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Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo
Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo add voice models across ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and the API. Access: Available in Agents, Creative and API.
Eleven v4 and Turbo need a voice and latency check for your application. Vendor demonstrations do not establish your production results.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is released through the Claude API and supported partner platforms. Access: Claude API and partner-platform release.
Check the Sonnet 5.5 model identifier and availability on your provider. Run your existing workload before moving an integration.
ElevenLabs image, video and templates APIs
Image, video and templates APIs bring media generation and repeatable creative workflows to API users. Access: Live API release.
Check the ElevenLabs media models and per-generation charges. App pricing does not establish one universal API output price.
Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime
Microsoft introduced Copilot Managed Runtime’s host and SDK in public preview, with governed code execution inside a Microsoft 365 tenant. This is a separate record from Home, Code…
Managed Runtime gives enterprise builders a preview path for hosting code under tenant controls. Check the host, SDK and admin requirements before planning deployment;…
ElevenLabs for Students
A student plan covers eligible university students aged 18 or older in the US, Canada, EU27, Australia and UK. Access: Student plan; age/geography eligibility.
ElevenLabs student eligibility depends on age, university and country. Check the introductory expiry before relying on the plan.
n8n Agents
Standalone n8n Agents enter Cloud preview with workflow tools and model credentials or Gateway credits. Access: Cloud preview.
Keep n8n Agents preview workflows separate from critical automations. Account for execution quotas and model usage.
Exa Agent Ultra
Agent Ultra is a new highest-effort research tier for Exa Agent, aimed at extensive sourced research and entity enrichment. Access: New highest effort tier available.
Agent Ultra is worth evaluating on a fixed research task. Compare citation coverage and cost before choosing the highest-effort tier.
Ando
Ando launches an agent-native messaging platform from stealth, with human and agent collaboration as its product focus. Access: Public launch from stealth; existing users.
Review Ando connection permissions and action attribution. Team messaging needs a clear record of what humans and agents changed.
Perplexity Fast Search / Photon
Fast Search adds a faster search option to the Perplexity Search API; Photon belongs to this same release family. Access: Search API feature release.
Evaluate Perplexity Fast Search for retrieval quality as well as latency. Its event date comes from the feature announcement rather than a later Photon…
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Gemini 3.8 Live gains Live Avatar for Gemini Enterprise. Custom avatar access is allowlisted. Access: Gemini Enterprise; custom avatars allowlisted.
Confirm Gemini Enterprise access and Live Avatar approval. Those checks come before promising a customer-facing integration.
DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 launches in API beta with native Codex support
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 support, and…
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…
OpenAI releases Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK in limited beta
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 feedback. The…
The CLI and SDK make Codex Security easier to insert into repeatable engineering workflows and expose useful integration primitives such as typed findings, SARIF,…
TruthSpine V1 launches as a local-first project-context desktop app
TimeProof Labs announced TruthSpine V1 as live after publishing its public product hub and release packages. The local-first desktop application builds a compact project context from selected sources…
TruthSpine V1 addresses a real developer problem with a concrete local-first design: preserve project decisions and sources once, then reuse compact context across agents.…
kausable raises €12 million for adaptive causal AI
Heidelberg-based kausable raised a verified €12 million seed round to develop causal AI models intended to adapt to new contexts with minimal data.
kausable seed round addresses a concrete need: The funding backs a technically different approach to adaptive AI, but claims about eliminating retraining and handling…
GitHub Issues adds agent automation controls
GitHub added public-preview approval, confidence, and rationale controls for agent-driven changes to issue labels, fields, types, status, and assignees.
Agent automation controls in GitHub Issues addresses a concrete need: The controls make issue automation more observable and reviewable, but GitHub explicitly says approvals…
GitHub Copilot cloud agent for Linear reaches general availability
GitHub made its Copilot cloud agent integration for Linear generally available, allowing teams to assign Linear issues to an asynchronous coding agent.
Copilot cloud agent for Linear addresses a concrete need: The integration moves agent assignment into an issue tracker that many software teams already use,…
Kastra runtime authorization for AI agents
Kastra applies policies to tools, prompts, inputs, and outputs across several agent environments. Its product pages describe local enforcement, centralized policy management, audit trails, and integrations spanning coding…
Kastra addresses a concrete need: As agents gain access to files, credentials, and operational systems, authorization must happen at action time. The main limitation…
box by ASCII persistent virtual machines for coding agents
A box is a persistent Ubuntu machine with SSH and SCP access, Docker, a dedicated IPv4 address, a virtual desktop, snapshots, and disk-level forking. The official docs provide…
box by ASCII addresses a concrete need: Long-running and parallel coding agents need isolated computers with persistent state. The main limitation is this: The…
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.
