Vannarot Roeung

Vannarot Roeung

Editor of Creative AI News. Covering the AI tools and workflows that ship for designers, video editors, audio producers, 3d artists and more.

Recent posts by Vannarot Roeung

QM: YC Open-Sources Its Multi-Agent Team Harness

QM: YC Open-Sources Its Multi-Agent Team Harness

Y Combinator open-sourced QM, an MIT-licensed multiplayer agent harness that gives every teammate an isolated workspace and drives Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi from one core.

DeepSeek V4 Flash: Open-Weight Coding Agent Model

DeepSeek V4 Flash: Open-Weight Coding Agent Model

DeepSeek shipped the official production build of V4 Flash on July 31, 2026: an open-weight, MIT-licensed 284B-parameter MoE model with a 1M token context, native OpenAI Responses API and Codex support, and API output at $0.28 per million tokens.

Inkling-Small: Open 276B Model Beats Its Big Sibling

Inkling-Small: Open 276B Model Beats Its Big Sibling

Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small on July 30, a 276B open-weight MoE with 12B active params that matches or beats the full Inkling on reasoning and coding at a third the token price.

Gemini Spark Can Now Browse Chrome For You

Gemini Spark Can Now Browse Chrome For You

Google Gemini Spark can now drive Chrome to complete multi-step web tasks using your logged-in accounts, and expanded to 160-plus more countries on July 30, 2026.

NVIDIA NOOA: Build AI Agents as Python Objects

NVIDIA NOOA: Build AI Agents as Python Objects

NVIDIA open-sourced NOOA, a model-agnostic framework that turns an AI agent into an ordinary Python object. Here is how it works, the benchmarks, and how to build your first agent.

Perplexity Projects: A Multiplayer AI Workspace

Perplexity Projects: A Multiplayer AI Workspace

Perplexity Projects turns Computer into a shared, multiplayer workspace for people and AI agents, with a persistent file system and Brain memory that carries context between tasks.

How to Design a Logo and Brand Identity With AI

How to Design a Logo and Brand Identity With AI

A step-by-step workflow to design a logo and starter brand identity with AI in about an hour, using a text-capable generator, a vectorizer, and free type and color tools.

Self-Host an AI Coding Assistant With NeMo Guardrails

Self-Host an AI Coding Assistant With NeMo Guardrails

NVIDIA published a hands-on guide for self-hosting a validated AI coding assistant that never sends your source code to a third-party API, pairing StarCoder2-7B with a policy-enforcing NeMo Guardrails proxy.

Google Lyria 3.5: Better Vocals in Flow Music

Google Lyria 3.5: Better Vocals in Flow Music

Google DeepMind released Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music on July 29, 2026, upgrading vocals, lyrics, musicality, and tempo control. Here is what changed and how it compares to Suno and Lyria 3 Pro.

Replit Design: AI Creative Suite for Builders

Replit Design: AI Creative Suite for Builders

Replit launched Replit Design on July 29, 2026, an AI creative suite that takes an idea to a live app with Mobbin references, brand systems, and no handoff. How it works and how it compares.

OpenAI Codex Security: Open-Source Vuln Scanner CLI

OpenAI Codex Security: Open-Source Vuln Scanner CLI

OpenAI has quietly open-sourced Codex Security, an Apache-2.0 CLI and TypeScript SDK that finds, validates, and fixes code vulnerabilities from the command line. Here is how it works and how it compares to Anthropic Claude Security.

ComfyUI v0.29.0 Adds HeyGen, GPT-5.6, and Gemma4 Nodes

ComfyUI v0.29.0 Adds HeyGen, GPT-5.6, and Gemma4 Nodes

ComfyUI tagged v0.29.0 on July 28, 2026, bundling new HeyGen avatar and voice nodes, OpenAI GPT-5.6, Google Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemma4 12B, ByteDance seed-audio, and a JoyImageEdit editor in one release.

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