#Product update

AIGoogle AI Studio released Gemini 3.8 Live, a native speech-to-speech model with an Extended Thinking variant, and made it available through the Live API. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, released last month, supports 85+ languages with a reported 4.0% streaming and 2.6% non-streaming Word Error Rate, and accepts a custom vocabulary of up to 1,000 terms. Live API audio pricing is listed at $0.005/min for input and $0.018/min for output.

Why it matters: The post lists concrete Live API capabilities, per-minute audio pricing, and transcription accuracy figures, helping developers weigh voice agent options against their own cascaded pipelines.

AIOpenAI will retire GPT-5.5 in ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on October 14 across all plans. Codex users who rely on GPT-5.5 are advised to switch to GPT-5.6 Sol or GPT-6 Astra.

AIMicrosoft has launched Foundry Dev Pack, an all-in-one installer that sets up tools for Microsoft Foundry development across the terminal, IDE, and coding agents. Depending on the environment, it installs Azure CLI (az), Azure Developer CLI (azd) with the Microsoft Foundry Extension for azd, the Microsoft Foundry Skill, the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, and Foundry Canvas (preview), with the last two conditional on VS Code or GitHub Copilot App being present.

AIGoogle's Gemini Notebook now offers live spoken Q&A over class materials in about 100 languages, and lets students record lectures on the go with audio notes saved automatically to a chosen notebook. University students in 140+ countries can also still get a free Google AI Plan for higher limits and access to more Google products.

AIOpenAI's Greg Brockman says ChatGPT Work can operate over and act on a company's data, including building dashboards, by connecting existing tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Clickhouse, Oracle BI, and AWS Redshift. The linked ChatGPT announcement describes a Data agent with a Data Plugin that turns company data into answers, interactive dashboards, and actions through conversation.

AIGoogle is hosting a first-of-its-kind Gemini Audio experience in San Francisco next week, with Logan Kilpatrick attending. The post also points to new Live audio models for building real-time voice applications.

AIGoogle is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking across several channels. Consumers get them in Search Live and Gemini Live, developers get public preview access through the Gemini API, and enterprises get private preview through Gemini Enterprise, with Customer Experience support coming soon.

Why it matters: The post lays out where each Gemini 3.8 Live variant reaches consumers, developers, and enterprises, which clarifies access paths for a voice model release.

AIGoogle reports that its technologies and products now power everyday interactions in more than 300 languages used by over 7 billion people, about 86% of the global population. The post describes new speech models, including Gemini 3.5 Live Translate and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, plus the TranslateGemma open translation models trained across 55 languages.

AILovable and Salesforce are working together so apps and agents built with Lovable can read and write Salesforce data through Headless 360, using each user's own Salesforce permissions. Teams can publish read-only apps into Salesforce, mention @Lovable in Slack to build apps, and install agents into a Slack workspace.

AIShanghai-based Twoo is building an AI that participates in conversations between two users, sharing context, remembering experiences, and helping them plan activities together rather than serving one person. Founder Cobe Chen says the product's monetization includes in-app "shells" that unlock outfits for its octopus AI character, plus premium memberships for professional uses such as collaborative writing and teaching. The company is preparing overseas expansion into North America, Japan, and South Korea.

AIMiniMax Design lets a single brief drive a full production workflow on one canvas, with the Astra agent working in Blender through an official connector to build the scene and camera direction. The final video is generated with MiniMax H3 from the same canvas, with outputs syncing directly onto the canvas.

AIGoogle has made two audio-to-audio models, Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, generally available through the Live API. Gemini 3.8 Live, model ID gemini-3.8-live, is the default for low-latency voice agents, with interleaved reasoning and asynchronous function calling. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, model ID gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking, supports background reasoning during live audio and is recommended when more reasoning is needed.

Why it matters: The changelog names two model IDs and their intended use, showing how Live API developers can choose between low-latency voice and higher background reasoning.

