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**Open‑Weight AI Release Week – Over 25 new open‑weight models were released in August 2026, according to the Open‑Weight AI Release Week tracker, spanning language‑only and multimodal variants for image generation.

**Grok 4.6 – The latest Grok version, Grok 4.6, launched alongside a dedicated Grok Bot, offering improved reasoning speed, about 15% lower latency, and reduced compute cost, as listed in the August AI releases roundup.

**DeepSeek V4 Pro – DeepSeek unveiled a preview of its V4 Pro model, described as a long‑awaited upgrade with higher parameter count, support for 50 languages, and enhanced multilingual capabilities, highlighted in the DeepSeek V4 preview article.

**Open‑Source Landscape – Rankings from TechSy and Codersera place