Saturday, 5 September 2026

Language

Bodhan AI launches four open Indian-language models

Open-weight ASR, TTS, MT and OCR for dozens of Indian languages as Digital Public Goods under the Bharat EduAI Stack.

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Microsoft ships MAI-Transcribe-2 multilingual ASR

Sixty-language STT with diarisation, timestamps, keyword biasing and code-switching at $0.10 per hour through end-2026.

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Models

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra

Trusted Access first, then Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and API. Changes which frontier model agent stacks build against.

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Agents

SpaceXAI publishes Designing Grok Bot essay

Describes Bot roster, presence, Bot-owned computer, Skills and Routines, and work that starts without a prompt.

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