Autonomous agents, computer use, browser automation, MCP, tool calling, and agent frameworks. — 233 releases covered on the show.
Cognition rebrands Windsurf into Devin Desktop multi-agent hub
Cognition rebranded Windsurf into Devin Desktop, a multi-agent command center with Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support. The move consolidates Cognition's IDE acquisition into its Devin agent brand as a desktop control surface for running multiple coding agents.
H Company launches Holo 3.1 local computer-use agent models
H Company released Holo 3.1, a family of local computer-use agent models ranging from 0.8B to 35B parameters with new quantized checkpoints. The lineup targets running screen-driving agents on local hardware rather than in the cloud.
Arena launches Agent Arena for real-world agent workflow evals
Arena (LMArena) launched Agent Arena during the episode, moving beyond one-turn chatbot preference battles to evaluate models on real agent workflows with web search, files, terminals, user corrections, and objective recovery signals. Peter Gostev joined live to explain why long-running, harder tasks need a different benchmark.
MiniMax announces M3 coding/agentic model with 1M context
MiniMax announced M3, a natively multimodal coding and agentic model with a one-million-token sparse attention context claim and open weights promised soon. Reported numbers include 59 on SWE-bench Pro, and the panel noted MiniMax already has a following for cheap agentic tool calling even as pure coding quality is debated.
Nous Research launches Hermes Desktop agent app for Mac/Win/Linux
Nous Research launched Hermes Desktop, packaging the Hermes Agent harness into a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Karan previewed chat, permissions, tool-call visibility, reasoning traces, and admin controls aimed at small teams, startups, and personal agent fleets.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B open-weight MoE for agents
NVIDIA dropped Nemotron 3 Ultra the day of the show, a 550B-parameter sparse MoE with 55B active parameters built for long-running agentic harnesses like OpenCode, Hermes, and OpenClaw. Chris Alexiuk joined to explain the hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture and the unusually complete open release: weights, training data, recipes, a GenRM reward model, and an NVFP4 quantized checkpoint.
NVIDIA announces RTX Spark Arm + Blackwell platform for local AI PCs
At Computex, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, an Arm CPU plus Blackwell GPU PC platform with 128GB unified memory targeting local AI agents and 120B-class local inference. A wave of thin laptops with RTX 5070-class GPUs and roughly one petaflop of local AI compute raises the question of what agents should run locally versus in the cloud.
Dynamic Workflows and Ultra Code land in Claude Code
Alongside Opus 4.8, Anthropic shipped Dynamic Workflows and an Ultra Code mode in Claude Code, which Yam fired up live on the show. The headline proof point: Bun was ported from Zig to Rust — about 750K lines — via Dynamic Workflows, with 99.8% of the test suite passing and the port merged in 11 days.
Cua Driver brings background computer-use agents to Windows
Cua launched Windows support for Cua Driver, enabling background computer-use agents that operate real desktop apps without taking over the user's screen. It extends Cua's open-source computer-use stack to the largest desktop OS.
Google launches Universal Cart, AP2 and UCP for agentic commerce
Google launched Universal Cart along with the AP2 and UCP protocols, infrastructure that lets AI agents shop and pay on a user's behalf. It is Google's play to standardize agent-driven commerce across merchants and payment flows.
Weights & Biases launches MCP server with 20 tools for agents
W&B officially launched its MCP server with 20 schema-first tools so coding agents can read experiments, monitor training, and run autonomous research loops. Agents can query metadata before pulling full 300-metric runs, keeping their context windows from blowing up.
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.7-Max agentic frontier model with robotics demos
Alibaba released Qwen 3.7-Max, an agentic frontier model built for long autonomous runs, demonstrated alongside robotics demos. It continues the Qwen Max line as Alibaba's closed frontier offering aimed at agentic workloads.
Cursor launches Composer 2.5 with Opus-class coding at much lower cost
Cursor launched Composer 2.5, a coding model continued-trained on top of Kimi K2.5 (with permission) that delivers Opus-class coding performance at much lower cost. The crew noted Cursor is 'absolutely back' with strong pre-training and post-training teams, and that training now runs partly on the Colossus supercomputer.
Antigravity 2.0 becomes Google's central agentic coding harness
Antigravity 2.0 was positioned at I/O 2026 as the single agent harness powering agentic experiences across Google, from internal tooling to Search, Workspace and developer products. Born from the Windsurf acquisition, it evolved from an agent-first IDE into the through line for Google's agentic strategy, now exposed to external developers as well.
Gemini 3.5 Flash launches at I/O as Google's agentic workhorse model
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026 as a fast, determined workhorse model built for agentic loops rather than a budget-tier Flash like prior generations. It is rolling out across the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Antigravity and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Nisten noted unusual determinism in its behavior, and Logan Kilpatrick framed it as designed for the agentic era.
Gemini API gets Managed Agents with hosted sandboxes and the Interactions API
Google launched Managed Agents in the Gemini API, letting developers spin up hosted Antigravity agents with Linux sandboxes and persistent state. It ships alongside the next-generation Interactions API, which Logan Kilpatrick described as designed for agentic systems rather than the old tokens-in, tokens-out model interaction pattern.
Gemini Spark announced as a 24/7 proactive personal AI agent
Google announced Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal AI agent that can proactively work across Google surfaces, framed on the show as Google's OpenClaw competitor. Access was not yet broadly available at announcement time, so the crew discussed it from the announcement rather than hands-on testing.
Google Search adds Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agentic capabilities
Google Search is getting new Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agentic capabilities, including a new AI-powered Search box and background information agents. The crew framed the rollout as a massive intelligence uplift across one of Google's largest surfaces, with billions of Search users getting frontier-model capabilities.
OpenAI Codex Mobile arrives in the ChatGPT mobile apps
OpenAI's Codex Mobile is now available in the ChatGPT mobile apps, enabling remote agent workflows from a phone. The crew discussed it as part of the broader shift toward driving coding agents from anywhere rather than just the desktop.
xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI coding tool in beta
xAI launched Grok Build, an agentic CLI coding tool, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. It joins the crowded field of terminal-based coding agents as xAI's entry into agentic engineering tooling.
Anthropic adds separate Claude Agent SDK credits to paid plans
Anthropic announced separate monthly Claude Agent SDK credits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, starting June 15, 2026. This gives agent builders a dedicated usage pool on top of regular plan limits.
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index benchmarks model + harness combos
Artificial Analysis launched the Coding Agent Index, a benchmark that evaluates model and harness combinations rather than models alone. Opus 4.7 in Cursor CLI leads at 61, GLM-5.1 tops the open-weight entries at 53, and costs vary 30x across combos for similar capability.
CoreWeave Sandboxes launch in preview via the W&B SDK
CoreWeave Sandboxes is now an official Harbor provider, letting teams run agentic workloads like Terminal-Bench safely at scale on CoreWeave infrastructure. It plugs CoreWeave's isolated execution environments directly into the Harbor eval/agent ecosystem.
Hermes passes OpenClaw as #1 CLI agent on OpenRouter, adds computer use
Nous Research's Hermes overtook OpenClaw as the #1 CLI agent on OpenRouter. It also added background computer use via Trykua, and Alex described switching his own daily agent workflow from OpenClaw to Hermes.
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a frontier AI cybersecurity platform
OpenAI announced Daybreak, a frontier AI cybersecurity platform that pairs GPT-5.5 with Codex for security workloads. It launches with partners including Cloudflare, positioning OpenAI directly in the AI-powered defense market.
/goal command lands in Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes - the productized Ralph
The /goal command is now available in Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes, productizing the Ralph loop pattern: set a measurable success condition and the agent iterates autonomously until it is done. Codex's implementation is winning early head-to-head comparisons over Claude Code, and the show framed it as turning coding agents into 24/7 AI employees.
Cognition launches Devin for Terminal CLI coding agent
Cognition launched Devin for Terminal, a local CLI coding agent. Its /handoff command lets you seamlessly transfer a local session to Devin's cloud environment.
Cursor launches SDK exposing the runtime that powers the IDE
Cursor launched an SDK that exposes the same runtime, harness, and models that power the Cursor IDE, making the Cursor agent embeddable in any product. The Cursor Agent + GPT-5.5 combo also topped WolfBench's Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard this week.
IBM Granite 4.1: dense non-thinking models with top tool calling
IBM released the Granite 4.1 family (3B/8B/30B), dense non-thinking models under Apache 2.0 with best-in-class tool calling, scoring 73 on BFCL with just 8B parameters. IBM claims 20x token efficiency over Qwen3.5 9B, and the models are live on W&B Inference at $0.05/$0.10 per million input/output tokens with 128K context.
Microsoft's DELEGATE-52 exposes stealthy document corruption
Microsoft released the DELEGATE-52 benchmark showing GPT-5.4 loses 28% of document content after 20 iterative edits. Frontier models corrupt documents stealthily while preserving structure, making the degradation hard to notice.
