What changed in AI tools, week of 24 Aug 2026

24 Aug 2026 to 30 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.

Tools

New on HokAI

• Sohar Health added 30 Aug 2026
• Senso added 30 Aug 2026
• Sennu AI added 30 Aug 2026
• Sendbird added 27 Aug 2026
• Readily added 27 Aug 2026
• Plivo added 27 Aug 2026
• Pixley AI added 26 Aug 2026
• Open added 26 Aug 2026
• Trylle added 25 Aug 2026
• NuMind added 25 Aug 2026
• Mathos AI added 25 Aug 2026
• Marr Labs added 24 Aug 2026
• Maitai added 24 Aug 2026
• Kashikoi added 24 Aug 2026

Agents

• Marblism 25 Aug 2026 · Pricing change · Marblism shifts homepage fully to the AI Employees framing source

New on HokAI

• Marblism added 25 Aug 2026

Models

• ChatGPT Images 2.5 30 Aug 2026 · Deprecation · OpenAI retires DALL-E from ChatGPT and the API source
• Hy4 Preview 28 Aug 2026 · Release · Hy4 Preview open-weight release source
• Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash 28 Aug 2026 · Benchmark · Tops Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video Arenas source
• Ling 3.0 Flash Fin 27 Aug 2026 · Release · Ling 3.0 Flash Fin released as InclusionAI's first finance-domain model source
• Cohere Parse 5 27 Aug 2026 · New feature · Available in Microsoft Foundry model catalog source
• Cohere Parse 5 27 Aug 2026 · Release · Parse (parse-v5.0) generally available source
• Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash 27 Aug 2026 · Deprecation · gemini-omni-flash-preview endpoint scheduled for retirement source
• Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash 27 Aug 2026 · Release · Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash reaches general availability source
• GLM-5.3-Flash 26 Aug 2026 · Release · Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is GLM-5.3-Flash, publishes open weights source
• Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 26 Aug 2026 · Release · Qwen3.8-Flash-Next launches as an open-weight preview of the Qwen4 architecture source
• Gemini 3.5 Transcribe 26 Aug 2026 · Release · Gemini 3.5 Transcribe enters public preview source

New on HokAI

• GLM-5.3-Flash added 27 Aug 2026
• Qwen3.8-Flash-Next added 27 Aug 2026
• Gemini 3.5 Transcribe added 27 Aug 2026
• DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp added 24 Aug 2026

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