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Startup news Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Cerebras says its chips run a trillion-parameter AI model nearly 7 times faster than GPU clouds Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Open source Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and V2.5-Pro are among the most efficient (and affordable) at agentic 'claw' tasks Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Pro $100 tier with 5X usage limits for Codex compared to Plus Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Anthropic launches Claude Tag, replacing its Slack app with a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors and works autonomously Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus supports text, video and imagery inputs at low cost of $0.4/$1.6 per 1M token — but it's proprietary Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Alibaba's proprietary Qwen3.7-Max can run for 35 hours autonomously and supports external harnesses like Anthropic's Claude Code Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Claude Code 2.1.0 arrives with smoother workflows and smarter agents Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship' Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Kimi K3's full weights are here, but they're 'open' with a caveat: What enterprises should know Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Enterprise-grade AI image generation in 2 seconds is here: Krea 2 Raw and Turbo available as open weights under custom license Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first Aug 15, 2026
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Startup news PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it Aug 15, 2026
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Startup news Elon Musk, the World’s Most Famous EV Pioneer, Is Now Leaning Into Fossil Fuels Aug 15, 2026
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Startup news Elon Musk Admits He Underestimated Anthropic's AI -- Why Amazon Investors Should Care Aug 15, 2026