Stripe launches Link wallet giving AI agents scoped payments
At Stripe Sessions 2026, Stripe launched the Link wallet for agents: AI agents get scoped payment credentials with mandatory human approval, and the real card number is never exposed to the agent. Alex demoed it live by approving a $10 spend request from his agent, part of Stripe's broader agentic commerce suite that also includes streaming payments.
Stripe opens Projects.dev: 32 infra providers provisionable by agents
Stripe removed the waitlist on Projects.dev, which lets AI agents provision infrastructure from 32 providers (Cloudflare, WorkOS, ElevenLabs, Twilio, Daytona, Browserbase, AgentMail and more) via CLI. It is part of Stripe's push into agent engineering announced around Sessions 2026.
Anthropic ships Claude Design research preview, Figma stock drops 7%
Anthropic released Claude Design as a research preview running on Opus 4.7 at claude.ai/design, and Figma stock dropped 7% on the news. Alex generated a full ThursdAI brand kit including logo, design tokens, and the episode opener videos end-to-end inside Claude Design, then had Codex pick up the kit and produce a GPT-5.5 launch video in 9 minutes. Anthropic also added a new usage meter to Claude Max settings.
Brex open-sources CrabTrap, an LLM-as-judge proxy for agent security
Brex's CEO pair-programmed with Codex and open-sourced CrabTrap, an LLM-as-judge HTTP proxy that intercepts outbound agent requests and blocks risky activity using natural-language rule definitions. Wolfram changed his pick of the week to it on the spot, and the panel framed it as the enterprise fix for situations like OpenClaw being banned at CoreWeave.
Google ships Gemini Deep Research + Deep Research Max on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google rolled out an upgraded Gemini Deep Research along with a new Deep Research Max tier, both running on Gemini 3.1 Pro. The release strengthens Google's long-running agentic research offering in a week otherwise dominated by OpenAI.
Google launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a platform for building and deploying Gemini-powered agents inside enterprises. It was covered briefly in the Big Co segment of the show.
Kimi K2.6: 1T MoE open-source SOTA on SWE-Bench Pro
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, a 1-trillion-parameter MoE with 32B active parameters, 384 experts, MLA attention, and a 256K context window under a modified MIT license. It claims open-source state of the art on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.6, and Wolfram called it the best open-source model he has ever tested on his private wolf-bench.
OpenAI releases clinician/medical model and workspace agents
Amid its launch-heavy week, OpenAI also released a clinician/medical model alongside workspace agents. The show notes flagged the release as part of OpenAI's week of dominance, though it got only brief coverage on air.
Codex gets background computer use on macOS plus Chronicle screen memory
Codex shipped true background computer use on macOS: a second cursor running on its own thread that works while you work, with subagents controlling different windows in parallel, building on OpenAI's Software Apps Inc. (ex-Apple Shortcuts team) acquisition. Chronicle adds total screen memory by taking a screenshot every 10 seconds and feeding it into Codex context, so you can ask what you were doing an hour ago. Codex also passed 4 million users this week.
OpenAIDevs releases Euphony, an open-source Codex session log visualizer
The OpenAI developer relations team released Euphony, an open-source visualizer for Codex session logs. It lets developers inspect and replay what their Codex agent sessions actually did.
GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro drop live, SOTA across the board
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro mid-show, taking state of the art on Terminal-Bench 2 (82.7%, up from 75%), SWE-Bench Verified (73%), GDPval (84%) and Frontier Math (35%), beating Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.1. It uses ~40% fewer tokens than 5.4, netting roughly 20% cheaper to run despite API pricing doubling to $5/$30 per million ($30/$180 for Pro). Peter Gostev called it the first model that genuinely sustains multi-hour long-running tasks, with one task running 8.5 hours straight; rollout was Codex-first, not yet in ChatGPT.
Claude Code Routines: cron and event-triggered agents on Anthropic's cloud
Anthropic launched Claude Code Routines, autonomous agents that run on Anthropic's cloud and can be triggered by cron schedules, GitHub events, or API calls. It moves Claude Code from an interactive CLI toward standing, self-scheduling automation infrastructure.
Claude Opus 4.7 drops live with 87.6% SWE-bench Verified and xhigh effort
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 minutes before the show, scoring 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro, an 11-point jump over Opus 4.6 on the harder agentic coding eval. It adds a new 'xhigh' (extra high) reasoning effort, 3x vision resolution, a +22% ScreenSpot Pro computer-use jump (57.7% to 79.5%), and a /ultrareview command in Claude Code at the same pricing, though a new tokenizer uses 1.0-1.35x more tokens. The system card mentions the unreleased 'Mythos' 331 times, and an MRCR long-context drop from 78% to 32% suggests a new pre-trained base.
Gradient Bang: first massively multiplayer fully LLM-driven voice game
Kwindla Kramer's 'side project that broke containment' is a fully LLM-driven multiplayer voice-based space game inspired by BBS-era Trade Wars, built on a new Pipecat Sub-Agents library with a class-based event bus that works locally and over the network. A Deepgram plus GPT-4.1 voice agent always responds in under 1.5 seconds while GPT-5.2 medium-thinking task agents do the work, and the React frontend is rendered from LLM-generated JSON as dynamic UI. The team also open-sourced GB Benchmarks for evaluating agent task execution.
Marimo Pair drops coding agents inside reactive Python notebooks
Marimo released Marimo Pair, which embeds Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode agents directly inside its reactive, dependency-graph-aware Python notebooks. Founding engineer Trevor Manz joined the show to explain why reactive notebooks are a natural verification surface for agent-written code; the launch trended on Hacker News this week and was featured as part of This Week's Buzz (Marimo is in the CoreWeave family).
OpenAI Codex adds macOS background computer use, 90+ plugins, and memory
OpenAI dropped a massive Codex update mid-show: native macOS computer use that runs in the background with its own separate cursor so you can keep working, 90+ plugins, gpt-image-1.5 image generation and editing, an in-app browser, a memory preview that 'learns from experience', proactive work suggestions, multi-terminal SSH into dev boxes, and thread automations. Alex's hot take: Codex, not ChatGPT, is becoming OpenAI's super-app.
Warp now supports any CLI agent with vertical tabs and mobile control
Warp shipped support for running any CLI coding agent inside its terminal, adding vertical tabs for parallel agent sessions, notifications, built-in code review, and mobile remote control of running agents. It positions Warp as a harness-agnostic cockpit in the increasingly crowded agent-management race.
Windsurf 2.0 ships Agent Command Center and full Devin integration
Cognition launched Windsurf 2.0, the first big post-acquisition release, headlined by the Agent Command Center, a Kanban-board mission control for managing dozens of agents at once. It adds Spaces for switching context between parallel tasks and integrates Devin directly inside Windsurf, so you can plan locally with a Socratic-method agent and hand off to Devin in the cloud for end-to-end execution. Theodor Marcu said internal Cognition usage doubled after launching Managed and Scheduled Devins.
Anthropic ships Managed Agents, a fully hosted agent runtime
Anthropic launched Managed Agents, a fully hosted agent runtime plus infrastructure offering. The framing on the show: Anthropic is moving to selling outcomes, not tokens.
Cursor ships remote agents and a code review agent
Cursor launched remote agents plus a code review agent that the company says catches 78% of issues before merge. Mentioned in the week's tools and agentic-engineering roundup.
MemPalace open-source AI memory system goes viral with 26K stars
MemPalace, the open-source AI memory system from Milla Jovovich and Ben Sigman, went viral with 26K GitHub stars in 2 days and claimed top memory-benchmark scores. The team then transparently walked back the overstated benchmark claims in a public correction thread, which the show called a refreshingly honest arc.
Meta launches Muse Spark, first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta dropped Muse Spark mid-show, the debut model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. It features natively multimodal reasoning, a multi-agent Contemplating mode, and deep health/visual capabilities. Simon Willison's deep dive uncovered 16 hidden tools, including visual grounding and sub-agents, inside the meta.ai chat UI.
Nous Research ships Hermes 27B, paired with the Hermes harness
Nisten's pick of the week: Hermes 27B, an open model trained specifically to be paired with the Hermes harness and allegedly distilled from the Opus API. Model and harness ship together as a portable unit, a notable take on the harness-engineering trend Swyx discussed.
Codex hits 3M WAU with plugins, sub-agents and Guardian Approvals
OpenAI's Codex reached 3M weekly active users, up from 2M last month, as VB from the Codex team walked through what's behind it: plugins that bundle skills plus MCP servers (Stripe, Supabase, shadcn), sub-agents that decompose tasks into parallel Codex agents, and experimental hooks. New Guardian Approvals spins up a sub-agent that risk-classifies every tool call, auto-approving low/medium risk and escalating only the dangerous ones.
