Visko Orbis: Real-Time 4K AI Video You Steer Live
Visko has launched Orbis, an early-access live model that generates video in real time and lets you redirect the scene while it is still rendering.
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Gemini Adds Agentic Video Understanding to API
Gemini can now search, scan, and inspect video segments across frames, audio, and transcripts in the API, cutting tokens up to 88 percent.
Google Pics: AI Image Editing Inside Workspace
Google Pics is an AI image creator and editor built into Workspace and pics.new, powered by Nano Banana, with object-level editing.
World Labs Atlas: One Omni Model for Video and 3D
World Labs launched Atlas, an omni model that natively handles text, image, video, and 3D in one system. It is in early access with select partners.
Hugging Face Ships 207 WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
Hugging Face released @huggingface/kernels, a JavaScript library that runs AI models directly in the browser using WebGPU, with 207 optimized kernels 2.57x faster than ORT WebGPU.
Meta Muse Code Exits Beta With SDK and Agent Workflows
Meta pushed Muse Code out of beta on August 31, adding a TypeScript SDK, a multi-agent Workflow orchestrator, and three subscription tiers. What builders can do with it now.
Appwrite 2.0 Adds VectorsDB for AI App Builders
Appwrite 2.0, announced August 31, 2026, is a major rebuild of the open-source backend platform, adding VectorsDB, a native embeddings database with built-in embedding models.
Mercury 2.5 Preview: Fast, Cheap Diffusion LLM
Inception released Mercury 2.5 Preview on August 31, 2026, a diffusion LLM that generates tokens in parallel, hitting up to 1,107 tokens per second at cost-optimized pricing on OpenRouter.
Mureka V9.5 AI Music Model Improves Vocals
Mureka released V9.5 of its AI music model, shifting focus from convincing sounds toward complete songs with stronger arrangements and more natural vocals.
Nous Hermes Agent v0.21 Adds Multi-Agent Bot Mode
Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.21.0, turning its open-source self-improving agent into a coordinated team of named agents with a shared roster.
ComfyUI Adds Native Trellis.2 and Pixal3D 3D
ComfyUI now ships Trellis.2 and Pixal3D as native nodes, turning a single image into a high-fidelity 3D asset with full PBR textures and mesh cleanup, running locally at zero cost per asset.
Fireworks Opens Its Training API to All Builders
Fireworks AI made its Training API and Fireworks Lab generally available, letting teams run custom training loops on open models with managed compute.
OpenShot 4.0 Adds Local AI Masking and Color Tools
OpenShot 4.0, released August 30, 2026, adds on-device AI subject masking, color grading, and built-in screen and audio recording to the free open-source video editor.
Claude Code Weekly Usage Limits Change Sept 14
Anthropic will change Claude Code weekly usage limits on September 14, 2026, replacing a temporary 50% boost with a permanent 25% increase over the original baseline. For current users, that is roughly a 17% cut from today's levels.
OpenAI Ends GPT Access in Cursor: Dev Migration Guide
OpenAI said on August 29, 2026 that it will wind down Cursor access to OpenAI models, with a hard cutoff on November 12, 2026.
NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect: Open Models in 2 Commands
NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect takes an open-weights model from checkpoint to optimized native inference in two commands. Free and open source.