New AI Tools — Products, CLIs & IDE Features
The newest AI tools, products, CLIs and IDE features — what shipped, who it's for, and how to try it tonight, in plain English.
418 releases tracked
- SoL-Pi — NVIDIA's harness extension cuts coding-agent tokens by about half
Four efficiency tricks, picked by an automated research loop out of 152 candidates, packaged as a drop-in Pi extension.
- Astra for Law — OpenAI ties GPT-6 Astra to a 230M-URL legal index
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, wired to a searchable index of US law and 26 legal vendor plugins.
- Bend 2 — a language that makes an AI prove its code obeys your laws
Declare the rules your program must never break, and Bend 2 refuses to compile an edit that cannot prove it kept them.
- BrowserSkill 0.3.0 — Tencent's agent bridge gets canvas and remote gateways
Your agent borrows a window in the browser you are already logged into, then hands it back.
- Google Home MCP — any MCP agent can now run your smart home
Google's smart home platform now speaks MCP, so the agent you already use can read and control your Nest devices.
- Cowork folds into Claude — Anthropic adds Claude Docs and Claude Slides
Anthropic removed the line between Claude chat and Claude Cowork, and put document and slide editing inside the conversation.
- OpenAI Sponsored Agents — ChatGPT ads you can talk back to
ChatGPT ads become two-way: OpenAI is testing agents that answer questions on a business's behalf.
- Firefox Smart Window runs on Mistral Small 4 — and opens in France
Mozilla's browser assistant adds Mistral Small 4 as a model option and opens its beta to France.
- Claude Code 2.1.273 — a subshell could hide a dangerous rm in bypass mode
Claude Code 2.1.273 closes two permission-checker gaps and stops the context meter double-counting advisor-tool turns.
- Open Code Review v1.12.3 — secrets and .env files stay out of the review
Alibaba's open-source code reviewer now refuses to send secret paths and per-environment .env files to the model.
- Ollama 0.34.1 — MLX safetensors leave experimental, GGUF needs llama.cpp
Ollama 0.34.1 promotes MLX safetensors model creation out of experimental and hands GGUF conversion to llama.cpp tooling.
- dbt Charts — dashboards as YAML, so an agent can write them
One YAML file describes a whole interactive dashboard, so charts live in Git next to the models they read.
- Claude Code 2.1.271 — a sandboxed command only reaches its own hosts
Network permission moves from the whole session down to the single command that asked for it.
- LiteLLM v1.101.0 — smarter complexity routing and a semantic MCP search
The gateway gets a second-generation complexity router, a circuit breaker for its classifier, and semantic search over MCP tools.
- llama.cpp v0.4.1 — Maple 20B-A1B and Tencent Hy 4 now run locally
Three new model architectures land in the local inference engine, and three old loading flags are taken out.
- Siri AI ships in iOS 27 — Apple's rebuilt assistant goes live in beta
The rebuilt Siri is now on shipping software: onscreen awareness, personal context and systemwide app actions, in English first.
- Pion — Andon Labs opens a cloud platform where agents run a business
Andon Labs opens Pion, where persistent agents run a real company with a terminal, email, phone, banking and a browser.
- Lema AI Governance — third-party AI found, assessed and monitored
Lema AI Governance finds the AI a vendor added after you approved it, scores the exposure it creates, and watches it for drift.
- OpenClaw 2026.9.4 — plugins and skills install from the Control UI
OpenClaw 2026.9.4 gives plugins and skills one workspace in the Control UI, and lets a failed update roll itself back.
- Google ADK 2.9.0 — agents fail over to a backup model automatically
Agents keep running when a model errors, and ADK now speaks over the phone through LiveKit.
- Cursor Projects — a coordinator agent that delegates to thousands of subagents
A project-level agent in Cursor that plans, delegates to parallel subagents, and keeps working in the cloud after you close your laptop.
- Gemini for Windows — Google's desktop app opens over your work with Alt + Space
Google's Gemini assistant ships as a native Windows app, one Alt + Space away from whatever you are working on.
- Claude Code 2.1.269 — claude plugin eval scores a plugin against a baseline
A built-in eval runner for Claude Code plugins, with a no-plugin baseline that shows what the plugin actually contributes.