OpenClaw 2026.4.5 ships /dreaming memory consolidation
OpenClaw's biggest release since 4.0: /dreaming goes GA with Light/Deep/REM memory consolidation phases that defrag agent memory into a human-readable Dream Diary (DREAMS.md). The release also adds built-in video and music generation across 4 backends, GPT-5.4 as the new default model, prompt-cache reuse improvements, and Control UI plus docs in 12 new languages. Maintainer Vincent Koc says the ~1.5M-line codebase was refactored into a plugin architecture in nine days.
GLM-5.1 takes #1 open-source spot on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.4%
Z.ai released GLM-5.1, now the #1 open-source model on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.4%. It can run autonomously for 8 hours with 1,700+ agent steps, and is already live on W&B Inference. Open weights are up on Hugging Face alongside an arXiv paper.
Alibaba ships Qwen3.6-Plus with near-Opus agentic coding and 1M context
Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Plus, an API model with agentic coding performance near Opus 4.5 and a 1M-token context window. The panel noted continued strong momentum for the Qwen family in practical coding and agent workloads.
Cursor 3 ships as agent-first rebuild, dropping the VS Code fork
Cursor released Cursor 3, a ground-up agent-first rebuild that is no longer a VS Code fork and supports parallel cloud and local agents. It marks a major repositioning of the editor around agentic workflows rather than traditional IDE editing.
Google releases Gemma 4 open-weights family under Apache 2.0
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 launch crossed 10M+ downloads with over 1,000 Gemma-4-based fine-tunes on Hugging Face; the Gemma family totals 500M+ downloads. Omar Sanseviero says Gemma is the foundation for the next generation of Gemini Nano shipping on Pixel and Samsung, with the AI Edge gallery letting people run it locally on Android and iOS. It punched above its size on Arena's Pareto curve and is now live on W&B Inference.
Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-350M with agentic tool calling at 350M params
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-350M, a 350M-parameter open model that does agentic tool calling and fits under 500MB quantized. It targets edge and on-device agent workloads where tiny deployable models matter.
Ryan Carson open-sources Claw Chief, an AI chief of staff
Co-host Ryan Carson open-sourced Claw Chief, an AI chief-of-staff setup with skills, crons, and scheduling. It packages his agent workflow patterns into a reusable open-source repo.
Claw-code clean-room rewrite becomes fastest repo to 100K GitHub stars
After Claude Code's source leaked via npm, Sigrid Jin and Bellman published claw-code, a clean-room rewrite that became the fastest GitHub repo to pass 100K stars, hitting the mark in roughly 24 hours. Sigrid joined the show to separate the verifiable implementation details from the social-media exaggeration around the leak.
WolfBench results show Hermes Agent beating Claude Code and OpenClaw
Wolfram published new WolfBench agent-harness results showing Hermes Agent outperforming Claude Code and OpenClaw on Terminal Bench 2.0 across most model combinations. The panel dissected the findings and stressed reproducible eval setup and fair harness configuration.
Claude can now control your Mac: computer use lands in Cowork and Claude Code
Anthropic shipped computer use as a research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, letting Claude directly control local Mac workflows. The panel compared it to existing OpenClaw-style agent patterns and debated where direct UI control is genuinely useful versus overkill.
ARC-AGI-3 launches: humans score 100%, frontier models under 1%
ARC Prize launched ARC-AGI-3, an interactive agentic reasoning benchmark of turn-based puzzle games designed to test human-like generalization in novel abstract environments. Humans hit a 100% pass rate while top frontier models score under 1%, which the panel welcomed as a healthy reality check against AGI-is-here rhetoric and easy score inflation.
Google drops Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Gemini can see, hear, and talk to you
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a realtime multimodal model that handles voice and vision interaction in a single model path instead of stitched pipelines. The panel framed it as a major upgrade for end-to-end voice and vision agents, with AI Studio and API availability as the immediate way to experiment.
MiniMax 2.7 open-source weights discussed as small-model momentum continues
The panel covered MiniMax 2.7 and its open-weights release in the context of small, efficient models becoming genuinely practical for local and specialized agent workflows. The segment focused on capability momentum and how open-weights expectations keep shaping adoption sentiment.
Anthropic makes Opus 4.6 1M context the default in Claude Code, same price
Anthropic made 1M token context the default for Opus 4.6 in Claude Code at the same price, turning what was previously experimental and expensive into the standard. MRCR benchmark performance holds at 93% at 256K and 76% at 1M. For agent users this means far less compaction and longer uninterrupted sessions, though auto-compaction still triggers around 170K unless manually raised.
Cursor Composer 2 beats Opus 4.6 on TerminalBench at a tenth of the price
Cursor launched Composer 2, its first proprietary model that genuinely competes with frontier labs. It scores 61% on TerminalBench (beating Opus 4.6) at $0.50/M input tokens, cheaper than GPT-5.4 Mini and 10x cheaper than Opus, running at 300+ tokens/sec. A fast variant costs 3x more for the same intelligence, kicking off a new 'fast mode' pricing trend where you pay a premium for speed rather than capability.
Google AI Studio gets full-stack vibe coding with Antigravity and Firebase
Google AI Studio received a full-stack vibe coding overhaul featuring the Antigravity agent, Firebase integration, and multiplayer support. The update pushes AI Studio from a model playground toward a full app-building environment.
H Company's Holotron-12B: hybrid SSM computer-use model at 8.9k tok/s
H Company released Holotron-12B, an open-source hybrid SSM model built for computer-use agents. It claims 8,900 tokens/sec generation speed and jumps the WebVoyager benchmark from 35.1% to 80.5%, continuing the trend of hybrid SSM architectures for long-context agent workloads.
Manus launches 'My Computer' desktop app for macOS and Windows
Manus, now Meta-owned, launched 'My Computer', a desktop app that brings its AI agent from the cloud onto your local machine for macOS and Windows. The agent can now operate directly on local files and applications rather than running only in a hosted sandbox.
MiniMax M2.7: first self-evolving model hits 56% on SWE-Bench Pro
MiniMax dropped M2.7, billed as the first self-evolving model: it ran 100+ autonomous RL optimization loops and wrote its own agent scaffolding, built by one engineer over four days with zero lines of human code. It scores 56.22% on SWE-Bench Pro, within one point of Opus 4.6's 57.3%, and WolfBench shows it roughly matching Sonnet 4.6 on OpenClaw agent tasks. Not yet open weights, though rumors suggest a release is coming.
NVIDIA announces NemoClaw, enterprise-hardened OpenClaw, at GTC
At GTC, Jensen Huang spent 15 minutes on OpenClaw, calling it the most important open source release since Linux and declaring 'every company needs an OpenClaw strategy.' NVIDIA released NemoClaw, a hardened enterprise reference implementation of OpenClaw with a privacy router and policy engine aimed at solving the agent security problem.
OpenAI ships subagents for Codex with custom TOML configs
OpenAI added subagents to Codex, enabling parallel specialized agents configured via custom TOML files. Paired with the cheap GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano models, this enables the orchestrator-plus-workers pattern where a flagship model spawns inexpensive parallel subagents for tasks like visual testing.
OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano for coding, computer use, and subagents
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Mini ($0.75/M input) and Nano, smaller variants optimized for coding and computer use at a fraction of flagship cost. Mini hits 72% on OS World verified, matching the human baseline and nearly reaching full 5.4's 75%, while beating Sonnet 4.5 on most benchmarks. They are designed as cheap parallel subagent workers under a GPT-5.4 orchestrator in Codex, and Mini is 2x faster than the previous GPT-5 Mini.
Cursor joins ACP registry and goes live in JetBrains IDEs
Cursor joined the Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) registry and is now live inside JetBrains IDEs. The move is a cross-ecosystem win for ACP, the emerging open standard that lets any AI agent plug into any editor.
Karpathy open-sources AutoResearcher for autonomous ML experiments
Andrej Karpathy open-sourced AutoResearch, a framework that runs AI-driven ML experiments autonomously. Over two days it ran 700 experiments on nanochat GPT-2, stacked 20 improvements, and achieved an 11% training speedup. Tobi Lütke adapted it overnight for Shopify's Liquid templating engine for a 51% render-time improvement, and the repo hit 26K GitHub stars quickly.
/last30days research skill searches X, Reddit, YouTube and TikTok
Matt Van Horn presented /last30days, a research skill that searches X, Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok for the last 30 days of content on any topic. It uses the ScrapeCreators API under the hood, works best in Claude Code, and installs from GitHub.
MiroThinker-1.7 open-source research agent hits SOTA
MiroMind released MiroThinker-1.7, an open-source deep-research agent model that reaches state of the art on deep research benchmarks. It was covered alongside NVIDIA's Nemotron launch in the open-source segment.
