OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, calling it “a new class of intelligence”

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro. The new model is, unsurprisingly, its most capable model yet.

After Anthropic launched Opus 4.7 a week ago, it was only a matter of time before OpenAI would follow suit — and, at least according to the benchmarks we’ve seen so far, GPT-5.5 and 5.5 Pro beat Opus 4.7 across many of today’s standard benchmarks. In many benchmarks, though, GPT-5.4 Pro still outperforms the default GPT-5.5.

Kimi K2.6: BEST Opensource AI Model That Beats Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro

In this video, I fully test Kimi K2.6 across real-world tasks, from long-horizon coding to agent workflows and even front-end website generation. This model isn’t just competitive — it’s going head-to-head with top proprietary models like Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro… and in some cases, outperforming them.

Google’s Gemini can now run on a single air-gapped server —
and vanish when you pull the plug

Cirrascale Cloud Services today announced it has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to deliver the Gemini model on premises through Google Distributed Cloud, making it the first neocloud provider to offer Google's most advanced AI model as a fully private, disconnected appliance.

Anthropic Built It. OpenAI and LangChain Just Responded. You Now Have A Decision To Make.

Three of the biggest players in AI all made moves in the agent space over the last seven days. Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, a fully cloud-hosted agent platform. The very next day, LangChain responded with Deep Agents Deploy, explicitly positioned as the open alternative. And then OpenAI shipped the next evolution of the Agents SDK.

The problem is none of these announcements make sense in isolation. Each one is solving a different version of the same problem, at a different point on the build-to-buy spectrum.

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on
self-hosted infrastructure

The newly announced Thunderbolt is being sold as a front-end client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure without relying on cloud-based third-party services.

Thunderbolt is built on top of Haystack, an existing open source AI framework that lets users build custom, modular AI pipelines from user-chosen components. Thunderbolt acts as what Mozilla calls a “sovereign AI client” on top of that underlying infrastructure.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM

Anthropic is publicly releasing its most powerful large language model yet, Claude Opus 4.7, today — as it continues to keep an even more powerful successor, Mythos, restricted to a small number of external enterprise partners for cybersecurity testing and patching vulnerabilities in the software said enterprises use (which Mythos exposed rapidly).

The big headlines are that Opus 4.7 exceeds its most direct rivals — OpenAI's GPT-5.4, released in early March 2026, scarcely more than a month ago; and Google's latest flagship model Gemini 3.1 Pro from February — on key benchmarks including agentic coding, scaled tool-use, agentic computer use, and financial analysis.

Adobe’s new Firefly AI Assistant wants to run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and more from one prompt

Adobe today launched its most ambitious AI offensive to date, unveiling the Firefly AI Assistant — a new agentic creative tool that can orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows across the company's entire Creative Cloud suite from a single conversational interface — alongside a raft of new video, image, and collaboration features designed to position the company at the center of the rapidly evolving AI-powered content creation landscape.