AI Roundup (Aug 06): Ilya's SSI Sets a Date, Grok 4.6 Lands, and ByteDance Goes Full-Duplex

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Three things moved the needle in AI today: the industry's most secretive lab finally put a date on its debut, xAI locked in a two-model release window, and ByteDance shipped a natively full-duplex audio-video model to a consumer app. Here's what actually matters for builders. 1. Ilya Sutskever's SSI is reportedly shipping its first model this month Safe Superintelligence — the lab Ilya Sutskever co-founded in June 2024 with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy — is prepari