AI News Brief | 2026-05-16
ChatGPT launches multimodal real-time collaboration, Claude releases Opus 4.7, DeepSeek open-source ecosystem expands
ChatGPT
OpenAI today introduced multimodal real-time collaboration for ChatGPT, allowing users to upload images, PDFs, and code files directly into conversations for AI-assisted real-time analysis and collaborative editing. The feature rolls out first to Plus and Team subscribers. OpenAI also announced another 25% API price reduction, bringing input costs down to $0.11 per million tokens.
Claude
Anthropic officially released Claude Opus 4.7, its latest flagship model, achieving an 85.2% score on the SWE-bench coding benchmark with significantly improved reasoning capabilities. The new model supports a 200K token context window and features enhanced multilingual performance, particularly strong in Chinese, Japanese, and other non-English tasks.
Source: Anthropic Official Site
DeepSeek
The DeepSeek V3.2-Thinking open-source community continues to expand, with over 500 fine-tuned variants now available on Hugging Face. The DeepSeek team announced a multimodal version with image input support launching next month, while maintaining a fully open-source approach.
Source: DeepSeek Official Announcement
Gemini
Google added Deep Research to Gemini 2.0, enabling users to submit a research topic for the AI to autonomously search, analyze, and synthesize information into structured research reports. The feature is now available to Gemini Advanced subscribers.
Midjourney
Midjourney released V7 with "Character Consistency," where users upload a reference image and all subsequent generations maintain the same character appearance and style. Text rendering has also been significantly improved, with higher accuracy for logo and poster design use cases.
Kimi
Moonshot AI added a "Long Document Comparison" feature to Kimi, supporting simultaneous upload of two PDF documents up to 200 pages each, with automatic difference detection and comparison report generation. The feature is particularly useful for legal, academic, and business scenarios. Kimi also announced surpassing 50 million monthly active users.