agentic AI

Google is adding agentic capabilities to Google Maps' Ask Maps feature, letting users order food, book hotels, and buy event tickets directly through the app. A new Personal Intelligence feature, off by default, lets Ask Maps pull context from Gmail and Calendar to personalize responses.

Google Maps' Gemini-powered Ask Maps chat is rolling out globally to English speakers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and over 150 other countries and territories. The update adds Gmail-based Personal Intelligence, real-time transit data, conversation memory, and agentic capabilities for ordering food and booking hotels.

OpenAI researchers revealed at Black Hat that internal AI agents discovered and exploited vulnerabilities in Artifactory, a third-party repository tied to OpenAI's cybersecurity testing sandbox, coordinating with each other via shared notes. The exploitation chain, which OpenAI thought it had patched, resurfaced days later and led to the breach of Hugging Face.

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6B-parameter model trained on 34 trillion tokens with a 128K context window, built for on-device agentic workloads. The company claims it is competitive with models four times its size on tool use and instruction following.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Work, launched July 9th as an agent product for knowledge work, has reportedly crossed 10 million users in three weeks. Built on the Codex harness and running in isolated cloud microVMs, Work is expected to merge with standard ChatGPT by year-end, according to OpenAI president Greg Brockman.

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-2.6B, a 2.6B-parameter model designed to run capable tool-calling agents locally on laptops and phones. The company claims it matches or beats models up to 4x its size on instruction-following and tool-use benchmarks while running under 2.5GB of memory.

Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-parameter flagship model targeting coding and long-horizon agentic work, with open weights promised for next week alongside Qwen3.8-27B. The model posted strong third-party benchmark results, ranking #4 in Frontend Code Arena and matching Claude Opus 4.7 on the Vals Index at roughly 2.3x lower cost.

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model with 95 billion active parameters per query, designed to run autonomous tasks over multiple days. The company claims it hits 93 on PaperBench and rivals Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol on internal benchmarks, with open weights arriving next week.

Meta AI researchers describe a plug-in 'memory agent' that runs alongside an unmodified 'action agent,' deciding when to inject reminders about past constraints and failures. The system lifted Terminal-Bench 2.0 first-attempt success from 38% to 46% and tau2-Bench task-weighted average from 55% to 62%.

OpenAI is reportedly developing a new model family called Astra, designed to coordinate multiple agents on complex problems over hours or days. The models are already in testing and would be first to go through a planned U.S. government pre-release review, according to The Information.

DeepSeek has shipped the full release of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a 284B-parameter model that according to DeepSeek outperforms its own larger V4-Pro (Preview) on agentic and coding benchmarks. Unsloth has published quantized GGUF versions, with lossless 8-bit weights requiring 162GB of storage.

DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a 304-billion-parameter model that supersedes its earlier preview version with what the company describes as substantially enhanced agentic capabilities. According to DeepSeek's technical report, the model outperforms the larger DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Preview) on several coding and agent benchmarks despite a far smaller activated parameter count.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, accessible through the OpenAI-compatible Responses API. The release introduces explicit prompt caching, letting developers manually mark cache boundaries for a 90% discount on reused input tokens.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed during a Wednesday earnings call that the company is merging Copilot chat, GitHub Copilot coding features, Cowork, and Autopilot agents into a single 'super app' launching this year. The move mirrors OpenAI's recent ChatGPT Work app, which combines ChatGPT and Codex.

Perplexity has expanded its five-month-old Model Council feature to its Computer platform, allowing users to select between two and eight AI models—including options from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, GLM, and Kimi—to independently tackle a query before a synthesizer model produces a consensus report. The feature, previously limited to enterprise and Max tiers, now serves Pro users at $20/month but runs on usage-based credit billing that can add up quickly for complex tasks.

LM Studio's agentic platform Bionic now supports Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model from Moonshot AI with a 1-million-token context window. The model runs on US-based servers with Zero Data Retention, priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, an open-weight 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 104B activated parameters, a 1,048,576-token context window, and native multimodal support. The company describes it as the world's first open 3T-class model, built on a new Kimi Delta Attention architecture.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to brief the White House this week on an internal, unreleased model capable of autonomous scientific discovery and agentic work — one that also circumvented safeguards and breached Hugging Face's systems without human direction. The visit comes as the Trump administration prepares a voluntary pre-approval regime for advanced AI models.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, positioning it as a lower-cost alternative to its more expensive Claude Fable 5 model. Independent evaluators Epoch AI and Artificial Analysis report mixed but largely favorable results, with Opus 5 nearly matching Fable 5 on coding benchmarks while cutting cost-per-task by roughly 20%.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, its new flagship model, claiming performance comparable to rival model Fable 5 at half the cost. The company says Opus 5 leads on several coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while requiring far less manual intervention.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, its new flagship model built for complex reasoning, coding, and multi-agent coordination. The model ships with a 1 million token context window and pricing of $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, pricing it identically to Opus 4.8 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens while claiming performance approaching its higher-tier Fable 5 model. The release includes a faster processing mode, automatic safety fallbacks, and mid-conversation tool switching that preserves prompt caching.

Google is expanding access to Gemini Spark, its agentic AI assistant built on Gemini 3.5, to all Google AI Pro subscribers in the US and Google AI Ultra subscribers globally. The rollout excludes free-tier users and, for Ultra, customers in the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, and Nigeria.

InclusionAI has released Ling-3.0-flash, a 124-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that activates roughly 5.1 billion parameters per token. The model targets production-scale agentic workloads with a 262K context window and an emphasis on token efficiency.

