Track global AI model launches, company moves, open-source projects, and infrastructure updates worth paying attention to.
OpenAI and Work Louder introduced Codex Micro, a $230 desktop controller that brings Codex status lights, PR review, debug, refactor, accept/reject actions, and reasoning-level control into a physical device.
According to estimates cited from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth has risen to about $36 billion, making him arguably the world's richest founder of an AI-native startup.
Meta launches Muse Image, an AI image generation model with text-to-image, image editing, web search, and code execution capabilities. Available on Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 limited preview with Sol, Terra, Luna models. Pricing: Sol $5/$30, Terra $2.5/$15, Luna $1/$6 per 1M tokens. Enterprise-only for now, coming to all users in weeks.
Z.ai officially open-sources GLM-5.2 today: 753B parameters, 1M-token context, MIT license. Beats GPT-5.5 on FrontierSWE at 1/6th the cost. After MiniMax M3, another Chinese AI bombshell.
While OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google build walls around their models, Chinese firms GLM-5.2 and MiniMax M3 go full open-source. Two strategies, one question: who wins the AI war?
DeepSeek is reportedly seeking up to $7.35B while planning new revenue efforts. The real shift is not funding itself, but the move from open-weight momentum to commercial pressure.
Anthropic raised Claude limits and signed a SpaceX compute deal: Claude Code 5-hour caps doubled, Pro/Max peak cuts removed, Opus API limits raised, plus 300+ MW and 220K+ GPUs.
Tencent open-sources Hy-MT1.5-1.8B-1.25bit on-device translation model, only 440MB supporting 33 languages and 1,056 translation directions.
DeepSeek-V4 released with 1M context as standard! Agent capabilities surpass open-source models, reasoning performance rivals GPT-4o and Claude Opus.
