The day in AI

Wednesday 14 January 2026

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Launches and products

14 Jan 2026Meituan (LongCat)LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 Update to the 560B thinking model for agentic work, with environment scaling, multi-environment RL, tolerance for noisy tools and a Heavy Thinking parallel mode.

Research

14 Jan 2026Anysphere (Cursor)Scaling long-running agents (FastRender) Cursor reports hundreds of concurrent agents building a web browser from scratch, over 1M lines of code in about a week.

People and teams

Ahmad Al-DahleMeta → Airbnb. Became Airbnb CTO after Meta split its GenAI unit when Llama 4 was poorly received; earlier spent 16 years at Apple.

Luke MetzThinking Machines Lab → OpenAI. Left Thinking Machines for OpenAI alongside Barret Zoph and Sam Schoenholz, less than a year after the lab's February 2025 launch; OpenAI said the move had been in the works for weeks.

Barret ZophThinking Machines Lab → OpenAI. Rejoined OpenAI with Luke Metz and Sam Schoenholz; OpenAI's Fidji Simo said it had been 'in the works for several weeks'. Wired reported the split was not amicable. Soumith Chintala became TML CTO.