- DeepSeek Recipe — the official prompt encoder for V4 and V4.1
DeepSeek's own library for turning API requests into V4 and V4.1 prompts, and streamed output back into responses.
- Claude Managed Agents add 'auto' mode — the server checks every tool call
A third permission policy lets Anthropic's server decide, call by call, whether an agent's tool runs, stops, or waits for you.
- OpenAI Agents API — the Codex harness opens up to developers
The harness behind Codex, now a managed API: OpenAI runs the agent loop, your app brings the tools.
- Premiere's Generative Media Tool — five AI video models in the timeline
Premiere editors can now generate clips and sound effects on the timeline itself, choosing between Adobe's model and four rivals.
- Codex CLI 0.154.0 — GPT-6 Astra in the picker and git worktree sessions
Codex sessions can now run in their own git worktree, so parallel agents stop fighting over one checkout.
- Claude Code 2.1.267 — one setting caps effort on every provider
Claude Code 2.1.267 lets an admin cap effort level everywhere at once and spends most of its changelog repairing prompt-cache reuse.
- Desert Ant Labs — 18 small AI models that run offline inside your app
Eighteen small models that run fully offline inside iOS, Android and web apps, with no token bill.
- TeamAI CLI — Tencent ships one AI setup for a whole team
One git repo holds a team's agent skills, rules and MCP servers, and every member's coding agent pulls them automatically.
- Muse — Meta's personal AI agent runs in its own secure virtual machine
Meta's Muse takes an errand end to end — shopping, bookings, forms — from an ordinary chat thread.
- MCP Python SDK 2.2.0 — idle sessions now close after 30 minutes
The official Python SDK for MCP tightens session handling and OAuth checks, with the same fixes backported to the 1.x line.
- Humanizer v3.0.0 — the AI-writing cleanup skill drops 35 patterns to 25
An agent skill that strips the 25 habits which make text read as AI-written, without changing the facts.
- LiteLLM v1.100.0 — Vertex AI Interactions API and shared team budgets
The LLM gateway's newest release widens provider coverage and moves budget enforcement from single keys to shared groups.
- Ollama 0.34 — local models now run inside ChatGPT Desktop
Ollama 0.34 wires local open models into ChatGPT Desktop, set up from the Ollama app on macOS.
- OpenClaw 2026.9.2 — GPT-6 Astra support and swarms on by default
OpenClaw's September release picks up GPT-6 Astra on day one and switches concurrent sub-agent swarms on for everyone.
- llama.cpp v0.4.0 — Qwen3.8-Flash-Next support and lazy tensor loading
The local LLM runtime picks up two new model architectures and learns to read weights from disk on demand.
- LangChain 1.4.0 — a built-in MCP adapter for agent tools
LangChain agents can reach Model Context Protocol servers through a first-party adapter.
- SGLang v0.5.19 — beam search arrives, plus 786 merged pull requests
SGLang's September release adds beam search, nine more models, and an AMD attention kernel that fills idle compute units.
- Soup v0.74.0 — a dtype bug was doubling every fine-tune's memory
A missing dtype argument meant Soup loaded the frozen base model at twice its checkpoint precision, on every single fine-tune.
- Shunt — Spotify's Claude Code plugin cuts token use by 90%
A Claude Code plugin that hands bulk file reads to a cheap model, which Spotify measured at about 90% fewer tokens.
- Claude Code 2.1.261 — /skill-doctor shows which skills waste your context
Claude Code 2.1.261 adds a skill audit, much bigger inline output limits, and a stricter rm -rf safety check.
- Project HydraFusion — GitHub Copilot picks the model workflow for you
GitHub's router sends each coding task to the cheapest workflow that still clears the quality bar.
- Gemini Spark connects to Google Photos — it can edit, sort and share for you
Google Photos becomes a connected app for Gemini Spark, so one prompt can search, edit, album and share across a whole library.
- Qwen3.8-27B on Cerebras — 1,500 tokens per second at $0.99 per million
Cerebras added Qwen3.8-27B to its public endpoints, running Alibaba's 27B dense multimodal model at roughly 1,500 tokens per second.
- Claude Code 2.1.260 — a live diff panel and a permission-rule security fix
Claude Code 2.1.260 puts a live diff beside the conversation and repairs permission rules that quietly left folders writable.