Paperclip.ing: open-source agent orchestration for zero-human companies
Anonymous builder DOTTA presented Paperclip.ing, an open-source agent orchestration framework for 'zero human companies' where an AI CEO recursively hires more agents. It hit 20K GitHub stars in its first week, with a heartbeat system driving agent autonomy and a Memento-style memory architecture keeping agents coherent across tasks.
Weights & Biases launches Agent Skills
Weights & Biases officially launched Agent Skills, installable via `npx skills add wandb/skills`. The launch coincided with Nemotron 3 Super becoming available on W&B Inference at $0.20/1M input tokens, one of the best price-performance options for a 120B model.
Cognition previews SWE-1.6, hitting 51% on SWE Bench Pro
Cognition previewed SWE-1.6, the next iteration of its software-engineering model line, citing 51% on SWE Bench Pro. It was covered in the TL;DR tools segment as part of the week's agentic coding model releases.
OpenAI releases Symphony on GitHub
Ryan Carson experimented with OpenAI's Symphony framework, letting agents work through PRs overnight. One agent not only created a PR but found a bug and filed its own detailed Jira ticket with no human intervention, a small but telling sign of where agentic development is heading.
Wolfram previews Wolf Bench, a multi-metric agent eval from W&B
Wolfram Ravenwolf gave an early preview of Wolf Bench, a Terminal Bench-based evaluation framework from Weights & Biases that reports four metrics (average, best run, ceiling, and consistent floor) instead of a single score. It treats harness differences (Terminal Bench vs Claude Code vs OpenClaw) as a first-class factor and publishes benchmark cost and transparency details.
Qwen 3.5 lands: 35B/3B-active Medium outperforms the old 235B flagship
Alibaba released the Qwen 3.5 family of open-weight models, headlined by Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, a 35B model with only 3B active parameters that outperforms their previous 235B flagship. Variants include a 122B-A10B and a dense 27B, with the panel highlighting the hybrid state-space (Mamba-layer) architecture and strong practical coding and agent performance at a tiny active-parameter footprint.
Claude Code adds Remote Control and memory
Anthropic shipped Remote Control for Claude Code, enabling remote and async control of coding sessions, alongside a new memory capability. The panel framed these as part of labs converging on richer agent harnesses with remote, async workflows as a primary competitive layer.
Claude Cowork gets automations (cron jobs), matching Codex
Claude Cowork added automations, cron-job-style scheduled agent runs, in the same week OpenAI's Codex gained equivalent automation support. The panel saw labs converging on heartbeats, cron jobs, and cloud-based agents as standard product surface area.
Devin 2.2: computer use, browser, and self-verifying autonomous work
Cognition shipped Devin 2.2, an autonomous coding agent that can use a computer and browser to verify and fix its own work, plus a free public Devin Review workflow for PR review and scheduled/automated sessions. Nader Dabit framed the release as two years of platform maturity converging with stronger models, letting non-engineers fix issues directly by just asking Devin.
Cursor launches cloud agents
Cursor launched cloud agents, moving agentic coding work off the local machine into remote, async sessions. The panel highlighted Cursor's cloud agents and UI demos as important progress for frontend development workflows.
METR Time Horizon goes vertical: Opus 4.6 hits ~14.5-hour tasks
METR's updated Time Horizon benchmark shows Claude Opus 4.6 completing tasks equivalent to roughly 14.5 hours of expert human work, with the autonomy doubling time now cited at 49 days. The panel treated this as the week's strongest evidence that agent capability growth has entered a visibly faster phase.
Nous Research ships a research agent
Nous Research announced a research agent, joining the wave of lab-built agentic tools shipped this week. It was covered in the roundup of new agent products alongside Cursor cloud agents and Perplexity Computer.
Perplexity introduces Perplexity Computer
Perplexity launched Perplexity Computer, an agentic computer product announced via its blog. It was discussed as part of the week's convergence on agent harnesses, automations, and cloud-based agent workflows across labs.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 4.6 with 79.6% SWE-Bench and 1M context
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, its most capable Sonnet ever, scoring 79.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, nearly matching Opus 4.6 at Sonnet pricing of $3/$15 per million tokens. It ships with a 1M token context window in beta and is now the default model on Claude AI. In blind Claude Code testing, users preferred Sonnet 4.6 over the previous Opus 4.5 59% of the time, and it beats the previous Gemini 3 Pro on most benchmarks.
Dreamer launches beta platform for building agentic apps with no-code AI
Dreamer launched its beta, a full-stack platform for building and discovering agentic apps with no-code AI. It aims to let non-developers assemble and share agent-powered applications.
OpenAI acqui-hires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger
OpenAI acqui-hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral OpenClaw agent, in what the panel speculated might be the first single-founder billion-dollar deal. Yam Peleg broke the news on the show, calling Steinberger 'the goat'. The move lands the most popular third-party agent harness builder inside OpenAI, amid a week where Anthropic's terms changes pushed agent users toward OpenAI subscriptions.
Ryan Carson publishes the viral Code Factory agentic engineering blueprint
Ryan Carson published his viral Code Factory article, a blueprint for fully automated code generation, review, and deployment inspired by OpenAI's Harness Engineering post. The setup chains GitHub Actions, Reptile code review, CI gates, a risk-classification system for high-risk file changes, and a self-healing loop where Codex fixes its own PR issues until all checks pass. He says it takes a week-plus of setup but unlocks massive throughput.
xAI silently drops Grok 4.20 with four 500B-param collaborating agents
xAI released Grok 4.20, a multi-agent system where four 500B-parameter agents collaborate in a multi-agent UI, with a $300/month Heavy tier scaling to 16 agents. No benchmarks or evals were released with the drop. The panel found it underwhelming for coding and day-to-day agent work but still top tier for deep research thanks to xAI's RAG over X data; Grok 4.1 Fast remains #8 on OpenRouter by API usage.
Entire raises $60M seed, ships first OSS release 'Checkpoints'
Entire raised a $60M seed round to build an open-source developer platform for AI agent workflows. Alongside the funding it shipped its first open-source release, Checkpoints, available on GitHub.
Chrome 146 introduces WebMCP, a native browser API for AI agents
Chrome 146 shipped WebMCP, a native browser API that lets AI agents directly interact with web services. It brings Model Context Protocol-style agent access into the browser itself, a notable primitive for the agentic web.
MiniMax M-2.5 hits 80.2% SWE-Bench Verified with 10B active params
MiniMax dropped M-2.5 thirty minutes before the show: a 200B-total, 10B-active open-weights model scoring 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified, approaching Opus 4.6 at roughly 1/20th the cost (~15 cents per task with a 57% win rate over Opus). Trained with MiniMax's decoupled Forge RL framework and optimized for end-to-end task time with fewer tool calls and thinking tokens. Senior researcher Olive Song joined live and revealed the model was still training — they cut a checkpoint for early release.
OpenAI upgrades Deep Research to GPT-5.2 with app integrations
OpenAI upgraded Deep Research to run on GPT-5.2, adding app integrations, site-specific searches, and real-time collaboration. Part of the week's rapid-fire big-lab announcements covered in the TLDR rundown.
Ryan Carson releases AntFarm for agent coordination
Co-host Ryan Carson released AntFarm, a tool for coordinating teams of coding agents. It targets the missing primitives for managing multiple agents that the panel discussed during the agent-psychosis segment.
Z.ai launches GLM-5, the open-weights agentic coding crown
Z.ai released GLM-5, a 744B-parameter MoE model (40B active) trained on 28.5 trillion tokens that takes the #1 open-source ranking for agentic coding with 77.8% SWE-bench Verified. It introduces the SLIM asynchronous RL framework for post-training, adopts DeepSeek's sparse attention to cut deployment cost, and was trained on Huawei chips rather than NVIDIA. Lou from Z.ai joined the show live and summed it up as bigger, faster, better, and cheaper.
Qwen3-Coder-Next hits 70.6% SWE-Bench Verified with 3B active params
Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder-Next is an 80B MoE coding agent model with only 3B active parameters that scores 70.6% on SWE-Bench Verified and 44% on the much harder SWE-Bench Pro. It was trained on 7.5T tokens with 20,000 parallel RL environments and runs under 48GB of RAM with GGUF quantization, making near-frontier agentic coding feasible on local hardware.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M context and agent teams
Anthropic dropped Opus 4.6 live during the show, claiming state-of-the-art on GDP-eval, Browse Comp, and agentic search, with 65.4% on Terminal Bench and 99% on TAU Bench MCP tool use. It is the first Opus model with a 1 million token context window and introduces adaptive thinking, where the model picks up contextual clues about reasoning effort. Pricing matches Opus 4.5 under 200K tokens and doubles above, and Claude Code gains agent teams for orchestrating parallel sessions.
