Live23 Sept 2026/8 verified items today/Claim check: Yes, a 744B model runs on a laptop with no GPU/Daily digest
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Week ending 23 Sept 2026

Top 10

  1. Claude Opus 5.5 ships: Opus-tier quality at a 20% lower price 23 Sept 2026
  2. Claude Opus 5.5 reaches AWS Bedrock in Mumbai (ap-south-1), preview 23 Sept 2026
  3. Colibrì runs the 744B GLM-5.2 on 16–25 GB of RAM with no GPU, slowly 23 Sept 2026
  4. OpenAI Frontier 2 (demo) in preview on Azure Central India 22 Sept 2026
  5. Gemini Pro 4 (demo) announced for 1 October with 2M context 22 Sept 2026
  6. Claude API: per-message effort control (beta) without a prompt-cache reset 23 Sept 2026
  7. LangGraph (demo release) renames checkpointer interfaces — breaking for custom savers 23 Sept 2026
  8. MCP spec revision (demo) adds resumable streams 22 Sept 2026
  9. vLLM (demo release) adds speculative decoding for open-weight 70B models 22 Sept 2026
  10. Llama open-weight 2 70B (demo) lands on Bedrock in preview 23 Sept 2026

Weekly roundup (Tier 3)

Research, minor versions and tools, batched weekly.