AI News for Builders
Model releases, breakout repos, app launches, pricing shifts, security stories, and funding rounds from across the AI ecosystem. Each comes with our take on what it means for Vibe Builders and SMB owners. Updated hourly.
Model releases, breakout repos, app launches, pricing shifts, security stories, and funding rounds from across the AI ecosystem. Each comes with our take on what it means for Vibe Builders and SMB owners. Updated hourly.
OpenRouter adds Tencent's free Hy3 preview, a high-efficiency MoE model for agentic workflows. It supports 262k context and configurable reasoning levels.
OpenRouter adds Alibaba's Qwen3.5 Plus multimodal model with 1M token context. It processes text, image, and video inputs at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens.
Poolside's Laguna M.1 coding model is now free to use on OpenRouter, with a 128k context window and zero per-token cost. The Poolside coding-assistant product itself remains enterprise-only (on-prem or VPC deployment).
OpenRouter launched a live test environment. The feature enables real-time testing of model routing across multiple AI providers.
Kōan launches on Product Hunt. It visualizes AI agents' reasoning, tool calls, and decisions.
OpenAI launched Workspace Agents inside ChatGPT on April 23, 2026, with Slack, Gmail, and Salesforce connectors, free in research preview until May 6 on Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans.
Codex users get standalone installers for Windows and Intel Macs, richer Plan Mode workflows, expanded plugins, and stronger filesystem sandboxing.
Rosentic launches on Product Hunt. The tool catches when coding agents break each other's code before merge.