Week 28, 2026 AI roundup

Models Finally can share that I have been testing GPT-5.6 early and oooo boy. It is an execution beast. So much so that I think 5.6 is the absolute Allie K. Miller Models OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches Thursday after a delay forced by the U.S. government The Decoder Models Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips TechCrunch AI Models Wispr Flow kept replacing the word 'Anthropic' with the word 'Perplexity'. They sound nothing alike and are direct competitors. After flaggi Allie K. Miller Startups AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round TechCrunch AI Models NVIDIA’s Cosmos-Framework Tutorial: Designing a Colab-Friendly Miniature of Cosmos 3 World Models with Omnimodal Mixture-of-Transformers MarkTechPost Security Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets Ars Technica AI Models My big takeaway is that both Sol & Fable represent jumps over previous models and have opened a large gap with the next-best AIs. People wil Ethan Mollick Models HERE WE GO Matthew Berman Models Ant Group’s Robbyant Open-Sources LingBot-Vision: A 1B Boundary-Centric Vision Foundation Model for Dense Spatial Perception MarkTechPost Models You're welcome 👊 NVIDIA AI Models Claude Fable 5 access just got extended until July 12. 5 more days to escape the permanent underclass Min Choi