Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2: Fastest, Cheapest ASR
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-to-text model at $0.10 per audio hour across 60 languages, with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps built in.
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llama.cpp 0.4.0 Adds Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Video Input
llama.cpp shipped version 0.4.0 on September 4, adding initial support for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, and video input for local multimodal models.
TrackMCP Brings Usage Analytics to MCP Servers
TrackMCP launched on September 4, 2026, giving anyone who ships a Model Context Protocol server a way to see who is actually using it.
Claude Formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean
Anthropic published the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem on September 4, 2026. Claude wrote it largely on its own across 11 days, producing about 13 million lines of Lean.
OpenAI Begins Rolling Out GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra on September 3, its most capable model for computer use, browsing, and software engineering, with paid ChatGPT tiers and the API to follow in the coming days.
Runway GWM Worlds 2: Real-Time Interactive Worlds
Runway unveiled GWM Worlds 2 on September 3, a research preview of a real-time world model that generates steerable, explorable interactive worlds with audio and multiplayer.
K2 Horizon: World's Largest Fully Open AI Models
IFM released K2 Horizon on September 3: six fully open models from 0.9B to 375B, shipped with weights, code, and training data under Apache 2.0. Here is how to download and run them.
Character.AI Comics Turns Chats Into Comic Books
Character.AI launched (c.ai) Comics on September 2, a premium feature that turns AI character chats into fully illustrated, multi-page comic books with consistent character art.
TONE3000 Ships a Free Open-Source NAM Plugin
TONE3000 launched a free, open-source plugin that streams more than 700,000 Neural Amp Modeler captures and impulse responses straight into your DAW.
Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Tops CodeArena for Web Coding
Alibaba shipped an upgraded Qwen3.8-Max snapshot on September 2, 2026, post-trained for coding, with its CodeArena web-dev score up 22 points to 1,691 for first place.
Midjourney V8.2 Edit Model Lands In-Lightbox Editor
Midjourney has opened testing on its V8.2 edit model and folded it into an editor that lives inside the lightbox, so you can revise an image with plain-language instructions.
Causal: Free AI Canvas That Reads Your Whole Board
Causal is a new spatial AI canvas for planning creative projects, now free on Mac and web. A built-in agent reads the entire board to organize and expand your ideas.
Claude Fable 5.1 Builds a Browser 3D City as Code
PhiloLabs used Claude Fable 5.1 agent swarms to generate an explorable, MIT-licensed browser 3D city, Union Square SF, as Three.js code you can run and fork.