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New AI Tools to Try in June 2026 — Monthly Tracker

New AI Tools June 2026 — Monthly Roundup | AllInOneAICenter
📅 Missed last month? Catch up on May 2026 — agentic AI, Google I/O, DeepSeek V4, and more.
New AI Tools in May 2026 →
June 2026 is the month AI goes from frontier research to everyday infrastructure. Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic's most capable publicly available model ever, built on the Mythos architecture — launched June 9 and is free for Pro/Max/Team subscribers through June 22. Perplexity's Comet browser turns the act of browsing into an agentic workflow. Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is now GA and undercutting everyone on price. GPT-5.5 Instant quietly became the most-used default AI model in history. And Google Flow + Veo 3 made AI video generation feel like actual filmmaking for the first time.
How this tracker works: New tool launches and updates are added as they drop throughout June. Each entry includes what actually changed, who it matters for, and a realistic assessment — no hype. Bookmark and return.

🧠 Claude Mythos Preview — The Backstory (→ Now Launched as Fable 5)

Update June 9: Claude Mythos has now launched publicly as Claude Fable 5. Jump to the full breakdown → The section below is the pre-launch context from June 1.

The biggest AI story entering June was Anthropic's Claude Mythos. First teased in March and previewed in limited release to security researchers via Project Glasswing, Mythos was cleared for broad release "in the coming weeks." It launched June 9, 2026 as Claude Fable 5 (public) and Claude Mythos 5 (restricted partners).

Mythos is the model Anthropic previously said was too powerful to release publicly. It was originally gated because it demonstrated a "step change" in autonomous cybersecurity capabilities — specifically, the ability to find zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Anthropic ran it first for defenders, not attackers: Project Glasswing used Mythos to patch thousands of critical software vulnerabilities before the model came anywhere near the general public.

What changed: Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation in late May 2026 and simultaneously said it had made "swift progress" on safety safeguards. The raise and the Mythos release are directly connected — the company needed the safety story solid before it could unlock the product that justifies the valuation.

Claude Mythos
New · June 2026 Flagship

By: Anthropic. The most capable Claude model to date — a class above Opus 4.8. Exceptional at cybersecurity, complex reasoning, autonomous agentic tasks, and long-horizon planning. Initially previewed to security researchers via Project Glasswing, now moving to broad release. Benchmarks not yet fully public, but internal Anthropic tests show it outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 (which already outperforms GPT-5.5 in most categories but one).

Who it matters for: Security teams, enterprise automation, and power users running complex multi-step agents. For developers: wait for the API pricing announcement before committing pipelines — Mythos-tier models typically come at 3–5× the cost of Sonnet/Flash alternatives.

Context: Claude Opus 4.8 — What Mythos is Replacing

Before Mythos ships broadly, Claude Opus 4.8 (released May 28, 2026) remains the current best Anthropic model. It outperforms GPT-5.5 in all but one benchmark category, is four times less likely to let code bugs pass without flagging them, and is significantly harder to manipulate into deceptive outputs than Opus 4.7. If you are running enterprise workloads today, Opus 4.8 is the floor — Mythos will be the ceiling.

⚡ Gemini 3.5 Flash GA + Gemini Spark

Google's big post-I/O 2026 landing: Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available across the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Android Studio. This is the first model in Google's new "Antigravity" architecture — a design philosophy combining frontier-level intelligence with real-time action capabilities at Flash-tier speed and price.

At $0.10 per million input tokens, Gemini 3.5 Flash is the cheapest production-grade model available from a major provider that matches frontier performance on agentic and coding tasks. It supports Managed Agents — a single API call provisions a remote Linux environment where the agent can reason, plan, execute code, manage files, and browse the live web. For startups and developers building agentic products, this is the most cost-effective entry point in June 2026.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash
GA · June 2026 $0.10/M tokens

By: Google. The most capable Flash-tier model Google has shipped. GA across Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Android Studio. Built for sustained agentic and coding tasks at speed. Managed Agents support via single API call — remote Linux environment with code execution and live web browsing baked in.

Who it matters for: Developers building high-volume agentic pipelines where cost matters. At $0.10/M input it undercuts Gemini 3.1 Flash and matches DeepSeek V4-Flash for price on mainstream cloud infrastructure — without the self-hosting overhead.

Gemini Spark — The 24/7 Workplace Agent

Gemini Spark is Google's answer to enterprise agentic AI. Available to Gemini Enterprise and Google Workspace customers, Spark is described as a 24/7 personal AI agent that autonomously acts on your behalf — booking meetings, processing emails, summarising documents, and executing multi-step work tasks under your direction. Think of it less as a chatbot and more as a fully automated junior team member that never sleeps and doesn't need Slack onboarding.

Gemini Spark
New Enterprise

By: Google. Enterprise-tier 24/7 AI agent available to Gemini Enterprise and Workspace customers. Autonomously manages tasks — email triage, meeting scheduling, document summarisation, workflow execution — under user direction. Integrated natively across Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Meet.

Who it matters for: Enterprise knowledge workers spending 30%+ of their week on administrative overhead. Spark isn't a productivity enhancement — it's task delegation at scale. Requires Gemini Enterprise subscription.

🌐 Perplexity Comet — The AI-Native Browser

Perplexity's Comet browser is the most ambitious product launch of mid-2026. Initially previewed for Max plan subscribers ($200/month), Comet is now available globally across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows — and Perplexity made it free for all users. That is not a typo. A browser that synthesises live web research into cited reports, executes agentic tasks on your behalf, and upgrades Deep Research to state-of-the-art quality — free.

What makes Comet different from Chrome + an AI extension: the AI is not bolted on — it browses with you. When you open a page, Comet can immediately summarise it, compare it against other sources you've visited, extract structured data, or act on it (booking a table, filing a form, reserving a slot). The underlying Deep Research for Pro and Max users now runs on Claude Opus 4.5 and can generate presentations, spreadsheets, dashboards, and websites directly from research results.

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Perplexity Comet
GA · Global Free

By: Perplexity AI. AI-native browser available on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. Built-in assistant browses with you — summarising, comparing, extracting, and acting on web content. Deep Research (Pro/Max users) now generates presentations, spreadsheets, and dashboards directly. Runs on Claude Opus 4.5 for enhanced research quality.

Who it matters for: Researchers, analysts, and anyone spending hours cross-referencing sources. Comet doesn't just help you find information — it synthesises and acts on it. The free tier is genuinely capable; Max tier ($200/month) unlocks full Deep Research with output generation.

