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The Deploy Log | Week by week

What shipped in AI, week of August 17, 2026

12 deployments dated August 17 to 23, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 2 leads, 3 in Models and APIs, 5 in Tools and products, 1 in Robotics, hardware and chips and 1 in Breakthroughs, from 7 publishers. They include ChatGPT for Teens from OpenAI, Replit Free Mode from OpenAI, Stable Audio 3.0 plugin from Stability AI, Agentic Search from Mistral, ChatGPT Ads Europe from OpenAI and 7 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.

Leads

ChatGPT for Teens

ChatGPT for Teens places users estimated under 18 or stating age 13 to 17 into a protected experience with Study Mode, responsible homework reminders, quizzes, learning visualizations, Study Hours, break reminders, and parent controls including Quiet Hours and safety notifications.

OpenAI | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

Replit Free Mode

Replit introduces Free Mode powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, letting users get answers, suggestions, feedback, and analysis in seconds without consuming usage, with routing to GPT-5.6 Sol for tasks requiring more advanced reasoning.

OpenAI | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

Models and APIs

Stable Audio 3.0 plugin

Stability AI ships a DAW plugin for macOS AU and VST3 plus an enhanced StableAudio.com web app, both powered by commercially-safe models where users own outputs and can distribute them freely.

Stability AI | Models and APIs | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE Stability AI, Sharing a new way to work with Stable Audio

Agentic Search

Mistral Agentic Search improves accuracy up to 3x on FinanceBench (26.7% to 86%) and cuts p90 latency up to 39.6% and token use by one-third.

Mistral | Models and APIs | Published Thursday 20 Aug 2026

SOURCE Mistral, Agentic Search

ChatGPT Ads Europe

ChatGPT Ads expands to 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Austria. Ads show only on Free and Go plans; Plus, Pro, and Enterprise remain ad-free.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | Published Tuesday 18 Aug 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe

Tools and products

Deployment Storage

Vercel introduces Deployment Storage billed at $0.10 per GB per month with Hobby teams including up to 10 GB, keeping deployment files available for inspection and instant rollback in seconds with no rebuild.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback ready

Fish Audio free

Fish Audio models arrive on AI Gateway with every model free for 30 days through September 18, including text-to-speech normally priced at $15.00 per million characters and speech-to-text at $0.36 per hour of audio.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Fish Audio models now available on AI Gateway for free

GLM 5.3

GLM 5.3 from Z.ai is available on AI Gateway with improvements over GLM 5.2 at complex software engineering and multi-step agent tasks while producing fewer output tokens, keeping a 1M token context window and 128K maximum output.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE Vercel, GLM 5.3 now available on AI Gateway

Bot Preference Sync

Cloudflare's Bot Preference Sync, available to all customers from Free to Enterprise, updates robots.txt to match your AI bot configuration for Search, Agent, and Training traffic.

Cloudflare | Tools and products | Published Friday 21 Aug 2026

SOURCE Cloudflare, Say it once: Introducing Bot Preference Sync

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental is now on AI Gateway, accepting images alongside text, with tool use, reasoning, and caching unchanged.

Vercel | Tools and products | Published Friday 21 Aug 2026

SOURCE Vercel, DeepSeek V4 Flash with vision is now available on AI Gateway

Robotics, hardware and chips

GeForce NOW Firefox

GeForce NOW now supports Firefox, delivering RTX-powered performance at up to 1440p and 120 fps for Ultimate members, plus 12 new games this week.

NVIDIA | Robotics, hardware and chips | Published Thursday 20 Aug 2026

SOURCE NVIDIA, Bring the Fire: Play Games on GeForce NOW With New Firefox Browser Support

Breakthroughs

Skala 1.1

Skala 1.1, trained on 2.5x more data than its predecessor, achieves a weighted average error of 2.8 kcal/mol on GMTKN55 and is now available in CP2K with integrations underway for Psi4, FHI-aims, ORCA, and VASP.

Microsoft Research | Breakthroughs | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE Microsoft Research, Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT

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