Retell puts AI-powered phone calls at business scale
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-28 Retell says OpenAI models help power 100M calls each month.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
CodeRabbit brings AI into software security reviews
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-27 OpenAI says CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
Nanbeige releases an AI model built to teach smaller AI workers
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-26 No corporate AI lab announced a new release today.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
Kimi releases a new AI model for long, complex work
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-25 Kimi says Kimi K3.1 Pro and Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed are available today on Kimi.ai, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API.͏...
OpenAI speeds up ChatGPT’s behind-the-scenes data access
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-24 OpenAI says its Habitat storage system delivers 12 times faster reads for ChatGPT.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
OpenAI releases a faster way for apps to make routine decisions
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-23 OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
Recursive releases Flint to help AI tackle software jobs
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-22 Recursive describes Flint as a model built to inspect software projects, fix bugs, add features and write tests.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
A new release aims to make AI quicker on Apple laptops
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-21 Ye says the team released Kapitsa 0.2, an open-source engine for running Qwen and Nemotron models on Apple computers, with a...
Meta completes the first phase of its massive AI training center
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-20 Meta says the first phase of Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale AI training center, is complete.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
Deepseek puts a lower-cost coding model in the spotlight
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-19 Deepseek released V4.1-Flash-1017 with model weights that others can download and run, according to a Reddit report.͏ ͏ ͏...
AI coding assistants get a way to check their work before delivery
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-18 WorkOS presenters Nick Nisi and Zack Proser demonstrated a way for AI coding assistants to check their own work.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
Perplexity makes its new AI model much smaller
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-17 Highlighted by @ClementDelangue on X, Perplexity’s pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 is about one seventh the size of pplx-...
OpenAI offers research labs a new way to use AI for life sciences…
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-16 OpenAI introduced the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and life...
Amp gives its coding assistant a bigger role in building software
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-15 OpenAI says its models account for most of the text processed by Amp.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏...
Google’s new AI model reaches businesses worldwide
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-14 Logan Kilpatrick announced the rollout of Gemini 4 Argon on X, and Google says the model is now available globally to...
Meta puts idle AI computing power to work on ads
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-13 Meta says it built a system that gathers unused AI computing capacity across its equipment and puts it to work improving ad...
Anthropic shows an AI research desk checking its work
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-12 A newly published Anthropic workshop offers a practical example: its research desk combines specialized AI workers, a custom...
A hotel-booking AI meets a real-world safety test
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-11 Before giving an AI worker access to bookings or customer records, make sure the software connecting it to those systems can...
The expensive AI question: who gets the next turn?
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-10 When buying AI services, ask about reliable response times as well as model capability; a useful answer that arrives too late...
Anthropic commits $150 million to federal science.
The Frontier Brief — 2026-10-09 The next valuable AI purchase may be less about a clever answer and more about whether the assistant can use your...