Cloudflare Clef / Clef-flash
Summary: Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash, decision models that produce structured choices and probabilities. The family is hosted on Workers AI and distributed as Apache-2.0 weights for…
Why it matters: Clef and Clef-flash give developers hosted and local options for structured decisions. Compare them on your own decision tasks; Cloudflare’s benchmark results are vendor…
- Pricing
- Hosted inference is subject to Workers AI usage billing; open weights are distributed under Apache 2.0 and local inference requires compute. The announcement does not establish a universal free hosted plan or self-service fine-tuning price.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 1 source
Strands Decider 2B
Summary: The Strands team released Decider 2B, a small decision model that chooses among defined outputs and assigns probabilities. The release includes model weights, code, data and…
Why it matters: Strands Decider 2B fits experiments that need a model to choose among defined options. It is not a general chat or coding model; evaluate…
- Pricing
- The release offers public code, weights and data for local experimentation. Running or training it requires local or rented compute; no hosted API price or hosted free plan is established by the announcement.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 3 sources
Pi Durable
Summary: Earendil released Pi Durable as a new experimental package for long-running agent applications. It extends the Pi ecosystem with durable task and conversation execution rather than…
Why it matters: Pi Durable offers builders a package to explore agents that survive interruptions and run across different surfaces. Keep evaluations scoped to the experimental release…
- Pricing
- The package is MIT licensed and available through npm. The announcement does not establish a hosted-service subscription or free inference; model and infrastructure usage can incur separate charges.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 3 sources
Tavus Griffin / Griffin-Lite
Summary: Griffin and Griffin-Lite are presented as models for responsive audiovisual interaction in a restricted research preview. Access: Restricted research preview; not customer GA.
Why it matters: Griffin is research access to investigate. A customer deployment or a public price is not established.
- Pricing
- No separate event-specific price is stated in the reviewed release notice. Existing account, plan, usage or hardware terms may apply; check the official source before committing.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 2 sources
FLUX 3 Image
Summary: One API endpoint supports generation, local edits and up to ten reference images. Output reaches 4K with 15 aspect ratios; bounding boxes belong in the prompt.…
Why it matters: FLUX 3 Image offers several composition controls in one endpoint. Check them on your own reference set before replacing a production image workflow.
- Pricing
- $0.041 at 768sq, $0.048 at 1k, $0.100 at 1.5k and $0.607 at 4k per image in the release note. Resolution controls cost.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 2 sources
SynthID Bio
Summary: Google DeepMind released research on watermarking AI-generated biological sequences and structures, alongside public code and data. This record covers the research release. Access: Research release only;…
Why it matters: SynthID Bio gives researchers code and data to examine biological watermarking. Review the relevant model-weight terms before reuse; the release does not establish a…
- Pricing
- No hosted-service plan is established. Repository software uses Apache 2.0 and publication data uses CC-BY. ProteinMPNN parameters retain MIT terms; AlphaFold 3 parameters have separate terms. Research use is distinct from clinical use.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 2 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.
OpenAI Agent Builder shutdown deadline: November 30, 2026
Summary: OpenAI announced the Agent Builder lifecycle deadline: the visual workflow builder is deprecated and scheduled to shut down on November 30, 2026. OpenAI documents two migration…
Why it matters: Export the workflow, select the Agents SDK or a suitable Workspace Agent, and test tools, state, permissions and guardrails before the November 30 shutdown.…
- Pricing
- Review replacement API costs or Workspace Agent plan requirements before migrating. This record does not estimate your workflow’s implementation or operating cost.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 3 sources
OpenAI reusable prompt objects and v1/prompts are scheduled to shut down November 30, 2026
Summary: OpenAI announced reusable-prompt deprecation on June 3, 2026. The documented November 30 shutdown covers reusable prompt objects and v1/prompts. Move managed prompt content into application-owned code…
Why it matters: Treat saved OpenAI prompt objects as a migration dependency before November 30. Move their content and variables into application code, then validate the generated…
- Pricing
- Pricing unknown
- Verification
- Source-verified; 5 sources
Three GPT Image API models are scheduled to retire December 1, 2026
Summary: OpenAI schedules gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest for API removal on December 1, 2026. Its current deprecation table recommends gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare.
Why it matters: OpenAI schedules gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest for API removal on December 1, 2026. Its current deprecation table recommends gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare. Inventory the three…
- Pricing
- Review the current price of the chosen replacement and measure representative jobs. This lifecycle record does not establish workload cost or promise a cost-neutral migration.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 5 sources
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