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Saturday, 2 May 2026
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Published Saturday, 2 May 2026 — 6:57 AM AEST

What changed in the AI tools landscape this week. Every shift in vendor offerings, open models, and best-tool recommendations — tracked and diffed automatically.

Major upgrades across Creative, Edge, Voice, and Research layers. Open models roster reshuffled with Allen AI added and Cohere/Falcon removed.

Multimodal voice and edge layers now span all major vendors; no provider remains absent from key layers.

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This Week's Changes

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Creative / Media - Google ecosystem updated
Imagen 3 and Veo 2 replaced by Imagen 4 and Veo 3
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Creative / Media - Anthropic ecosystem updated
Previously dash; now lists Claude Creative Writing
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Creative / Media - Meta ecosystem updated
Meta Movie Gen removed; Emu Video and Meta Imagine listed
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Creative / Media - Microsoft ecosystem updated
Renamed from Designer (Image Creator) and Copilot Creative
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Creative / Media ecosystem popularity
Popularity rose from 78 to 85
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Edge / On-device - OpenAI ecosystem updated
Previously dash; now lists GPT-4o mini
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Edge / On-device - Anthropic ecosystem updated
Previously dash; now lists Claude 3.5 Haiku
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Edge / On-device - Google ecosystem updated
MediaPipe LLM shortened to MediaPipe
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Edge / On-device - Microsoft ecosystem updated
Windows Copilot Runtime replaced by ONNX Runtime
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Edge / On-device ecosystem popularity
Popularity rose from 61 to 70
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Voice / Speech - Google ecosystem updated
Speech-to-Text v2 and Chirp 2 replaced by Gemini Live and Cloud TTS
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Voice / Speech - OpenAI ecosystem updated
Whisper v3 and GPT-4o Audio replaced by Voice Mode, Whisper, TTS API
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Voice / Speech - Anthropic ecosystem updated
Previously dash; now lists Claude Voice (beta)
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Voice / Speech - Meta ecosystem updated
MMS replaced by Voicebox alongside SeamlessM4T
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Voice / Speech ecosystem popularity
Popularity rose from 74 to 80
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Research Tools - Google ecosystem updated
Deep Research (Gemini) renamed to Gemini Deep Research
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Research Tools - OpenAI ecosystem updated
Deep Research (ChatGPT) renamed to ChatGPT Deep Research
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Research Tools - Anthropic ecosystem updated
Claude 3.7 Sonnet added alongside Claude Research Mode
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Research Tools - Meta ecosystem updated
Previously dash; now lists Llama 4 and Meta FAIR Research
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Research Tools - Microsoft ecosystem updated
Copilot Research and Bing Deep Search replaced by Microsoft Research AI and Copilot for Research
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Research Tools ecosystem popularity
Popularity rose from 72 to 78
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Dev Tools - Google ecosystem updated
Firebase Genkit replaced by Gemini CLI
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Dev Tools - OpenAI ecosystem updated
Evals Framework replaced by Assistants API
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Dev Tools - Meta ecosystem updated
torchtune replaced by PyTorch
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Dev Tools ecosystem popularity
Popularity rose from 85 to 88
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APIs / Platform - Meta ecosystem updated
Meta AI API replaced by Meta AI Platform
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APIs / Platform ecosystem popularity
Popularity rose from 93 to 95
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Agent Frameworks - Anthropic ecosystem updated
MCP now listed alongside Claude Tool Use
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Agent Frameworks - Meta ecosystem updated
AgenticSeek replaced by AnyTool
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Agent Frameworks - OpenAI ecosystem updated
Swarm label changed from experimental to plain Swarm
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Assistants / Apps - Meta ecosystem updated
Meta AI (WhatsApp/Instagram) split into Meta AI and WhatsApp AI
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Core Models ecosystem popularity
Popularity rose from 97 to 98
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Cohere - Command R+ / Command R open models removed
Cohere entry removed entirely from open models list
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TII / Falcon - Falcon 3 series open models removed
Falcon 3 entry removed entirely from open models list
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Allen AI - OLMo 2 7B / 13B open models added
New fully open Apache 2.0 models added for research use
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xAI - Grok models open models updated
Grok-2 partial open weights replaced by Grok-2 12B; Grok-3 weights TBD
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DeepSeek - model list open models updated
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B replaced by DeepSeek-Coder-V2
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Alibaba / Qwen - model list open models updated
Qwen2.5-VL 7B replaced by QwQ-32B
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Meta - Llama architecture note open models updated
MoE parameter details removed from model names
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Chat - best_open best tools updated
DeepSeek-V3 replaced by Qwen2.5 72B
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Coding - best_open best tools updated
DeepSeek-R1 replaced by DeepSeek-Coder-V2 as primary coding pick
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RAG - best_open best tools updated
Command R+ replaced by Mistral Small 3.1; Llama 3.3 70B retained
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Agents - best_open best tools updated
Mistral Small 3.1 replaced by DeepSeek-V3 via AutoGen
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Search - best_closed best tools updated
ChatGPT Search added alongside Perplexity and Gemini Deep Research
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Search - best_open best tools updated
Khoj replaced by Ollama + DuckDuckGo; SearXNG now paired with Llama 4
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Image - best_closed best tools updated
Imagen 3 replaced by Imagen 4; order changed to DALL-E 3 first
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Video - best_closed best tools updated
Kling 2.0 replaced by Runway Gen-4
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Video - best_open best tools updated
Wan2.1 replaced by CogVideoX
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Speech - best_open best tools updated
Kokoro TTS added alongside Whisper large-v3 and Coqui XTTS
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Edge - best_open best tools updated
Llama 4 Scout replaced by Llama 3.2 3B in edge recommendations
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Fine-tuning - best_open best tools updated
Llama 3.3 70B via torchtune replaced by Llama 4 Scout; Unsloth added
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Multimodal - best_open best tools updated
Llama 4 Maverick replaced by Llama 4 Scout in multimodal picks
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History

Tuesday, 28 April 2026 55 changes OpenAI expanded its model lineup with o4-mini, Google and Meta restructured dev and agent tooling, and xAI joined the open models roster.
Friday, 24 April 2026 66 changes Meta replaced Llama 3 with Llama 4 models; OpenAI dropped GPT-4o/o4-mini for GPT-4.1/o3; agent frameworks gained popularity.