🎬 Video walkthrough of the biggest AI tool launches in June 2026

💬 GPT-5.5 Instant — The New ChatGPT Default

OpenAI quietly made a significant swap: GPT-5.5 Instant is now the default model across all ChatGPT tiers, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant. The upgrade is not just a version bump — internal evaluations show GPT-5.5 Instant produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims than its predecessor on high-stakes prompts covering medicine, law, and finance. That is a meaningful reliability jump for everyday users who don't distinguish between model versions.

It also rolls out in the API as chat-latest, meaning any application that points to the default endpoint gets the upgrade without code changes. Worth noting: GPT-4.5 retires from ChatGPT on June 27, 2026 following a 30-day sunset period. If you have any workflow or application still referencing GPT-4.5, migrate now.

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GPT-5.5 Instant
Default Model

By: OpenAI. New default ChatGPT model replacing GPT-5.3 Instant across all tiers. 52.5% fewer hallucinations than predecessor on medicine, law, and finance prompts. Also available in API as chat-latest. Memory sources now surface what context was used to personalise responses, with individual delete/correction controls.

Who it matters for: Everyone using ChatGPT — you are already on it. For API developers: if you reference chat-latest you get this automatically. ⚠️ Action required: migrate any GPT-4.5 references before June 27 when that endpoint retires.

📱 Gemini in Chrome for Android — Now Live

Now Live — Gemini in Chrome for Android has launched and is rolling out to eligible users across select regions.

Gemini in Chrome for Android is now live — a native AI assistant embedded directly into Chrome, not bolted on as an extension. On Android, Gemini works with anything on your screen including Chrome itself, giving it full-page context as you browse. It can deliver key takeaways, clarify concepts, compare options across open tabs, and find answers based on what you're currently reading — without ever switching apps.

Two standout features: Auto Browse — Gemini autonomously completes background tasks (appointment booking, parking reservation, form fills) while you stay in control at each step. Rambler — a voice-to-text polish tool that cleans up spoken messages or builds custom browser widgets from natural language descriptions. On iOS, Gemini is built directly into the Chrome app via the omnibox. Rolling out now to eligible users in select regions; broader global rollout to follow.

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Gemini in Chrome for Android
Live Now

By: Google. Native Gemini assistant embedded in Chrome for Android — not an extension, a first-class browser feature. Works with anything on your screen, including Chrome tabs. Summarises pages, compares content across tabs, answers questions in context. Auto Browse for autonomous background task completion. Rambler for voice message polish and natural-language widget creation. Rolling out to select regions; iOS gets Gemini in Chrome omnibox.

Who it matters for: Android users who currently have 3–4 tabs open trying to research the same thing. Auto Browse is the feature to watch — autonomous background task completion from within the browser is a meaningful UX shift. For iOS users: access is via the Chrome omnibox, slightly different experience but now available.

🛠️ Developer Tools: Managed Agents, Glasswing & More

Google Managed Agents — Public Preview

Google launched Managed Agents in the Gemini API in public preview. A single API call provisions a full remote Linux environment where an agent can plan, execute code, manage files, and browse the web — all in a sandboxed, isolated runtime. This is Google's answer to OpenAI's Code Interpreter and Anthropic's computer use — but designed from the ground up for production agentic deployments, not just demos.

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Google Managed Agents (Gemini API)
Public Preview

By: Google. Single API call provisions a remote sandboxed Linux environment for AI agents — plan, reason, execute code, manage files, browse live web. Fully managed runtime means no infrastructure to spin up. Available through Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

Who it matters for: Developers building production agentic systems who don't want to manage their own execution environments. Pairs naturally with Gemini 3.5 Flash for cost-efficient agentic workflows.

Project Glasswing — Open Source Security Collaboration

Anthropic's Project Glasswing is not a consumer product — but it is the most consequential AI safety deployment of 2026. Using Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major OS and browser, then gave that access to critical industry partners and open-source developers to patch the vulnerabilities before broad model release. June marks when those patches ship publicly and Glasswing transitions from closed to open collaboration.

Google Pics
Google · June 2026

New image generation and editing tool from Google, integrated into Workspace. Supports natural-language prompts for both creation and in-place editing.

Gemini AI Ultra Plan
Google · $100/month

New $100/month tier specifically for developers, technical leads, and advanced creators. Unlocks the full Gemini model suite and priority API access.

Gemini Intelligence
Google · Android · Proactive

Proactive on-device AI for Android. Surfaces suggestions, handles routine tasks, and anticipates needs across apps without requiring a prompt from the user.

Gemini Omni
Google · Video + Multimodal

Google's most advanced multimodal model. Creates from any input — text, image, audio, video simultaneously. Described as "a leap forward in world understanding, multimodality and editing."

📅 What's Still Coming in June 2026

June 2026 Pipeline — Updated June 21
✅ Launched June 9
Claude Fable 5 — ⚠️ Currently SuspendedLaunched June 9, suspended June 12 by US government export control directive. All other Claude models remain accessible. See full story →
✅ Now Live
Gemini in Chrome for AndroidNative browser AI with Auto Browse and full-screen context. Rolling out to eligible users in select regions. iOS via Chrome omnibox. See details →
✅ Launched June 1
MiniMax M3 + ZoomMateMiniMax M3: open-weight 1M-context frontier coding model, beats GPT-5.5 on SWEBench Pro. ZoomMate: Zoom's agentic AI meeting assistant, $20/user/month. See full breakdown →
🔵 Preview
Gemini 3.5 ProIn limited Vertex AI preview. 2M-token context, Deep Think reasoning, frontier multimodal. GA expected before June 30. Pricing ~$15/$60 per M (unconfirmed). Details →
🔶 Leaked
GPT-5.6 (codename: ember-alpha)Surfaced in Codex logs. Rumoured 1.5M-token context (+43% over GPT-5.5). No official OpenAI date. Prediction markets: 80–89% probability of June launch.
⏳ Pending
Claude Sonnet 4.8Leaked via Anthropic npm source map in March. No official release yet. Expected to bring Opus 4.8-level improvements to the mid-tier Sonnet lane.
⚠️ June 27
GPT-4.5 RetirementOpenAI retiring GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT and API on June 27. Migrate any references to GPT-5.5 Instant or a pinned version before this date.
Q2 End
DeepSeek V4 Promo ExpiryDeepSeek's 75% promotional discount on V4-Pro was running through May 31. Check current pricing before assuming $0.44/M is still live — post-promo rate is $1.74/M input (cache miss).
🆕 Update — June 2–3, 2026
Microsoft Build 2026 + Anthropic IPO Filing
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Project Polaris — Microsoft's own AI coding model
Microsoft · Announced June 2

Microsoft revealed Project Polaris — a purpose-built coding AI that will replace GPT-4 Turbo as the default engine in GitHub Copilot starting August 2026. Polaris runs on Microsoft's own Maia 200 chips, built specifically for code generation, multi-file refactoring, test writing, and autonomous bug fixing. A three-month fallback period lets teams stay on GPT-4 if needed. This is Microsoft's first step toward owning its AI stack end-to-end — separating Copilot from OpenAI's model dependency.

