AI Frontier Models launch history

We're launching code storage and git hosting. Origin gives teams and agents a place to host, review, and collaborate on code. Available this fall. Join the waitlist. https://t.co/uamaIarJXY

Midjourney will be announcing its first hardware project tomorrow (Wednesday 6/17) at 6pm PT. Stay tuned for a livestream of our in-person launch event in San Francisco. If you're in town and want an invite, reply below, we have just a few slots left.

📣 Calling all influencers and wannabe influencers: we’re here to help you blow up. Introducing the Influencer Ignition Kit—4 new follower-boosting skills: >Persona Builder >Content Director >Viral Hook >Fix My Look Available for any agent with the Pika MCP. https://t.co/wqmZhYDmDY

Introducing LifeSciBench, a benchmark for measuring and improving how well AI supports real-world life science research. Developed with 173 scientists from biotechnology and pharmaceutical research, LifeSciBench includes 750 expert-authored tasks across seven biological research https://t.co/JDkKWcnL9F

Introducing Brain in Computer. Brain is a continuously learning memory system. Every task on Computer plugs into a context graph built by Brain. It makes Computer more stateful with every run. Available as a research preview for all Perplexity Max subscribers. https://t.co/Dw4Q7Izmqs

🌘 Meet Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed! A high-speed mode of our latest open-source multimodal coding model, Kimi K2.7 Code. ⚡️ Up to 6× faster: Around 180 tok/s on coding tasks with median-length inputs, and up to 260 tok/s on shorter-context tasks. 🔷 Rolling out to Kimi Code Beta https://t.co/syOOgIdtI4

📣 Introducing the Qwen-Robot Suite — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence. 🧭 Qwen-RobotNav — the gateway to mobility. • Unifies 5 navigation tasks in one model: instruction following, point-goal, https://t.co/noumjTtTeS

LiteParse v2.1 is here, and its bringing the fastest markdown output possible. In this release, we are fulfilling our top request: markdown output. But in the spirit of "lite"-ness, we are doing this completely LLM-free and fast. Not only is it fast, it also beats all other https://t.co/bdnSdNsMhA

We've released a new big-batch draft mode for V8.1. This new mode lets you generate 24 lower resolution images at the half the price of a Standard res 4-image Midjourney Job. When you like an image just press "Vary" to get new versions at full resolution. Enjoy! https://t.co/AwOBP5rnfh

Introducing Goal Mode in Kimi Work Goal lets your desktop agent run 24/7 until the task is done, built for long-horizon tasks and complex multi-step workflows. https://t.co/qD9utKsEQr

Introducing /automate, a skill for agents to set up automations for you. Describe your task in plain language. Cursor configures the triggers, instructions, and tools. https://t.co/PB7kZh0Izt

Imagine Video 1.5 is generally available in our API: https://t.co/SmAD9BUc0N We've also rolled out Video 1.5 Fast to consumers with better quality and dramatically less wait. 720p videos now render in about 25 seconds, down from 40+ in our previous model.

Grok is now available on Amazon Bedrock. AWS developers can now build with Grok 4.3, the industry leader in hallucination rate and tool calling, powered by Bedrock’s secure inference engine. https://t.co/g3zH8Fia8R

Pull requests are easier to open than ever, but every review still takes human effort. Introducing pull request limits: maintainers can cap how many open PRs contributors without write access can have and set a bypass list for trusted contributors. More signal, less queue https://t.co/LmxtwmKLPz

📹️ Announcing the fal x @sequoia 72-Hour Video Hackathon. A 3-day global sprint for AI-native filmmakers, creative technologists, developers, designers, and storytellers building the future of video. Supported by leading AI video labs @GoogleDeepMind, @xAI, and @Kling_ai. https://t.co/EZWMaBMRr2