The archive
Everything that has been on the radar.
A set of technologies every fortnight, each with a full write-up. Nothing gets deleted when the next edition lands — this is the part that compounds, and the reason I keep doing it: a reference I actually use.
13–19 October 2026
Currentpplx-embed-v2-late
PerplexityOpen late-interaction embeddings that index text, images and PDF pages in one space — no OCR step.
Retrieval7 Oct 2026Claude Haiku 5.5
AnthropicA million-token context at $0.10 per million input tokens — long-context work stops being a budget decision.
Models7 Oct 2026Dots · always-on agents
OpenAIAgents that keep working between conversations — each with its own cloud computer, browser and time budget.
Agents29 Sept 2026ConfirmedMuse Wonder
MetaMeta's first frontier models, built around Active Memory — context that survives across sessions.
Models12 Oct 2026ConfirmedGPT-6 · Intelligent UI
OpenAIThe model chooses the response format — a chart, a form, a working calculator — instead of always returning prose.
Interfaces7 Oct 2026Work IQ
MicrosoftA grounding layer that lets Copilot and agents read live business records — and write back through approvals.
Agents30 Sept 2026ConfirmedBeam
Reflection AIA 501B sparse mixture-of-experts model with 23B active — Apache 2.0, aimed squarely at the Chinese open-weight labs.
Open Weights5 Oct 2026Mistral Large 4
Mistral AIA roughly trillion-parameter multimodal model released open-weight — the gap between hosted and self-hosted narrows again.
Open Weights6 Oct 2026ConfirmedSynthID Detector
GoogleWatermark detection for AI media, now open to everyone worldwide — with one failure mode you have to design around.
Infra7 Oct 2026ConfirmedAntigravity 2.0 · third-party models
GoogleGoogle's agentic dev environment will now run Anthropic's models — opt-in, admin-gated, off by default.
Dev Tools8 Oct 2026Confirmed
Written for engineers, which means the trade-offs are included. Where a claim comes from press coverage rather than a vendor's own documentation the entry says so, and every page lists its sources.