- Claude Content Checker — see if a file carries Claude's signed credential
A free in-browser page that reads Claude's C2PA Content Credential out of a file's metadata.
- Codex CLI 0.153.0 — install plugins straight from remote marketplaces
Codex CLI 0.153.0 brings a plugin marketplace client, Vim undo and redo, and session reconnection that keeps your draft.
- Cursor self-hosted machines — cloud agents run inside your own network
Cursor Cloud Agents can now do their tool calls on hardware you control, while the model still runs in Cursor's cloud.
- Claude Code 2.1.259 — admins can push MCP servers to every user
The 2.1.259 release moves MCP configuration up to the administrator, and gives headless runs a way to refuse prompts instead of hanging.
- Slotstream v0.2.0 — a 104GB model on a 48GB Mac, plus speculative decoding
Slotstream streams a 125B model's experts off SSD so a Mac with 48 GB of RAM can run a 104 GB checkpoint.
- Google Pics — an AI image tool in Workspace where you start from a prompt
Google Pics turns a written description into a poster or graphic, then lets you edit one object at a time.
- ChatGPT connects to Epic — clinicians can pull chart context into the chat
Hospitals can wire their Epic records into ChatGPT, and clinicians get a plugin for nine official public health data sources.
- Agentic video in Gemini — the model loads only the clips it needs
Gemini can now walk a video on its own, pulling only the segments a question needs instead of every frame at a fixed rate.
- Claude Code 2.1.257 — Claude Fable 5.1 becomes the default Fable model
Claude Code 2.1.257 switches its default Fable model to Claude Fable 5.1 and stops auto mode waving through container-escape moves.
- ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government — the Pentagon's AI portal adds two models
The Pentagon's GenAI.mil portal now runs ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government next to Google's Gemini.
- Codex CLI 0.152.0 — the planning tool is now off by default
Codex CLI 0.152.0 turns the planning tool off by default and tightens how MCP tools return output.
- OpenClaw 2.0 — the largest release yet for the open-source AI assistant
OpenClaw 2.0 rebuilds installation, memory, skills, the browser and team access in one release built from over 16,000 merged pull requests.
- Claude for Teachers reaches districts — a free Enterprise plan for U.S. K-12
Schools can now hand out Claude for Teachers centrally instead of asking each teacher to sign up alone.
- Cursor cloud agents start without a repo — and preview in the browser
Cursor Cloud Agents can now open a brand-new project with nothing connected — no GitHub, no local checkout, no repo of your own.
- Experiential — an open-source model gateway that takes no token markup
Experiential puts self-hosted, frontier and open-source models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, and charges no markup on top of provider prices.
- Codex CLI 0.151.0 — extensions can rewrite MCP tool results
An extension can now sit between an MCP tool and the model in Codex CLI, reading or replacing the result before it reaches the context.
- Lemmalog — agent memory as a Datalog database, not a pile of text
Lemmalog swaps an agent's vector-store memory for a Datalog database that tracks why every fact is still believed.
- Claude Code 2.1.251 — hooks that can block a model switch
Claude Code 2.1.251 lets a hook step in when the model changes, and closes several symlink and path-traversal holes.
- Microduck — Hugging Face's $399 open-source robot you train with RL
Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot from Hugging Face that ships with seven reinforcement learning policies you can retrain yourself.
- Claude Code 2.1.248 — a restricted mode that strips the tools that run code
Claude Code 2.1.248 adds a restricted mode that takes away the tools which run commands or code.
- Model Hardware Standard — Anthropic's spec for agents that run lab equipment
Anthropic opened a research preview of MHS, a shared standard that lets AI agents drive lab and factory hardware safely.
- OpenAI Admin plugin — ChatGPT Work admins run the workspace in chat
OpenAI's Admin plugin lets a ChatGPT Work administrator ask a question and act on the answer in the same chat.
- Portable Computer — Perplexity's agent runs fully on your own GPU
Perplexity's full agent runtime now runs on a DGX Spark or a 24GB RTX GPU, with no cloud dependency.
- Claude memory works everywhere — one memory across chat and Cowork
Claude and Claude Cowork now draw on the same memory, and every saved topic is a file you can open and change.
