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AI Companies Are Going Crazy in August

AI Companies Are Going Crazy in August

Banger launches in the latest AI hype cycle

Aditya Kumar Saroj
August 09, 2025

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August 2025 has started with a bang featuring mega launches by major AI companies. Here are the top launches summarized.

Claude Opus 4.1

Claude Opus 4.1 is Anthropic’s latest launch. An upgrade to the Opus 4, it is now their state-of-the-art coding model with a score of 74.5% on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark.

Opus 4.1 is now available to paid Claude users and in Claude Code. It’s also on the API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Pricing is the same as Opus 4.

Genie 3

Genie 3 is a groundbreaking launch by Google DeepMind. It is a a general-purpose world model that can generate interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real-time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a resolution of 720p.

This is the beginning of many future models and physical tools that will create agentic AI-based, realistic and interactive environments, which could become the gold standard of VR and AR.

gpt-oss

Finally, something ‘open’ from OpenAI. The company released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — two open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. This is their first open-weight release since GPT-2.

The gpt-oss-120b model achieves near-parity with OpenAI o4-mini on core reasoning benchmarks. The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks.

Eleven Music

Eleven Music is ElevenLabs’ new AI music generator, enabling creation of studio-grade tracks from natural language prompts across genres, with and without vocals, and in multiple languages.

Eleven Music is cleared for nearly all commercial uses, from film and television to podcasts and social media videos, and from advertisements to gaming.

GPT-5

Perhaps one of the most awaited AI launches, OpenAI has launched its new flagship model — GPT-5. GPT‑5 is a unified system with a smart, efficient model that answers most questions, a deeper reasoning model (GPT‑5 thinking) for harder problems, and a real‑time router that quickly decides which to use based on conversation type, complexity, tool needs, and your explicit intent.

GPT‑5 is available to all users, with Plus subscribers getting more usage, and Pro subscribers getting access to GPT‑5 pro, a version with extended reasoning for even more comprehensive and accurate answers.

Clearly, the best OpenAI model, it has disappointed many users as they expected GPT-5 to be a major step towards AGI, but the model is more of an incremental update to the previous OpenAI models.

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