AISGLang announces Day-0 support for Intern-S2-397B from Intern Large Models, a 397B multimodal foundation model built for scientific intelligence and long-horizon agents. The model is pre-trained directly on raw scientific literature pages without parsing and uses reinforcement learning across more than 20 scientific domains, from biomolecule design to material generation. It also applies black-box agentic reinforcement learning in large-scale sandboxed environments.

AINovita AI has open-sourced Chord, a W4A16 MoE CUDA operator with BF16 activations, INT4 weights and group-32 scales, built for Kimi K2.x serving shapes. Measured per layer against public Humming, it reports 1.11–1.20x on H200 EP8 prefill, 1.17–1.33x on H200 TP8 serving, and 1.81–2.15x on B300 EP8 decode against an untuned Humming default. Integration of the grouped operators with vLLM's Humming backend is still a work in progress.

AIAnthropic has launched a Salesforce plugin for Claude that brings sellers' accounts, opportunities, and pipeline into the Claude app, with 37 pre-built sales skills. The beta is available on all paid plans for organizations Salesforce approves through its beta sign-up.

AIMiniMax H3 with SGLang-Diffusion and VDN-H3 generates 14.4 seconds of 768p video in 9.0 seconds end-to-end after warmup on 8× B200 GPUs. Eight-step denoising takes 6.9 seconds, exceeding 2× real-time, with no measured quality regression versus dense 50-step H3 across 103 test prompts.

AIRadixArk's SGLang-Diffusion, paired with VDN-H3, generates 14.4 seconds of 768p video in 9.0 seconds on 8× B200 GPUs. The 8-step denoising alone takes 6.9 seconds, which is over 2× real time, and the team reports no measured quality regression against dense 50-step MiniMax H3 across 103 test prompts.

AIIntern-S2-397B, a model built for long-horizon scientific research, now has Day-0 support in vLLM. The model brings multimodal, reasoning, coding, and scientific agent capabilities, and vLLM has published a run recipe for it.

AIHailuo AI promotes bringing AI tools into professional 3D production workflows. A quoted post from @akiyoshisan describes connecting MiniMax Design, using GPT-6 Astra, to Blender via MCP for direct 3D creation. The creator says this lets 3D representation in Blender be built into an AI production flow rather than relying on MiniMax Design alone.

AISatya Nadella highlighted a Microsoft Foundry example showing how long-running, multi-agent, multi-model workflows can be built with security, safety guardrails, auditability, and FinOps included from the start. The example was shared from Jeff Hollan's post, which says Foundry's observability and governance features keep agents within user-defined bounds, including control over data access, data flow, action traceability, and cost budgets.

AIOllama's cloud models are now available to Amp users through Amp's new bring-your-own-key (BYOK) model routing. Amp says BYOK carries no usage limits or fees, letting users build remote agents controllable from anywhere.

AIMicrosoft is adding Grok models from SpaceXAI to Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The rollout starts with a focused release to customers in the Microsoft Frontier program.

AISince ChatGPT Sites launched three months ago, people have created over 5M sites. OpenAI has added updates including shared editing, private sharing, faster prompt-to-deployment, database inspection, and custom domains.

AIInferact says vLLM now supports DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on day zero across H100, H200, B200, B300, GB200, and GB300 GPUs. SemiAnalysis independently verified the NVIDIA support, while the post notes AMD vLLM still does not work with the model. Serving recipes are available at recipes.vllm.ai.

AITailscale offers instant access to hundreds of models for any user in a secure tailnet through its customer-facing model router, Aperture. Aperture is built on Vercel's AI Gateway and offers zero data retention, zero markup with free BYOK, and cost and usage data on every response.

AICognition is making Fusion available in Devin Desktop and CLI, a harness where a frontier lead model plans and reviews while a cheaper sidekick executes. Across listed coding benchmarks, Cognition reports Fusion cuts cost per task by about 11% to 46% versus the lead model alone, while the sidekick does the implementation work. The post recommends pairing Fable 5.1 with SWE-2, and argues price per task matters more than price per token.