Perplexity trials its Sonar Testing model internally with a reasoning toggle for better and faster results on complex queries.

Hume AI is testing Octave 2 Multilingual internally, a text-to-speech model with low-latency voice synthesis across 10+ languages for real-time audio.

Vibe coding lets users describe website features in plain language while Readdy AI powers multi-page sites, add-ons and custom store setups.

Anthropic works on Skills Preview in Claude settings, letting users upload custom skill files for tailored automation.

What's new? Octave 2 is a TTS model with sub200ms response, 11 languages, voice conversion and phoneme editing soon; EVI 4 mini powers speech-to-speech tasks with external LLM;

Google is likely to release Gemini 3 on October 9 after extensive testing on AI Studio. Early tests show significant performance on coding tasks.

xAI prepares Grok web tools to pull data from Gmail, Slack, Notion and X search while providing ticker stock updates and unified insights.

What's new? Cursor rolled out Plan Mode to let developers draft and edit structured plans; it runs an agent to scan codebases and save plans in Markdown

What's new? Anthropic launched plugin support for Claude Code to bundle slash commands, agents, MCP servers and hooks; it is in public beta via /plugin in terminal and VS Code;

Google’s Veo 3.1 is set to arrive as an 8-second 720p text-to-video with updated audio and visuals in Google Vids, challenging Sora 2.