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New features, model additions, and platform announcements.

Smarter Routing: How We Rebuilt Every ARMES Tier This Month

We audited every model in every tier, cut the ones that no longer earned their slot, and rebuilt the routing logic from scratch. The result: fewer models, sharper routing, and stronger intelligence across Ultra, Pro, Eco, and Free.

August 16, 2026

Updates5 min read

ARMES Voice: Hear Your AI Think Out Loud

Any response in ARMES can now be read aloud with lifelike neural voices. Tap the speaker, pick your voice, adjust your pace, and listen — with the same zero-data-retention privacy you trust for every other interaction.

July 24, 2026

Updates8 min read

The New ARMES Concierge: Your AI Workspace Architect

The ARMES Concierge used to tell you how to set up your workspace. Now it builds it with you — creating your knowledge base, auditing your instructions, configuring custom agents, and optimizing your entire AI ecosystem in phased, manageable sessions.

July 14, 2026

Updates5 min read

Six New Models from Four Labs: ARMES Adds GPT-5.6, Claude Sonnet 5, Grok 4.5, and more

ARMES adds six new models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and NVIDIA — including the full GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna), Claude Sonnet 5, Grok 4.5, and Nemotron 3 Ultra. Every model runs under the same zero-data-retention guarantee. Here is what each one brings, where they excel, and how they fit into the platform.

July 13, 2026

Updates8 min read

AI Image Generation Arrives on ARMES: Private, Powerful, and Yours to Direct

ARMES now generates AI images with the same zero-data-retention privacy you trust for text. Work with ARMES ImageGen — a dedicated creative director agent — to craft striking images from a rough idea, or ask any Pro or Ultra agent to generate inline. Four launch models, Auto routing, manual selection, and every image processed and immediately forgotten.

July 13, 2026

Updates9 min read

Introducing People & Messages: Private Collaboration With Your AI in the Room

Connect with the people you trust, message privately or in groups, and invite your ARMES agents right into the conversation. The entire system is privacy-first: invisible by default, connections required, messages encrypted at rest.

July 12, 2026

Updates9 min read

Introducing the Eco Plan: Serious AI, $9/mo, a Fraction of the Energy

Eco Mode proved that efficient AI doesn't mean weaker AI. Now it's a whole plan: ARMES Eco brings a dedicated agent — ARMES GPT ECO — built entirely on sparse models that activate as little as 3% of their parameters per response. 10–30x more conversations per dollar, a meaningfully smaller energy footprint, and the exact same private inference.

July 4, 2026

Updates7 min read

Introducing Persistent Files: A Permanent, Searchable Library for Your AI

Upload a document once and every ARMES agent can find, summarize, and read it in any chat — forever. No more re-uploading the same file into every conversation.

July 1, 2026

Updates7 min read

Introducing Projects: Context-Aware Workspaces for Your AI

Projects let you separate every body of your work in ARMES — clients, books, courses, work vs. personal — so your AI focuses on one workstream at a time, with your shared knowledge always on hand.

June 30, 2026

Updates8 min read

13 New Models. 2 New Labs. A Smarter Auto Mode on Every Tier.

ARMES now offers 48+ models from 15 AI labs. Two new labs (Alibaba's Qwen and Xiaomi's MiMo), 13 new models including Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and Kimi K2.6, and a refreshed Auto Mode on every tier — including a brand-new Research and Synthesis routing branch that pairs Kimi K2.6 with our web search tool for low-hallucination fact-finding. No setting to flip.

April 28, 2026

Updates5 min read

Introducing Eco Mode: Powerful AI That Uses Less Energy

Eco Mode routes to highly capable Mixture-of-Experts models that activate just 3–6% of their parameters per response — consuming less energy and stretching your AI usage budget 10–30x further. Powerful AI with a smaller footprint, available with a single toggle.

March 17, 2026

Updates7 min read

A Fairer Way to Manage AI Usage: Cost-Based Budgets, Full Transparency, and Boost Packs

ARMES moves from quantity-based limits to transparent, cost-based AI usage budgets. Simple questions barely touch your budget while complex analysis uses more — reflecting reality. Plus AI Boost Packs for power users who need more, so your workflow never hits a hard stop.

March 14, 2026

Updates9 min read

Custom Instructions & Projects: How to Make Every ARMES Agent Truly Yours

Learn how to transform your ARMES agents from generic AI into personalized specialists with custom instructions and projects. Covers the two-tier instruction system, best practices backed by research on how language models process instructions, and how the ARMES Concierge can optimize your entire setup.

March 5, 2026

Updates18 min read

Every Agent in ARMES Just Got a Major Upgrade

Every agent in the ARMES library has been rebuilt with agent-to-agent collaboration, AI-managed notes, research-backed frameworks, structured methodologies, and concrete deliverables. Plus seven new agents including ARMES Concierge, Deep Research, Execution Architect, and the Future Self Designer.

March 2, 2026

Updates8 min read

February Community Update

The most significant ARMES update ever: a rebuilt ARMES GPT with agent-to-agent collaboration and AI-managed notes, six new frontier models from five AI labs, a brand new Command View workspace, platform-wide improvements, and a rewritten privacy policy. Everything you need to know.

February 20, 2026

Updates14 min read

Three Labs, Six Models, One Week: Inside the February 2026 Frontier Intelligence Update

The last two weeks have been one of the most significant periods in AI model releases we've ever seen. Three of the world's leading AI labs — Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI — shipped major updates within days of each other. Claude Opus 4.6. Claude Sonnet 4.6. Gemini 3.1 Pro. Plus new release

February 20, 2026

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