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Wednesday 29 July 2026

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Launches and products

29 Jul 2026Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen-MM-Plugins (multimodal plugins for agent harnesses) Open plugin framework that gives any agent harness native audio and video skills for Qwen Omni models; a plugin hub opened in September.29 Jul 2026GoogleLyria 3.5 Lyria 3.5 improves musicality, lyrics and vocals and ships first in Google Flow Music; a full-length-song API went GA on 2026-09-03.

Research

29 Jul 2026OpenAIHow two API settings tripled our ARC-AGI-3 scores OpenAI shows retained reasoning and compaction tripled GPT-5.6 Sol's ARC-AGI-3 score and cut output tokens 6x, so harness choices dominate agent benchmarks.

People and teams

Lilian WengThinking Machines Lab → OpenAI. Quit TML on 2026-07-27 citing health and startup pace; OpenAI said she will lead a top-level team accelerating internal research, including recursive self-improvement work.