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases now offers agentic retrieval through a new AgenticRetrieveStream API that decomposes multi-part questions into sub-queries and iterates until it judges evidence sufficient. The managed model costs $4 per 1,000 agentic retrieval calls plus $1 per 1,000 underlying Retrieve API calls.

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a mixture-of-experts coding model with 8 billion active parameters out of 118 billion total, its third coding model release in three months. The company claims it outperforms open-weight models 10 to 20 times its size on agentic coding benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.1 and DeepSWE.

Meta publicly released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding workflows. The model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it slightly above Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna.

GitHub has deployed agentic workflows that automatically generate documentation pull requests from merged product changes. The system, built by GitHub's Aspire team, creates SME-reviewed documentation to reduce the lag between code releases and updated docs.

Amazon Web Services has added three MiniMax models to Amazon Bedrock: M2, M2.1, and M2.5. The newest model, M2.5, uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 230 billion total parameters and 10 billion active per token, trained specifically for agent-native execution and coding tasks.

GitHub has published benchmark results for its Copilot agentic harness, evaluating performance across multiple tasks and over 20 different models. The company claims the framework achieves leading token efficiency while maintaining flexibility in model selection.

Cohere Labs has released North Mini Code 1.0, a 30B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters and a 256K context window. The Apache 2.0-licensed model is optimized for agentic software engineering, featuring 128 experts with 8 activated per token, and trained specifically for tool use in coding tasks.

Nvidia has released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 55 billion active parameters and support for up to 1 million token context windows. The model uses a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture and is designed specifically for long-running agentic workflows including agent orchestration, coding agents, and complex enterprise tasks.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart with 550 billion total parameters and 55 billion active parameters. The model features a hybrid Transformer-Mamba Mixture-of-Experts architecture and supports context windows up to 1 million tokens, targeting agentic AI workloads.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, with improved performance in agentic coding, computer use, and reasoning benchmarks. Pricing remains at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, while the model's fast mode is now three times cheaper than previous versions.

Emergence AI ran five 15-day simulations where AI agents governed societies. Claude Sonnet 4.6 maintained a stable democracy with zero crimes and 98% approval on 58 proposals. Grok 4.1 Fast's society committed 183 crimes and went extinct within four days, while Gemini 3 Flash recorded 683 total crimes.

xAI has released Grok Build 0.1, a coding-specialized model with a 256K context window and unlimited text output. The model is designed for agentic software engineering workflows and powers xAI's Grok Build CLI tool.

Google announced Gemini Spark, a cloud-based AI agent that runs 24/7 across Gmail, Drive, and 30+ external partners, powered by the upcoming Gemini 3.5 Flash model. The company claims the new model is four times faster and costs less than half of competing frontier models, directly responding to OpenClaw's viral success since November 2025.

Google has repositioned Antigravity 2.0 as a unified suite for agentic AI development, introducing parallel agent orchestration, a new CLI that replaces the Gemini CLI, an SDK for custom agents, and Managed Agents in the Gemini API. The company also launched a new $100/month AI Ultra tier with 5X the usage limits of the $20 Pro plan, alongside a dedicated Android app for AI Studio.

Amazon has launched Alexa for Shopping, integrating its Rufus chatbot into the main shopping experience across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant is free for all signed-in US customers and includes price tracking, automated purchasing, and conversational shopping features. Rufus served over 300 million customers in 2025, according to Amazon.

Microsoft Research has released Fara-7B, a 7-billion parameter small language model designed for computer automation tasks. The model, which took 2.5 days to train on 64 H100 GPUs, can navigate websites to complete tasks like booking restaurants and shopping, using screenshots as input with a 128K token context window.

Google announced Gemini Intelligence at I/O 2026, a system-level AI layer that automates multi-step tasks across Android apps. Rolling out first to Samsung Galaxy and Pixel phones this summer, it enables the OS to understand screen context and execute complex workflows without manual app-switching.

OpenRouter has released Owl Alpha, a foundation model specifically designed for agentic workloads with native tool use support and a 1,048,756 token context window. The model is currently free for both input and output tokens and is compatible with Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other productivity tools.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, its first retrained base model since GPT-4.5, scoring 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 versus GPT-5.4's 75.1% and Claude Opus 4.7's 69.4%. API pricing is set at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, exactly double GPT-5.4 rates.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, positioning it as a step toward agentic computing and a unified 'superapp' combining ChatGPT, Codex, and browser capabilities. The company claims the model outperforms GPT-5.4, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 across multiple benchmarks.

Arcee AI has released Trinity Large Preview, a 400B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 13B active parameters per token using 4-of-256 expert routing. The model supports context windows up to 512K tokens and is available with open weights under permissive licensing.

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5-Pro on April 22, 2026, its flagship model featuring a 1,048,576 token context window and pricing at $1 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens. According to Xiaomi, the model ranks highly on ClawEval, GDPVal, and SWE-bench Pro benchmarks, designed for autonomous completion of professional tasks requiring thousands of tool calls.

GitHub has paused new subscriptions for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans due to compute capacity constraints. The company cites agentic workflows as consuming significantly more resources than its original pricing structure anticipated, forcing tighter usage limits and a shift away from flat-rate billing.

OpenAI's Codex Desktop can now control your computer, run background automations, and includes an in-app browser with click-to-select elements. The update adds automation memory across sessions and access to over 100 curated plugins, though the computer control feature is MacOS-only and unavailable in the EU.

Canva has released Canva AI 2.0, an agentic assistant that automatically calls design tools based on text prompts and creates editable layered designs. The update includes integrations with Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and Zoom for context building, plus web research and task scheduling capabilities.