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Windows Agent Framework 1.0 — open-sourced (MIT)
Microsoft · Open Source · June 2

Microsoft open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework at Build 2026 under the MIT licence. WAF lets developers build agents that run on local Windows machines, Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and Azure Arc edge devices — with a built-in human approval queue for privileged actions. Works with any AI model (not just Microsoft's). Visual Studio 2026 ships WAF project templates today. This is how third-party agents will integrate with Windows for the next decade.

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Azure Agent Mesh — multi-cloud agent orchestration
Microsoft · Azure · June 2

Azure Agent Mesh federates AI agent execution across Azure, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, on-premise systems, and edge devices — all under a single governance layer (Entra ID + Purview). It's the first Microsoft product explicitly designed as multi-cloud. For regulated industries where agents need to touch data across hybrid environments without losing audit trails, this is the enterprise answer.

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Foundry Local GA — on-device AI for Windows, Mac & Linux
Microsoft · Free · Generally Available

Foundry Local hit GA at Build — full AI inference on-device with no cloud dependency, no data leaving the device, no per-token cost. Runs on NPU (Qualcomm Snapdragon X, Intel Lunar Lake), GPU, or CPU. Supports open-source and proprietary models through the same API as Azure AI Foundry cloud. DirectML 2.0 unifies NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm GPU targets. Download it free for Windows, macOS Apple Silicon, and Linux x64.

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MAI Models go commercial — Transcribe, Voice, Image
Microsoft · Azure AI Foundry · June 2

Microsoft's own MAI models are now available to all developers for commercial use via Azure AI Foundry: MAI-Transcribe-1 (speech-to-text), MAI-Voice-1 (1 min of audio in under 1 second on a single GPU, with multi-speaker support), and MAI-Image-2-Efficient (fast, cost-optimised image generation). These are Microsoft-built — not OpenAI re-packaged. The MAI team's first public commercial release.

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Anthropic files for IPO — first frontier AI lab to go public
Anthropic · June 2, 2026

Anthropic filed its IPO with the SEC on June 2, following its $65B funding round at a $965B post-money valuation. It's positioned as the first major AI pure-play to go public, ahead of OpenAI's September 2026 target. Expected listing: October 2026. The S-1 will need to disclose how Anthropic's Public Benefit Corporation structure interacts with public shareholder rights — a first for the frontier AI space.

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Claude now first-party in Azure AI Foundry
Anthropic + Microsoft · June 2

Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 are now first-class options in Azure AI Foundry alongside OpenAI, DeepSeek, Llama 4, and Mistral — with the same enterprise SLAs, Entra ID identity, Purview data governance, and billing infrastructure as Microsoft's own models. Enterprise developers can now use Claude through existing Azure agreements without separate Anthropic API credentials.

🧑‍💻 Try These Yourself — Right Now, Free

Three tools from June 2026 you can personally test today with zero cost and no waitlist. No credit card required for any of them.

Test 1 — Gemini 3.5 Flash API
Free · Google AI Studio · Works in 2 minutes

Get a free API key from Google AI Studio (just a Google account), then run one of the snippets below. The free tier gives you 1,500 requests/day — more than enough to test properly.

1
Get your free API key

Go to aistudio.google.com/apikey → sign in with Google → click Create API key. Copy it. That's it.

2
Install the SDK
pip install google-generativeai
3
Run this — basic chat
import google.generativeai as genai

genai.configure(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemini-2.5-flash")

response = model.generate_content("List 5 ways AI is changing content creation in 2026")
print(response.text)
4
Try streaming (feels faster)
response = model.generate_content(
  "Write a 100-word Instagram caption about AI tools",
  stream=True
)
for chunk in response:
  print(chunk.text, end="", flush=True)
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Bonus — analyse an image from URL
import httpx, PIL.Image, io

img_url = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/PNG_transparency_demonstration_1.png/280px-PNG_transparency_demonstration_1.png"
img = PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(httpx.get(img_url).content))

response = model.generate_content(["Describe what you see in this image", img])
print(response.text)

Install extras: pip install Pillow httpx

💡 What to notice: Speed. Flash generates ~500 tokens/second. Compare it to any other model you use daily — the gap is obvious. At $0.10/M input tokens it's also the cheapest capable model available via API right now.
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Test 2 — Perplexity Comet Browser
Free · No install needed on mobile · Test in 5 tasks

Comet is a browser — so the best way to test it is to actually browse with it and compare to Chrome/Safari. Here are 5 specific tasks that demonstrate what's different:

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Task 1 — Research comparison

Type: "Compare the top 3 AI video tools in 2026 — pricing, quality, free tier". In Chrome you'd open 6 tabs. In Comet you get a cited synthesis in one response. Time both. The difference is the feature.

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Task 2 — Summarise a live webpage

Navigate to any long article, then ask Comet: "Summarise this page in 5 bullet points and tell me the 3 most important facts". It reads the current page in context — no copy-paste needed.

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Task 3 — Product research

Ask: "Find me the best budget mirrorless camera under £500 in 2026 — compare specs, reviews and current UK prices". Comet pulls live pricing and review data across multiple sites and ranks them for you.

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Task 4 — Draft from web content

Navigate to a competitor's website and ask: "Write me a blog post outline on this topic in a different angle — more beginner-friendly". Comet reads the page and generates new content based on it.

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Task 5 — Agentic task (most impressive)

Ask: "Find the 5 best-rated free AI tools launched in the last 30 days, summarise what each does, and create a comparison table". Comet will autonomously browse multiple sources, extract data, and format the output — without you doing anything.

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Test 3 — Project Polaris / GitHub Copilot
⏳ August 2026
Polaris not live yet — but you can prepare and benchmark now
Why you can't test Polaris today: Project Polaris is Microsoft's in-house coding model that replaces GPT-4 Turbo inside GitHub Copilot — but it doesn't go live until August 2026. There's no standalone Polaris access, no API, no waitlist. The migration is automatic for all GitHub Copilot subscribers, with a 3-month GPT-4 fallback option.

What you can do now: Set up GitHub Copilot, run a benchmark on your real code tasks today, then rerun the exact same tasks in August when Polaris is the default. You'll have a direct before/after comparison — which is more useful than any review.

1
Start a free Copilot trial

Go to github.com/features/copilot — free 30-day trial, no credit card needed to start. Install the VS Code extension: search GitHub Copilot in the Extensions panel.

