Hi there, LlamaParser!

Quite the week. Our team at LlamaIndex has doubled in the past year, so we met up at HQ in SF to plan ahead and ship new features now available: Extract now has conversation, fast tier now includes markdown, Agentic Plus got noticeably better at tables, and every plan now seats 100 users. Here's the rundown...

Product Updates

• Writing JSON Schema by hand? That's over.⁣ Your extraction schema is now a conversation away. See Conversational Extract inaction →
• Fast tier now outputs markdown by default — set `tier="fast", version="latest"` and you get clean markdown in the API and the UI. It's LiteParse under the hood, with better OCR and better PDF font handling. Try it in the playground →
• 100 users on every plan — including free. Bring your whole team.
• Parse playground polish — cleaner settings, easier mode selection, and a quick confirmation before you accidentally parse a 400-page PDF you only wanted to peek at.
• Darkmode — give your eyes a break and try the new darkmode UI

Community Updates

• Swap and Pitch — Thursday, July 16, San Francisco — demos and pitches at 855 Brannan. Come say hi. Register →
• AWS AI Builder Lab — Friday, July 24, New York — a hands-on day of agent building at Washington Square Park South. Register →
• You.com Agentic Hackathon — Friday, July 24, San Francisco — build agents with us at the AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St.

AI News

• GPT-5.6 hits ParseBench on day 0 — text and tables: strong. Charts and layout: still a struggle. Most interesting: Luna is ~6x cheaper than Sol with only minor degradation across every ParseBench.ai metric — more reasoning tokens don't buy you more visual understanding.
• Bun rewrote 535k lines of Zig in Rust — in 11 days, with 64 Claudes, for $165k in tokens — and the Zig creator's rebuttal is the sharpest thing you'll read this week. The rewrite → · The rebuttal →
• Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets — from ChatGPT-on-iPhone partners to federal court in under two years. Read more →
• TypeScript 7 is GA, Go compiler and all — the ~10x compile-speed rewrite finally lands. Watch →
• Chart of the day: US IPO Market on course to reach new records fueled by AI