The AI Boom of August 16

The first week of August delivered game-changing AI advancements that are reshaping how we create, code, and interact with technology. From GPT-5’s massive upgrade to free video generation tools, here’s everything you need to know!

A-Z Roundup of AI News & Tools

🔹 Alibaba Qoder – New competitor to Cursor. (link)
🔹 Anything – AI service for creating sites and apps. (link)
🔹 Autodesk Flow Studio – Free for students. (link)
🔹 Blender – Now with DLSS for viewport. (link)
🔹 CapCut – AI-powered video editing package. (link)
🔹 Claude 4 Sonnet – Now with 1M token context. (link)
🔹 Claude Code – New programming education tools. (link)
🔹 ComfyUI – Updated with OpenCut integration. (link)
🔹 DeepSeek V3.1 – Enhanced open-source model. (link)
🔹 ElevenLabs – New video music generation feature. (link)
🔹 Figma Canvas – AI automation scenarios in Sim. (link)
🔹 Genspark AI Developer – No-code app and site builder. (link)
🔹 GLM-4.5V – New leader in visual understanding. (link)
🔹 Google Gemma 3 270M – Ultra-compact model for weak hardware. (link)
🔹 Google Veo 3 – Free promo: 3 videos without payment. (link)
🔹 Higgsfield Draw-to-Video – Create videos from drawings. (link)
🔹 Higgsfield Product-to-Video – New product video feature. (link)
🔹 Imagen 4 – Released with Fast mode support. (link)
🔹 Jaaz – Universal AI hub for photo and video. (link)
🔹 Jan-v1 – Open model for internet search. (link)
🔹 Kling 2.1 – Added start/end frames feature. (link)
🔹 Luma Labs – New Ray2 Modify Video feature. (link)
🔹 Matrix-Game 2.0 – Free open alternative to Genie 3. (link)
🔹 Mirage 2 – Create huge 3D worlds in minutes. (link)
🔹 Mistral Medium 3.1 – New model release. (link)
🔹 Nas – AI assistant for business launch. (link)
🔹 NEO – New autonomous ML engineer. (link)
🔹 OpenAI GPT-5 Examples – Collection of generatable sites. (link)
🔹 OpenAI Prompt Improvement – Service for better GPT-5 prompts. (link)
🔹 Opus.pro – AI agent for viral videos. (link)
🔹 Orchids Editor – New competitor to Webflow and Framer. (link)
🔹 Photoshop – Built-in Claude AI agent. (link)
🔹 Qwen Image Edit – Image editing model. (link)
🔹 Qwen Windows App – New Windows application. (link)
🔹 QuizGPT – Launch quizzes in ChatGPT. (link)
🔹 Runway – Integrated Veo 3. (link)
🔹 Runway Game Worlds – Beta version released. (link)
🔹 Sam Altman Announcement – 3000 weekly GPT-5-Thinking queries for Plus users. (link)
🔹 Strawberry Browser – New AI browser contender. (link)
🔹 System Prompts Repository – Collection of 6500+ system prompts. (link)
🔹 Tencent Hunyuan-Large-Vision – Advanced multimodal AI model. (link)
🔹 ToonComposer – AI model for cartoon creation. (link)
🔹 Trickle – No-code web app builder. (link)