#Product update

AIAnthropic's Claude Startup Stack combines offers from companies building with Claude, including Linear, Lovable, ElevenLabs, Granola, and Hex. Startups get discounts and credits worth up to $45,000 on tools spanning sales, design, data engineering, and more.

AIKrea has made Nano Banana 2.1 available on its platform, promising better prompt understanding, sharper edits, and stronger subject consistency. The model now supports generations up to 4K resolution.

AIGoogle Flow says it partnered with Divine to create the music video for "Tequila Dance," framing the project as a showcase of how technology can amplify human expression. The post provides no further details about the tools or production process used.

AISGLang now supports EmbeddingGemma 2 from Google DeepMind on day zero. The multimodal embedding model maps text, code, images, video, and audio into one shared 768d space, with 8K context and 100+ languages. Its modular encoders range from a 270M text-only footprint to 740M for all modalities, with Matryoshka embeddings.

AIGoogle says EmbeddingGemma 2, paired with Gemma 4, enables efficient on-device retrieval-augmented generation with a lower memory footprint. In this setup, EmbeddingGemma 2 retrieves local files and Gemma 4 reasons over them to produce grounded answers while keeping data private.

AIElevenLabs has introduced ElevenAgents Architect, which lets team members manage agents from within ElevenAgents or from Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Grok Bot. The post presents this as a way for any team member to manage agents wherever they work.

AIElevenLabs introduces ElevenAgents Architect, which creates a new agent from a user's description and attached context files. The tool is said to configure the agent end to end, covering the prompt, guardrails, and knowledge base.

AIElevenAgents Architect can reason across thousands of your conversations to identify opportunities you might otherwise miss. Each opportunity is returned as a proposal with the fix already built and validated in simulation.

AIElevenAgents Architect is a tool that answers questions about your agents, such as why customers asked for a human agent on refund calls and how to improve resolution rates on account queries. It analyzes your transcripts, suggests improvements, implements them, and can build a test set to keep your agent on brand.

AIElevenLabs introduced ElevenAgents Architect, an expert built into ElevenAgents that helps teams launch and improve AI agents through voice or text. The post describes it as a conversational way to create and refine agents without further technical detail provided.

AIGoogle has released Nano Banana 2.1, its latest image generation and editing model, which it says outperforms previous versions with gains in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency. Paige Bailey shared a pug smile example made with the model and invited users to try it in Google AI Studio.

AIGoogle's Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1) is now available and outperforms the previous Pro model at $0.034 per image, versus $0.134 before. It adds improved instruction following, better in-image text rendering, grounding with Google Image Search, and consistency for up to 5 characters with 14 reference images. It is available in Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Google Cloud, the Gemini app, and Flow by Google.

AIGoogle's Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is now available on fal, offering significantly faster generation than Nano Banana 2. The model adds major gains in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency.

AIMicrosoft's Copilot has a new identity designed around how work actually happens, bringing apps, tools, and context into one connected experience. The post offers a behind-the-scenes look at the redesign but gives no further specifics.

AIGoogle's new multimodal embedding setup processes image, audio, and video entirely offline with zero server calls. Its modular design lets developers drop unused vision and audio components to save memory, and flexible dimension sizes cut local database storage by up to 6x. It can also pair with Gemma 4 to build RAG pipelines with minimal memory and processing requirements.

AIReplit now lets users start a new chat and ask it to locate existing projects, add features, or use one project as a reference for another. The assistant can read project files and run edits as background tasks, with links to review changes and continue work.

AIOpenAI's Codex "Approve for me" mode uses a separate Auto-review agent to check actions needing approval, such as running commands outside the sandbox or accessing extra files and network resources. It reduces approval prompts during long tasks while keeping sandbox protections, and it is now free with ChatGPT sign-in without drawing from plan usage.

AIWaymo introduced a silver version of its Ojai vehicle, featuring leatherette seats, wireless charging, and refreshed interior details. The vehicle will serve riders soon in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, with more cities to follow over time.

AIArmature Inc. has launched agent.reviews, a platform where AI agents write and read reviews of software tools after real tasks. The company says it already holds more than 100,000 reviews covering over 6,000 tools, with each review anonymized and free of personal data, code, or prompts. The service is free, and users can install a skill to check reviews.

AIDatabricks describes Lakebase as a ground-up rearchitecture of databases that can spin them up and shut them down at AI speeds. The company says this suits the many small, fast workloads generated by AI-driven development.

AIGeneralist's GEN-1.5 robot demonstrated putting an O-ring onto a hydraulic rod gland, then repeatedly removing and replacing it. The post is a short demonstration video that points readers to a blog post in the comments for more about GEN-1.5.

AIPerplexity's Computer ran two agents playing StarCraft against each other in real time, with the game never paused while each agent thought. Blue, playing with 41 Dragoons, lost the final match 2-5 to Red, which used High Templar and Psionic Storm after Blue failed to scout Red's build. Each agent received only its own fog-of-war-limited game state, and video input was not provided.

AIKilo has launched Kilo Desktop, a single app offering access to more than 500 models from major labs, including open-source and local models. It includes agents that plan, code, and debug alongside users, plus built-in notebooks, local model support, and conda environments.

AIGamma 5, the latest version of the AI presentation and document tool, now asks questions before building a deck and supports PowerPoint import and export. It also adds connectors to Notion, Slack, and HubSpot for importing content, and lets users change design styles by prompting.

AINVIDIA says AI agents can investigate network issues, compare fixes, and test them in simulation when no runbook covers the problem. NVIDIA Nemotron helps the agents reason through problems, while NVIDIA OpenShell controls what they can access and do.

AIPixVerse has released a plugin that lets users create explainer videos on any topic by telling an AI agent what they want explained. The agent organizes the key points and uses PixVerse to turn them into a clear visual story.

AIAIHOT launched a Pareto frontier view on its leaderboard to compare models by price-performance, accessible via the top-right toggle. The cost calculation varies by scenario: general and office use assumes cache-hit:input:output at 7:2:1, programming at 97:2:1, research at input:output 1:3, and knowledge Q&A at 3:1 without caching.