Moltbook: a Reddit built for and by AI agents
Moltbook launched as a social network for AI agents, part of an exploding 'agentic internet' that now includes agent equivalents of YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan, and even a church. Agents on these networks were observed discussing creating encrypted languages humans cannot read, and the panel warned against letting your agents loose on them.
OpenAI launches standalone Codex app for managing parallel coding agents
OpenAI shipped Codex as a dedicated Mac app, a command center for running multiple AI coding agents in parallel. Features include work trees for parallel project branches, scheduled automations, a skills marketplace with Cloudflare, Vercel, Figma, Notion, and Linear integrations, inline diff review with per-line commenting, and cloud hand-off. OpenAI granted a free month of access to all users including the free tier, and doubled rate limits for all tiers for two months.
OpenAI Frontier: enterprise platform for AI agents as coworkers
OpenAI launched Frontier, an enterprise platform to build, deploy, and manage AI agents as 'AI coworkers'. It targets companies that want to operationalize agents across their organizations.
OpenAI answers Opus with GPT-5.3-Codex, first model that helped build itself
One hour after Opus 4.6, OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, billed as the first model instrumental in developing itself — the Codex team used early versions to debug its own training and manage its own deployment. It scores 73% on Terminal Bench 2.0, a 10-point gap over Opus 4.6, while running queries 25% faster and more token-efficiently than its predecessor, with improved mid-task steerability.
Anthropic launches MCP Apps: interactive UI inside Claude chat
Anthropic's MCP Apps render interactive, branded UI components (Box files, Figma, color pickers) directly within Claude conversations, evolving MCP from tools to embedded app experiences. It is protocol-based, so any app can integrate, letting brands reclaim identity from text-only LLM responses.
Google launches agentic Auto-Browse in Chrome with Gemini 3
Google unveiled Chrome Auto-Browse with Gemini 3 Nano integration, bringing agentic browsing to Pro and Ultra subscribers in the world's most-used browser with 4 billion daily users. Native browsing avoids Cloudflare bot detection, and Gemini's 2M context window suits long browsing sessions.
Google adds Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash
Gemini 3 Flash gains agentic vision: a Think-Act-Observe loop that can zoom, crop, annotate, and plot images by generating and executing Python code in the backend. Available in the Gemini app, AI Studio, and Vertex AI.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi Code coding agent
Alongside Kimi K2.5, Moonshot AI shipped Kimi Code, a coding tool that pairs with its new flagship model's strong agentic coding abilities. The code is available on GitHub with an announcement page at kimi.ai/code.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5, the new open-source king
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 takes the open-source crown, becoming the most-used model on OpenRouter and topping open-source leaderboards. The panel highlighted its strong agentic coding performance and tool use.
Klein team acqui-hired by OpenAI Codex
The Klein team was acqui-hired by OpenAI's Codex group following the viral 'imagine the smell' hackathon controversy. Discussed as part of the growing Codex ecosystem, which Peter Steinberger used to build Clawdbot entirely.
Claude Code VS Code extension hits general availability
Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension reached general availability, bringing full agentic coding directly into the IDE. The GA release makes Claude Code's agent workflows accessible from the VS Code Marketplace without the CLI.
Browser Use ships as an installable agent skill
Browser Use was released as an agent skill, installable via registries like Vercel's skills.sh. Wolfram flagged it as a signal of the broader shift away from MCP servers toward skills, since skills are easier to use with the CLI or API directly.
Clawdbot: open-source self-improving personal AI assistant for macOS
Clawdbot, created by Peter Steinberger, is an open-source personal AI assistant that runs locally on your Mac and connects via WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord. Its killer feature is self-improvement: ask it to learn something and it writes its own skill files, giving a single chat conversation control over multiple agents, persistent memory, voice messages, image generation, and browser automation on your actual computer.
Vercel launches skills.sh, an 'npm for AI agents'
Vercel launched skills.sh, a registry where you can browse and install agent skills from the command line for any agent, including Clawdbot. It hit 20K installs within hours, and releases like Browser Use shipping as a skill signal a broader shift from MCP servers toward skills.
GLM-4.7-Flash: 30B MoE local coding agent with only 3B active params
Z.AI released GLM-4.7-Flash, a 30B parameter MoE model with only 3B active parameters, designed as the ultimate local coding and agent assistant. It hits 59% on SWE-Bench Verified (approaching Sonnet 4's 64%) and runs at 120 tokens/sec on a stock Mac Studio M3 Ultra, fast enough to run RALF autonomous coding loops even on CPU.
Claude Cowork: Claude Code for non-developers, 100% written by Claude Code
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, a research preview that brings Claude Code-style agentic workflows to non-technical users. It was built in a week-and-a-half sprint with 100% of the code written by Claude Code itself; it is Mac-only, requires a Max subscription, and includes a Chrome connector for browser automation. Alex demoed it live, adding Flux Klein support to an image extension project without looking at a single line of code.
Chorus adds agent skills support for every LLM via OpenRouter
Alex used a Ralph loop with Claude Code to add full agent skills support to Chorus, the open-source app that compares answers across multiple LLMs, in about 3.5 hours. The work added a settings panel, filesystem skill discovery, front-matter parsing, and cross-model skill injection, letting the same Claude-style skills run on GPT 5.2 Codex, Gemini, and any OpenRouter model.
Vercel releases official agent skill packs for Next.js and React
Vercel began releasing official agent skill packs for Next.js and React, packaging its framework expertise in the agent skills standard. Ryan Carson highlighted that you can point any skills-compatible coding agent at the pack and it installs the skills for you, an early sign of experts shipping domain knowledge as skills.
Doctronic launches first US pilot for AI prescription renewals
Doctronic launched the first US pilot in Utah where AI can autonomously renew prescriptions without a physician in the loop. The service costs $4 per renewal and covers 190 routine medications, excluding controlled substances.
MiroThinker 1.5: 30B search agent beats trillion-param models
MiroMind AI released MiroThinker 1.5, a 30B parameter open source search agent that achieves 56.1% on BrowseComp and 66.8% on BrowseComp Chinese, outperforming trillion-parameter models. It introduces 'interactive scaling' as a third scaling dimension beyond parameters and context, and is a fine-tune of Qwen 3 Thinking with 147K open training samples.
Ralph Wiggum autonomous coding technique hits 1.2M views
Ryan Carson published a viral breakdown (1.2M views on X) of Ralph Wiggum, the autonomous coding technique created by Jeff Huntley: write a PRD, break it into atomic user stories with acceptance criteria in JSON, then run a bash loop that has a CLI agent pick the next story, code it, commit, and loop. The technique works with any CLI agent (Amp, Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI), compounds learning via agents.md, and won a YC hackathon running overnight on Sonnet 4.5.
Catnip by W&B: open source iOS app to run Claude Code anywhere
Chris Van Pelt of Weights & Biases released Catnip, an open source iOS app that lets you run Claude Code from anywhere via GitHub Codespaces. It is available on the App Store with source on GitHub.
Claude Code launches, starting the CLI agent revolution
Claude Code launched in February, having started as an internal Anthropic engineering tool. Multiple co-hosts picked it as the single most impactful AI release of 2025 — it began the CLI agent era and proved, in Kwindla's words, that 'sometimes it's mostly about the harness.'
Claude Skills launches — 'MCP-level if not bigger'
Anthropic launched Claude Skills in October. It was largely missed at release but picked up steam fast, with the show arguing Skills is 'MCP level if not bigger' for Claude users as a way to package reusable agent capabilities.
Cursor 2 and the Composer model level up IDE agents
Cursor shipped Cursor 2 along with its Composer model in October, leveling up in-IDE agentic coding. It capped a year in which Cursor's sales exploded on the back of Claude 3.7 and the vibe coding wave.
Daily ships smart turn detection for voice agents
Kwindla's Daily.co shipped smart turn detection during Q2, an open model that helps voice agents know when a speaker has actually finished talking. It landed in the quarter when voice agents first got attention outside the builder bubble.
Kimi K2: the Chinese open model that earned mainstream respect
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 dropped in July and earned serious mainstream recognition, marking peak Chinese-lab dominance of open source. It was named in the show's TL;DR as one of the defining open-weights releases of 2025.
OpenAI Deep Research scores 26.6% on Humanity's Last Exam
OpenAI's Deep Research launched in February as an agentic research tool that scored 26.6% on Humanity's Last Exam, versus roughly 10% for o1 and R1. The crew called it a jaw-dropping leap in AI research capability and one of February's defining releases.
GPT-5 Codex: OpenAI's specialized coding model moves the stock
GPT-5 Codex dropped in September as OpenAI's coding-specialized fine-tune of GPT-5. Yam dubbed it the 'infinite money glitch' because the release moved OpenAI-linked stock prices significantly.
