Meta announced Muse Connectors, enabling developers and businesses to submit their own via a Muse platform.

Notion, Granola and other Connectors are now available.

Meta has partnered with Stripe to make payment possible.

“Reach new customers and give existing ones more ways to use your product.”

I feel that Muse has a chance to get into a very nice spot by being an AI assistant for consumers and small businesses because it does exactly what they all want.

AI agent payments will be a new norm, and Meta grub a huge chunk of this market. Especially in a combination with Meta Glasses.

Side note, Muse is now available in Canada!

SpaceXAI says Grok Voice Transcribe 2 doubles accuracy

SpaceXAI launched Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, claiming 2x the accuracy of v1.0 at unchanged pricing. It supports multilingual, real-time and batch transcription, with diarization, timestamps, term biasing, and phone-audio gains.

🗞 #spacexai @testingcatalog

StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a new 600B total / 27B active MoE model with 1M context.

> Step 5 Preview comes with vision capabilities and proficiency in software engineering and finance tasks.

> It is now available in StepFun AI Studio and APIs.

Pareto is a new front line 👀

Anthropic tests Fable 5.2 and Opus 5.5 ahead of the release

Anthropic appears to be quietly A/B testing Claude Fable 5.2, with users reporting stronger one-shot JavaScript outputs and richer canvas demos. Early comparisons suggest a clear step up from 5.1, as Opus 5.5 rumors also build.

🗞 #anthropic @testingcatalog

Anthropic has rebranded Workbench as Playground! It has been in development for quite a while and is now more conventional.

> "Workbench is now Playground - Explore the Claude API by using it. Test models and Messages API features without writing code."

> "Start from working examples for tools, citations, and caching
See each request and response, with tokens, cost, and latency
Copy the SDK code when something works"

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work

SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.7 across coding tools, APIs, and cloud platforms, offering stronger coding, longer task focus, lower-cost pricing, and tougher safeguards, with benchmark gains over Grok 4.6 and free testing in Grok Build.

🗞 #spacexai @testingcatalog

Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash models

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash, two omnimodal models for coding, vision and computer use. Pro leads open-source rankings, Flash cuts cost, and UltraSpeed delivers up to 20x faster output for low-latency tasks.

🗞 #release @testingcatalog

ALIBABA 🔥: Qwen 4 Max, Qwen 4 Flash, Qwen 4 Plus and Qwen 4 27B models have been announced!

The next major upgrade is expected to be a 5-10T parameters model.

Qwen 4 27B is always the most exciting one to test. Alibaba is clearly on a full shipment mode this year.

Meta prepares Audio & Video Playgrounds for Meta Connect

Ahead of Meta Connect on September 23, Meta’s developer platform shows signs of wider expansion, including Video Playground, Voice Playground, Connectors, and possible Oracle Cloud ties, pointing to broader API and enterprise features.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

META 🔥: We may get Muse Video model available on the APIs soon.

> Meta may release Muse Video on APIs along with new voice models during Meta Connect.

> Dedicated Video and Voice Playgrounds are currently being in development on Meta Platform.

Besides that, a separate Connectors section is being prepared. This section will likely allow users to submit their own Muse Connectors to the platform directly (currently, it goes through a manual review form).

Meta ❤️ Oracle?

Meta may partner with Oracle by offering Oracle Cloud users special access to the Meta AI Platform.

> A dedicated "activation" functionality now appears to be in development.

> Oracle is hosting a live webinar on the "How Banks Can Use Existing Data and Systems for AI" topic just around the time of the Meta Connect event tomorrow.

"Financial institutions are looking for practical ways to apply AI to high-value use cases. But many banks are working with systems built over decades, leaving critical data spread across core banking, lending, payments, risk, compliance, customer service, and reporting environments."

"Join Oracle and Deloitte for a discussion on how banks can make AI work with the data they already have. We’ll explore why business context, lineage, data, and security controls are essential for reliable AI, and how financial institutions can use existing systems to advance high-value AI initiatives while evaluating when migration may make sense."

Will Meta go heavily into enterprise too? 👀

Meta prepares Muse for Messenger and Telegram

Meta’s Muse is gaining traction fast, outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch in the US and Canada. Meta is now preparing Muse for Messenger and Telegram, pointing to a broader cross-platform agent strategy for users and businesses.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog