Mac Studio M5 Ultra
Mac Studio with M5 Ultra scales to a 36-core CPU, up to an 80-core GPU, and 512GB of unified memory with 1.2TB/s bandwidth, delivering up to 4.3x the peak AI compute performance of M3 Ultra and 9.8x more than M1 Ultra.
What shipped in AI, week of August 24, 2026
16 deployments dated August 24 to 30, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 1 lead, 3 in Models and APIs, 11 in Tools and products and 1 in Robotics, hardware and chips, from 6 publishers. They include Mac Studio M5 Ultra from Apple, Claude team plan for scientists from Anthropic, GPT-5.6 in Kiro from OpenAI, ChatGPT for Teachers from OpenAI, GLM 5.3 Flash from Vercel and 11 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
Leads
Models and APIs
Claude team plan for scientists
Anthropic is opening 10,000 seats for scientists to access Claude subscriptions free and at discounted rates for one year, with standard seats free and premium seats with 5x usage limits at $15 per month.
GPT-5.6 in Kiro
The GPT-5.6 model family, including Sol, Terra, and Luna, is now available in Kiro, and testing found that on Terminal-Bench 2.1, GPT-5.6 Terra completed successful tasks in Kiro at roughly 82% cost reduction.
ChatGPT for Teachers
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 additional school systems, bringing it to over 100,000 more educators and staff.
Tools and products
GLM 5.3 Flash
GLM 5.3 Flash from Z.ai is now available on AI Gateway as zai/glm-5.3-flash, a multimodal coding model with a 1M-token context window that accepts text and image inputs and supports function calling, structured output, and streaming.
Hy4 Preview on AI Gateway
Hy4 Preview from Tencent is now available on AI Gateway, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 770B total parameters and 49B active per token, serving a context window of 1M tokens.
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin from Inclusion AI is now available on AI Gateway and free to use through September 25, with a 256K-token context window, up to 32K output tokens, and support for reasoning and function calling.
Qwen 3.8 Flash
Qwen 3.8 Flash from Alibaba is now available on AI Gateway as alibaba/qwen3.8-flash, taking text and images as input with a 1 million token context window and up to 65k tokens in a response.
Speed Insights free tier
Speed Insights now has a free tier available on every plan for any number of projects, including 10,000 events per team every 30 days, with the paid product renamed Speed Insights Plus.
Vercel Connect
Vercel Connect is now generally available on all plans and in v0, replacing stored long-lived provider secrets with short-lived scoped tokens requested at runtime, with 100+ preset connectors and pricing at $3 per 1,000 token requests and $0.95 per 1,000 triggers on Pro.
Vercel Sandbox regions
Vercel Sandbox now runs globally starting with four regions: iad1, sfo1, cle1, and cdg1, with region selection on all plans and failover regions configurable for Pro and Enterprise teams.
Drive AI classification
Gemini-based data classification in Google Drive is now in open beta, automating file labeling to enforce DLP policies at scale.
Drive CSE preview beta
Google Drive now supports direct previewing of client-side encrypted PDF and image files in beta, eliminating unnecessary downloads.
Workspace weekly recap
Google Workspace announced updates including Meet hardware UI, Chat member list controls, and data import for Microsoft Teams and OneDrive.
Mac mini M6/M5 Pro
Apple's new Mac mini with M6 delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage and graphics, and 40 percent faster CPU. M5 Pro supports up to 64GB unified memory. Pre-orders start today, availability September 22.
Robotics, hardware and chips
Vera CPU
NVIDIA's first custom CPU, Vera, is shipping at scale with 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth, and up to 1.8x faster per-core performance on agentic AI workloads. AWS received its first Vera CPU server and Vera Rubin GPU.
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