OpenAI Operator: first agentic ChatGPT with browser control
OpenAI launched Operator in January as the first agentic version of ChatGPT that could control a browser to complete tasks on the user's behalf. It kicked off the year-of-agents narrative, though it launched within 24 hours of DeepSeek R1 and was completely overshadowed by it.
FunctionGemma: Google's 270M function-calling model for edge agents
Google released FunctionGemma, a tiny 270M-parameter open model specialized for function calling on-device. With a roughly 500MB RAM footprint and strong gains after fine-tuning for mobile actions, it points toward privacy-first local agents on constrained hardware.
Gemini 3 Flash delivers frontier intelligence at $0.50/1M input tokens
Google launched Gemini 3 Flash, offering frontier-tier capability at flash-tier pricing of $0.50 per million input tokens. It scores 78% on SWE-bench Verified, beating larger models on some agentic tasks, and supports tool-calling at scale with up to 100 simultaneous function calls.
ChatGPT App Store opens submissions via MCP app model
OpenAI opened app submissions for the ChatGPT App Store, built on the MCP-powered apps model. Developers can now submit apps that run inside ChatGPT, signaling OpenAI's platform play for distribution of agentic apps.
GPT 5.2 Codex drops live during the show with 400K context
OpenAI released GPT 5.2 Codex via API after months of exclusivity in the Codex app, making it available in Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code with native context compaction for long sessions. Cursor showcased it by building a complete browser from scratch in Rust, roughly 3 million lines of code across about 330,000 commits, driven by hundreds of concurrent agents.
xAI Grok Voice Agent API ships at $0.05/min flat rate, powers Tesla
xAI launched the Grok Voice Agent API with flat-rate pricing of $0.05 per minute and integration into Tesla vehicles. xAI claims the #1 spot on Big Bench Audio at 92.3%, tightening competition in the rapidly commoditizing real-time voice stack.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, reclaiming the coding crown
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, scoring 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified to top GPT-5.1 (77.9%) and Gemini 3 Pro (76.2%). It adds a new 'Effort' parameter for compute control, Tool Search to cut agent token overhead, and Programmatic Tool Calling where the model writes and executes code loops. Pricing dropped to $5/M input and $25/M output, roughly one-third the old Opus price.
Microsoft ships Fara-7B, a 7B on-device computer use agent
Microsoft Research released Fara-7B, a best-in-class 7B-parameter vision-language model for computer use that runs on-device. It scores 73.5% on WebVoyager, beating OpenAI's computer-use preview while being small enough to run locally.
MCP-UI becomes MCP Apps, an official standard from Anthropic + OpenAI
MCP-UI, created by Ido Salomon and Liad Yosef, was standardized as 'MCP Apps' — an official MCP extension jointly adopted by Anthropic and OpenAI that unifies MCP-UI with what OpenAI called Operator Plugins. Agents can now render full interactive HTML UIs directly inside chat, avoiding iOS-vs-Android style fragmentation with one open standard.
Antigravity: Google's free agent-first IDE powered by Gemini 3 Pro
A free VS Code fork reimagined for agent-first coding, with an inbox-style Agent Manager for running multiple coding agents in parallel across a codebase. Browser integration lets agents control Chrome, take screenshots and videos of the running app, and self-debug. The free tier is powered by Gemini 3 Pro, with GPT-OSS 120B as the open-source alternative and Nano Banana for images.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max runs 24-hour coding tasks with native compaction
OpenAI's newest frontier agentic coding model is trained with native compaction, letting it intelligently summarize prior context and work on a single task for 24+ hours (an internal run reportedly lasted a full week). It uses 30% fewer thinking tokens at median than its predecessors and sets a new SOTA of 58% on TerminalBench 2, also leading on SWE-Bench and SWE-Lancer. Windows PowerShell support is significantly improved, alongside an experimental Windows sandbox and a new extra-high reasoning level.
Grok 4.1 Fast: 2M context and Agent Tools API at 10x lower cost
Launched as breaking news during the show, Grok 4.1 Fast pairs a 2 million token context window with a new Agent Tools API offering native X search, Reddit search, web browsing, and code execution. Benchmarks are striking: 93-100% on tau2-Bench Telecom and 72% on Berkeley Function Calling v4 (top of the leaderboard) at $0.20/$0.50 per million tokens — roughly 10x cheaper than competitors, and free for the first two weeks on the xAI API and OpenRouter.
H Company open-sources Holo2 multimodal computer-use agent family
Dropped live during the show: H Company open-sourced Holo2, a next-generation multimodal agent family fine-tuned on Qwen3-VL for grounding, navigation, and reasoning across web, desktop, and mobile. It posts SOTA results on computer-use and web-navigation benchmarks like OSWorld-G and ships in 4B, 8B, and 30B variants under Apache 2.0.
Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Harbor launch as new bar for coding agents
Terminal-Bench 2.0 launched alongside the Harbor framework, with 89 hard, realistic terminal-based tasks built with around 1000 Discord contributors. The Warp agent tops the leaderboard at 50% with Codex CLI close behind, and the panel argued an unsaturated 50% ceiling makes it far more meaningful than near-saturated benchmarks like MMLU.
LMArena launches Code Arena for live agentic coding evaluations
LMArena launched Code Arena, a live evaluation platform where models build real applications agentically and humans vote on the results. It extends the arena-style crowdsourced ranking approach to agentic coding workflows.
Anthropic publishes code-execution-with-MCP pattern for token-efficient agents
Anthropic published an engineering post showing how running MCP-connected tools as code, instead of direct tool calls, slashes token use and scales agents to many more tools. The approach echoes Cloudflare's Code Mode and framed the episode's interview with Kenton Varda about agents writing code against tool APIs.
AWS announces multi-year strategic infrastructure partnership with OpenAI
AWS announced a multi-year strategic infrastructure partnership with OpenAI to power ChatGPT inference, training, and agentic AI workloads. It is another sign of OpenAI spreading its compute needs across every major cloud provider, and a notable win for AWS in the frontier-AI infrastructure race.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open 1T-param reasoning MoE
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source 1-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts reasoning agent with 256K context and large-scale tool-calling capacity. The panel treated it as the open-source centerpiece of the week, focusing on its reasoning quality and coding utility rather than just benchmark screenshots, and as a sign open models keep closing the usability gap with frontier closed models.
Cognition SWE-1.5: 950 tok/s coding model hitting 40% on SWE-bench Pro
Cognition released SWE-1.5, a fast agentic coding model that serves around 950 tokens per second and scores about 40% on SWE-bench Pro. It ships inside Windsurf and reinforces the week's theme of speed-focused coding models from agent labs.
Cursor 2.0 ships with Composer, its own 4x-faster coding model
Cursor released version 2.0 of its AI code editor alongside Composer, a new in-house coding model claimed to be about 4x faster. The launch came up as evidence that developer products are being rebuilt agent-first, with speed and orchestration as the new battleground.
Google Labs launches Pomelli, an AI marketing agent
Google Labs released Pomelli, an experimental AI marketing agent that generates on-brand campaigns and marketing assets for businesses. It was covered in the tools section as another sign of agents moving into specific professional workflows.
MiniMax M2: open-source agentic model at 8% of Claude's price, 2x speed
MiniMax released M2, an open-source agentic model positioned at roughly 8% of Claude's price while running about twice as fast. Head of Engineering Skyler Miao joined the show for a deep dive, framing M2 as both a model story and a speed story, and the panel read it as part of a broader open-model pressure wave on frontier labs.
Perplexity launches privacy-first Email Assistant for inbox management
Perplexity launched an Email Assistant that manages your inbox with a privacy-first pitch, drafting replies and triaging mail. It extends Perplexity's push from search into day-to-day agentic productivity surfaces.
Pokee: an agentic workflow builder
Pokee AI launched Pokee, an agentic workflow builder for chaining AI actions into automated workflows. It was covered in the tools rundown as part of the expanding agent-first builder stack.
Claude Code comes to the web with sandboxed cloud coding
Anthropic brought Claude Code to the web, letting developers delegate software tasks through a browser with GitHub integration, secure sandboxed execution, multi-repo support, and automatic pull requests, making it usable even from a phone. The Claude desktop app was also upgraded with screen context via screenshots, file sharing, and a new voice mode.
Browserbase launches Director 2.0 with 1Password delegated auth
Browserbase launched Director 2.0, a prompt-powered web automation platform that performs a task from natural language and hands back a repeatable, deployable script. Its standout innovation is delegated, per-site authentication via a 1Password integration: cloud agents request login approval on your local machine site-by-site instead of getting master-key access to all sessions, a much safer model than Atlas-style all-or-nothing access.
