What changed in AI tools, week of 3 Aug 2026
3 Aug 2026 to 9 Aug 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.
Agents
- OpenHands 7 Aug 2026 · Model upgrade · GLM 5.2 Set as Default Hosted Model source
- Bretton AI 6 Aug 2026 · Integration · MVB Bank selects Bretton AI for back-office compliance operations source
- Muse Code 5 Aug 2026 · Release · Muse Code launches in public beta on Muse Spark 1.2 source
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Skills
- Kernel 7 Aug 2026 · Release · Kernel Terraform provider launches on the Terraform Registry source
Models
- Wan-Animate-2 7 Aug 2026 · Release · Wan-Animate-2 launches with direct driving-video DiT and text-driven camera control source
- Grok Imagine Image 2.0 7 Aug 2026 · Release · Grok Imagine Image 2.0 ships as Quality Mode source
- Wan-Animate-2 6 Aug 2026 · Benchmark · Blind user study: Wan-Animate-2 beats predecessor, matches closed rivals source
- Wan 3.0 6 Aug 2026 · Release · Wan 3.0 opens public beta source
- Muse Spark 1.3 5 Aug 2026 · Release · Muse Spark 1.2 shipped with Muse Code and the Contributor tier source
- SeedRealtime 5 Aug 2026 · Release · SeedRealtime launches as ByteDance Seed's first audio-visual full-duplex model source
- Shieldstral 1.0 4 Aug 2026 · Release · Shieldstral 1.0 launches as Mistral's first dedicated guard model source
- FLUX 3 4 Aug 2026 · Release · FLUX 3 Video reaches general availability source
- Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B 3 Aug 2026 · Release · Qwen3.8-Max reaches general availability on QwenCloud source
- MiniMax H3 3 Aug 2026 · Release · MiniMax H3 open weights released on Hugging Face source
- Qwen3.8-Max 3 Aug 2026 · Release · Qwen3.8-Max reaches general availability source
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