2
Switch to Claude Opus 4.8 (the current best backend)

GitHub Copilot now lets you choose your model. In VS Code: open Settings → search Copilot model → select Claude Opus 4.8. This is the model Polaris needs to beat — run your real tasks on it first.

# VS Code settings.json — set Copilot model
{
  "github.copilot.chat.defaultModel": "claude-opus-4-8"
}
3
Run these 5 benchmark tasks now — repeat in August with Polaris
Task A — Multi-file refactor: Open a real project file with a function used in 5+ places. Ask Copilot Chat: "Refactor this function to accept a config object instead of individual params — update all call sites". Note: did it find all call sites?
Task B — Bug fix from error: Paste a stack trace into Copilot Chat and ask: "Here's a runtime error. Find the root cause and fix it". Rate: did it find the actual cause or just treat the symptom?
Task C — Write tests: Highlight a function and ask: "Write comprehensive unit tests for this — cover edge cases, null inputs, and error states". Count how many tests it writes and how many actually run without errors.
Task D — Explain unfamiliar code: Open a file you didn't write. Ask: "Walk me through what this entire file does, what each function is responsible for, and where I'd look if something broke".
Task E — Build from scratch: Ask: "Build a REST API endpoint that accepts a POST request with {name, email}, validates both fields, and returns a JSON response" in your stack of choice. Does it produce working code first try?
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Score each task 1–5, save the results
# Save this somewhere — compare again in August
Date: June 2026 · Model: Claude Opus 4.8
Task A (multi-file refactor):  __ / 5
Task B (bug from stack trace): __ / 5
Task C (unit tests written):   __ / 5
Task D (code explanation):    __ / 5
Task E (build from scratch):   __ / 5
Total: __ / 25
🗓️ Set a reminder for August 2026. When Polaris goes live, run the same 5 tasks on the same code. The score difference is your personal benchmark of whether Polaris is actually better than what you have today — no benchmark paper required.

🛠️ Hands-On: Try Foundry Local in 5 Minutes (Free, No Cloud)

Foundry Local is the easiest of the June 2026 launches to test right now — it's free, works on Windows, macOS Apple Silicon, and Linux, and runs entirely on-device. Here's how to go from zero to running your first local AI model in under 5 minutes.

What you need: Windows 11 (22H2+), macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon), or Ubuntu 22.04+ · No GPU required (runs on CPU too, just slower) · 8 GB RAM minimum · 4 GB free disk space
1
Install Foundry Local

Open your terminal and run the installer for your platform:

# macOS / Linux
curl -sSL https://foundrylocal.microsoft.com/install.sh | bash

# Windows (PowerShell as Admin)
irm https://foundrylocal.microsoft.com/install.ps1 | iex

The installer detects your hardware (NPU, GPU, or CPU) and configures DirectML automatically. Takes ~90 seconds.

2
Pull your first model

Foundry Local uses a Docker-style pull command. For a fast first test, grab Phi-4-mini (3.8B parameters, runs well on CPU):

foundry model pull phi-4-mini

# Or for Apple Silicon (runs on Neural Engine):
foundry model pull phi-4-mini --device mps

# Or for NVIDIA GPU:
foundry model pull phi-4-mini --device cuda

Download is ~2.2 GB. Other available models: llama-4-scout, mistral-7b, deepseek-r1-8b

3
Start the local server

Foundry Local exposes an OpenAI-compatible REST API on localhost. Start it with:

foundry serve phi-4-mini --port 11434

You'll see Foundry Local running at http://localhost:11434. It's ready to accept requests.

4
Send your first request

Use curl or any OpenAI-compatible SDK. It's the same API you already know:

# curl
curl http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"phi-4-mini","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Explain AI agents in 2 sentences"}]}'

# Python (openai SDK)
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:11434/v1", api_key="none")
r = client.chat.completions.create(model="phi-4-mini", messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Explain AI agents in 2 sentences"}])
print(r.choices[0].message.content)

The api_key="none" is intentional — Foundry Local doesn't require auth on localhost.

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Point your existing app at it (optional)

Because Foundry Local is OpenAI-compatible, you can point tools like Open WebUI, Continue.dev (VS Code), or your own app at it with one config change:

# Open WebUI — run with Docker, point at Foundry Local
docker run -d -p 3000:8080 \
  -e OPENAI_API_BASE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:11434/v1 \
  -e OPENAI_API_KEY=none \
  ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

# Then open http://localhost:3000 — full ChatGPT-style UI, 100% local

Everything runs locally. No tokens, no billing, no data leaving your machine.

🧪 Prompt Idea Tester — June 2026 Tools

Pick a prompt scenario below and see the recommended tool from June's launches to handle it. Useful for deciding which new tool is actually worth testing first for your workflow.

🗓️ June 4, 2026 — AI Creative Tools

Google Flow + Veo 3 — AI Filmmaking with Native Audio

Google Flow is the most complete AI video production tool available today. Built on Veo 3 (and now Veo 3.1), it combines text-to-video generation, a timeline editor (Scene Builder), camera controls, character consistency (Ingredients), mood board creation (Whisk), and text-to-image (ImageFX) — all inside one workspace. The headline feature that separates it from every competitor: native audio generation. Dialogue, sound effects, and ambient audio are produced in a single pass alongside the video. No separate pipeline, no syncing — the character's lips move with their voice.

Veo 3.1 extends this with 4K output, spatial audio, up to 8-second clips, and significantly better character consistency across scenes. For content creators, marketers, and indie filmmakers, it removes the most painful bottleneck in AI video: assembling a coherent sequence where characters look and sound the same from clip to clip.

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Google Flow + Veo 3.1
New · June 2026 AI Video

By: Google Labs. Full AI filmmaking pipeline — text-to-video, camera controls, timeline editor, character consistency, and native synchronized audio in a single workspace. Powered by Veo 3.1 with 4K output and spatial audio. Available via Google AI Pro ($19.99/mo) and Ultra ($249.99/mo).

Who it matters for: Content creators, marketers, indie filmmakers, and anyone who has tried AI video tools and been frustrated by character drift or silent output. The camera controls alone make it feel like actual directing rather than just prompting. Full guide + real video examples →

Google Gemini Storybook — Free AI Illustrated Books

Gemini Storybook quietly became one of the most accessible AI creative tools Google has shipped. Type a prompt — or upload a child's drawing or photo — and Gemini generates a full 10-page illustrated storybook with custom art and read-aloud narration in over 45 languages. No design skills needed. No subscription. No credits. It works in the standard Gemini interface under the Storybook option.

Art styles include Watercolour, Claymation, Coloring Book, Sketch, Comic Strip, and Pixel Art. Watercolour and Claymation produce the most consistently impressive outputs. The main limitation: character appearance can drift slightly between pages — the same character may look subtly different on page 4 versus page 1. For casual use and children's stories, this is a non-issue. For professional storyboards, it's worth knowing upfront.

