AI News 2026-08-01
New To You · 12 of 342 stories

New AI models released

50 sources swept 342 distinct stories from the last 13 days 38 already covered, held back 12 worth your time

  1. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

    DeepSeek V4 has 304 billion parameters

    Simon Willison··Models & releases·newsletter·3 outlets·simonwillison.net
    Also covered byHacker News AIMarktechpost

  2. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

    OpenAI advances math and computer science

    OpenAI··Research·lab·2 outlets·openai.com

  3. OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions

    OpenAI builds Astra model family

    The Decoder··Models & releases·press·the-decoder.com

  4. MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio

    MiniMax H3 generates 2K video clips

    Marktechpost··Models & releases·newsletter·marktechpost.com

  5. Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

    Gemini API adds managed agents

    Google AI··Agents & tooling·lab·blog.google

  6. AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right

    AI coding agents modernize research software

    The Decoder··Agents & tooling·press·the-decoder.com

  7. Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks

    Supabase releases coding agent benchmark

    Marktechpost··Agents & tooling·newsletter·marktechpost.com

  8. Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

    AI accelerates scientific computing

    OpenAI··Agents & tooling·lab·openai.com

  9. Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

    OpenAI gives researchers free ChatGPT access

    OpenAI··Business & policy·lab·openai.com

  10. Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

    Echo achieves Fable-level results at lower cost

    Hacker News AI··Infrastructure & chips·HN·484 pts·news.ycombinator.com

  11. OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

    OpenAI reduces Codex model context size

    Hacker News AI··Models & releases·HN·371 pts·github.com

  12. Our position on open-weights models

    Anthropic states position on open-weights models

    Anthropic··Safety & security·lab·2 outlets·anthropic.com