AI NEWS: Gemini 3.6 Flash is here: More efficient, less expensive but Gemini 3.5 Pro is still testing with partners & very much not here. Is Google Gemini slowly getting cooked?
Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell break down Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and the missing Pro model. Plus Sam Altman's reported Washington briefing on OpenAI's next wave of AI models, Sunday Robotics' Memo folding laundry with a company-reported 99.1% success rate, and District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's 13-minute AI film NIGHTBORNE.
Also: Fable 5's proposed counterexample to the 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture, Codex and ChatGPT computer use, Notch warming to vibe coding, a whale-shaped Moby-Dick crossword, Gaussian splats, Bambi the Destroyer and Wizard Brains in the return of AI SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!.
THE MODELS ARE GETTING WEIRDER. THE LAUNDRY IS FINALLY GETTING FOLDED.
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Official Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber announcement
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/
Gemini 3.6 Flash on Frontend Arena
https://x.com/arena/status/2079594271045455947
Logan Kilpatrick on Gemini 4 training and Gemini 3.5 Pro
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079594867161022817?s=20
Report of a new Google AI chip for Gemini
https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2079198478849413390?s=20
Fable 5 and the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
https://x.com/__alpoge__/status/2079028340955197566?s=20
Context on the Jacobian Conjecture result
https://x.com/jdlichtman/status/2079066717762863249?s=20
Andrew Curran on Altman's planned Washington briefing
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2079604797838397495?s=20
Bloomberg: Altman to brief U.S. officials on OpenAI's next wave of models
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/openai-s-altman-to-brief-us-officials-on-next-wave-of-ai-models
Sunday Robotics' ACT-2 laundry demonstration
https://youtu.be/d7I1wj0Gkik?si=8E44Kmpqa7Gazfuh
Three hours of Memo folding laundry
https://youtu.be/a2HZyURUE_o?si=dT_WiDVcVEHGj9qn
Sunday Robotics' technical ACT-2 post
https://www.sunday.ai/blog/act-2-preview
Neill Blomkamp's AI film NIGHTBORNE
https://youtu.be/8Wbtt2JxP7g?si=Q8WMwCB_cIXvxxJt
Notch comes around on vibe coding
https://x.com/notch/status/2079507573523300534?s=20
Riley Goodside's Fable 5 Moby-Dick whale crossword
https://x.com/goodside/status/2078649724710658309?s=20
Gaussian splat of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral
https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/
Bambi the Destroyer, Episode 5
https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1uto3js/bambi_the_destroyer_episode_5/
Wizard Brains game
https://x.com/wizardbrainz/status/2078860897259548946?s=20
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