Two releases move AI agents closer to where the work happens
Mistral opened a hosted platform for building agents, and Microsoft's local toolkit can now run a coding model on your own machine.
AI models
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What a context window is, and why your chatbot forgets
An AI model can only read so much at once. That limit explains lost instructions, rising costs and why long chats drift.
On-device AI versus cloud AI: what runs where, and why it matters
Some AI features work with no connection and others need a data center. The split comes down to size, speed, privacy and cost.
RAG explained: how a chatbot answers from your documents
Retrieval-augmented generation looks things up before it answers. It is how most company chatbots work, and its weak points are predictable.
Mira Murati's AI startup is raising $5 billion at a $40 billion valuation
The reported round would roughly triple the value of Thinking Machines Lab, with Nvidia in talks to invest about half.
Anthropic priced Claude Haiku 5.5 about 75% below its predecessor
The October 2026 model cost $0.10 per million input tokens, part of a price war over small, fast models.
GPT-6 arrived with answers you can tap and edit
OpenAI's October 2026 rollout replaced blocks of text with buttons, calculators and graphs built into the reply.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon to security teams first
The October 2026 model can find and repair software flaws on its own, so Google limited early access to vetted defenders.
OpenAI cut prices by four-fifths with GPT-6.1 Sol
The September 2026 model launched at $2 per million input tokens, a fifth of what the company charged for GPT-6 Astra.
Nvidia struck a $6 billion licensing deal with Poolside
The August 2026 agreement paid an AI coding startup for its technology without buying the company.
More on AI models
- Two new AI models were pulled worldwide three days after release
- WWDC 2026: Siri rebuilt on Google's Gemini, and Tim Cook's goodbye
- Claude Opus 4.7 took back the lead in AI coding
- OpenAI released a model built for drug discovery
- OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health
- Apple lost its AI chief and its design chief in one week
- Meta licensed Midjourney's image and video technology
- A study found doctors got worse at spotting cancer after relying on AI
- A week after GPT-5, the model picker came back
- Google showed an AI that generates worlds for robots to practice in
- GPT-5 arrived in August 2025 with a question attached
- A study found AI Overviews can cut a top news link's traffic by 79%
- Perplexity Labs turned a search engine into a report builder
- Google's newer Gemini model scored worse on its own safety tests
- Google opened Gemini to children under 13
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