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- AnnouncementATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.
- AnnouncementBenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?Hugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- FeatureThe latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
Google (The Keyword)✓ primaryGoogle - Model launchMajorIntroducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
- AnnouncementHow AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorTry Google Pics: Easy image creation and editing in Google Workspace
Built on our latest Nano Banana model, Google Pics — our image creation and editing tool — is now available.
- AnnouncementPath to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
OpenAI✓ primaryOpenAI - LaunchMajorIntroducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AIHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- BenchmarkThe Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South LanguageHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementGemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
- Announcement3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
Google (The Keyword)✓ primaryGoogle - AnnouncementPiloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Google DeepMind✓ primaryGoogle - AnnouncementIntelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
- AnnouncementTraining and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence TransformersHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- Feature5 ways to upgrade your home decor with Google Search
Learn how to use Google Search tools to find home decor inspiration, shop for furniture, and tackle DIY projects.
Google (The Keyword)✓ primaryGoogle - AnnouncementGranite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
- AnnouncementQuantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision originalHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementWire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in GradioHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementMistral x HUMAINMistral AI✓ primaryMistral AI
- ResearchFrom Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
Google DeepMind✓ primaryGoogle - AnnouncementHow Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with CodeHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- BenchmarkMeasuring benchmark optimization in speech recognitionHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementUp to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSparkHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementAgentic Search. More accurate and efficient results from your AI systems.
The retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information inside even the most complex documents
Mistral AI✓ primaryMistral AI - Research5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
Here’s how you can use Google Search tools to study for classes and standardized tests.
Google (The Keyword)✓ primaryGoogle - AnnouncementHow Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?Hugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementMulti-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence TransformersHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementSame Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the OrderHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- PartnershipGet closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel
Google Gemini and Pixel partner with five global football clubs to elevate the fan matchday experience through AI and Smartphone Technology.
- AnnouncementState of Open Models: Summer 2026 ObservationsHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementRecord, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage BucketsHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- Model launchMajorIntroducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
- AnnouncementWhat We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICMLHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- LaunchMajorIntroducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysisHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- Model launchMajorPutting sign language AI into users’ hands
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
Google DeepMind✓ primaryGoogle - AnnouncementThinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer TokensHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- AnnouncementIn-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.
Mistral is bringing together the inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments Europe needs to control its AI future, and setting a roadmap for the world.
Mistral AI✓ primaryMistral AI - Open releaseMajorBuild Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
- AnnouncementMaking Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at ScaleHugging Face✓ primaryHugging Face
- Open releaseMajorMeta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source