- Claude Code 2.1.246 — gateway API keys are no longer sent to Anthropic
A security-heavy Claude Code release: credentials stay on their own host, and auto mode's rules finally get an editor.
- Jalapeño first results — OpenAI's inference chip posts 1.9x more work per watt
OpenAI's first custom inference chip now has measured numbers, and they favour tokens per watt over tokens per chip.
- Apple M6 and M5 Ultra — 2nm silicon and 512GB for on-device LLMs
Apple's first 2nm chip and its first quad-die M-series part, both aimed squarely at running big models on your desk.
- Claude Code 2.1.243 — the install drops from 340 MB to 75 MB
A lighter Claude Code: 75 MB to install, 40-70 MB less memory per session, plus four new settings for organizations.
- Tempus ECG-PH — FDA clears AI that spots pulmonary hypertension in a routine ECG
An FDA-cleared AI that reads a routine ECG and flags patients who may have pulmonary hypertension.
- NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX — the agent inference chip enters full production
NVIDIA's Groq 3 LPX accelerator is in full production, built to decode tokens fast enough to keep AI agents responsive.
- MoneyPrinterTurbo v1.3.5 — Claude joins the one-click short-video maker
MoneyPrinterTurbo builds a finished vertical short from a keyword, and v1.3.5 adds Claude, two more voice engines and API-key auth.
- LiteLLM v1.98.0 — reserved capacity gets flat-cost billing, not per-token
LiteLLM v1.98.0 teaches the open-source AI gateway to bill reserved capacity and to test routing changes before adopting them.
- Claude Code 2.1.239 — a proxy bug that doubled Bedrock API calls is fixed
Anthropic's 2.1.239 build closes a Bedrock proxy bug that silently doubled the API calls you were billed for.
- SGLang v0.5.18 — cold starts get 2.38x faster, seven model families land
SGLang v0.5.18 overlaps weight loading with CUDA graph capture, cutting a large-model cold start from 85 seconds to 36.
- Bot Preference Sync — Cloudflare writes your robots.txt to match your bot rules
Cloudflare builds your robots.txt out of the AI bot policy you already set in its dashboard.
- LLM 0.33 — Simon Willison's CLI moves to the OpenAI Python 3.x library
LLM 0.33 rebases Simon Willison's model CLI on the OpenAI Python 3.x library and adds per-call embedding keys.
- Claude browser use tool — Anthropic's agent APIs are now generally available
Anthropic's agent building blocks leave preview, joined by a browser tool that targets page elements instead of pixels.
- OpenAI regional processing — pick an inference region per API request
One API key, ten regional domains — choose where each OpenAI request is processed.
- NoBuzz — a Claude Code skill that rewrites Claude's replies in plain English
NoBuzz hands Claude's answer to a second model and prints the plain-English rewrite instead.
- Codex CLI 0.149.0 — a dashboard for every running agent task
Codex CLI 0.149.0 puts every agent task behind one searchable dashboard you can drive with shortcuts.
- Claude Code 2.1.238 — plugin marketplaces can mint their own auth headers
Private plugin marketplaces can now hand Claude Code a fresh token for every catalog fetch.
- Waymo's custom AI chip — a 5nm ASIC that runs 1,000+ TOPS in the car
Waymo now designs the silicon that turns its robotaxi's sensor data into driving decisions.
- Slack Code — AI coding agents get a channel the whole team can watch
Slack Code gives a coding agent its own project channel, so planning, diffs and sign-off all happen in front of the team.
- Antigravity IDE Extensions — Google's agent moves into VS Code and JetBrains
Google's agent-first coding platform now installs as a normal extension in the editor you already use.
- Apple Messages plugin — ChatGPT can read and send texts on a Mac
ChatGPT can now open your Mac's Messages app, search old threads and send a reply you approve.
- Huzzah — an editor where you write pseudocode and an LLM fills in the code
Write pseudocode instead of a paragraph of English, and Huzzah syncs it into working code.
- Vomit — a local model rewrites Claude Code's replies before you read them
Vomit pipes Claude Code's output through a small local model so the prose comes back plain.
- Ramp Router — an LLM gateway that cut customer inference bills 40% on average
Ramp Router takes one API call and forwards it to the model that meets your quality bar at the lowest price.
