
Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.3 for Coding and Longer AI Tasks
Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 targets coding and longer AI assignments. Here’s what the company claims, how to read its efficiency figures and what users should test.

Google’s new Gemini 3.8 Flash model improves coding, reasoning and autonomous agents. But by thinking longer and generating more tokens, it may cost more per task than its unchanged API price suggests.

Excerpt: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra focuses on complex, long-running work across code, browsers and professional tools. Here is what changes—and what remains to be proven. OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, presenting it as its new flagship model for the most demanding tasks. The announcement is less about producing a slightly better chatbot answer…

Tencent has released Hy4 Preview, a new flagship large language model aimed at demanding productivity tasks including software development, document analysis, financial work and scientific research. The headline figure is difficult to ignore: 770 billion parameters. But Hy4 Preview does not use all of them every time it generates a token. Thanks to a Mixture-of-Experts…

OpenAI plans to withdraw its models from Cursor following the AI coding platform’s acquisition by SpaceX, highlighting a growing battle over who controls the AI ecosystems powering today’s applications.