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6.3LEANNOpen-source vector index shrinking a 60M-chunk RAG index from 201GB to 6GB at HNSW-level recall.6.3Halo AI GlassesBrilliant LabsBrilliant Labs' $399 open-source AI glasses with full-color Micro-OLED and long-memory assistant Noa.6.3Xreal AuraXREALXREAL's Aura glasses, the first to run Android XR, now on sale at a launch discount.6.1AuroraIMG2-50M-PreviewUltra-tiny open text-to-image model (~90M end-to-end) drawing on a 2016 laptop CPU; Apache-2.0.6.0Rokid ColorRokidRokid's consumer all-in-one AI glasses with full-color display built into the frame, from ¥4,999.5.9Waddle WorldMetaMeta's quietly launched AI pet journal: a tamagotchi that chats and doodles your day, on both stores.5.8Ling-3.1-flash-1019Ant Bailing's open-weights model release, tuned for personal agents on real-world tasks.5.8MCode StackMiniMaxMiniMax's MIT-licensed agent skills: 17 SKILL.md files and 5 checklists from its daily coding workflow.5.8FlashMapPrinceton/Polymathic AIFlow Map Speculative Decoding: drafts 16 tokens per forward, up to 6.14x lossless speedup on Qwen3-8B.5.7metaEyeNIL TechnologyThe first all-meta-optics eye-tracking camera, smaller than a grain of rice, for AI glasses and AR/VR makers.5.5Bring Your Own Agent (Android Studio)GoogleAndroid Studio now hosts 40+ third-party coding agents, with new Gemini APIs for agent workflows.