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4 verified AI tool, model and product launches from the week of Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026, newest first. Each entry links to the official announcement or credible press; dates come from the vendor's post. Last updated 2026-10-27.
Baidu open-sourced Unlimited OCR 2 (3B, MIT license), a document-parsing model whose Sparse Reference Sliding Window Attention keeps memory and per-step latency nearly constant, so it can parse documents of unlimited length, even a full book in one request. Baidu reports state-of-the-art results on multi-page and hundred-page benchmarks; runs with Transformers or SGLang, with a Hugging Face demo.
Source ↗OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, efficient model for visual reasoning, computer use, coding and natural writing, with standard API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra ($1/$5 per 1M input/output tokens) and a 1.05M-token context window. Available in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users, in the API as gpt-6.1-terra, and the same day in GitHub Copilot and Amazon Bedrock.
Source ↗Runway launched App Studio: describe a creative app in plain language and it codes, tests and deploys it, chaining Runway's image, video and audio models with your Brand Kits. Apps can be kept private, shared with a team or published by link; it is included in every paid plan and draws on existing credits. The older Runway Apps now live in App Studio.
Source ↗Figma made every video and image model in Figma Weave (such as Seedance, Kling and Nano Banana) available to external AI agents through the Figma MCP server, so you can generate images and videos, including image-to-video, from your agent chat. Requires a Figma Weave account linked to Figma; generations use Weave credits.
Source ↗Unlimited OCR 2 (Baidu), GPT-6.1 Terra (OpenAI), Runway App Studio, Figma Weave models via the Figma MCP.
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