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Google Gemini Storybook
Free · June 2026 AI Creative

By: Google. Free 10-page illustrated storybook generator with AI narration in 45+ languages. Multiple art styles including Watercolour, Claymation, and Pixel Art. Works directly in the Gemini interface — no extra subscription required.

Who it matters for: Parents, teachers, children's authors, educators, and anyone who wants a beautifully illustrated story in under 2 minutes. The narration quality is genuinely impressive — real cadence, not robotic text-to-speech. Full review with real storybook example →

🆕 Update — June 5–6, 2026

🗓️ June 5–6, 2026 — OpenAI Overhauls ChatGPT

ChatGPT "Dreaming" — Self-Updating Memory

OpenAI's biggest change to ChatGPT personalization since the original memory launch. Dreaming (officially Dreaming V3) replaces the manually curated saved-memories list with a background synthesis process that reads across your entire conversation history and automatically rewrites what ChatGPT knows about you — without any prompting from you. The model can shift a memory from "You're going to Singapore in July" to "You went to Singapore in July 2026" after the date passes. It tracks evolving preferences, completed goals, and changing context over months of use.

The mechanism is closer to how human memory consolidates during sleep — hence the name. A background process periodically synthesises conversation history into a compressed, updatable memory state. The old system created individual memory entries you could review and delete; the new system creates a synthesised summary that is harder to audit line by line but is significantly more accurate over long time horizons.

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ChatGPT Dreaming (Memory V3)
Update · June 5 Plus / Pro

By: OpenAI. Background memory synthesis that auto-updates what ChatGPT knows about you — no manual curation. Rolling out to Plus and Pro subscribers in the US first; Free, Go, and international users follow in coming weeks. Includes a reviewable memory summary page.

Who it matters for: Any ChatGPT user who has found the old memory system stale or wrong after a few months. If you use ChatGPT daily, Dreaming will meaningfully improve personalisation accuracy over time — particularly for evolving preferences and completed projects.

OpenAI Self-Serve Ads Manager — ChatGPT Goes Commercial

OpenAI opened a self-serve advertising platform inside ChatGPT: the ChatGPT Ads Manager. Advertisers can now create, manage, and measure ad campaigns inside ChatGPT without going through a sales team. The platform introduces cost-per-click (CPC) bidding — the same model that made Google AdWords accessible to small businesses in 2000 — alongside expanded measurement tools. Initial testing starts with free-tier users and ChatGPT Go in the US.

The privacy architecture is important to understand: conversations are not shared with advertisers. Ads are triggered by topic signals derived from the conversation, not by the conversation text itself. Whether that distinction holds under scrutiny is a legitimate question — but it is structurally different from Google's keyword targeting model, which did read query text.

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ChatGPT Ads Manager (Self-Serve Beta)
New · June 5 Advertising

By: OpenAI. Self-serve advertising platform for ChatGPT with CPC bidding and campaign analytics. Ad targeting is topic-based, not conversation-text-based. Currently in beta for US advertisers; rolling out to free and Go users as the initial ad audience.

Who it matters for: Marketers and performance advertisers who want to reach users actively seeking information — a fundamentally different context than social media scroll advertising. The CPC model means low entry cost for small businesses to test the channel.

ChatGPT Go — Global Rollout at $8/month

ChatGPT Go, originally launched in India in August 2025 as a low-cost tier, completed its worldwide rollout in early June 2026. At $8/month in the US (pricing varies by country), Go sits between free and Plus ($20/month). It delivers 10× more messages, file uploads, and image creation than the free tier, running on GPT-5.5 Instant. For users who find the free tier's rate limits frustrating but don't need the full Plus feature set, Go is the practical upgrade.

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ChatGPT Go
Global Rollout · June 6 $8/mo

By: OpenAI. $8/month ChatGPT tier (US pricing) — 10× more messages, uploads, and image creation than free. Runs on GPT-5.5 Instant. Now available in 170+ countries. Positioned between Free and Plus for users who hit rate limits but don't need advanced features.

Who it matters for: Students, casual professionals, and anyone who regularly hits ChatGPT's free-tier limits. At $8/month it is the most accessible paid AI assistant tier currently on the market from a major lab.

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BREAKING — June 9, 2026 · Anthropic's Biggest Model Launch Ever

🗓️ June 9, 2026 — Claude Fable 5 & Mythos 5

This is the launch the AI community has been waiting for since Project Glasswing began in April. Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5 — a Mythos-class model made safe for general use — and simultaneously launched Claude Mythos 5 for restricted partner access. Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable publicly available model ever. Today, as a user of Claude, this is what I'm running on.

What is Claude Fable 5?

Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Claude Mythos — Anthropic's frontier-level architecture that has been restricted to cybersecurity researchers since April. The difference: Fable has safety classifiers layered on top that catch high-risk queries (offensive cybersecurity, biology/chemistry, and model distillation attempts) and route them to Claude Opus 4.8 instead. In less than 5% of sessions on average does any fallback occur — for 95%+ of users, every session runs at full Mythos-class capability.

The name is deliberate. Fable comes from the Latin fabula — "that which is told" — akin to the Greek mythos. Same architecture, same weights, different safeguard layer.

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Claude Fable 5
New · June 9, 2026 Mythos-Class · GA

By: Anthropic. Mythos-class model for general use. $10/M input, $50/M output — less than half the price of Mythos Preview. Model string: claude-fable-5. Available on Claude API, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Free on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22 — after that, requires usage credits until capacity expands.

Key benchmarks: #1 on CursorBench (Cursor), FrontierCode (Cognition), Hebbia Finance Benchmark, ViBench (Replit), and WebDev Arena. 90%+ on complex long-running analytics (10-point jump over Opus 4.8). Stripe used it to migrate a 50M-line Ruby codebase in one day — a task estimated at 2 months for a human team.

What Fable 5 does that no previous Claude model could

Software engineering at scale. Fable 5 can run complex, multi-hour agentic coding sessions without losing context or making compounding errors. Cursor confirmed it's state-of-the-art on CursorBench. GitHub says it "took on complex, long-horizon coding tasks with a level of autonomy and reliability that exceeded previous benchmarks." Cognition's FrontierCode — which tests whether a model passes difficult coding tasks while meeting production codebase standards — is topped by Fable 5, even at medium effort.

Vision that actually works. Fable 5 rebuilt web apps from screenshots alone. It beat Pokémon FireRed using a vision-only harness — no maps, no navigation aids, just raw game screenshots. Earlier Claude models needed a complex helper harness to even attempt it.

