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SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.5, Its First Model Since Going Public and the First Built Jointly With Cursor, at $2 per Million Input Tokens
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5, trained alongside Cursor, is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Musk calls it 'an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.'
Anthropic Launches Claude Science, a Research Workbench for Drug Discovery, and Starts Its Own Neglected-Disease Drug Program
Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists with more than 60 curated skills, in beta to paid Claude subscribers, and said it has started an internal program to develop treatments for neglected diseases.
Ai2 Open-Sources MolmoMotion, a Model That Forecasts 3D Object Motion From Language Instructions, With a 1.16-Million-Video Dataset
The Allen Institute for AI released MolmoMotion, an open model that predicts an object's future 3D trajectory from a video, marked points, and a language instruction, plus a 1.16-million-video training dataset and a new benchmark.
Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Coding Model It Says Was Trained End-to-End on Chinese Chips
Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model under an MIT license, claiming it is the first trillion-parameter model trained and served entirely on domestic ASICs.
Together AI Raises $800 Million Series C at $8.3 Billion Valuation, Led by Aramco Ventures, to Scale Its Open-Model Cloud
Together AI raised an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures at an $8.3 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in about 16 months as enterprises shift toward cheaper open-source AI models.
Digital Realty Buys 1,440 Acres on a Former WWII Munitions Plant for a 2 GW Kansas Data Center Campus
Digital Realty paid about $475 million for land at De Soto, Kansas, planning a campus scaling from 600 MW in 2028 to 2 GW.
Meta Reportedly Builds 'Meta Compute' Cloud Unit to Rent Out Excess AI GPUs, Rattling Neocloud Stocks
Bloomberg reports Meta is standing up a cloud business under its 'Meta Compute' initiative to sell spare AI capacity; CoreWeave and Nebius shares fell 10.8% and 12.4%.
ByteDance Releases Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo, Claiming It Matches Claude Opus 4.6 on Coding at Roughly 80 Percent Lower Cost
ByteDance unveiled its Seed 2.1 Pro and Turbo models at the Volcano Engine FORCE conference, claiming leading coding and agent benchmarks and a total cost of ownership close to 80 percent below Claude Opus 4.6.
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5, a Cheaper Agentic Model It Says Approaches Its Opus 4.8 Flagship
Anthropic's midsize model matches near-flagship agentic performance at a fraction of the price, and arrives as the lab lifts controls on Fable 5.
Anthropic's 'Cadences' Economic Index Links Its Survey to Real Claude Usage, Finding Heavier Automators More Optimistic About Their Jobs
Anthropic's June 2026 Economic Index links a ~9,700-person survey to actual Claude usage, finding people who delegate more work to AI are more optimistic about their jobs.
WorkBench Revisited Finds Top AI Agent Now Completes 89% of Office Tasks, Up From 43% in 2024, With Safety Improving Alongside It
A two-year follow-up to the WorkBench benchmark finds the best workplace agent jumped from 43% to 89% task completion while unintended harmful actions fell from 26% to 2.5%.
Model Context Protocol Locks Its Largest-Ever Spec Revision, Rebuilding the Core as a Stateless Protocol Ahead of a July Release
The 2026-07-28 MCP release candidate makes the protocol core stateless, formalizes an Extensions framework, and deprecates Roots, Sampling, and Logging. The RC locked May 21 for a July 28 final.