Software Development Summary

Google has integrated its vibe-coding tool, Opal, into the Gemini web app, allowing users to create AI-powered mini apps. The new Gemini 3 Flash AI model enhances user experience, offering improved speed and power while supporting vibe coding and multimodality features.

In another development impacting software development, GitHub announced it will start charging users $0.002 per minute for self-hosted Actions runners used on private repositories beginning in March, although it will reduce prices for hosted runners for some users.

Additionally, Mistral AI launched its third-generation optical character recognition model, which aims to digitize enterprise documents at a competitive rate.