ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 Modular releases since Mar 2026, most recently Mojo on Aug 20, 2026. Highlights include Mojo, Modular 26.2. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live, plus key numbers where we have them.
Mojo goes fully open source under Apache 2.0
The Mojo language is now fully open source under Apache 2.0 with LLVM exceptions, three weeks after Qualcomm's $3.9B acquisition of Modular.
Modular 26.2 runs FLUX.2 in under a second, 99% cheaper than Nano Banana
Modular shipped its 26.2 release with state-of-the-art image generation, running FLUX.2 in under one second (sub-300ms claims) at 99% lower cost than Nano Banana, plus upgraded AI coding with Mojo. Alex noted the surprise of an inference platform releasing model-level optimization and hoped the approach spreads to all image generation.
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