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happy monday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

OpenAI’s Astra could reportedly launch this month
OpenAI is reportedly preparing an even larger model called Doug
Meta releases Muse Glimmer for local AI agents
Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

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1/ Astra could reportedly launch this month with 10 trillion parameters: Reports suggest OpenAI is preparing to release its next flagship model, codenamed Astra (very likely to be GPT-6), in August with potentially around 10 trillion parameters. The company reportedly suspended the release yesterday over security concerns. OpenAI has designated Astra as its first “critical” cybersecurity-capable AI, triggering stricter safeguards before a broader release. The model can reportedly find and create zero-day vulnerabilities and carry out cyberattacks autonomously, prompting heightened security restrictions and deeper government and third-party testing.

2/ OpenAI is reportedly preparing an even larger model called Doug: Another model, reportedly codenamed Doug, could arrive by November and is said to be powerful enough to make Anthropic’s Fable look “primitive.” According to the report, Doug will be OpenAI’s largest pre-training project ever and is separate from GPT-6.

3/ Meta releases Muse Glimmer for local AI agents: Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model designed for always-on agents running locally on a Mac or PC with a single consumer GPU. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it supports tool use, multi-step reasoning, coding, screenshots, and 100+ languages, while quantization brings it under 20GB of memory for consumer hardware.

TRENDING TOOLS

Gotcha > Controls your Android phone using plain English, entirely on-device
Ankon AI > Turns text prompts, scripts, PDFs, or reference images into narrated whiteboard explainer videos
GPT-Live > Now accepts files and maintains persistent project context, turning voice conversations into a contextual workspace
Omniwork > Functions as a desktop agentic OS, using specialized AI models to automate complex creative workflows
Soloop > An approval-first Agent OS that deploys autonomous AI executive teams to build and run solo companies