August 12, 2026

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and 2 more shipped updates

Full archive memo · 5 app sections.

Also shipped: Perplexity and Claude Code.

Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent .

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

ChatGPT

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After a former lead writer claimed Saber “replaced me with ChatGPT,” CEO Matthew Karch now claims, “Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,” for the Rideshare.

The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that “I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development.

Gemini

The company has been steadily integrating Gemini across its products, from Search and Workspace to Android and its standalone app.

The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including Gemini 3.5 Flash , which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks.

Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature.

Claude

“All major frontier model providers we tested share this vulnerability,” says Alexander Panfilov,⁩ a computer scientist at University of Tübingen in Germany who was involved with.

Distillation is a well-established, widely used technique for efficiently copying the capabilities of existing models over to new ones, and is especially common in the development.

Advanced AI models solve difficult problems by breaking them into constituent parts that are analyzed in turn in a kind of artificial reasoning or “chain of thought.” Companies te.

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code