Coding

SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.5, Claiming 'Opus-Class' Performance

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, its first model trained specifically for coding and agentic work, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. Elon Musk positioned it as roughly on par with Claude Opus 4.7 but faster and cheaper; independent benchmark charts released alongside the launch showed it ahead of Opus 4.8 on some tasks and behind on others.

Chamath Palihapitiya Takes CEO Role at 8090 Labs on a $135M Raise

Enterprise AI-coding startup 8090 Labs closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Chamath Palihapitiya moving from board member to full-time CEO. Its product, Software Factory, is an AI coding agent built for regulated enterprises (healthcare, insurance, aerospace, financial services, government), pitched on production-grade, audited code rather than prototype-quality output.

OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Family: Sol, Terra, and Luna

OpenAI began a limited preview of the GPT-5.6 series — Sol (flagship), Terra (balanced everyday model), and Luna (fast and affordable) — advancing the frontier on software engineering, computer use, professional knowledge work, scientific research, and cybersecurity. API pricing per 1M tokens is $5/$30 (input/output) for Sol, $2.50/$15 for Terra, and $1/$6 for Luna; during the preview the models are available via the OpenAI API and Codex to a limited group of trusted partners, with general availability planned in the coming weeks. The GPT-5.6 Preview System Card was published June 25.

OpenAI Ships gpt-realtime-2.1 With 25% Lower Voice Latency

OpenAI released gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini on June 26 for low-latency voice and multimodal experiences, cutting p95 latency by at least 25% across Realtime voice models while improving speech recognition in noisy conditions, tool use, and instruction following. The same release window retired GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT and added enterprise usage analytics and spend controls.

Samsung Electronics Rolls Out ChatGPT and Codex to Employees

OpenAI and Samsung Electronics announced that ChatGPT and Codex will be made available to all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all employees worldwide in its Device eXperience (DX) division — one of OpenAI's largest enterprise deployments to date. Samsung plans to use the tools across software development, marketing, product development, and manufacturing, with Codex also letting non-technical teams build internal tools and automated workflows. The deal expands an existing relationship in which Samsung supplies advanced memory for AI infrastructure.

Google Makes 'Computer Use' a Built-In Tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google announced that computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting developers build agents that can interact across platforms and software interfaces directly through the model. It extends the agentic capabilities Google showcased at I/O 2026 into a generally available developer tool on its fast, lower-cost Flash tier.