Claude Voice Mode to get Opus and Sonnet model options

Anthropic appears close to rolling out upgraded Claude voice mode, with Opus and Sonnet now powering voice chats instead of defaulting to Haiku.

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ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Opus and Sonnet models will soon become available on Claude Voice Mode!

The new model selector has been hidden in the UI for roughly three weeks, defaulting to Haiku regardless of the selection.

Today, it changed, and now it responds via Opus and Sonnet models. The system is still built on TTS; however, it handles interruptions super well and can operate Connectors!

Access to a broader range of tools makes it much more capable than what ChatGPT is offering at the moment, yet usage might become a tricky topic, at least for high-effort reasoning.

SpaceXAI develops deployable applications for Grok Build

xAI is building Grok into an app publishing platform with deployment, hosting, sharing, and custom domains, while mobile top-ups appear closer and Grok 4.6 training nears completion ahead of a possible August release.

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OpenAI tests Codex Realtime Voice Mode for ChatGPT

OpenAI appears to be preparing a real-time voice mode for Codex as a phone-style personal assistant. It could manage parallel tasks across apps and services via Codex Remote Control, though timing, model choice, and release scope remain unclear.

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Anthropic preparing for potential Claude Opus 5 rollout

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Opus 5 model is being prepared for release.

The timeline is yet to be confirmed; however, such preparations normally happen right ahead of the release.

Opus release cadence 👀
- 70 days from 4.6 to 4.7
- 42 from 4.7 to 4.8
- 56 so far since

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OpenAI started a broader rollout of ChatGPT Health for US users.

> ChatGPT can draw on your connected medical records and Apple Health information to help you see a more complete picture, track changes over time, and have more informed, personalized conversations.

Again 👀

MICROSOFT 🔥: New MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash models have been announced!

MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is now in public preview. Pro is our highest-fidelity image model to date, priced at $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output tokens.

MAI-Voice-2-Flash is now in public preview. Flash is 2x faster than MAI-Voice-2 and 32% cheaper, priced at $15 per 1M characters.

SPACEXAI 🔥: Grok 4.5 is now available on X, Grok web and mobile to all users.

It is also now possible to see the exact model name again on the model selector!

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Voice Mode got upgraded with support for Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 models!

> Support for additional languages has been announced as well, including Spanish, French, Hindi, and Japanese!

> Claude Voice Mode can now take over complex tasks that require AI to use tools and Connectors.

> A new Voice Mode experience is rolling out on web and mobile apps.

As it was foretold 👀

OPENAI 🔥: ChatGPT Voice is now rolling out on the desktop app to allow users to operate multiple agents across ChatGPT Work and Codex!

> New voice mode is powered by recently released GPT Live 1, a full-duplex voice model from OpenAI.

> Rolling out globally today on macOS and Windows to Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise plans.

> ChatGPT Voice in Codex can also be used from the ChatGPT iOS app via paired remote access.

Android soon 👀

Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3, a multi-modal model for Image, Video, audio, and Action-Prediction.

> FLUX 3 Video is now available in early access (requires you to apply via the form).

> Jointly trained in one unified architecture, our model can be extended to predict actions for robotics.

Local Codex projects now can include files from other folders! A primary folder will continue to operate as a Git root.

Mulifolder Miltimodal Multimodel 👀

BREAKING 🔥: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 that performs on par with Fable 5 at half of the price!

> Claude Opus 5 for 30 points on ARC AGI 3. SOTA!?
> Outperforms Claude Fable 5 on Computer use.

In general, I feel that Computer Use capabilities are already even more important than Software Development performance. Every AI lab will aim to have the best super app, capable to do everything that humans can do with their computers.

Testing time 👀

ICYMI 👀: ChatGPT users can now share their custom Pets directly from the ChatGPT web via a shareable link.

> Settings > Personalisation > Copy Link

Only available on the web for now 👀

ICYMI: Cursor launches Router to cut costs for coding models

Cursor Router selects AI models per coding request to balance quality and cost. Available across Cursor platforms, it uses a large request-trained classifier and reportedly cuts enterprise spending by 30% to 60% without reducing output quality.

🗞 #cursor @testingcatalog