The day in AI
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Launches and products
5 Aug 2026MetaMuse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Meta's terminal coding agent Muse Code (beta) ships with Muse Spark 1.2, co-trained on harness trajectories.5 Aug 2026ByteDance SeedSeedRealtime Native audio-visual full-duplex LLM that fuses audio, video and text in one stream and can speak up unprompted; rolled out at scale at launch.
People and teams
Jeff DeanGoogle → Discovery Loop. Left after 27 years on friendly terms to start Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, a public-benefit company for AI in science and engineering; Google will invest.
Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMind (CEO) → Alphabet (chief scientist; GDM chair). Handed day-to-day operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now heads the AI division reporting to Pichai and leads Gemini 4, to focus on the big picture; announced alongside Jeff Dean's exit.