Daily AI brief for Oct 7: Mistral, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic updates
A roundup of the day's model releases and product updates from Mistral, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 7 MISTRAL 🔥: * Mistral released Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk", a 1T-parameter (49B active) multimodal model, with open weights planned in about three weeks. GOOGLE 🔥: * Nano Banana 2.1 is rolling out across the Gemini app, AI Mode, AI Studio, the Gemini API, Flow and Stitch. * Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter open multimodal embedding model under Apache 2.0. * Google AI Edge launched Foresight, an on-device note-taking app for Mac. OPENAI 🔥: * OpenAI launched the Decisions API in beta with gpt-6-luna, returning typed answers 10x faster than the Responses API. * Auto-review in Codex is now free for everyone signed in with ChatGPT, day two of the 28-day pledge. * OpenAI published new math results from an unreleased internal frontier model, with many proofs formalized in Lean. * OpenAI cut its API usage tiers from five to three: Build, Launch and Grow. ANTHROPIC 🔥: * Claude for Google Workspace is in public beta, adding a Claude sidebar to Docs, Sheets and Slides. * Anthropic's expanded Claude for Startups program gives qualifying startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in API credits. * Claude Code 2.1.292 lets Claude run sub-agents at a chosen effort level. HARK 🔥: * Hark, Brett Adcock's new startup, launched Hark Pro widely as a free computer-use AI assistant, with a paid tier for heavy users. SESAME 🔥: * Sesame's voice assistant got a new voice model, a dedicated computer for each agent, and Google app and MCP connections. MICROSOFT 🔥: * GitHub stacked pull requests are now generally available. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.
This post quotes another post: “Daily AI brief, Oct 6: GPT-6 Astra speedup and text watermarking”