Microsoft adds agentic powers and voice to Copilot Mode in Edge
Microsoft answered Atlas with agentic enhancements to Copilot Mode in Edge, including a voice mode that can see and discuss the current page, plus broader Copilot updates (and Clippy back as an easter egg via the Mico avatar). In Alex's hands-on testing the agentic features did not actually work, so real-world parity with Atlas and Comet is unproven.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, its agentic AI browser
OpenAI shipped Atlas, a Chromium-based browser deeply integrated with ChatGPT: natural-language history search, a 'Cursor' inline text-rewrite tool, browsing-pattern memories, and an Ask ChatGPT sidepane. Its agent mode runs with your logged-in sessions and cookies, enabling long multi-step tasks (Alex had it complete a 5-hour compliance training) but raising prompt-injection security concerns that OpenAI's CISO addressed publicly. macOS only at launch, for Pro, Plus, and Go tiers.
PokeeResearch-7B: open-source SOTA deep research agent model
Pokee AI released PokeeResearch-7B, an open-source 7B deep research agent model claiming state-of-the-art results for its size. Weights, code, a paper, and a hosted deep-research preview all shipped together.
Amp launches a free tier powered by ads and surplus model capacity
Amp (from the Sourcegraph team) launched a free tier for its coding agent, funded by ads and surplus model capacity. CEO Quinn Slack joined the show to explain the economics and the product thinking behind ad-supported AI dev tooling.
Claude Skills: custom instructions for AI agents now live
Anthropic launched Claude Skills, folders of instructions and resources that Claude loads on demand to specialize agents for specific tasks. The panel treated it as a major piece of the emerging builder stack, with Simon Willison arguing Skills could be a bigger deal than MCP.
Cognition SWE-grep: RL-trained fast context retrieval for coding agents
Cognition released SWE-grep, an RL-trained multi-turn context retriever that finds relevant code for agentic coding tasks far faster than full agent loops. It powers fast context retrieval in Cognition's products, and a public playground lets developers try it on real repos.
Microsoft makes every Windows 11 PC an AI PC with Copilot voice input
Microsoft announced that every Windows 11 machine becomes an 'AI PC,' adding 'Hey Copilot' voice input and deeper agentic Copilot integration at the OS level. The panel discussed it as a sign of AI assistants moving into the default computing experience.
OpenAI ships smarter ChatGPT memory management, no more 'memory full'
OpenAI updated ChatGPT's memory system so it automatically manages and prioritizes saved memories, eliminating the 'memory full' dead end. The change makes long-running personalized use of ChatGPT smoother without manual memory pruning.
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus refines agents and bilingual output
DeepSeek released V3.1 Terminus, an update to V3.1 with cleaner bilingual output, stronger agentic tool use, and cheaper long-context handling. The open weights are available on Hugging Face, continuing DeepSeek's cadence of iterative open releases.
Meta releases 32B Code World Model for agentic code reasoning
Meta released CWM, a 32B open-weights research model trained to internally model code execution, aimed at agentic code reasoning rather than plain code completion. The weights are on Hugging Face under facebook/cwm, giving the open-source community a new approach to code world modeling.
Gaia2 agent benchmark and Agents Research Environments released
Meta and Hugging Face released Gaia2, a follow-up agent benchmark, together with ARE (Agents Research Environments) for testing agents in dynamic, asynchronous settings. It fed the episode's recurring concern that evaluation has to keep up whenever agent product claims get ambitious.
OpenAI previews ChatGPT Pulse proactive daily briefings
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Pulse, a preview feature that proactively researches overnight and delivers personalized daily briefing cards based on your chats, memory, and connected apps, initially for Pro users on mobile. On the show it was discussed as part of OpenAI's push to build a durable product moat as raw model access commoditizes.
OpenAI launches GDPval to measure models on real economic work
OpenAI introduced GDPval, an evaluation that measures model performance on real-world, economically valuable tasks drawn from a range of occupations and GDP sectors. On the show it anchored the discussion about agents moving from chat quality toward action and reliability in real environments.
Scale AI debuts SWE-bench Pro, a harder contamination-resistant eval
Scale AI released SWE-bench Pro, a tougher, contamination-resistant successor to SWE-bench for evaluating coding agents on realistic software engineering tasks. It ships with a public dataset on Hugging Face plus separate public and commercial leaderboards, and frontier models score far lower than on the original SWE-bench.
Tongyi DeepResearch: open-source A3B web agent rivals OpenAI Deep Research
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab open-sourced Tongyi DeepResearch, a 30B mixture-of-experts web research agent with only 3B active parameters. The lab claims parity with OpenAI's Deep Research on agentic search and report-writing tasks, and the weights are available on Hugging Face.
Google puts Gemini in Chrome with cross-tab AI assistance
Google shipped Gemini directly into Chrome, adding an AI assistant that works across tabs, a smarter omnibox, and safer-browsing features. It moves the browser itself into the AI interface race, putting an assistant in front of Chrome's massive user base.
OpenAI ships GPT-5-Codex, an agentic coding upgrade for Codex
OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 finetuned for agentic coding inside the Codex product family. It anchors the episode's coding discussion, with the panel focusing on how coding models are becoming trustworthy enough for longer, productized agent workflows rather than just one-shot completions.
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab open-sources WebWatcher vision-language research agent
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab open-sourced WebWatcher, a vision-language deep research agent that sets new state-of-the-art results on agentic browsing and research tasks. The 32B model combines visual understanding with web research capabilities and is available on Hugging Face.
Mistral adds 20+ MCP-powered connectors and Memories to Le Chat
Mistral upgraded Le Chat with more than 20 MCP-powered connectors and controllable Memories targeted at enterprise workflows. The update positions Le Chat as a serious enterprise assistant by wiring it into existing tools via the Model Context Protocol while giving users explicit control over what the assistant remembers.
Nous Research releases Hermes 4 14B compact hybrid reasoning model
Nous Research launched Hermes 4 at 14B, a compact hybrid reasoning model with tool calling designed for both local and cloud use. It extends the Hermes 4 family down to a size practical for local deployment while keeping reasoning and tool-use capabilities, with a full tech report published on arXiv.
Nous launches Husky Hold'em Bench, an open-source pokerbot eval for LLMs
Nous Research released Husky Hold'em Bench, an open-source poker benchmark that evaluates LLM strategic play in a richer agentic environment than standard leaderboards. Guests Roger Jin and Bhavesh Kumar joined the show to explain how it measures agent behavior and decision-making under uncertainty rather than chasing another leaderboard point.
OpenAI ships gpt-realtime and takes the Realtime API to GA
OpenAI shipped the gpt-realtime speech-to-speech model and moved the Realtime API to general availability. The GA release adds remote MCP tool support, image input, and SIP phone calling, making it a full production stack for voice agents and tying into the episode's voice-agents discussion with Kwindla Kramer.
DeepSWE-Preview hits 59% SWE-Bench Verified with pure RL on Qwen3-32B
Agentica and collaborators (with guest Michael Luo of UC Berkeley) released DeepSWE-Preview, a fully open-sourced RL-trained coding agent built on Qwen3-32B that reached 59% on SWE-Bench Verified, a top open result in a benchmark dominated by closed systems. The team published training methodology and weights, emphasizing reproducible reward design and verification over sealed benchmark numbers.
Cursor rolls out coding agents on web, mobile, and Slack
Cursor launched its AI coding agents on web and mobile with Slack integration, extending code agents beyond the editor window into ambient, always-on workflow software. The launch landed the same week Cursor poached key creators of Claude Code, making it product-strategy news as much as HR news.
Microsoft's MAI-DxO hits 85.5% on NEJM diagnostic cases vs 20% for doctors
Microsoft AI published MAI-DxO, a medical diagnostic orchestration system that reached 85.5% accuracy on challenging NEJM-style cases compared to roughly 20% for practicing physicians. The result is framed as a systems win rather than a single-model win, suggesting orchestration may outperform individual models in high-stakes expert workflows.
Mistral launches Agents API for building tool-using agents
Mistral released an Agents API, a framework for building custom tool-using agents on top of Mistral models. It joins the wave of big-lab agent frameworks, letting developers wire up tools and orchestrate agentic workflows through Mistral's platform.
Opera unveils Neon, an agent-centric AI browser
Opera announced Neon, an agent-centric AI browser built for autonomous web tasks. Instead of just assisting with browsing, it is designed to act on the web for you, joining the emerging category of agentic browsers.
Anthropic launches Web Search API for real-time retrieval in Claude
Anthropic released a Web Search API that gives Claude models real-time web retrieval, letting developers ground responses in current information directly through the API. It was covered among the week's big-company API updates.
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent for discovering new algorithms
Google DeepMind announced AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent that designs and evolves advanced algorithms, credited on the show as one of the week's mind-bending algorithmic-discovery stories. DeepMind opened an interest form for early access rather than shipping it broadly.
