Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is available today at half the price of Claude Fable 5. It more than doubles Opus 4.8 on Frontier-Bench v0.1 and scores 10.2 percentage points higher on organic chemistry tasks.
The Deploy Log | Month by month
What shipped in AI in July 2026
55 rows dated July 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 9 leads, 12 in Models and APIs, 28 in Tools and products, 1 in Robotics, hardware and chips and 5 in Breakthroughs, from 11 publishers. They include Claude Opus 5 from Anthropic, Claude for Teachers from Anthropic, Kimi K3 from Vercel, ChatGPT Work from OpenAI, GPT-5.6 from OpenAI and 50 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
Leads
Claude for Teachers
Free premium Claude access for verified US K-12 educators with a library of teaching skills, Learning Commons standards mapping across all 50 states, and connections to tools like ASSISTments, Brisk Teaching, Canva Education, and MagicSchool.
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI's open-source K3 model with a 1M-token context window and native visual understanding for text, image, and video inputs, now available on AI Gateway with no markup and no platform fee.
ChatGPT Work
ChatGPT Work launches on web and mobile for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu plans, with Plus and Business following over the next few days. It is powered by GPT-5.6 and can gather information across apps, create sheets, slides, docs, and web apps, and stay with projects for hours.
GPT-5.6
GPT-5.6 family launches in general availability with Sol, Terra, and Luna. Sol scores 53.6 on Agents' Last Exam, 80 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, 92.2% on BrowseComp, and 62.6% on OSWorld 2.0. Terra and Luna outperform Fable 5 at around one-sixteenth the cost.
GPT-Live
GPT-Live launches with GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini rolling out to ChatGPT users globally on iOS, Android, and ChatGPT.com. It uses a full-duplex architecture that listens and speaks at the same time, and delegates deeper work to GPT-5.5 in the background.
Claude Science
Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, is available in beta on macOS and Linux for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with over 60 curated skills and connectors pre-configured for genomics, single-cell, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics.
Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 is available everywhere today at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with performance close to Opus 4.8 at lower prices and a strict improvement over Sonnet 4.6 on reasoning, tool use, coding, and knowledge work.
Nano Banana 2 Lite
Nano Banana 2 Lite delivers text-to-image outputs in 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1K image, and is available today in Google AI Studio, Gemini API, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Models and APIs
ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI is launching the ChatGPT for small business program with virtual training, in-person AI academies, and new guides, after 78% of participants built a functional AI workflow in a single day at last year's Small Business AI Jams.
Health in ChatGPT
Health in ChatGPT rolls out to U.S. users, letting them connect Apple Health and medical records. GPT-5.6 Sol outperforms GPT-5.5 on HealthBench Professional, and 70% of health conversations happened outside the dedicated experience.
Nunchaku Lite in Diffusers
Nunchaku Lite brings 4-bit diffusion inference to Diffusers, cutting peak VRAM by up to 50% and improving latency by 30%.
Anthropic Economic Index connector
The Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude lets anyone ask questions about AI usage in the economy, grounded in Index data.
Claude reflection dashboard
Anthropic introduces a beta reflection dashboard in Claude Settings that tracks and visualizes usage patterns over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months, with quiet hours and break nudges.
GPT 5.6 on AI Gateway
GPT 5.6 is available on AI Gateway in limited preview as Sol, Terra, and Luna, with Terra offering performance comparable to the previous generation at half the cost.
GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
GPT-5.6 becomes the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork, with Microsoft accessing the models directly through the OpenAI API.
vLLM transformers backend
The transformers vLLM backend now meets or beats native throughput on Qwen3 4B dense, 32B dense, and 235B-parameter FP8 MoE models, using torch.fx static analysis and ast source rewriting to apply inference-specific layer fusions at runtime.
Studio prompts and skills
Mistral Studio now provides a system of record for Prompts and Skills, with immutable versions, rollback, clear ownership, classification labels, and audit logs.
Fable 5 redeployed
Claude Fable 5 will be available starting Wednesday, July 1, to users globally on the Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, with the new safety classifier blocking the reported technique in over 99% of cases.
Gemma 4 voice AI
Hugging Face and Cerebras demonstrate a real-time speech-to-speech pipeline pairing Gemma 4 31B on Cerebras with Nvidia's Parakeet for speech recognition and Alibaba's Qwen3TTS for text-to-speech, already powering more than 9,000 Reachy Mini robots.
Leanstral 1.5
Leanstral 1.5 saturates miniF2F at 100%, solves 587/672 PutnamBench problems, and achieves 87% on FATE-H and 34% on FATE-X, at about $4 per problem against an estimated $300 or more for Seed-Prover 1.5 high.
Tools and products
AI Meeting Notes triggers
Notion's AI Meeting Notes can now trigger Custom Agents to update trackers, post recaps, or file tickets automatically.
High contrast mode
Notion added high contrast mode as a display option, available on desktop and web.
Apple Upgrade leasing
Apple Upgrade offers leasing for iPhone starting at $17.99 per month, Apple Watch at $11.99, Mac at $24.99, and iPad at $11.99, provided by Klarna.
AI Gateway service tiers
AI Gateway now supports service tiering with default, priority, and flex tiers, where priority costs about 1.8 to 2 times default pricing and flex costs about 0.5 times default pricing.
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now available on AI Gateway with no platform fee on inference.
