July 21, 2026

A Quiet Day in the AI World

Full archive memo · 5 app sections.

No new features or major updates were announced for the big AI apps today.

Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent .

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Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

ChatGPT

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China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anth.

Over the weekend, Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba followed with a preview of Qwen3.8, a new model it says is “one of the most powerful model[s] available today” and “second only to.

Claude

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex Lucas Ropek

Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out Lucas Ropek

Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement.

Gemini

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently.

The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” is slated to be released sometime in 2028, The Information reported , citing anonymous sources.

“Our teams are constantly researching and experimenting with new innovations to deliver maximum performance and efficiency for our users and customers,” Google told TechCrunch.