OpenAI reduced pricing for its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80 percent effective July 30, with a 20 percent cut to the Terra model, citing infrastructure efficiency improvements enabled by its top-tier Sol model (The Decoder). The move reflects price competition from lower-cost providers and Microsoft’s own MAI models. Separately, Google DeepMind shipped Gemini Robotics 2, a suite of three models for robot control: a vision-language-action model for whole-body humanoid control, Gemini Robotics ER 2 for embodied reasoning and task orchestration, and an on-device VLA model for resource-constrained deployment (MarkTechPost; Google DeepMind).
Nous Research integrated Hermes Agent with Buzz, Block’s self-hostable Nostr workspace, via three integration paths including Desktop runtime and a native gateway that preserves agent memory and skills (MarkTechPost). PolyAI released Dialog-RSN-1, an audio-native dialog model that fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling, and response generation into a single model while keeping TTS separate for voice control (MarkTechPost).