but adds new post-training, native Responses API…

Why it matters: Worth testing for cost-sensitive coding-agent workloads because it combines native Codex support, a one-million-token context window, very low API pricing and MIT-licensed weights. Treat…

Pricing
$0.0028 per 1M cached input tokens; $0.14 per 1M uncached input tokens; $0.28 per 1M output tokens. DeepSeek says future peak-hour prices will be 2× regular rates, with no effective date announced.
Verification
Source-verified; 9 sources
AI Coding Tools

OpenAI releases Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK in limited beta

Summary: OpenAI published the Codex Security command-line client and TypeScript SDK. The CLI supports repository and change review, bulk scans, history, CI workflows, SARIF output and false-positive…

Why it matters: The CLI and SDK make Codex Security easier to insert into repeatable engineering workflows and expose useful integration primitives such as typed findings, SARIF,…

Pricing
OpenAI does not publish self-serve Codex Security pricing in the reviewed documentation. CLI and SDK access is limited to approved beta customers and partners through an OpenAI account team. Commercial terms, quotas and any Trusted Access for Cyber requirement are account-specific.
Verification
Source-verified; 6 sources
AI Developer Tools

Model Context Protocol 2026-07-28 specification goes final

Summary: The final Model Context Protocol 2026-07-28 specification became the current authoritative protocol version. It replaces connection-level state with self-contained requests, moves capability negotiation to each request…

Why it matters: The 2026-07-28 MCP specification makes a consequential architectural trade: stateless, self-contained requests can simplify scaling and recovery, but implementations must now negotiate and validate…

Pricing
MCP is an open protocol specification, not a paid hosted product. Implementations, infrastructure, models, connectors and support can carry separate costs. The official specification and governance pages are the authority for the protocol boundary.
Verification
Source-verified; 4 sources
AI Security

Microsoft Project Perception

Summary: Microsoft announced Project Perception, an agentic security system that coordinates specialized red, blue, and green agents inside Microsoft Defender.

Why it matters: The launch brings attack simulation, defense testing, and threat-scenario planning into one Microsoft Defender workflow. Its practical effectiveness and cost remain unproven until security…

Pricing
Microsoft says Project Perception uses consumption-based, pay-as-you-go pricing measured in Security Compute Units (SCUs). Different agents consume SCUs at different rates; Microsoft did not publish numeric SCU rates in the checked launch sources.
Verification
Source-verified; 3 sources

Plan ahead

Upcoming Deadlines

Future-dated migration, shutdown, and retirement records are separated from today's launches and latest-record lists. These dates are upcoming operational events, not launches that have already happened.

AI Developer Tools

Google Imagen 4 API shutdown window: August 17, 2026

Summary: Google announced that imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 and imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001 are deprecated. Its deprecations table lists August 17, 2026 as the earliest possible shutdown date and recommends gemini-3.1-flash-image.

Why it matters: Plan against August 17 while preserving Google’s wording: the deprecations page says listed dates are the earliest possible shutdown dates and that exact timing…

Pricing
There is no separate migration fee. Replacement Gemini API image generation follows current Google pricing and quota terms; teams should compare the selected model, image output, prompts and workload mix on the live pricing page.
Verification
Source-verified; 5 sources
AI Agents

OpenAI Assistants API migration deadline: August 26, 2026

Summary: OpenAI’s Assistants API reaches its shutdown deadline on August 26, 2026. OpenAI recommends Responses API and Conversations API, with documented mappings from Assistants to configuration or…

Why it matters: Treat August 26 as an operational deadline, not a feature launch or a find-and-replace exercise. OpenAI documents object and orchestration changes, including explicit tool-loop…

Pricing
There is no separate migration fee. Replacement API usage is billed under current OpenAI API pricing, while engineering, regression testing, data migration, observability and rollback work remain implementation costs.
Verification
Source-verified; 6 sources
AI Developer Tools

Google retires Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 Preview on August 31

Summary: Google announced that gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview will shut down on August 31, 2026, and its deprecation table names gemini-robotics-er-2-preview as the replacement.

Why it matters: Google announced that gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview will shut down on August 31, 2026, and its deprecation table names gemini-robotics-er-2-preview as the replacement. Kingy’s action: Replace the…

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