What changed in AI tools, week of 27 Apr 2026
27 Apr 2026 to 3 May 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
New on HokAI
Agents
- Brickanta 1 May 2026 · New feature · Brickanta acquires Praxiom AI to build a construction-law module source
- Salient 1 May 2026 · Release · Taylor 2.1: cross-channel memory and real-time negotiation source
- Artisan 1 May 2026 · Release · Artisan launches Ava 2.0, its first fully autonomous AI BDR source
- Care GP 1 May 2026 · Release · Care GP joins Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch source
- Rogo 1 May 2026 · New feature · Felix autonomous email tasks, memory, and Custom MCP (May 2026) source
- Rogo 29 Apr 2026 · Release · Rogo raises $160M Series D at $2B valuation (April 2026) source
Skills
- AgentCard 1 May 2026 · New feature · Hold-based card funding replaces wallet model source
- Skill Creator 1 May 2026 · New feature · Added Domain Organization Pattern for Large Skills source
Services
Models
- Grok 4.20 1 May 2026 · Pricing change · Pricing Cut to $1.25/$2.50 per 1M Tokens source
- Muse Spark 1.3 1 May 2026 · Benchmark · Muse Spark reaches #5 on Chatbot Arena with 1491 Elo (May 2026) source
- Seed 2.0 Pro 30 Apr 2026 · New feature · Seed 2.0 Lite upgraded with improved reasoning (April 2026) source
- Grok 4.3 30 Apr 2026 · Release · Grok 4.3 launches with major GDPval-AA agentic gain source
- Mistral Large 3 30 Apr 2026 · New feature · Reasoning variant of Large 3 announced, not yet shipped source
- HappyHorse 1.0 28 Apr 2026 · Release · HappyHorse 1.0 launches in limited beta source
- Mistral Medium 3 28 Apr 2026 · Deprecation · Mistral Medium 3.5 launches; Medium 3 scheduled for retirement source
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