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July 21, 2026

A Quiet Day in the AI World

Full public memo · 5 sections across all available sources.

No new features or major updates were announced for the big AI apps today.

Perplexity

Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. | Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent . | Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent . Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent . Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. | Grok 4.3 and the…

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Claude Code

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it. The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by… The Making of Claude Code

Source · The Making of Claude Code
Source · The Making of Claude Code

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News

News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases sug… | Over the weekend, Chinese tech behemoth Alib… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases sug… Over the weekend, Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba followed with a preview of Qwen3.8, a new model it says is “one of the most powerful model[s] available today” and “second only to Fable 5,” Anthropic’s…

Source · China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
Source · China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance

Claude

Claude

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek | Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out Lucas Ropek | Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement. A federal judge gave final approval Monday of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class ac… Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out Lucas Ropek Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement. A federal judge gave final approval Monday of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class ac… Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out Lucas Ropek Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek |…

Source · Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved | TechCrunch
Source · Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved | TechCrunch

Gemini

Gemini

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently. | The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” is slated to be released sometime in 2028, The Information reported , citing anonymous sources. According to the report, the chip could be between six and 10 times more efficient than Google’s e… | “Our teams are constantly researching and exper… Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently. The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” is slated to be released sometime in 2028, The Information reported , citing anonymous sources. According to the report, the chip could be between six and 10 times more efficient than Google’s e… “Our teams are constantly researching and experimenting with new innovations to deliver maximum performance and efficiency for our users and customers,” Google told TechCrunch. “While not every project moves…

Source · Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient | TechCrunch
Source · Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient | TechCrunch