Top AI Frontier Models launches

Attention, all you geniuses with products, but no marketing skills. Today we’re launching the Founder Starter Kit—4 skills that will help you look and sound like a legit company, including: > Build-a-Brand > App Screens > Product Sizzle > Founder Video Available for Claude via https://t.co/p9uqgaIiFl

AI is advancing at a pace our policymaking institutions were never built for—and the gap between the two is becoming the central challenge of the technology. In his latest essay, our CEO Dario Amodei lays out how to close it. We're launching three new initiatives to support the https://t.co/8KguMgV4dP

grok-build-0.1 is now available via the xAI API in public beta. This is the same model that powers the Grok Build CLI and excels at agentic coding. Priced at $1/m input and $2/m output, it’s extremely cost effective, intelligent, and fast. https://t.co/2ZtqWM2QLU

Transparent backgrounds are now available in preview for GPT-Image-2 in the API. Generate reusable assets you can place on any background—for product imagery, graphic design, website mockups, and marketing campaigns. https://t.co/yRhBIYh8uP

Introducing Studio Agent in ElevenCreative. Studio is the timeline editor where creators and marketers mix voiceovers, music, sound effects, and video into finished content. Now it has an AI co-editor built in. https://t.co/FXeO3k6abc

We’re rolling out age prediction on ChatGPT to help determine when an account likely belongs to someone under 18, so we can apply the right experience and safeguards for teens. Adults who are incorrectly placed in the teen experience can confirm their age in Settings > Account.

Introducing Dana. Agentic AI for the physical world. https://t.co/gKmAeiXuU8 https://t.co/3HZShkjXos

We’re launching Nano Banana 2, built on the latest Gemini Flash model. 🍌 It’s state-of-the-art for creating and editing images, combining Pro-level capabilities with lightning-fast speed. 🧵 https://t.co/b3sHCAhrSy

Introducing GLM-5 from @Zai_org, the best-in-class open-source model for systems engineering and long-horizon agents. AI natives can now use GLM-5 on Together AI and benefit from reliable inference for production-scale reasoning, coding, and agent workflows. https://t.co/GG67zcFRKT

Today we’re launching Portable Computer on @NVIDIA DGX Spark. Portable Computer is a fully local version of Perplexity Computer, where the entire runtime: orchestrator LLM, subagent LLM, agent harness all run on your local hardware. No cloud dependency. https://t.co/plVWz5PaAw

Claude Fable 5 is now available in Cursor. It sets a new state of the art on CursorBench at 72.9%, 8 points above the previous best. https://t.co/L3Wm8mSYq9

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.

Introducing Voice Mode in Perplexity Computer. You can now just talk and do things. https://t.co/eTZW1F8tUW

AI Videos are ALL slop. AI should be making you a content machine. Introducing Riverside 2.0, the first AI Producer that creates authentic content while you sleep: https://t.co/qnBHEorlAS

We’ve partnered with @AMD, @Broadcom, @Intel, @Microsoft, and @NVIDIA, to release Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new open networking protocol that helps large AI training clusters run faster and more reliably, with less wasted GPU time. https://t.co/AiV952AJXs

We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program matching people early in their careers with US nonprofits. We'll teach 1,000 people to use Claude, and pay them to use AI to advance their hosts’ missions. https://t.co/QI6JmlAdSr

ChatGPT Go is rolling out globally in every country where ChatGPT is available. ChatGPT Go is our low-cost subscription tier that gives you 10x more messages, file uploads and image creation vs free tier, more memory, longer context window, and unlimited use of GPT 5.2 instant

Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Cursor! It's 2.5x the speed at 6x the cost. For most tasks, we recommend using the standard speed.

Introducing Cline Desktop - a native interface for working with open weights models. Use with ClinePass and all our free models like DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Musespark-1.3, or BYOK with any provider! https://t.co/7AZdHlVIa9

You can now keep your work from other agents in sync with ChatGPT Work and Codex. Import projects, chats, skills, and plugins, review your import history, and opt in to automatic updates in Settings. Now available in the ChatGPT desktop app. https://t.co/G7OcCIvhj6

Introducing Agent 2.0 Go from a simple prompt to fully realized marketing briefs and campaign assets right inside of Runway Agent. You can also easily analyze your performance data to improve your creative and scale it across platforms, formats and markets. Agent is being built https://t.co/VZINWuEA7U

Today we're launching Claude for Teachers -- premium @claudeai and Cowork, free for every US teacher. Teachers have been experimenting with AI for a while. But they told us they wanted something curriculum-aligned, evidence-based, and able to work in the background while they https://t.co/apNW6ZdJwW

Highlights from today’s Codex Thursday launches: 1️⃣ Codex can now securely use apps on your Mac from your phone, even when your Mac is locked and the screen is off. https://t.co/JUOss3M2Va https://t.co/CAEUe1aswm

Introducing Ads Engine in @ElevenCreative. Connect your Google, Meta, and LinkedIn ad accounts. Localize your existing ads across 50+ languages and push the finished creatives back to your ad platform. https://t.co/rl0uYJntdG

Today we're launching Perplexity Computer for Professional Finance. Finance teams can bring licensed data from providers like Morningstar, PitchBook, Daloopa, and Carbon Arc into Computer. We’ve also added 35 dedicated finance workflows for the work analysts repeat every week. https://t.co/AfWvC2FOpA

Introducing Gemini 3.5: our newest family of models combining frontier intelligence with real-world action. The first release is 3.5 Flash, our strongest model yet for agents and coding 🧵 https://t.co/A3RXdyjIz2

Introducing Octen Model Gateway. One API key. Models and search together, with the fastest responses in the world. Thousands of developers have joined in the last 2 weeks. To say thanks, everyone gets a 15% rebate on all consumption. Try it now in the comments: https://t.co/sIvdTb6aUM

We’re collaborating with @ServiceNow to deliver autonomous AI agents that can act across enterprise workflows with governance, auditability and secure execution built in. At @ServiceNow Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow introduced Project Arc, a long-running desktop agent built on open https://t.co/0L2L0uZbqy

We’re introducing a new capability to our latest Gemini models: agentic video understanding. This allows developers to process long-form video content with more accuracy, while using up to 88% less tokens. See how it works 🧵 https://t.co/HFmQYplZQq

Meet GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst. Introducing new image models in the API, with sharper detail, stronger style adherence, and more control over edits. https://t.co/dirY4ANhpr