1. Meituan Releases LongCat-2.0: 1.6T-parameter open MoE model with native 1M context — The food delivery giant ships a frontier-class open-source AI model with LongCat sparse attention, competing with top labs. Marktechpost · Jul 5
2. Agility Robotics going public via SPAC at ~$2.5B valuation — Maker of Digit bipedal warehouse robot raises $620M in largest humanoid robotics capital raise ever; CEO Peggy Johnson (ex-Microsoft, ex-Magic Leap) leads the first pure-play humanoid robotics public listing. TechCrunch · Jul 6
3. Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding — Ex-Apple team's camera-free, display-first smart glasses raise from Meituan and Tencent; 10K+ units sold of G1, G2 ships with companion ring control. TechCrunch · Jul 6
4. Sakana AI launches Sakana Translate: Japanese-English-Chinese with Namazu — Tokyo research lab ships translate, proofread, and ask modes for East Asian business market. Marktechpost · Jul 6
5. Qwen's former lead: hybrid thinking got it wrong, agents are the real path — Ex-lead of Alibaba's flagship hybrid reasoning model argues the future is agent-based architectures. Marktechpost · Jul 5
6. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra reportedly coming to Codex — Tweet claim hits 324 points on Hacker News; thin sourcing but signals intense market hunger for the next frontier model. X/Twitter · Jul 6
7. Synthetic Sciences releases OpenScience: open-source model-agnostic AI workbench — Lab notebook-style workbench for ML, biology, physics, and chemistry research with no vendor lock-in. Marktechpost · Jul 6
8. Kyrall: AI-powered 3D modeling generates parametric manufacturable models — Browser-based tool for games, prototypes, and 3D web; lowers barrier for creators. Kyrall · Jul 6
9. LlamaIndex legal-kb: agentic retrieval with retrieve, find, read, and grep — Concrete demo of agentic RAG in the legal vertical built on Index v2; proving ground for high-accuracy retrieval. Marktechpost · Jul 5

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• 🔧 Download LongCat-2.0 — a frontier open MoE model with 1M-token context is rare
• 🎥 Try Kyrall for quick AI-powered 3D prototyping
• 📝 Read the Qwen former lead's analysis on why agents beat hybrid thinking