What changed in AI tools, week of 20 Apr 2026

20 Apr 2026 to 26 Apr 2026. Every line is a dated change on a HokAI record: a release, a pricing move, a new feature or a deprecation, with the vendor source where there is one. Not sure what any of it means for you? Ask Smart Match what fits your job and budget.

Tools

• Asendia AI 23 Apr 2026 · Release · Asendia AI launches as YC-backed AI recruiter cloning platform source
• Beehiiv 23 Apr 2026 · New feature · Beehiiv adds webinars and customizable paywalls for creators source

New on HokAI

• Ada added 26 Apr 2026
• Sellesta added 25 Apr 2026
• Algolia added 25 Apr 2026
• Gong added 25 Apr 2026
• Zendesk added 25 Apr 2026
• Intercom added 24 Apr 2026
• Chatbase added 24 Apr 2026
• Hootsuite added 24 Apr 2026
• Sprout Social added 24 Apr 2026
• Brandwatch added 24 Apr 2026
• Cassidy added 24 Apr 2026
• SuperAGI added 24 Apr 2026
• Lindy added 24 Apr 2026
• Vic.ai added 24 Apr 2026
• Trigger.dev added 20 Apr 2026
• AIML API added 20 Apr 2026
• Ninja AI added 19 Apr 2026
• Treblle added 19 Apr 2026
• OpenPipe added 19 Apr 2026
• Atoms added 19 Apr 2026
• Runcell added 19 Apr 2026
• Trae added 19 Apr 2026

Agents

• Fugu 24 Apr 2026 · Release · Fugu beta announced source
• Gemini CLI 24 Apr 2026 · Security · CVSS 10.0 remote-code-execution flaw patched source

Services

• Podflare 24 Apr 2026 · New feature · Interactive PTY sessions and edge router upgrade source
• Google Vertex AI 22 Apr 2026 · Release · Vertex AI renamed Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform source
• AITECH Cloud Network 22 Apr 2026 · Breaking change · Solidus AI Tech rebrands to AITECH Cloud Network, migrates $AITECH to Ethereum as $ACN source
• Podflare 22 Apr 2026 · Release · Podflare platform launch with 5-region availability source

Models

• DeepSeek-V4-Pro 26 Apr 2026 · Pricing change · 75% Promotional Price Cut Active Until May 31, 2026 source
• DeepSeek V4 26 Apr 2026 · New feature · V4-Pro and V4-Flash available on Fireworks AI at 167.1 t/s peak throughput source
• DeepSeek-V4-Pro 24 Apr 2026 · Deprecation · Legacy deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner Aliases Retire July 24, 2026 source
• DeepSeek-V4-Pro 24 Apr 2026 · Release · DeepSeek-V4-Pro Preview Launch: 1.6T MoE, 1M Context, MIT License source
• DeepSeek-V4 Flash 24 Apr 2026 · Release · DeepSeek-V4 Flash Public Preview (April 24, 2026) source
• DeepSeek V4 24 Apr 2026 · Release · DeepSeek V4 preview launches with 1.6T MoE, MIT license, 80.6% SWE-bench source
• DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 24 Apr 2026 · Release · DeepSeek-V4-Pro preview launch source
• DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 24 Apr 2026 · Release · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Preview (0424) first public preview source
• GPT-5.5 Pro 24 Apr 2026 · Release · GPT-5.5 Pro reaches general availability via the API source
• GPT-5.5 23 Apr 2026 · Release · GPT-5.5 launches with unified multimodal architecture and 88.7% SWE-bench source
• GPT-5.4 23 Apr 2026 · Deprecation · GPT-5.4 superseded as flagship by GPT-5.5 source
• Qwen3.6-27B 22 Apr 2026 · Release · Qwen3.6-27B launches, beating its own 397B predecessor on coding source
• GPT Image 2 21 Apr 2026 · Release · GPT Image 2 officially launched (ChatGPT Images 2.0) source
• Kimi K2.7-Code 20 Apr 2026 · Release · Kimi K2.6 released with 300-agent Agent Swarm source

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