August 2026
AI news in August 2026
176 items from 8 labs. 88 posts, 22 releases, 10 changelog entries, 18 model notes and 38 incidents. OpenAI was busiest with 78. Spread over 25 days, with the busiest on 19 Aug 2026.
176items8labs88posts22releases10changelogs38incidents
Who published what
OpenAI 78, Anthropic 46, Google 25, xAI 10, Alibaba 6, Mistral 5
Models that shipped this month
- Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba · 2026-08-05
- Muse Glimmer Meta · 2026-08-10
- Grok 4.6 xAI · 2026-08-12
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek · 2026-08-13
- Gemini 3.7 Flash Google · 2026-08-13
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp DeepSeek · 2026-08-21
Day by day
- Monday 31 August 202610
- Saturday 29 August 20261
- Friday 28 August 20268
- Thursday 27 August 202614
- Wednesday 26 August 202611
- Tuesday 25 August 20268
- Monday 24 August 20265
- Friday 21 August 20263
- Thursday 20 August 202610
- Wednesday 19 August 202617
- Tuesday 18 August 202610
- Monday 17 August 20269
- Sunday 16 August 20261
- Saturday 15 August 20261
- Friday 14 August 20268
- Thursday 13 August 202611
- Wednesday 12 August 20268
- Tuesday 11 August 202610
- Monday 10 August 202610
- Friday 7 August 20265
- Thursday 6 August 20264
- Wednesday 5 August 20265
- Tuesday 4 August 20265
- Monday 3 August 20261
- Saturday 1 August 20261
Counts are of what our own collector saw, so a month before we started watching a source will read light. Every item links to the lab that published it.