Laguna S 2.1
Laguna S 2.1 from Poolside is now available on AI Gateway in free and paid versions, with the paid version supporting a 1M token context window.
Ling 3.0 Flash
Ling 3.0 Flash from Ant Group is now available on AI Gateway and is free to use for the next three weeks, through August 3rd.
Python precompiled bytecode
Vercel now compiles Python functions to bytecode at build time, and cold starts for the median-sized function dropped from 2.8 seconds to 1.3 seconds in benchmarks.
Vercel Connect preset connectors
Vercel Connect now includes preset connectors for over 100 services, including Shopify, Resend, Sanity, Okta, Workday, and Jira.
Workflow extended durations
Workflow steps on Pro and Enterprise plans can now run for up to 30 minutes, up from 800 seconds, using extended function durations in beta.
Claude Opus 5 on AI Gateway
Claude Opus 5 is now available on AI Gateway with model fallbacks for safety blocks and fast mode via speed: 'fast'.
Notion Workers credits
Notion Workers usage is now visible in the credits dashboard, free to try during beta on Business and Enterprise plans.
Apple Maps for Ford UEV
Apple Maps will power navigation in Ford's Universal Electric Vehicle Platform via MapKit for Automotive SDK, coming in 2027.
GLM 5.2 discount
GLM 5.2 is 35% off on AI Gateway through July 24 when routed through Novita, then stays available at standard provider rates with no markup.
Immutable static asset caching
Vercel now reuses static files across deployments for frameworks that output content-addressed assets, with 17% fewer CDN requests, 24% fewer bytes transferred, deployments up to 30% faster, and up to 60% reduction in global TTFB.
Vercel Blob consistent reads
Vercel Blob now supports consistent reads on private storage with useCache: false, guaranteeing a read reflects the newest write instead of a cached version that can persist for up to 60 seconds after an overwrite.
Vercel CLI project linking
The Vercel CLI now resolves your team before discovering projects, then searches only in that team, making linking faster and more predictable with Vercel CLI 55 as a major version bump with breaking changes.
Flags SDK 10x faster
Flags SDK and Vercel Flags now evaluate multiple feature flags in bulk around 10x faster by reducing microtask queue overhead and creating fewer promises.
Vercel acquires Better Auth
Vercel acquires Better Auth, the open source TypeScript authentication library with 4.7M+ weekly npm downloads and more than 850 contributors, with the team continuing work on Agent Auth for scoped, revocable agent identity.
Lovable apps on Vercel
Vercel now supports Lovable applications with zero configuration, automatically detecting TanStack Start and deploying via Nitro, with every change syncing to GitHub triggering a new deployment.
Notion Agents iOS app
Notion released an iOS app for Notion Agents, letting users put agents to work from anywhere, like prepping for meetings or capturing ideas on the go.
5GB Functions
Vercel Functions now support Node.js and Python deployments up to 5GB in package size on Fluid compute, a 20x increase over the previous 250MB limit, in public beta.
AI Gateway audio support
AI Gateway now supports voice and audio models in beta via AI SDK 7, letting you build realtime voice agents, generate speech from text, and transcribe audio to text with the same observability, spend controls, and bring-your-own-key support as other models.
Fable 5 on AI Gateway
Access to Claude Fable 5 has been restored on AI Gateway following the US Government's decision to lift export controls, with updated safety classifiers and model fallbacks recommended for routine coding and debugging tasks.
Notion 3.6
Notion 3.6 lets you assign tasks to Claude and Cursor as External Agents from a shared board, adds speaker labels to AI Meeting Notes, and gives Notion Agents read and write access to PPTX, XLSX, DOCX, and more.
Sandbox FUSE support
Vercel Sandbox now supports FUSE, letting you mount S3 buckets, network filesystems, or any other FUSE-compatible driver as a regular path inside a running Sandbox.
Vercel Private Blob
Vercel Private Blob is now generally available for all plans, with private stores, Signed URLs scoped to a single operation and pathname for up to 7 days, and OIDC authentication with no static read-write token in your environment.
xAI audio models
xAI's audio models are now live on AI Gateway, with realtime voice via xai/grok-voice-think-fast-1.0, text to speech via xai/grok-tts, and speech to text via xai/grok-stt, all available through the AI SDK 7 release.
Robotics, hardware and chips
Robostral Navigate
Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that navigates robots with a single RGB camera, achieving 76.6% success on unseen R2R-CE benchmarks and beating the best depth or multi-camera system by 4.5 points.
Breakthroughs
Aurora 1.5
Aurora 1.5 adds 22 new weather variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting, outperforming ECMWF ENS on 88.9% of evaluated variable-and-lead-time targets.
LeRobot v0.6.0
LeRobot v0.6.0 ships world model policies VLA-JEPA, FastWAM, and LingBot-VA, new VLAs including GR00T N1.7 and MolmoAct2, reward models Robometer and TOPReward, and six new simulation benchmarks under lerobot-eval.
MolmoAct 2
MolmoAct 2, Ai2's vision-language-action model, is available with model weights, data, training code, and fine-tuning scripts, and won an embodied AI hackathon with a voice-controlled robot ten days after release.
SensorFM health model
SensorFM is a foundation model for wearable health pre-trained on over one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million people, transferring to 35 health prediction tasks.
Flint visualization language
Flint is a visualization intermediate language that compiles compact specs into polished charts across Vega-Lite, Apache ECharts, and Chart.js, with higher LLM-judge scores than DirectVL across three models.
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