Long-context memory. In testing with the deck-building game Slay the Spire, giving Fable 5 persistent file-based memory improved its performance three times more than the same setup gave Opus 4.8. Fable reached the game's final act three times more often. This maps directly to real-world agentic tasks: complex research projects, codebase migrations, long-form writing with evolving requirements.

Scientific research. Mythos 5 (the restricted version) matched or beat skilled human protein design operators with no human assistance — nine of fourteen drug design targets yielded strong candidates now under investigation. It also conducted a week-long autonomous genomics research project, training a model that outperformed a recent Science journal paper at 1/100th the model size.

The safety model — what Fable 5 won't do

Anthropic deliberately tuned Fable's classifiers conservatively. Three categories route to Opus 4.8 instead of Fable when triggered:

  • Cybersecurity: Offensive cyber tasks, exploit development, and agentic hacking. Fable scored zero on harmful single-turn cyber requests even against 30 public jailbreak techniques.
  • Biology and chemistry: Broad fallback for now, narrowing as classifiers improve. A trusted access program for biomedical researchers is opening in coming weeks.
  • Model distillation: Detects and blocks large-scale attempts to extract Fable's capabilities to train competing models.

These safeguards also introduce a new 30-day data retention policy for Mythos-class models — all traffic is retained for 30 days for safety monitoring, then deleted. Anthropic cannot use it for training.

What this means for you right now: If you're on Claude Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise — you have Fable 5 access at no extra cost until June 22. Use it for your hardest tasks this fortnight. After June 23, Fable 5 requires usage credits until capacity expands enough for Anthropic to include it in standard plans again.

🆕 Update — June 7–9, 2026

🗓️ June 7–9, 2026 — Open Models & Developer Alerts

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra — Best US Open-Weight Model

NVIDIA shipped Nemotron 3 Ultra — a 550B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 55B active parameters — to Hugging Face, NIM, and OpenRouter. It is currently the most capable open-weight model produced by a US company, running at over 300 tokens per second on current NVIDIA hardware. The architecture uses hybrid Mamba-Transformer layers for efficient long-context handling, NVFP4 quantisation for cross-architecture GPU deployment, and multi-token prediction for faster multi-turn generation.

The design target is explicitly long-running agent workflows — tasks that require planning, code execution, tool use, and multi-step reasoning over extended sessions. Within 48 hours of release it was already integrated into Perplexity, Nous Research, OpenCode, and atomic.chat. SWEBench Verified scores sit between 65–70% depending on agent framework, consistent across deployments.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B)
New · June 7 Open Weights

By: NVIDIA. 550B MoE model (55B active params), open weights. Available on Hugging Face, NIM, and OpenRouter. Hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture, NVFP4 quantisation for high-throughput deployment, designed for long-running agent workflows. 300+ tokens/sec on current NVIDIA hardware.

Who it matters for: Teams running self-hosted or private AI deployments who need frontier-level agent capability without sending data to a cloud API. Best US open model for coding agents, long-context reasoning, and enterprise deployments with data-residency requirements.

OpenCode — The Open-Source Coding Agent That Took #1

OpenCode crossed 160K GitHub stars and 7.5M monthly active users this week, making it the most widely adopted open-source coding agent. What separates it from GitHub Copilot and Cursor: model-agnostic access to 75+ providers via a single configuration file, full Language Server Protocol (LSP) integration for precise code intelligence, air-gapped deployment support for regulated environments, and MIT licensing that allows commercial use without royalties. You bring your own API keys; OpenCode handles the agentic scaffolding.

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OpenCode v2
160K ⭐ · June 2026 Open Source / MIT

By: OpenCode community. Open-source coding agent with access to 75+ AI providers. LSP integration, air-gapped deployment, MIT license. 160K+ GitHub stars, 7.5M MAU. Works with Claude, Gemini, GPT-5.5, Nemotron 3 Ultra, or any model you configure.

Who it matters for: Developers who want coding agent capability without vendor lock-in, or teams that can't send code to proprietary APIs. The model-agnostic design means you can run it against whichever model has the best performance-per-dollar for your specific codebase.

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Dev Alert: Claude Sonnet 4 + Opus 4 retire June 15 — action required

Anthropic is retiring claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 on June 15, 2026. API calls using these exact model strings will return errors after that date. Migrate to claude-sonnet-4-6 (Sonnet lane) or claude-opus-4-8 (Opus lane) before the deadline. Claude Sonnet 4.6 now outperforms the original Opus 4.0 on coding and instruction-following at a lower price point — for most tasks it is the correct upgrade target.

Qwen 3.7 Max — The Price-Performance Challenger

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max debuted at #4 on the WebDev Arena leaderboard this week — ahead of Claude Opus 4.6 — at $2.50/$7.50 per million tokens (input/output). For web development and frontend code generation specifically, it is currently the best value model available. Its context window and instruction-following accuracy on structured data tasks is competitive with models costing 3–5× more. Not a general-purpose frontier model, but for the specific workloads it excels at, the price gap is difficult to ignore.

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Qwen 3.7 Max
New · June 2026 $2.50 / $7.50 per M

By: Alibaba Cloud. #4 on WebDev Arena leaderboard. $2.50/M input, $7.50/M output — less than half the cost of comparable Anthropic or OpenAI models. Strong on web development, frontend code generation, and structured output tasks. Available via Alibaba Cloud and third-party API aggregators.

Who it matters for: Developers building or evaluating AI coding pipelines who want to benchmark cost-performance tradeoffs. Worth testing against your specific workloads before committing to a higher-cost model for production.

🆕 Update — June 10–14, 2026

🗓️ June 10–14 — MiniMax M3, ZoomMate & Gemini 3.5 Pro Preview

MiniMax M3 — Open-Weight Frontier Model That Beats GPT-5.5 on Code

Shanghai-based MiniMax launched M3 on June 1 and it immediately became the most significant open-weight model drop of mid-2026. The headline: 59.0% on SWEBench Pro — higher than both OpenAI GPT-5.5 and Google Gemini 3.1 Pro on the most rigorous software engineering benchmark. The architecture behind this is MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), a new sparse attention mechanism that cuts per-token compute at 1M context to one-twentieth of the prior generation, with 9× faster prefill and 15× faster decoding. It's the first open-weight model to combine frontier-level coding agent performance, a 1M-token context window, and native multimodal computer use — including desktop operation — in a single model. Weights are open; API is live now on MiniMax's platform.

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MiniMax M3
New · June 1 Open Weights

By: MiniMax (Shanghai). 1M-token context, MSA sparse attention architecture — 9× faster prefill, 15× faster decoding vs. prior gen. Native multimodal: text, image, video, and desktop computer use in a single model. 59.0% SWEBench Pro — beats GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Available via MiniMax API and MiniMax Code. Weights and technical report releasing within 10 days of launch.

