AI Daily · 2026-08-14

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Published 6:32 AM CT · Supplied data, not independently verified. Source

Update 01

Anthropic — Decart $6B talks advance, IPO docs point to efficiency moat

Aug 13-14 — Decart acquisition talks held. DOS stack cuts cross-chip tuning weeks not months. Complements Theseus data center JV. Why it matters: owns optimization layer before Oct IPO, lowers inference 20-30% claimed.

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Update 02

Google — Gemini 3.5 Pro still on Vertex preview, no public API

Day 86 of delay from I/O promise. Leak: 2M context + Deep Think v2 in preview, but fails eval on long-hallucination. Markets price 76% by Aug 31.

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Update 03

OpenAI — Daybreak Blue/Red now on Bedrock, zero-operator access

Defenders get GPT-5.6-Cyber variants in enclave. Red found 2 Chrome V8 zero-days CVE-2026-15903/04. Requires Trusted Access vetting.

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Voice 04 · Builder

Amjad Masad — HelpPeer.ai coordination primitive — Aug 13

Two APIs to steer spontaneous agent coordination to public good post OpenAI-HF incident. Score 2 — infra for agent commons.

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Voice 05 · Research

Andrew Ng — Thanks Meta for Glimmer 30B + Spark 1.2 open-weight tease

Validates local agentic loop. “First usable open-weight agentic model you can run on a single card.” Score 2.

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Pareto frontier

Smarter.
For less.

Values come from the supplied artifact. Frontier status is recalculated here.

ModelIntelligenceInput / 1M
Muse Spark 1.2 Frontier 93 $12.00
Gemini 3.5 Pro (preview) Frontier 92 $8.00
Claude Opus 5 91 $15.00
GPT-5.6-Cyber Daybreak Red 90 $18.00
GPT-5.6 Sol Frontier 88 $6.00
Grok 4 Frontier 86 $4.00
Gemini 2.5 Pro Frontier 85 $2.50
Claude Sonnet 4 82 $3.00
DeepSeek R1-0528 Frontier 78 $1.10
GPT-5 mini Frontier 76 $0.55
Kimi K2 73 $1.20
Llama 4 Maverick 66 $0.65
Muse Glimmer 30B Frontier 62 $0.40

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