If we’re having trouble keeping up with all the AI ​​news this week, we can’t imagine how you feel.

The past three days have been a non-stop parade of new products, features, and cutting-edge model releases from leading AI labs. There are new names like “Sol” and “Terra,” as well as new features for image creation and voice assistants. Microsoft added a strange touch with its “poetry pharmacy.”

There were also important personnel changes. First, OpenAI’s chief futurist left after nine years. Then, OpenAI Applications CEO Fidji Simo resigned following medical leave.

Behind the scenes, Perplexity is quietly working on a new coding tool called “Teammate” to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI, Business Insider exclusively reported.

Not even investor Jason Calacanis can keep up. “It’s like a new OS, laptop and CPU are released every 14 days,” he wrote on X.

We know AI labs like to outdo each other, but this week stressed that we shouldn’t expect a summer slowdown in the AI ​​wars. Here is a summary of all the important updates:

OpenAI had the most ads

On Wednesday, the lab led by Sam Altman introduced GPT-Live, a new voice model aimed at making ChatGPT Voice feel more like talking to a human. Yes, that means you can talk about it.

The next day, OpenAI introduced the GPT-5.6 family of models. This included the flagship Sol frontier model, the everyday Terra and the cost-saving Luna. It also integrated Codex into the ChatGPT desktop app and announced a new workplace-oriented agent called ChatGPT Work.

As the company scales back its “side missions,” OpenAI also announced it would be shutting down its Atlas browser.

Meta targets the enterprise AI market

After breaking its silence with Muse Spark in April, Meta’s superintelligence unit led by Alexandr Wang launched a series of products.

The company on Tuesday introduced a new imaging model, called Muse Image. The product sparked controversy after public Instagram accounts were enabled by default.

Meta then released the next version of its Muse model, Muse Spark 1.1. It’s the first model Meta charges for and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was “very low priced.”

Zuckerberg also criticized other AI labs for pricing their chatbots at “very extreme” levels.

SpaceXAI and Anthropic: friends finally?

Once rivals, the recently renamed SpaceXAI and Anthropic now appear to be getting along. Elon Musk said he was “clearly wrong about Anthropic” and that it was the undisputed leader in AI (Anthropic has also been paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for computing).

But beyond Musk’s change of sentiment, his artificial intelligence lab also launched its latest model, Grok 4.5, on Wednesday. Musk described it as an “Opus-class model.” It is also the first model the company has launched since the acquisition of Cursor.

On Thursday, Anthropic launched a new “Reflect” feature, where users could see a summary and analysis of their habits with Claude.