March 20, 2026

Daily AI App Digest for March 20, 2026

Full archive memo · 9 app sections.

No new user-facing features from top AI apps today.

Grok

Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI.

Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

Perplexity

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed

New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs

Claude Code

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the new default model in Claude Code. Run /model to switch models

We’re introducing several upgrades to Claude Code : a native VS Code extension, version 2.0 of our terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation.

We’re introducing a native VS Code extension in beta that brings Claude Code directly into your IDE.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now.

Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions.

ChatGPT

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.

Gemini

Get shopping recommendations, tech support, and travel itineraries tailored to you.

Personal Intelligence is now available in the U.S. for free-tier users.

Get tailored shopping recommendations: Looking for the perfect bag to match your new shoes?

OpenAI Codex

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Cursor

Composer 2 is now available in Cursor: frontier-level coding performance with strong results on challenging coding tasks.

Standard: $0.50/M input, $2.50/M output tokens

Fast (default): $1.50/M input, $7.50/M output tokens

Claude

Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It’s intelligent, efficient, and the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use.

Opus 4.5 is available today on our apps, our API, and on all three major cloud platforms. If you’re a developer, simply use claude-opus-4-5-20251101 via the Claude API .

Alongside Opus, we’re releasing updates to the Claude Developer Platform , Claude Code , and our consumer apps .