Who it matters for: Teams running self-hosted coding agent pipelines who want frontier-level performance without a proprietary API. The 1M context + desktop computer use combination is unique at open-weight level — nothing else can both browse the web and operate your desktop in the same inference call.

ZoomMate — AI That Finishes the Work Your Meetings Start

Zoom launched ZoomMate at $20/user/month for North America — a genuinely agentic AI that operates inside your live meetings, not just after them. The key distinction from every other meeting AI tool: ZoomMate monitors the conversation in real time, identifies action items and commitments as they are made, and immediately initiates downstream workflows in Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Jira, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Zendesk — without requiring anyone to manually log what was discussed. It also generates presentations, documents, spreadsheets, and project plans directly from meeting transcripts combined with connected enterprise data.

The $10/month AI Productivity Suite (meeting summaries, whiteboard AI, AI document creation) is bundled into the ZoomMate subscription, so the effective combined price is $20 total. EMEA and APAC rollout is planned later in 2026.

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ZoomMate
New · June 1 $20/user/mo

By: Zoom. Agentic AI that monitors live meetings and initiates downstream actions without manual follow-up. Connects to Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Jira, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zendesk. Generates deliverables (decks, docs, project plans) from meeting context. Includes AI Productivity Suite ($10/mo value). North America GA; EMEA/APAC later 2026.

Who it matters for: Sales teams, customer success, and project managers who spend 30–60 minutes after each meeting manually logging CRM updates and creating follow-up documents. ZoomMate collapses that into zero manual work — the Salesforce opportunity updates while you're still in the call.

Gemini 3.5 Pro — In Limited Preview, GA Before June 30

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is in limited Vertex AI preview and targeting GA before June 30, 2026. Announced at Google I/O May 19 — "give us until next month to get it to you" (Sundar Pichai, on stage) — it's the model that absorbs the use cases Gemini Ultra used to handle: frontier reasoning, deep multimodal understanding, and the largest context window Google offers. Key specs: 2 million token context window (the largest in the Gemini 3.5 family), Deep Think reasoning (extended thinking mode for hard problems), and native multimodal handling of text, image, audio, and video in a single request. Expected pricing is approximately $15/M input and $60/M output, following the Flash-to-Pro ratio of prior Gemini generations — not yet confirmed at GA.

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Gemini 3.5 Pro
Preview · GA Soon 2M Context

By: Google. 2M-token context window. Deep Think reasoning mode for complex tasks. Native multimodal: text + image + audio + video in one request. Replaces Gemini Ultra use cases. In limited Vertex AI preview now; GA expected before June 30. Pricing unconfirmed — likely ~$15/$60 per M tokens input/output.

Who it matters for: Enterprise teams that were using Gemini Ultra for frontier tasks and want the upgraded 3.5-generation reasoning at potentially similar or lower cost. The 2M-token window opens use cases like full codebase analysis, large document review, and long-running research that Flash's 1M context can't handle.

🚨 BREAKING — June 15–21, 2026

🗓️ June 15–21 — Fable 5 Suspended, Siri AI Betas, Google Agents

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Anthropic · June 12–18, 2026 · Still Ongoing

Claude Fable 5 & Mythos 5 — Suspended by US Government

On June 12, the US Commerce Department issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national — inside or outside the US, including foreign national Anthropic employees. Because Anthropic cannot gate access by nationality in real time, it disabled both models for all users globally. Claude 3.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and all other Claude models remain fully accessible.

The stated reason: a jailbreak technique was demonstrated to the government that allegedly bypasses Fable 5's safety classifiers for cybersecurity tasks. Anthropic publicly disputed this characterisation, noting the same jailbreak works on GPT-5.5 Instant — which faces no similar restrictions. On June 18, a bipartisan group of House members sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding explanation for the selective enforcement and asking whether competing models would face equivalent treatment.

⚠️ Currently Offline All other Claude models: ✅ Working
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Siri AI — Full Rebuild on Google Gemini
WWDC 2026 · Beta Now
Apple · Announced June 8 · Developer Beta Available

Apple rebuilt Siri from the ground up — officially renamed Siri AI — now powered by Google's Gemini models through a multi-year deal reportedly worth ~$1B/year. With 1.5 billion daily Siri requests, Gemini is now the reasoning backbone behind the world's most widely used voice assistant.

Key new abilities: full on-screen awareness (Siri reads what you're looking at in real time), cross-app actions in a single command, device-wide personal context (emails, messages, photos), and an expanded standalone Siri app. A three-tier privacy architecture routes simple tasks on-device, moderate ones to Apple's Private Cloud Compute, and only heavy reasoning to Google Cloud.

Ships with iOS 27 / macOS 27 / visionOS 27. Developer betas dropped June 9 — public beta arrives July 2026, full release this fall with new iPhone hardware. Not available at launch: EU (regulatory) and China.

Free with iOS 27 upgrade iOS 27 — Fall 2026
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Google Search Agents — 24/7 AI Monitors Now Rolling Out
Rolling Out · Summer 2026
Google · Announced I/O May 19 · Rollout Begins

Google is beginning to roll out Search Agents — AI agents that run in the background 24/7 monitoring topics you care about: concert tickets, property listings, product price drops, sports scores, news on specific topics. You create and manage multiple agents directly inside Google Search. When something relevant changes, you get a notification.

Shopping agents are rolling out alongside: track a product's price history, set a target price, and have the agent watch for deals and notify you. Booking agents can surface live availability and direct booking links. All agents run on Gemini 3.5 Flash. Rollout starts with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer — standard users follow.

Why it matters: This marks Search moving from query-response to persistent background intelligence. You stop checking — the agent checks for you.

AI Pro/Ultra first Free (with Google account)

⚠️ Developer Alerts — Action Required This Week

GPT-4.5 retires June 27 — 6 days left

OpenAI is retiring GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT and the API on June 27. Any API call referencing gpt-4.5 will fail after this date. Migrate to gpt-5.5-instant or chat-latest before June 27.

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Claude Fable 5 free tier ends June 22 — 1 day left

If you're on Claude Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise — today is your last day to run Fable 5 at no extra cost. After June 22, it moves to usage credits. The model remains available — it just costs. Bank your usage today. API model string: claude-fable-5.

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OpenAI o3 retiring from ChatGPT — August 26, 2026

OpenAI announced June 11 that o3 will be removed from ChatGPT on August 26 (90-day sunset). API snapshots deprecate December 11, 2026. Not urgent today but plan your migration to o4-mini or GPT-5.5 Instant for reasoning pipelines currently on o3.

