AI Industry Unleashes a Flurry of Major Updates in Just Two Weeks
PrajwalTomar_ · x · 2026-07-11
If you haven't kept up with the AI space for two weeks, the industry has already shifted significantly:
- Sonnet 5 is described as having noticeable improvements over 4.6, while remaining affordable.
- Cursor for iOS allows users to launch and control coding agents directly from their phones.
- Grok 4.5 is called a frontier model trained on the editor itself.
- GPT 5.6 offers three tiers, is priced at about half of Fable, and achieves a new SOTA in coding agent evaluations.
- ChatGPT Work is designed so that "people who can't code can still use Codex."
- Hosted Hermes is packaged as a 24/7 AI employee that can be deployed in 60 seconds.
- Additionally, the text mentions that Fable 5 will be released tomorrow, before the subscription period ends.
The author concludes that any single one of these updates last year would have been massive news for a quarter, yet now they are all happening concentrated within two weeks.
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