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Grok 4.7 packs 2.1 trillion parameters, up 40% from Grok 4.6's 1.5 trillion, with a 500K token context window and low-to-xhigh reasoning levels. It scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (up from 47) and ranks second to Claude Fable 5.1 on GDPval and AA-Briefcase.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash packs a 552B backbone with native image and text input and up to a 1M-token context window. It debuts at $0.003/1M off-peak cached-input tokens, with one benchmark showing 98% of GPT-6 Astra's score at 1.4% of the cost.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS designs custom voices from natural-language prompts across 100+ languages, alongside a library of 2,000+ production-ready voices; Flash-Lite TTS targets high-volume, cost-efficient dubbing and voice agents. Flash TTS debuted at #1 on Artificial Analysis's Pronunciation Robustness benchmark at 89.5%.
OpenAI disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that spiked to 16,000 extraction attempts from over 4,000 users on July 24-25, 2026, with related prompt-pattern activity across 15,000+ users. OpenAI says operators manipulated model interactions rather than breaking encryption, and banned the accounts.
The refrigerator-sized MVP satellite carries four Google TPUs and about one kilowatt of solar power, built by Planet Labs and launched on the Transporter-18 rideshare. The TPU fires in 15-minute bursts to avoid straining power and thermal systems; Google's target is a network of 81 satellites flying in close formation.
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