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AI daily picks · 2026-09-30

3 stories published here on 2026-09-30 (Beijing time), less than 48 hours after the event and above our selection bar, ranked by editorial score.

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Model releaseEvent time Sep 29, 2026, 18:00 (Beijing time, UTC+8)7 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed details
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of Astra's API price
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, saying it delivers near-GPT-6-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard API input and output token prices. GitHub Copilot, Amazon Bedrock and Codex CLI added it the same day.
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Product updateEvent time 2026-09-29 (source gives the date only)4 independent sourcesContains unconfirmed details
OpenAI introduces dots: proactive assistants that keep work moving
OpenAI introduced dots, describing them as proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks while users stay in control. Details such as who can use them and the underlying model come only from press reports, so the site marks them unconfirmed.
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Model releaseEvent time 2026-09-29 (source gives the date only)2 independent sources
NVIDIA releases Kumo Tabular: an open tabular foundation model that needs no training
NVIDIA released Kumo Tabular, an open foundation model for tabular classification and regression that predicts in a single forward pass, with no training, tuning or feature engineering. It comes in three sizes from 28M to 215M parameters under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, which permits commercial use.