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What shipped in AI, week of

9 rows are listed for in The Deploy Log, from 4 companies. OpenAI shipped the most, 4 rows, then Hugging Face with 3. Models first seen in the record this week: Claude Sonnet 4.5. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.

In figures

Companies with the most rows
CompanyRows
OpenAI4
Hugging Face3
Anthropic1
Vercel1
FigureValue
Rows9
Rows the week before7
Change against the week before+2
Companies4
Companies seen for the first time0
Models seen for the first time1: Claude Sonnet 4.5
Rows with no shipped date, placed by their edition or the day they were added7
Rows by shipped day, September 29 to October 5, 2025September 29, 2025: 1 row; September 30, 2025: 0 rows; October 1, 2025: 0 rows; October 2, 2025: 1 row; October 3, 2025: 0 rows; October 4, 2025: 0 rows; October 5, 2025: 0 rows.1Sep 290Sep 300Oct 11Oct 20Oct 30Oct 40Oct 5
Each bar counts the rows their publishers dated that day. Not drawn: 7 rows with no shipped date, placed by an edition or by the day added. Data as of .

Leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available everywhere today at $3/$15 per million tokens, the same price as Claude Sonnet 4. It leads OSWorld at 61.4% and maintains focus for more than 30 hours on complex tasks.

Anthropic | In Edition 3,

SOURCE Anthropic, Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5

Instant Checkout

U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users can now buy directly from U.S. Etsy sellers in chat, with over a million Shopify merchants like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx and Vuori coming soon. The Agentic Commerce Protocol is open sourced today.

OpenAI | In Edition 3,

SOURCE OpenAI, Buy it in ChatGPT: Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol

Sora 2

Sora 2 is a video and audio generation model with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, more accurate physics, and a characters feature that inserts a recorded person into generated scenes. The Sora iOS app is available to download now with initial rollout in the U.S. and Canada.

OpenAI | In Edition 3,

SOURCE OpenAI, Sora 2 is here

Models and APIs

Qwen3-8B agent speedup

OpenVINO.GenAI accelerates Qwen3-8B generation by about 1.4x on Intel Core Ultra using speculative decoding with a depth-pruned Qwen3-0.6B draft model.

Hugging Face | Models and APIs | In Edition 3,

SOURCE Hugging Face, Accelerating Qwen3-8B Agent on Intel Core Ultra with Depth-Pruned Draft Models

RTEB benchmark

RTEB is a new retrieval embedding benchmark in beta that combines open and private datasets across 20 languages and domains like law, healthcare, code, and finance, using NDCG@10 as the default metric.

Hugging Face | Models and APIs | In Edition 3,

SOURCE Hugging Face, Introducing RTEB: A New Standard for Retrieval Evaluation

Sora 2 System Card

Sora 2 is available via sora.com, in a new standalone iOS Sora app, and in the future it will be available via the API, with initial access rolling out through limited invitations.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | In Edition 3,

SOURCE OpenAI, Sora 2 System Card

dots.ocr on-device

Hugging Face converted dots.ocr, a 3B parameter model that surpasses Gemini 2.5 Pro on OmniDocBench, to Core ML and MLX, but the initial conversion is over 5GB and slow.

Hugging Face | Models and APIs | Published

SOURCE Hugging Face, SOTA OCR with Core ML and dots.ocr

Tools and products

uv Python builds

Vercel now uses uv as the default package manager for all Python builds, making builds 30-65% faster and adding support for uv.lock and pyproject.toml dependency files.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 3,

SOURCE Vercel, Python package manager uv is now available for builds

Parental controls

OpenAI launched parental controls for ChatGPT, letting parents link accounts, set quiet hours, disable voice, memory, image generation, and opt out of training.

OpenAI | Tools and products | Published

SOURCE OpenAI, Introducing parental controls

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