The AI log, by month
August 2026
August 20265 entries
- Week of 31 Aug 2026Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra both land, plus Gemini 3.8 FlashFrontier · Open weights · Science · Agents and coding
- 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
- Week of 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on gamesOpen weights · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world
- Week of 10 Aug 2026Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash and GLM-5.3 arrive in four daysFrontier · Open weights · Science
- Week of 3 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes openFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science