Google DeepMind announces Gemini 3.5 Flash now includes a native computer‑use tool, enabling developers to create agents that can see and act across browsers, mobile and desktop interfaces. OpenAI says its new GPT‑5.5 Instant version is more conversational, better at grasping intent, handling complex constraints, and improving shopping‑related interactions. Mistral AI introduces Mistral OCR 4, which provides structured output with bounding boxes, block classification and inline confidence scores for 170 languages. Visual Studio Code’s latest release adds a unified model customization picker for tuning and shows total chat‑session costs, simplifying cost tracking and usage insight.
Claude announced Claude Fable 5, a Mythos‑class model deemed safe for general use and now available everywhere, while Claude Mythos 5 stays limited to Glasswing partners. OpenRouter, Cursor, Visual Studio Code and Devin Desktop all reported that Claude Fable 5 is now live on their platforms, with Cursor noting a 72.9% score on CursorBench, 8 points above the previous best. Google DeepMind highlighted its 3.5 Live Translate, which streams speech into over 70 languages while preserving tone, pace and pitch for natural conversation. Kimi.ai introduced Kimi Work, a local desktop AI agent that can run up to 300 parallel agents and, via a WebBridge extension, navigate browsers to search, scroll and interact.
Google Gemma: Announces Gemma 4 12B, a unified encoder‑free multimodal model for laptops released under an Apache 2.0 license. Google AI Developers: Highlights that Gemma 4 12B bridges their mobile E4B and larger 26B MoE models, offering frontier‑class reasoning and native audio. NVIDIA: Notes local AI agents advancing on DGX Spark and RTX PCs, with OpenShell arriving on Windows, new agentic AI optimizations, Broadcast 2.2, and upcoming RTX acceleration for Adobe apps and Blender. Visual Studio Code: Reports May updates—Agents window now stable, BYOK with air‑gapped support, and an integrated browser that can emulate devices and preview HTML without extensions. Ideogram: Introduces Ideogram 4.0, an open image model with downloadable weights, fine‑tuning on personal data, and availability across all plans and the API.
