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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.