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The Deploy Log | Week by week

What shipped in AI, week of March 2, 2026

15 deployments dated March 2 to 8, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 3 leads, 3 in Models and APIs, 7 in Tools and products and 2 in Breakthroughs, from 6 publishers. They include ChatGPT for Excel from OpenAI, GPT-5.4 from OpenAI, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite from Google DeepMind, GPT-5.3 Instant from OpenAI, Modular Diffusers from Hugging Face and 10 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.

Leads

ChatGPT for Excel

ChatGPT for Excel is in beta, an Excel add-in that builds, updates, and analyzes spreadsheet models directly in workbooks. It is available globally to ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teachers, and K-12 users, and to ChatGPT Pro and Plus users outside the EU.

OpenAI | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations

GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is released in ChatGPT as GPT-5.4 Thinking, the API, and Codex, with GPT-5.4 Pro also available. It scores 83.0% on GDPval, 57.7% on SWE-Bench Pro, 75.0% on OSWorld-Verified, and supports up to 1M tokens of context.

OpenAI | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, Introducing GPT-5.4

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is rolling out in preview via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, priced at $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens. It achieves 86.9% on GPQA Diamond and 76.8% on MMMU Pro.

Google DeepMind | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Google DeepMind, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Models and APIs

GPT-5.3 Instant

GPT-5.3 Instant is released as an update to ChatGPT's most-used model, reducing unnecessary refusals and improving web answer synthesis.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, GPT-5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations

Modular Diffusers

Modular Diffusers introduces a new way to build diffusion pipelines by composing reusable blocks, with a quickstart example running FLUX.2 Klein 4B and community pipelines including Krea Realtime Video achieving 11fps on a single B200 GPU.

Hugging Face | Models and APIs | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Hugging Face, Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines

Codex Security

Codex Security, an application security agent, is in research preview, having scanned 1.2 million commits in 30 days and found 792 critical findings.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | Published Friday 6 Mar 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, Codex Security: now in research preview

Tools and products

GPT-5.3 Chat on AI Gateway

GPT-5.3 Chat (GPT 5.3 Instant) is now available on AI Gateway, focusing on tone, relevance, and conversational flow with fewer unnecessary refusals and caveats.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Vercel, GPT-5.3 Chat is now on AI Gateway

GPT-5.4 in Notion

GPT-5.4 is now available in Notion's model picker, bringing faster responses and better token efficiency for demanding tasks.

Notion | Tools and products | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Notion, GPT-5.4 is now in Notion

GPT-5.4 on AI Gateway

GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Pro are now available on AI Gateway, bringing agentic and reasoning leaps from GPT-5.3-Codex to all domains including knowledge work and coding.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Vercel, GPT-5.4 is now on AI Gateway

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite from Google is now available on AI Gateway, outperforming 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality with notable improvements in translation, data extraction, and code completion.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is now on AI Gateway

Mercury 2 on AI Gateway

Mercury 2 from Inception is now available on AI Gateway, delivering reasoning-grade quality at real-time latency for agentic loops, coding assistants, voice interfaces, and RAG pipelines.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Mercury 2 on AI Gateway

MiniMax M2.5 in Custom Agents

Custom Agents now support MiniMax M2.5, an open weight model that is up to 10x more cost-efficient for basic tasks, available in the Custom Agent model picker.

Notion | Tools and products | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Notion, Run Custom Agents for less with MiniMax M2.5

Stripe on Vercel

Stripe is now generally available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0, letting you connect a production Stripe account and accept real payments.

Vercel | Tools and products | Published Thursday 5 Mar 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Stripe is now generally available on the Marketplace and v0

Breakthroughs

SpeciesNet wildlife identification

SpeciesNet is an open-source AI model that classifies 2,498 animal categories in camera trap images, trained on over 65 million labeled images, and it finds 99.4% of images containing animals with 94.5% of species-level predictions correct.

Google Research | Breakthroughs | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Google Research, Where wild things roam: Identifying wildlife with SpeciesNet

WAXAL speech dataset

WAXAL is a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset covering 27 Sub-Saharan African languages spoken by over 100 million speakers, with approximately 1,846 hours of transcribed natural speech for ASR and over 565 hours of high-fidelity recordings for TTS, released under CC-BY-4.0.

Google Research | Breakthroughs | In Edition 24, Saturday 7 Mar 2026

SOURCE Google Research, WAXAL: A large-scale open resource for African language speech technology

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