Claude Opus 4.7, Qwen 3.6, Happy Oyster, realtime 3D worlds, new Google TTS: AI NEWS
Summary
Anthropic, Alibaba, Google and others unleash a wave of major model drops—Claude Opus 4.7, Qwen 3.6, emotion-rich Google TTS, plus tiny 1.58-bit phone LLMs and real-time 3-D world generators—alongside open tools for video, VR and character creation.
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