Archive - Towards AI Newsletter

TAI #213: A Wave of New Frontier Competitors and the Multi-Agent Breakout

Also GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Realtime-2.1, and more.

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

TAI #212: AI Engineer World's Fair: Agent Loops and Forward-Deployed Engineers

Also, OpenAI's Alexander Embiricos on Codex and enterprise deployment, Claude Fable 5 returns, GPT-5.6 goes public Thursday & more.

Jul 9 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #211: GPT-5.6 is here, but most people cannot use it yet

Also, OpenAI and Broadcom’s Jalapeno chip, Claude Tag for Slack, Mistral OCR 4 & more.

Jul 1 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

June 2026

Our AIE keynote is live! Watch it now

Turn 10,994 notes into agent memory

Jun 26 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #210: GLM-5.2 Closes Most of the Open-Weight Gap in Ten Weeks

Also, SpaceX acquires Cursor, Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI & more.

Jun 23 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #209: Claude Fable 5 Arrived, Then the US Government Took It Offline

Also, GLM-5.2, Zamba2-VL, North Mini Code, and more!

Jun 16 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

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

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

Jun 9 • 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

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