https://github.com/mendableai/fireplexity

Fireplexity - Firecrawl‘s open source Perplexity clone.

Ask any question and get AI-powered answers with cited sources, all powered by their /search and /scrape endpoints.

https://github.com/bytedance/trae-agent

Trae Agent is an LLM-based agent for general purpose software engineering tasks by byte dance.

https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder

The Qwen team released their new model focused on code.

In addition they released a CLI coding tool like Claude Code which got adopted from Gemini CLI:

https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/07/28/introducing-copilot-mode-in-edge-a-new-way-to-browse-the-web/

Microsoft Introduces Copilot Mode in Edge

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

And now Qwen released an updated coding model optimised for e.g. Qwen Code.

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/llms/solving-the-inference-problem-for-open-source-ai-projects-with-github-models/

GitHub Models now offers a free, OpenAI-compatible inference API for every GitHub account.

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/

Qwen-Image — a 20B MMDiT model for next-gen text-to-image generation. Especially strong at creating stunning graphic posters with native text.

https://openai.com/open-models/

OpenAI released their first open weight models.

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-07-openai-gpt-5-is-now-in-public-preview-for-github-copilot/


OpenAI GPT-5 is now in public preview for GitHub Copilot

https://astral.sh/blog/introducing-pyx

pyx is a Python-native package registry by the Astral team.

https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol

nginx introduces native support for the ACME protocol. No need to download any 3rd party script or certbot anymore.

https://z.ai/subscribe

Z.ai, the team behind the GLM models, released a cheaper plan than Claude with their own comparable models.

While GLM-4.5 demonstrated strong performance against top open-source models, it secured a 40.4% win rate against Claude Sonnet 4.

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-acquires-the-browser-company

Atlassian acquired the browser company, creator of Arc and Dia, for $610 million.

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/secure-credentials-on-comet-with-1password

Perplexity partners with 1Password - this means that Perplexity will ship 1Password as the default password extension in their browser Comet.

https://ampcode.com/news/amp-tab-for-all

If you’re looking for some good free autocompletions in VS Code, check out Amp Tab by Sourcegraph. Currently it’s only available for VS Code & forks but more editors will follow.

https://helium.computer/

Another day, another new browser.
Helium: "the web browser that respects your choices, your privacy, and your time. Without any ads or other noise. Fully open source and people-first"

Privacy and unbiased ad-blocking by default. Handy features like native !bangs and split view. No adware, no bloat, no noise.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5

Anthropic released their new model Sonnet 4.5. Benchmark wise it seems to be the best model at the moment in coding and other domains, time and normal tests will tell.

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide

Perplexity‘s browser Comet is now available to everyone - you don’t need an invite anymore.

https://github.com/Slydite/lore-engine

Multimodal AI pipeline that transforms educational content—PDFs, videos, handwritten notes, and transcripts—into comprehensive, searchable markdown notes. Turn 10 hours of lectures into 2 hours of focused reading.