The week in AI

1. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 DeepSeek · LLM · Big 17 Oct
2. Krea 3 Krea · Image · Big 15 Oct
3. Muse Spark Open Meta · LLM · Big 15 Oct
4. Grok Voice 3.0 xAI · Audio · Big 14 Oct
5. Muse Wonder Meta · LLM · Big 12 Oct
6. Muse Wonder Full Meta · LLM · Big 12 Oct
7. FLUX 3 Image Klein Black Forest Labs · Image · Light 15 Oct

1. ChatGPT: ChatGPT Slides: create, edit and present decks together in Space 16 Oct
2. T3 Code 0.1.0: Orchestrator V2 goes stable: delegatetask, thread forking, Pi and OpenCode 2 15 Oct
3. DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2: Adds DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and DeepSeek Search and Fetch APIs 17 Oct
4. Grok Build 1.0.63: Concise memory index always on, plus per-session Rex status reporting 17 Oct
5. OpenCode 2.0.32: /copy now grabs only the latest reply, plus headless login fix 16 Oct
6. Kilocode 7.8.13: Agent Manager sessions can run custom agents, plus a redesigned worktree dialog 16 Oct
7. Claude Code 2.1.302: Fork subagents on by default everywhere, plus a long list of fixes 16 Oct
8. Cursor 3.26: Cloud agents can now build shareable interactive canvases 16 Oct
9. Codex 0.163.0: Searchable settings panel, live steering mid-response and a leader key 15 Oct
10. Qwen Code 0.25.2: Managed-agent teams, scriptable Mods and a richer Web Shell 15 Oct
11. Copilot 1.0.98: Gemini 4 Argon support and easier-to-reuse /ask answers 14 Oct
12. Kimi Code 2.2.0: Opt-in progress updates, kimi app command and Tower mode changes 14 Oct
13. Grok Bot 0.71.2: Tagged Bot email addresses, prefilled forms and admin Bot controls 14 Oct

45 releases across 14 tools; the ones with something new are above. Busiest: Grok Build, 11 releases.

1. 1 Google releases Gemini 4 Argon broadly Models 13 Oct
2. 2 Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra on intelligence Models 17 Oct
3. 3 Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks second on Intelligence Index Models 17 Oct
4. 4 Claude traces NIST curve seeds to timestamps Security 16 Oct
5. 5 Claude designs leaner quantum circuits than published bests World 16 Oct
6. 6 Meta releases open 816B Muse Spark coding model Models 15 Oct
7. 7 Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2 Models 15 Oct
8. 8 Google details safeguards for Gemini 4 Argon Security 13 Oct
9. 9 Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Argon for robotics Models 13 Oct
10. 10 xAI bundles Grok, Cursor and X Tools 12 Oct

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6. 40 Week 40 · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 12 models · 62 releases · 43 stories
7. 39 Week 39 · 21–27 Sep 2026 10 models · 46 releases · 36 stories
8. 38 Week 38 · 14–20 Sep 2026 8 models · 56 releases · 24 stories