Company@X — 2026-07-16#

Signal of the Day#

Google has officially rebranded its breakout hit NotebookLM to “Gemini Notebook,” signaling its deeper integration into Google Search and the Gemini app ecosystem. Crucially, the platform is rolling out a secure cloud computer for every notebook, evolving the product from an AI reading companion into an active execution environment capable of natively writing and running code for complex data analysis.

Key Announcements#

Google · Source Google Workspace rolled out Gemini Omni and personal avatars to Google Vids, allowing users to generate high-quality video clips, swap backgrounds, and execute step-by-step edits using conversational prompts. The rollout coincides with Google’s natively multimodal Gemini Omni Flash debuting at the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Leaderboards for both Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video, edging out ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0.

xAI · Source Grok launched “Automations,” a major new capability allowing users to describe a job, set a schedule or trigger, and have Grok run it autonomously and report back. Alongside this shift toward agentic scheduling, xAI also announced that the Grok 4.5 model is now fully available to users across Europe.

Thinking Machines · Source Thinking Machines released “Inkling,” a massive 975B parameter open model that natively supports image, audio, and text with a 1M token context window. The AI community has already quantized the model to dynamic 1-bit, reducing its size by 86% so it can run on 280GB of memory while retaining 74.2% of its accuracy.

Sable AI · Source Nim Ravid announced the launch of “Aidan,” positioned as the first computer-using AI built specifically for real-time conversation. Backed by a new $45M raise from Sequoia and 8VC, Aidan is already deployed by Notion and Decagon AI to autonomously run live sales demos and customer onboarding interactions.

Runta · Source Andreessen Horowitz led a $20M seed round for Runta, an execution layer platform designed specifically for the AI agent ecosystem. Runta acts as a secure computer that enforces policy controls, ensuring autonomous agents can run securely and efficiently within restricted enterprise environments.

Also Noted#

• Meta (Source): Muse Spark 1.1 is now officially available on OpenRouter for developers based in the US.
• Cursor (Source): The AI code editor doubled the included usage of its frontier models across all plans, granting developers more access to Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5.
• Emergent Labs (Source): The Y Combinator S24 AI coding startup achieved unicorn status, raising a $130M Series C at a $1.5B valuation after surpassing 12 million apps built on its platform.
• Railway (Source): Railway became an official plugin within Grok Build, enabling agents to deploy applications and manage infrastructure directly from the Grok interface.
• Google DeepMind (Source): DeepMind announced a partnership with Isomorphic Labs to deploy frontier AI for global health and proactive biosecurity defenses.