Today’s been an absolutely stacked day for AI news. In case you missed it: 1. GPT 5.6 Sol and Sol Ultra dropping tomorrow. Early reviews say it’s not as smart as Fable but very positive. 2. Grok 4.5 launches from Cursor / SpaceX that claims Opus 4.7 quality at 80tps and $2/M in $6/M out price. 3. Bytedance Seedream 5 Pro launches as an image ~#2# and nearly as good as GPT Image 2 at 4x cheaper cost: $0.045-$0.09/image, specializing in edits and infographics. Easily beats Meta’s Muse Image. 4. GPT-Live launches a full duplex non-turn based voice model which allows interactions while you’re talking seamlessly, a huge upgrade in audio AI for consumer Coming soon: 1. Seedance 2.5 Pro expected to launch soon (early July) to further extend Bytedance’s lead in SOTA video gen models. Will use Seedream 5 Pro as the frame generator. 2. Gemini 3.5 Pro launching soon (July 17). Google seems to have fallen quite behind frontier and people eagerly await to see what Google can put out here amidst a string of high profile departures. 3. GPT-6 rumored to launch soon (Polymarket spikes at August 14) with a new larger retrain, taking aim at Fable.