GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT now gives more focused answers and makes factual errors 68% less common than GPT-5.5 Instant on financial, medical, and legal prompts. A new slider controls how much thought each response gets.
What shipped in AI, week of August 3, 2026
9 deployments dated August 3 to 9, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 3 leads, 2 in Models and APIs and 4 in Tools and products, from 6 publishers. They include GPT-5.6 Sol from OpenAI, Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview from Vercel, Shieldstral from Mistral, Baseten Inference Provider from Hugging Face, Fable 5 biology safeguards from Anthropic and 4 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
Leads
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview from xAI is available on AI Gateway. It follows detailed instructions closely and plans typography and layout together, so dense visuals like infographics, posters, and title screens hold their structure and small text stays legible.
Shieldstral
Shieldstral is a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier under Apache 2.0 that matches or outperforms open guard models up to 7x its size on text safety, refusal detection, policy adaptability, and multimodal benchmarks. It runs on a single 16GB NVIDIA GPU.
Models and APIs
Baseten Inference Provider
Baseten is now a supported Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub, launching support for conversational and text-generation tasks with open-weight LLMs such as Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and GLM-5.2.
Fable 5 biology safeguards
Anthropic reduced biology-related fallbacks on Claude Fable 5 by about 85% across product surfaces, so users see far fewer switches to Opus 5 on everyday health and educational questions.
Tools and products
Agent Plugins 1.0.0
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is publicly available as an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins, supported at launch across ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code.
Vercel Sandbox quotas
Vercel Sandbox default quotas on Pro and Enterprise plans rose from 2,000 to 10,000 concurrent sandboxes and from 200 or 400 vCPUs per minute to a dynamic rate up to 5,000 vCPUs per minute.
v0 API
The new v0 API is generally available, giving programmatic headless access to v0's app-building agent that generates an app, starts a dev server in a Vercel Sandbox, and returns a preview URL you can embed.
Custom Agent sharing
Notion now lets you share context with Custom Agents directly from the Share menu, without clicking over to the agent's settings.
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