Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, an image generation model that produces images in four seconds at under four cents per thousand images. The model prioritizes speed and cost over quality, targeting developers building high-volume image pipelines.
Anthropic is starting an internal drug discovery program focused on neglected diseases while launching Claude Science, a product designed for pharmaceutical companies. Life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams said the program aims to provide feedback for developing better AI tools for drugmakers.
Cline, the VSCode AI coding assistant, released v4.0.5 with support for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 across seven API providers. The update includes model picker integration and pricing corrections for the model.
Google is rolling out a new feature in NotebookLM that generates 60-second vertical videos summarizing user research. The feature combines AI-generated narration with AI-created images in a TikTok-style format, available first to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers.
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, a text-to-image model that generates 1K resolution images in approximately 4 seconds — 2.7× faster than Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. The model is priced at $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens, with a 66K context window and knowledge cutoff of January 2025.
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, an AI image generator that produces images in 4 seconds and costs $0.034 per 1,000 images. The model is optimized for high-volume workflows and replaces the original Nano Banana as Google's entry-level image generation offering.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. The model delivers what Anthropic describes as near-Opus intelligence while maintaining Sonnet-tier pricing, with promotional rates available through August 31, 2026.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, its new mid-tier model optimized for agentic tasks, priced at $2 per million input tokens through August 31 before rising to $3/1M. The model scores 63.2% on agentic coding benchmarks, approaching Opus 4.8's 69.2% performance at a significantly lower price point.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, replacing Sonnet 4.6 as its medium-sized model. The company claims improved agentic performance approaching Opus 4.8 levels while maintaining lower pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31.
Anthropic has released version 0.114.0 of its Python SDK, adding support for the claude-sonnet-5 model. The update also includes a bug fix for the agent toolset that allows absolute paths resolving inside the working directory.
Anthropic released Claude Science, a specialized desktop application for macOS and Linux that connects Claude models to scientific databases and compute infrastructure. The public beta app includes analysis specialists for genomics, single-cell biology, proteomics, and structural biology, with native connections to over 60 scientific databases.
AWS has introduced managed entitlements for Amazon Bedrock, allowing organizations to subscribe to third-party models like Anthropic Claude and Cohere from a central account and distribute access across member accounts without requiring AWS Marketplace permissions. The feature uses AWS License Manager to create grants that share model entitlements with specific accounts or entire organizational units.
AWS released guidance on fine-tuning Amazon Nova Micro and Nova Lite models for automated email data extraction using SageMaker AI. In collaboration with Parcel Perform, the fine-tuned Nova Micro achieved 94.77% extraction accuracy—a 16.6 percentage point improvement—while reducing inference costs by 50% and latency by 30% compared to previous models.
Google DeepMind released Nano Banana 2 Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image), its fastest image generation model with 4-second text-to-image latency priced at $0.034 per 1K-resolution image. The company also opened developer access to Gemini Omni Flash (gemini-omni-flash-preview) for video generation and editing at $0.10 per second of output.
Proton has released Lumo 2.0, adding image recognition and generation, encrypted memory features, and enhanced web search to its privacy-focused AI assistant. The company claims Lumo 2.0 Max scored 240% higher than version 1.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while maintaining zero-access encryption and no conversation logging.
Base44, the vibe coding platform acquired by Wix for $80 million in 2025, has released Base1, a custom LLM trained on tens of millions of user interactions. The company claims the model will eventually outperform frontier models through optimization for latency, cost, and efficiency specific to app creation workflows.
Google is testing Gmail Live on Android and iOS, a voice-powered email search feature that functions as an instance of Gemini Live optimized for Gmail. The feature will roll out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer.
Google is expanding personalized image generation in the Gemini app to all eligible US users, removing the previous restriction to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. The feature allows Gemini to access user data across Google services like Gmail and Photos when generating images.
Google removed the paywall for Gemini's personalized image generation feature, making it free for all eligible U.S. users starting today. The Nano Banana-powered feature was previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers.
Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released DiScoFormer, a transformer model that estimates both the density and score of any distribution from a sample in a single forward pass without retraining. In 100 dimensions, the model reduces score estimation error by 6.5x and density error by 37x compared to classical kernel density estimation.