Google rolls out Personal Intelligence to all Gemini users, accessing Gmail and search history

OpenAI released GPT-4o mini on July 18, 2024, a compact multimodal model with 128,000 token context window priced at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. The model achieves 82% on MMLU and claims to rank higher than GPT-4 on chat preference leaderboards while costing 60% less than GPT-3.5 Turbo.

Amazon Nova 2 Lite expands context window to 1 million tokens, introduces extended thinking with developer controls, and adds native tool use and web grounding. AWS claims Nova 2 Lite surpasses Nova 1 Pro on multi-step reasoning while costing 7x less and running up to 5x faster.

Midjourney has released an early version of V8 for community testing, achieving roughly 5x faster image generation and introducing native 2K resolution via --hd mode. However, premium features including --hd, --q 4, style references, and mood boards cost four times as much as standard generation, with Relax mode unavailable at launch.

Meta's recently acquired AI startup Manus launched a desktop application enabling its AI agent to directly access local files, tools, and applications on personal computers through a 'My Computer' feature. Previously cloud-only, the move positions Manus to compete with OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that sparked recent industry momentum. Unlike OpenClaw's free, MIT-licensed offering, Manus operates as a paid subscription service.

DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai chatbot platform now includes OpenAI's GPT-5 mini for free users and GPT-5.2 for subscribers, both with reasoning capabilities. The platform continues to anonymize all conversations by default, stripping metadata before routing chats to model providers including Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and OpenAI.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, compact models optimized for coding and subagent tasks. The new models deliver significant performance improvements—GPT-5.4 mini reaches 54.4% on SWE-Bench Pro versus 45.7% for GPT-5 mini—but cost 3-4x more per input token than their predecessors.

Mistral has released Leanstral, a 120B-parameter code verification agent built with the Lean programming language, claiming it outperforms larger open-source models and offers significant cost advantages over Anthropic's Claude suite. The model achieves a pass@2 score of 26.3—beating Claude Sonnet by 2.6 points—while costing $36 to run compared to Sonnet's $549.

Google has deployed its second major Gemini for Home update this month, reducing response latency by 40% for common commands and substantially shortening voice responses for alarms, timers, and calendar events. The update adds five new alarm/timer capabilities including world event-based triggers and recurring alarms, while expanding Gemini Live translation to 30 languages and rolling out Home features to 19 additional countries.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.4 mini, the lightweight variant of its agentic coding model GPT-5.4, in GitHub Copilot. The model represents OpenAI's highest-performing mini offering to date for code generation and completion tasks.

Google announced Tuesday that all US users, including free-tier subscribers, now have access to Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app, Chrome, and AI Mode in Search. The feature, previously limited to paid AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, connects Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and other Google services to automatically personalize Gemini's responses without manual prompt engineering.

Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool designed to integrate fitness data from 50+ devices, medical records from 50,000+ US healthcare providers, and health history into unified summaries. The company plans to charge for access via subscription after a free trial period, though pricing remains undisclosed.

Perplexity made Computer for Enterprise generally available to enterprise customers on March 12, claiming an internal study of 16,000+ queries showed $1.6 million in labor cost savings and 3.2 years of equivalent work completed in four weeks. The service integrates with Gmail, Outlook, GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion, Snowflake, Databricks, and Salesforce, orchestrating tasks across 20 frontier models with agentic internet access.