The day in AI

Tuesday 17 March 2026

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Launches and products

17 Mar 2026MidjourneyMidjourney V8 (alpha; V8.1 default 2026-06-11; V8.2 2026-07-24) V8 alpha (2026-03-17) became V8.1, which replaced V7 as default on 2026-06-11: 4-second SD images, native HD at 4x V7 resolution, better text.17 Mar 2026OpenAIGPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano GPT-5.4 mini runs over twice as fast as GPT-5 mini and nears GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro and OSWorld; nano targets classification and subagents.17 Mar 2026Mistral AIForge Mistral Forge lets enterprises pretrain, post-train and RL-align frontier-grade models on their own data, with ASML, ESA and Ericsson as early partners.

Research

17 Mar 2026Google DeepMindMeasuring Progress Toward AGI: A Cognitive Taxonomy Google DeepMind proposes ten cognitive abilities as a framework for measuring general intelligence and opens a $200,000 Kaggle hackathon to build the evaluations.

People and teams

Mustafa SuleymanMicrosoft AI (Copilot product lead) → Microsoft AI (superintelligence and models). Nadella unified Copilot under Jacob Andreou (EVP, ex-Snap) so Suleyman can focus on frontier models and the superintelligence effort, still reporting to Nadella.