Ali Asif

The AI log, by topic

Image, video, world

October 20263 entries

  1. 14 Oct 2026Gemini 4 Argon lands, Run:ai goes open sourceFrontier · Open weights · Robotics · Image, video, world · Science · Agents and coding
  2. 13 Oct 2026Muse Wonder ships without scores, Anthropic tests self-copyingFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Science · Robotics
  3. Week of 5 Oct 2026Mistral Large 4, Claude Haiku 5.5 and a wave of decision modelsFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

September 20263 entries

  1. Week of 21 Sep 2026Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol land, Claude finds a new enzymeFrontier · Open weights · Science · Image, video, world
  2. Week of 14 Sep 2026Gemini 3.8 Live, open Qwen-Image-2.1 and Anthropic's Accenture pactFrontier · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business
  3. Week of 7 Sep 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Devin's SWE-2 and a petabyte of DNA predictionsOpen weights · Agents and coding · Science · Image, video, world

August 20263 entries

  1. Week of 24 Aug 2026Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open upImage, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding · Policy and business
  2. Week of 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on gamesOpen weights · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world
  3. Week of 3 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes openFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

July 20264 entries

  1. Week of 27 Jul 2026Gemini Robotics 2, plus Korean labs open 700B-class modelsRobotics · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science
  2. Week of 20 Jul 2026Claude Opus 5 arrives, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Solar Open 2 followFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  3. Week of 13 Jul 2026Grok 4.5 lands, Kimi K3 and Inkling open up huge modelsFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world
  4. Week of 6 Jul 2026GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, Muse Spark 1.1, Tencent Hy3Frontier · Open weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world

June 20261 entry

  1. Week of 29 Jun 2026Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 and $10, Fable 5 returns, Nano Banana 2 LiteFrontier · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Science

May 20262 entries

  1. Week of 25 May 2026Claude Opus 4.8, NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 keynote, Codex on WindowsFrontier · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Science
  2. Week of 18 May 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, Qwen3.7-Max, Cursor Composer 2.5Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Science

April 20262 entries

  1. Week of 20 Apr 2026GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4 preview and Kimi K2.6 in one weekFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 13 Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7, Seedance 2.0 report, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6Frontier · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world

March 20262 entries

  1. Week of 9 Mar 2026Nemotron 3 Super opens up and Gemini Embedding 2 goes multimodalOpen weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world
  2. Week of 2 Mar 2026GPT-5.4 ships, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Qwen3.5 goes smallFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

February 20262 entries

  1. Week of 23 Feb 2026Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLMOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  2. Week of 9 Feb 2026GLM-5, MiniMax M2.5 and Seedance 2.0 arrive before Lunar New YearFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Policy and business

January 20264 entries

  1. Week of 26 Jan 2026Kimi K2.5, DeepMind's Project Genie, and the OpenClaw frenzyOpen weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 19 Jan 2026GLM-4.7-Flash, Qwen3-TTS opens up, and Claude's new constitutionOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  3. Week of 12 Jan 2026Anthropic's Cowork, DeepSeek's Engram and a new open image editorFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science
  4. Week of 5 Jan 2026CES week: Nvidia's open driving model, Atlas for factories, LTX-2Open weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Policy and business

December 20255 entries

  1. Week of 29 Dec 2025DeepSeek's mHC paper, Qwen-Image-2512 and a Tencent translation modelOpen weights · Image, video, world · Science
  2. Week of 22 Dec 2025GLM-4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 open up, Nvidia licenses Groq's techOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  3. Week of 15 Dec 2025Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5.2-Codex and Nvidia's open Nemotron 3Frontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  4. Week of 8 Dec 2025GPT-5.2 lands, MCP moves to a foundation, Devstral 2 and GLM-4.6VFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  5. Week of 1 Dec 2025DeepSeek V3.2, Mistral 3, and Anthropic buys BunOpen weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Policy and business

November 20253 entries

  1. Week of 24 Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5, FLUX.2, and a wave of strong open releasesFrontier · Image, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 17 Nov 2025Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, Grok 4.1, Nano Banana Pro, SAM 3Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business
  3. Week of 10 Nov 2025GPT-5.1, World Labs' Marble, and Anthropic's espionage reportFrontier · Image, video, world · Policy and business · Open weights · Science

October 20252 entries

  1. Week of 27 Oct 2025MiniMax-M2 for agents, Cursor 2.0, and a robot you can preorderOpen weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Robotics · Science
  2. Week of 13 Oct 2025Claude Haiku 4.5, Skills, Veo 3.1, and nanochatFrontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Science

September 20254 entries

  1. Week of 29 Sep 2025Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and DeepSeek's sparse attentionFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 22 Sep 2025Qwen3-Omni and VL arrive, Gemini Robotics 1.5 learns to think firstOpen weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Science · Policy and business
  3. Week of 15 Sep 2025GPT-5-Codex, Grok 4 Fast, and Anthropic explains its bad monthFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  4. Week of 1 Sep 2025Kimi K2 stretches to 256K, Switzerland opens ApertusOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business