Gemini 3.5 Pro — Still Delayed, GA "Before End of June"

Gemini 3.5 Pro (2M-token context, Deep Think reasoning, multimodal flagship) remains in limited Vertex AI preview as of June 21. Google confirmed general availability before June 30 — but the same was said in mid-June. Pricing unconfirmed (~$15/$60 per M tokens). Watch this space — if it drops before June 30, it changes the frontier comparison entirely.

✅ FINAL UPDATE — June 22–30, 2026

🗓️ June 22–30 — Month End: Sonnet 5, LongCat & GPT-4.5 Gone

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Claude Sonnet 5 — Near-Opus Performance at Fraction of Cost
Launched June 30
Anthropic · June 30, 2026

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 — now the default model on Claude.ai. It achieves near-Opus 4.8 performance on most tasks at dramatically lower pricing. Benchmarks: 63.2% SWE-bench Pro (vs Fable 5's 95%), 80.4% Terminal-Bench 2.1 (beating Opus 4.8's 74.6%), 84.7% BrowseComp agentic search. Most agentic Sonnet yet — can plan, use tools (browser, terminal), and run autonomously at a level that previously needed much larger models.

Also went GA on GitHub Copilot on June 30. 1M token context window. 128K max output. Intro pricing through August 31.

$2 / $10 per M tokens (intro) API: claude-sonnet-5
Anthropic · June 30 → July 1, 2026

Claude Fable 5 Export Controls Lifted — Restored July 1

The US government lifted the June 12 export control order on June 30 after Anthropic trained an improved safety classifier blocking the jailbreak technique in over 99% of cases. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 came back online globally July 1, after a 19-day suspension. Both now carry updated cybersecurity safeguards developed in collaboration with the government. See full details in the July 2026 tracker →

OpenAI · June 26–27, 2026
⚰️ GPT-4.5 is officially gone — June 26

As of June 26, GPT-4.5 is no longer available in ChatGPT or via API. All existing conversations migrate automatically to GPT-5.5 Instant. If you still have gpt-4.5 API calls, they are now failing — migrate to gpt-5.5-instant immediately.

🔬 GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — Limited Preview

OpenAI previewed the GPT-5.6 family (three models: Sol, Terra, Luna) on June 26, gated to roughly 20 trusted partner organisations. Stronger coding, scientific reasoning, long-horizon planning, and agentic workflows. No public availability date confirmed — wider API and ChatGPT access "soon." Not yet on the open waitlist.

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Meituan LongCat-2.0 — 1.6T Open-Source, Trained on Chinese Chips
Open Source · June 29
Meituan · Open Weights · June 29, 2026

Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0 — a 1.6 trillion parameter MoE model trained entirely on a 50,000-card cluster of domestic Chinese ASICs (no NVIDIA hardware). 48B parameters active per token, 1M context window, agentic coding focus. Geopolitically significant: China's largest model trained without restricted chips, beating the export control blockade at model-training level.

Benchmarks: 59.5% SWE-bench Pro (narrowly ahead of GPT-5.5's 58.6%), 70.8% Terminal-Bench. Leads OpenRouter's coding leaderboard. Weights available on Hugging Face.

Free / Open Weights Hugging Face

🎯 June Verdict — What to Actually Try This Month

June 2026 is not a month of incremental updates. Three things stand out as genuinely worth your time:

1. Comet browser (free) — Download it regardless of whether you use Perplexity for search. The Auto Browse and real-time synthesis features are meaningfully different from any browser extension. The free tier is not crippled.

2. Gemini 3.5 Flash via API — If you are building agentic systems and haven't benchmarked Flash against your current stack, do it this month. At $0.10/M input with Managed Agents support baked in, it has the best price-to-capability ratio for production agentic workflows of any model currently available.

3. Claude Fable 5 — ⚠️ Currently suspended — Fable 5 launched June 9 but was suspended June 12 following a US government export control directive. All other Claude models (3.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6) remain fully operational. See the full story on the suspension →

4. Google Flow (free to test on Pro) — If you have a Google AI Pro subscription, spend 20 minutes with Flow before writing it off as "just another AI video tool." The Camera Controls panel and native audio are meaningfully different from Kling, Runway, or Sora. The two-minute learning curve is worth it. See full guide with real output videos →

5. Gemini Storybook (completely free) — No excuses not to try this. Open Gemini, type any story idea, pick Watercolour. You'll have a 10-page illustrated book with narration in 90 seconds. Best creative freebie Google has shipped in years.

June 2026 is now complete. See the July 2026 AI Tools Tracker → for the latest launches. Last updated: July 2, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Claude Fable 5 and how is it different from Mythos?
Claude Fable 5 launched June 9, 2026 — it's the same underlying model as Claude Mythos 5, but with safety classifiers that route high-risk queries (offensive cybersecurity, biology/chemistry, model distillation) to Claude Opus 4.8 instead. Less than 5% of sessions trigger a fallback, so 95%+ of users get full Mythos-class capability. Pricing: $10/M input, $50/M output. Free on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22. API model string: claude-fable-5. Claude Mythos 5 (same model, cyber safeguards lifted) remains restricted to Project Glasswing cybersecurity partners.
Is Perplexity Comet browser actually free?
Yes — Perplexity made Comet free for all users globally across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. The free tier is not crippled; it includes the AI assistant that browses with you, page summarisation, and cross-tab comparison. The enhanced Deep Research feature (which generates presentations, spreadsheets, and dashboards directly) requires a Pro ($20/month) or Max ($200/month) plan and runs on Claude Opus 4.5.
What does GPT-4.5 retiring on June 27 mean for me?
If you are using ChatGPT as a regular user, nothing changes — you are already on GPT-5.5 Instant as the default. If you are a developer with API calls referencing the gpt-4.5 model string, those calls will fail after June 27. Migrate to gpt-5.5-instant or chat-latest before the deadline.
Which June 2026 AI model is best value for developers?
For production agentic pipelines, Gemini 3.5 Flash at $0.10/M input tokens with Managed Agents baked in is the standout value in June 2026. It delivers frontier-level performance on coding and agentic tasks at a price that undercuts every major competitor. For reasoning-heavy, long-horizon, or complex agentic tasks, Claude Fable 5 ($10/M input, $50/M output) is the current capability ceiling — and it's free on Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise through June 22. After that it requires usage credits. API model string: claude-fable-5.
What is Google Managed Agents and how is it different from regular Gemini?
Regular Gemini responds to prompts. Google Managed Agents provisions a full remote Linux environment — sandboxed, isolated, and managed by Google — where an agent can plan, execute code, manage files, and browse live web data autonomously. A single API call spins up the whole environment. Think of it less as a chatbot upgrade and more as Google handing you a fully equipped virtual machine that the AI runs inside. It's currently in public preview via the Gemini API.

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