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SPACEXAI 🔥: Grok 4.7 has been delayed for few more Elon days.

The second half of September will be quite packed in terms of model releases. Both Meta and OpenAI would be expected to announce something around corresponding events like OpenAI DevDay and Meta Connect. Grok 4.7 will have to cross quite a high bar.

Soon? 👀

Muse Agent from Meta already has logic to power "invites"; however, it is not active yet. It seems like those would also arrive with extra free usage!

> "Get free additional usage when you redeem invite code."

A global expansion via invite codes right around Meta Connect would be massive.

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 11

OPENAI 🔥:
- GPT-Live-1 is live in the API. Full-duplex voice agents that listen while they speak and can hand work to other models.
- Agents API is in public beta. Managed cloud agents on the Codex harness, plus hosted sandboxes. Platform UI is rolling out too.
- ChatGPT for Financial Services is out for eligible institutions. Work mode plus GPT-6 Astra, with Daloopa, PitchBook, and LSEG data.
- New $200 Pro signups paused. Astra demand is straining capacity. Existing accounts, other plans, and the API stay up.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Gemini desktop app for Windows is out globally on Windows 10 and 11. Alt + Space overlay for drafts, docs, and media.

META 🔥:
- Shared Muse agents are in development, likely headed for Meta Connect later this month.
- Custom Muse voices are in the works. Prompt a voice in chat, then pick it in voice mode. Working-sounds toggle spotted too.

CURSOR 🔥:
- Projects is in beta. One persistent coordinator thread with subagents, shared memory, scheduled tasks, and PR/Slack watchers.

COGNITION 🔥:
- SWE-2 is out in Devin Desktop and CLI. Post-trained on Kimi-K3. Hits 50.0 on FrontierCode and matches Fable 5.1 at 64% lower cost.
- Free for Pro, Max, and Teams for a month. Devin Voice also shipped, on GPT-Live plus SWE-2.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Automations for Computer are in development. Schedule workflows or fire them on a trigger and get results delivered.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client materials, with enterprise controls, source citations, and integrations shaped by Morgan Stanley and Evercore.

🗞 #openai @testingcatalog

Perplexity is working on new Automations feature for Perplexity Computer.

Users will be able to schedule their workflows or invoce them based on a certain trigger.

> "Automate anything with Computer - Run workflows on a custom schedule or when specific conditions are met and get results delivered automatically"

OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Financial Services.

The feature is available to eligible financial institutions and allows users to connect a wide range of financial data to their ChatGPT conversations.

> ChatGPT for Financial Services can be used with GPT-6 Astra inside ChatGPT Work mode.

> GPT-6 Astra scores 9% higher than GPT-5.6 Sol and 7% higher than Claude Fable 5.1 on the OfficeQA Pro benchmark.

ChatGPT Terminal 👀

OpenAI launches GPT-Live-1 for full-duplex voice agents

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 in the API, a full-duplex voice model for apps and workflows that listens and speaks at once, supports interruptions, cuts latency, and offers prompt-based control, telephony use, and separate backend pricing.

🗞 #openai @testingcatalog

Wait a minute - is it me or is OpenAI rolling out managed Agents feature on the OpenAI Platform?

Can anyone see it as well? 👀

Agent creation, environment creation, templates, and session creation now work. Sessions remain idle and throw an error for now.

OPENAI 🔥: GPT-Live-1 is now available on the API and OpenAI Platform!

> "GPT‑Live‑1 brings ChatGPT’s natural, full-duplex conversations to the API, with more control over how voice agents speak and act."

This lets users build apps and workflows powered by bidirectional voice mode that can delegate tasks to other models.

The UI is cool 👀

OPENAI 🔥: New $200 ChatGPT Pro subscriptions have been paused due to a high demand for GPT-6 Astra usage!

“These put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible.”

Wondering for how long 👀

GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini desktop app for Windows is now available!

Seems like Alt + Space in-app editing is supported too.

Testing time? 👀

META 🔥: Muse assistant will get support for custom voice creation, potentially powered by MAI models.

> Users will be able to ask Muse to generate any voice based on their prompt directly in the chat. The generated voice will become selectable for use in the voice more.

> This functionality might be powered by MAI models according to spotted labels. However, Meta is also known to experiment with models from other labs to benchmark their own.

> Users will be able to toggle "Working sounds" for the Muse agent, so they can hear when the Muse avatar is "typing".

Meta prepares custom voices and model upgrades for Muse

Meta launched Muse in the US on iOS, Android, web, and WhatsApp. Testing points to unreleased features including voice mode on the web, custom voice creation, hidden reasoning controls, and a possible Muse Spark model update.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

BREAKING 🔥: Meta develops Shared Agents for Muse and is likely planning to announce them at Meta Connect later in September.

Meta Connect is happening just one week before OpenAI DevDay, where OpenAI plans to announce Managed Agents, potentially targeting a similar audience (small, mid-sized businesses).

Meta recently acquired Stilla (a secure AI teammate for companies) and its team to help build business-focused agents. This direction will let Meta expand Shared Muse agents across its existing business suite on Facebook and Instagram (assumption).

More details below 👀

Meta to announce Shared Agents for Muse at Meta Connect

Meta’s Muse app contains an unannounced Shared Agents section, suggesting users may soon build, configure, and share specialized sub-agents. The move aligns with Meta’s cross-app AI strategy and could target businesses and creators.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 10

APPLE 🔥:
- iPhone Duo, first foldable. Starts at $1,999. Ships Oct 23.
- iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max announced. A20 Pro is built for on-device models.
- New AirPods 5. New Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4.
- iPhone is now an intelligence hub: local models plus cloud.
- Siri AI gets immersive voices running on local models.
- Watch can capture nearby audio via Live Rewind and Siri Recap.

DEEPSEEK 🔥:
- V4.1 Flash is out. Smallest model in the new family at 552B params, with native vision.

OPENAI 🔥:
- ChatGPT Voice limits rose: 3h for Plus, 15h for Pro $100. Pro $200 stays unlimited.
- Voice can now use GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. Astra in voice is Pro-only.

META 🔥:
- Stilla is joining Meta. Secure multiplayer AI teammate for companies, next to Muse on the consumer side.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Five new agentic Workspace features: Chat to slides, Drive to sheets, Docs to email, threads to briefs, proposals to decks.

xAI 🔥:
- Grok 4.7 is still aimed at ~Sept 12.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.
** Email version of this brief will be available soon.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Huggingface!

552B parameters MoE model with a new Encoder-Decoder structure.

V4.1 Flash adopted a new pre-training method and underwent larger-scale reinforcement learning post-training.

The smallest model in DeepSeek new architecture family, with native visual understanding.