DAILY AI BRIEF  — Sept 16

GOOGLE :
- Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are out. 97-language auto-detect, near real-time vision, background tool calling.
- Live is in Search Live plus Gemini API public preview. Extended Thinking is in Gemini Live, with Pro/Ultra getting it in Docs, Gmail, and Keep.
- Gemini Notebook Voice Mode hits Ultra this week, Pro soon. Mobile voice recorder starts next week for all users, English first.
- Interactive Reports for Gemini Notebook roll out to everyone in the coming weeks, plus new quiz formats and 60-second video overviews.

OPENAI :
- Sam declared a big ship week, then a much larger wave for DevDay. GPT-6 Sol and Luna are the expected drops. 
- GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT, Work, and Codex on Oct 14. Switch to GPT-5.6 Sol or GPT-6 Astra; the API keeps 5.5.

XAI :
- Grok Imagine can now edit text on any image in beta — color, size, font, alignment.
- Grok Build 1.0.33: structured MCP JSON, in-UI memory deletes, and long-session checkpoints that survive cleanup.

ANTHROPIC :
- Salesforce in Claude is in beta. 37 pre-built sales skills for pipeline, forecasts, and call prep.

ALSO TRENDING :
- TypeSafe AI — Jev is out: a non-LLM decision model at ~150ms, $42 per billion input tokens, output free.
- Salesforce — Koa is its first CRM reasoning model for Agentforce, built on NVIDIA Nemotron.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.