Archive - Towards AI Newsletter

TAI #208: Open Models Find Their Role as Agent Token Bills Rise

Also, Microsoft MAI models, Gemma 4 12B, MiniMax M3, and more!

17 hrs ago • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #207: Claude Opus 4.8 Is Better, but Dynamic Workflows Are the Bigger Story

Also, Anthropic files for an IPO after raising $65B, Liquid AI LFM2.5–8B-A1B, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and more.

Jun 2 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

May 2026

TAI #206: Gemini 3.5 Flash Is Stronger, But Flash Is No Longer Cheap

Also, Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0, Codex Updates, Deepseek v4-Pro price cuts & more.

May 27 • Louie Peters, Louis-François Bouchard, and Towards AI

TAI #205: Codex Special Edition; Interviewing Romain Huet, OpenAI's Head of Developer Experience

Also, Cursor Composer 2.5, Codex on Mobile, Grok Build & more

May 19 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #204: Are AI Agents Starting A Cybersecurity Arms Race?

Also, Anthropic’s xAI deal, GPT-Realtime-2, ZAYA1-8B and more

May 12 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #203: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Wall Street Race to Build the AI Deployment Layer

Also, Google Cloud grows 63%, Azure grows 40%, AWS grows 28%, Big Tech capex keeps climbing, Grok 4.3, Nemotron 3 Nano, & more!

May 5 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

April 2026

TAI #202: GPT-5.5 Moves Codex Into Real Work

Also, GPT-Image 2, Google Deep Research Max, DeepSeek-V4, and Privacy Filter

Apr 28 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #201: Claude Opus 4.7 Out to Mixed Reception, but Claude Design May Be the Bigger Story

Also, Qwen3.6–35B-A3B, GPT-Rosalind, GPT-5.4-Cyber, Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, Grok audio APIs & more.

Apr 21 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #200: Anthropic’s Mythos Capability Step Change and Gated Release

Also, META’s Muse Spark, GLM-5.1, OpenAI’s rumored “Spud”, and a new $100 plan.

Apr 15 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #199: Gemma 4 Brings a Credible US Open-Weight Contender Back to the Table

Also, Anthropic’s annualized revenue surpasses $30B, Cursor 3, Veo 3.1 Lite & more!

Apr 7 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

Use AI for writing without the cleanup tax

Universal prompt framework that works with all LLMs and writing types

Apr 6 • Louie Peters, Louis-François Bouchard, and Towards AI

March 2026

TAI #198: Real-Time Speech AI Gets Serious: Google and OpenAI Race to Own the Voice Layer

Also, Cohere Transcribe, Sora cancelled, TRIBE v2, and more!

Mar 31 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

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