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4.1
/10
Busier than 19% of weeks
AI is moving at a jogging pace this week — things are moving.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, positioning it as a cheaper alternative to Fable 5 with near-parity performance on coding and enterprise tasks, available across platforms including GitHub Copilot and Snowflake Cortex. Capability drove most of the signal at 9.3/10 — well above normal.
→ Trend: steady, driven by Capability
Splits — what moved
Labor
1.5
↓ well below normal
Deploy
6.8
— on pace
Reg
5.9
— on pace
Markets
6.1
— on pace
Capability
9.3
↑ well above normal
Pace history — last 12 weeks
What drove this week
Week of Jul 20, 2026
Capability Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, a cost-efficient model matching Fable 5 performance at half the token price [1][2][3] high
Deploy Manulife Expands Partnership with Microsoft to Accelerate Enterprise AI Governance and Innovation [1][2][3] high
Markets Morgan Stanley: AI Spending Could Hit $1.4 Trillion by 2028, But 60% Leaves the US [1] high
Reg AI Act - Shaping Europe's digital future [1][2][3] high
Labor AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees [1] high
Capability Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode with more capable models across all platforms [1][2][3] high
New capabilities
Week of Jul 20, 2026
Meta AI assistant gains task automation and calendar integration features [1][2][3] high
Google's Gemini task automation expands to 40+ apps with Samsung integration [1] high
Google expands Gemini Spark agentic AI assistant to more users [1][2] high
Anthropic's Claude can now learn user workflows by watching screens and video [1] high
Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode with more capable models across all platforms [1][2][3] high
Gemini for macOS gets Neural Expressive features and AI Mode redesign on Android [1] medium
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Is the pace changing?
Feb
5.2
71st
Mar
5.0
57th
Apr
6.3
86th
May
6.4
93rd
Jun
6.5
100th
Jul
5.5
partial
6 of the last 6 months were in the Running or Sprinting zone. Sustained elevation since Feb.
Model Releases
wk Jul 20
Qwen Alibaba
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
wk Jul 13
Qwen 3.8 Alibaba
wk Jul 6
Muse Spark 1.1 Meta
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic
GPT-5.6 OpenAI
Grok 4.5 xAI
wk Jun 29
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic
wk Jun 15
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 xAI
wk Jun 1
Qwen3 Alibaba
Gemma 4 12B Google
Grok Imagine 1.5 xAI
wk May 25
Gemini 3.5 Flash Low Google
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic
wk May 18
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google
Gemini Omni Google
Qwen 3.7-Max Alibaba
Qwen 3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash Alibaba
wk May 4
GPT-5.5-Cyber OpenAI
GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI
wk Apr 27
Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral
Grok 4.3 xAI
wk Apr 20
DeepSeek V4 DeepSeek
GPT-5.5 OpenAI
wk Apr 13
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic
wk Apr 6
Muse Spark Meta
Gemini Nano 4 Google
wk Mar 30
Gemma 4 Google
Qwen 3.6-Plus Alibaba
wk Mar 16
Mistral Small 4 Mistral
wk Mar 2
GPT-5.4 OpenAI
GPT-5.3 Instant OpenAI
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google
Grok 4.20 xAI
wk Feb 23
Qwen 3.5-Medium Alibaba
wk Feb 16
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google
Qwen 3.5 Alibaba
wk Feb 2
GPT-5.3-Codex OpenAI
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic
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