- NeuroQuant PET — FDA clears automated amyloid scoring for dementia
Cortechs.ai's NeuroQuant PET can now be used on real patients to score amyloid brain scans automatically.
- Mistral Agentic Search — models search, open and grep their way through docs
Mistral's retrieval layer lets an agent search, open and grep a document set until it can actually answer.
- Meta AI for Mac — a native desktop app with screen sharing and dictation
Meta's assistant gets a real Mac app that can read your screen and type for you anywhere.
- Binance Agent OS — an MCP server that lets AI agents place real trades
Binance opens its trading, wallet and payment stack to AI agents through a single MCP server.
- ChatGPT Ads reach Europe — 31 markets get labeled ads on Free and Go
OpenAI takes ChatGPT Ads into 31 European markets, with GDPR consent choices and no ads on paid plans.
- ai-memory v1.29.0 — long-term memory that follows agents across CLIs
A local, git-versioned wiki of what your coding agent already figured out, readable by whichever agent you open next.
- fx — Vercel Labs open-sources a 6 MB coding agent written in Zig
A tiny native coding agent from Vercel Labs, built to be embedded anywhere a shell can run.
- Gemini study tools — 3D simulations and a free year of Google AI for students
Google gives verified college students a free year of its paid AI plans and adds study tools across Gemini, Search and Lens.
- Cursor Subscriptions — cloud agents watch a PR and drive it to done
Cursor's cloud agents can now subscribe to a PR, a Slack thread or a schedule and keep going on their own.
- oMLX 0.6.2 — the Mac LLM server now tunes its own ANE/GPU split
Instead of shipping one ANE/GPU ratio for every Mac, oMLX now measures the best split on the machine in front of you.
- Palomar — a registry that machine-checks Lean proofs, human or AI
A searchable registry of Lean formalizations whose proofs are replayed through two independent kernels before they are listed.
- Claude Playground — Anthropic retires Workbench for an API-exact console
Playground replaces Workbench in the Claude Console and shows you the exact API request your prompt turns into.
- Warp Factories — cloud agent pipelines for the whole dev cycle
Warp Factories turns a backlog ticket into a reviewed pull request using fleets of cloud coding agents.
- Claude Code keeps 50% higher weekly limits — extended through August 31
Claude Code's 50% weekly limit boost, first added in May, now runs through August 31, 2026.
- ChatGPT for Teens — OpenAI's age-gated mode for 13-to-17-year-olds
OpenAI's teen mode locks down sensitive topics, steers homework into Study Mode, and hands parents a Quiet Hours switch.
- Cursor Origin — a Git forge for agents opens in early beta
Cursor now hosts your code as well as writing it, with pull requests and GitHub sync in the same tab.
- Claude Code 2.1.233 — GitLab merge requests, marketplaces and token redaction
GitLab teams get first-class Claude Code support: merge request worktrees, plugin marketplaces and token redaction.
- Gemini watermarks become optional — Google adds an off switch for AI media
Google makes Gemini's visible AI watermark a user choice, while invisible SynthID and C2PA provenance stay in every file.
- Computer History — ChatGPT builds a memory from your Mac activity
ChatGPT for Mac can now build memories from what you do in your apps, using interaction events instead of screenshots.
- Credentio — Google open-sources the C++ library behind its content credentials
Google's C++ library checks C2PA Content Credentials on the device, with nothing sent to a server.
- HEIR — Google's compiler runs AI models on encrypted data
Google's HEIR compiler takes a normal trained model and rebuilds it to run on data the server can never read.
- Suno Studio 2.0 — browser music workstation adds MIDI and a chat bar
Suno's browser music workstation now takes MIDI, and a chat bar builds instruments, effects and synth presets on request.
- Cursor Builds — cloud agents fork a warm dev environment instead of setup
Cursor keeps warm copies of your development environment ready, so a cloud agent skips setup and starts working almost immediately.
- Ultrafast mode — GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 tokens per second on Cerebras
OpenAI's new API tier runs GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware at up to 750 output tokens per second.
- DeepSeek Harness — open-source agent framework built entirely from plugins
An MIT-licensed agent framework from DeepSeek where models, tools, sandboxes and even the interface are swappable plugins.
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