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Week 32 · 2026

August 3 – August 9

59 events

Importance: monitoring NVIDIA New models ✓ official

NVIDIA released the Alpamayo 2 Super model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles

NVIDIA released the Alpamayo 2 Super model for commercial use in robotaxis and autonomous vehicles. According to the company, it is intended to help handle rare and complex traffic situations beyond standard object detection and motion prediction.

Importance: monitoring Hardware 1 source

NVIDIA: growing demands of AI applications put pressure on memory and storage

According to NVIDIA, AI applications require the processing of increasingly large datasets and context windows that exceed system memory capacity. Simply increasing storage capacity is not enough, according to the company. You can find details in the source article.

Importance: monitoring Hardware 1 source

Taiwan and South Korea strengthen control over the production of key AI chips and memory

TSMC in Taiwan controls the production of the most advanced AI chips; according to the government there, the most advanced production is to remain on the island. South Korea is investing about 600 billion USD with Samsung and SK Hynix in new plants - the two companies hold around 80 % of the market for memory used in AI chips.

Importance: monitoring Microsoft Open-source 1 source

Microsoft Research has released the open-source Orchard framework for training AI agents

The research division Microsoft Research has released the open-source Orchard framework, which is intended to reduce the cost and simplify the training of autonomous AI agents. It is built on Kubernetes and offers three domains: software engineering, GUI navigation and productivity tasks.

Importance: monitoring Hardware 1 source

Runware launched the modular Sonic Inference Pod data center for AI inference

Runware launched Sonic Inference Pod, a modular portable data center for AI inference with water-free cooling that can be built within days. There are 10 pods operating in the USA, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, clients include Higgsfield AI and Wix, and 160 additional locations are available.

Importance: monitoring Robotics 1 source

Auterion equips Ukrainian Shrike drones with the Skynode S autonomous targeting system

Since mid-July 2026, Auterion has been supplying the Ukrainian army with Shrike drones (company SkyFall) equipped with the Skynode S kit, which enables autonomous tracking and striking of moving targets without GPS and is resistant to signal jamming. 50 000 units are planned.

Importance: monitoring Alibaba New models 1 source

Alibaba introduced the model Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters for autonomously completing long-term tasks

Alibaba has published the model Qwen3.8-Max (2.4 trillion parameters, 95 billion active). According to the company, it autonomously created a tool in 16 days (265 commits), reproduced and surpassed the results of a scientific paper, and performed successfully in a Tianchi competition against 526 teams. The weights will be released next week.