AI News 2026-08-01
New To You · 12 of 333 stories

New AI models and tools released

43 sources swept 333 distinct stories from the last 14 days 39 already covered, held back 12 worth your time
  1. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 has 304 billion parameters

    Simon Willison··Models & releases·newsletter·3 outlets·simonwillison.net
  2. Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

    Controlling reasoning effort in LLMs is possible

    Ahead of AI··Models & releases·newsletter·magazine.sebastianraschka.com
  3. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

    OpenAI advances mathematics and computer science

    OpenAI··Research·lab·openai.com
  4. 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··Agents & tooling·HN·484 pts·news.ycombinator.com
  5. Co-Designing AI Model Attention for Fast, Interactive Long-Context Inference

    Co-designing AI model attention improves inference

    NVIDIA Developer··Infrastructure & chips·lab·developer.nvidia.com
  6. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses

    Smevals evaluates models, prompts, and harnesses

    Simon Willison··Infrastructure & chips·newsletter·simonwillison.net
  7. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

    Stateless MCP specification updated

    Simon Willison··Infrastructure & chips·newsletter·simonwillison.net
  8. datasette-agent 0.4a0

    Datasette-agent 0.4a0 adds browser task mechanism

    Simon Willison··Agents & tooling·newsletter·simonwillison.net
  9. OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

    OpenAI reduces Codex model context size

    Hacker News AI··Infrastructure & chips·HN·371 pts·github.com
  10. llm-mcp-client 0.1a0

    Llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 released

    Simon Willison··Infrastructure & chips·newsletter·simonwillison.net
  11. Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

    AI coding agents modernize scientific computing

    OpenAI··Agents & tooling·lab·openai.com
  12. Building abundant intelligence

    Building abundant intelligence with full-stack approach

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