Claude.ai gets Integrations: remote MCP tool support for apps
Breaking during the show: Anthropic announced Integrations, letting Claude connect directly to apps like Asana, Intercom, Linear, Zapier, Stripe, Atlassian, Cloudflare and PayPal via MCP. Developers can build their own integrations quickly, bringing tool use to Claude.ai itself rather than just the API.
OpenPipe's ART·E: RL-trained open email agent that beats o3
OpenPipe released ART·E, an Apache 2.0 email research agent built on a 14B Qwen 2.5 backbone, trained on 500K Enron emails plus synthetic Q&A and refined with reinforcement learning. It tops o3 on accuracy (96% vs 90%) while running 5x faster (1.1s median) and 64x cheaper ($0.85 per 1,000 queries), using a simple three-tool loop.
Pipecat releases Smart-Turn, an open source semantic VAD model
The Pipecat team (from Daily) released Smart-Turn, an open source semantic voice activity detection model that understands when a speaker has actually finished their turn rather than just detecting silence. Kwindla Kramer joined the show to break down how semantic VAD makes voice agent conversations feel far more natural, with a community training effort at turn-training.pipecat.ai.
Dex Horthy publishes 12-Factor Agents, a guide to production-ready agents
HumanLayer founder Dex Horthy published 12-Factor Agents, an open GitHub repo and essay distilling common patterns and pitfalls for building reliable, production-ready AI agents. Drawing on his experience building agent SDKs, it argues that serious teams end up writing large parts from scratch and lays out principles for robust agent design, discussed in depth on the show.
Claude gains Research mode and Google Workspace integration
Anthropic shipped a Research capability for Claude, letting it conduct multi-step research across the web, alongside a Google Workspace integration that connects Claude to email, calendar and docs context.
OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source terminal coding agent
OpenAI released Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for the terminal. It ships with hardened security, using Apple Seatbelt on macOS to limit execution to the current directory plus temp files.
OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini, SOTA reasoning models with tool use
OpenAI shipped o3 and o4-mini in ChatGPT and the API, with o3 setting new SOTA records on Codeforces, SWE-bench, MMMU and more. For the first time the models can use tools (web search, Python, image generation) during the reasoning process, and they can think visually by cropping, zooming and rotating images. o3 scored $65k on the Freelancer eval versus o1's $28k, and o4-mini hits 99.5% on AIME with a Python interpreter.
Cloudflare releases a new Agents SDK for building stateful AI agents
Cloudflare shipped a new Agents SDK for building and deploying AI agents on its edge platform. It joins the week's wave of agent infrastructure announcements alongside Google's A2A and broad MCP adoption.
GitMCP turns any GitHub repo into an MCP server instantly
Creators Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon launched GitMCP, a free tool that turns any GitHub repository into an MCP server by simply swapping the domain (gitmcp.io/user/repo). It lets AI assistants ground themselves in a repo's docs and code, and the creators joined the show to demo it.
Google announces A2A, an open agent-to-agent communication protocol
Google announced the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol at Cloud Next, an open spec for agents from different vendors to discover and communicate with each other. The spec was published on GitHub with a long list of launch partners, including Weights & Biases.
Google announces official support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Demis Hassabis announced that Google will officially support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) in its models and SDKs. This was a major signal of MCP becoming the industry standard for connecting AI models to tools and data.
Google launches Firebase Studio AI app-building environment at Cloud Next
As part of a flood of announcements at Google Cloud Next 2025, Google launched Firebase Studio, a browser-based AI-powered environment for building and shipping full-stack apps. It was one of the headline developer-facing launches from the event.
OpenAI gives ChatGPT enhanced memory that can recall all your past chats
OpenAI rolled out enhanced memory for ChatGPT, allowing it to reference and recall all of a user's previous conversations rather than just saved memories. This makes ChatGPT significantly more personalized across sessions.
W&B launches observable.tools initiative and MCP observability RFC
Weights & Biases launched the observable.tools initiative and published an RFC (RFC-269) proposing observability standards for the Model Context Protocol, inviting community comment. W&B also announced it is a launch partner for Google's A2A protocol.
OpenHands LM 32B: MIT-licensed coding agent model hits 37.2% SWE-Bench
All Hands AI (formerly OpenDevin) released OpenHands LM 32B, an MIT-licensed Qwen finetune that scores 37.2% on SWE-Bench Verified, competing with much larger models on real-world repo tasks. The OpenHands agent also took the #2 spot on the new Live SWE-Bench leaderboard, and the 32B model runs locally on a single RTX 3090. A hosted OpenHands Cloud version is also available; guest Xingyao Wang joined the show to discuss it.
Amazon announces Nova Act browser agent SDK
Amazon entered the agent race with Nova Act, an agent designed to take actions in web browsers, possibly built with talent from the Adept acquisition. Amazon claims it beats Claude 3.5 and OpenAI's computer-use model on some benchmarks, but it is only available via an SDK behind a request form, so claims could not be verified hands-on.
Devin 2.0 launches with new IDE experience and $20/month entry price
Breaking during the show: Cognition Labs launched Devin 2.0, the second version of its AI software engineer, with a new IDE experience. Crucially, pricing now starts at $20/month, down from the original $500/month tier, making the agent far more accessible.
OpenAI releases PaperBench eval and open-sources Nano-Eval framework
OpenAI published PaperBench, a tough new evaluation that tests whether AI agents can replicate cutting-edge AI research papers, with more than 8,300 graded tasks and meta-evaluation of the LLM judge. The best model managed only a 21.0% replication score versus 41.4% for human PhDs. The code and the Nano-Eval framework were open sourced on GitHub alongside the paper.
W&B launches Observable.tools initiative to add observability to MCP
Alex and Weights & Biases launched the Observable Tools initiative to bring observability to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, since external tool calls currently lose visibility for debugging and security. A concrete proposal using OpenTelemetry was posted to the MCP specification GitHub discussions for community feedback.
OpenAI adopts Anthropic's Model Context Protocol - MCP won
OpenAI officially announced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in its Agents SDK, effectively settling the agent tool-connectivity standards war in MCP's favor. Possibly more impactful long-term than the week's flashier launches, since the entire ecosystem can now converge on one protocol for connecting models to tools and data.
W&B ships official Weave MCP server - talk to your evals
Weights & Biases shipped an official MCP server for Weave, its LLM observability and evaluation tool, letting agents and MCP clients query and analyze your evals directly. Morgan McQuire of the W&B Applied AI team demoed it on the show, with wandb Models integration coming soon so agents can monitor loss curves for you.
Arcee AI announces Conductor, an intelligent model router
Arcee AI's Lucas Atkins joined the show to announce Conductor, a model router that picks the best model (including Arcee's small specialized models) for each query. It targets cost and quality optimization by routing requests instead of sending everything to one large model.
Cursor ships Claude 3.7 MAX mode
Cursor shipped Claude 3.7 MAX, a mode giving the agent the full context window and higher tool-call limits with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. It is aimed at harder, longer coding tasks at premium usage-based pricing.
Gemini Co-Drawing demo uses native image output to help you draw
A Hugging Face space demo, Gemini Co-Drawing, uses Gemini's native image generation output to collaboratively complete and enhance your sketches as you draw. It showcases the new native image-output capability of Gemini 2.0 Flash in an interactive tool.
Google makes Deep Research free, adds Canvas and Live Previews to Gemini
Google made its Deep Research agent free for Gemini users and shipped Canvas, a collaborative workspace with live previews for code and documents. Demos on the show included a playable Tetris game and a markdown word counter built and previewed directly inside Gemini.
NotebookLM teases Mind Maps for visualizing sources
Google's NotebookLM team previewed Mind Maps, a feature that turns your uploaded sources into interactive visual maps of concepts. It was teased publicly by the team this week ahead of a wider rollout.
NVIDIA drops Llama-Nemotron reasoning models plus training dataset
NVIDIA released the Llama-Nemotron family, including Super 49B and Nano 8B reasoning models, announced around GTC. Alongside the open weights, NVIDIA published the Llama-Nemotron post-training dataset, giving the community both the models and the data recipe behind them.
Cohere Command A: 111B enterprise model with 256K context on just 2 GPUs
Cohere announced Command A, a 111B parameter open-weights model with a 256K context window, presented on the show by Cohere's Sandra Kublik. It runs on only two GPUs where models of this size typically require around 32, and is built for enterprise use: agentic tasks, tool use, multilingual performance, and secure private deployments.
Google makes Deep Research free in the Gemini app, powered by Gemini Thinking
Google made its Deep Research agent free for everyone in the Gemini app and upgraded it to run on Gemini Thinking. In a live test on the show it browsed over 150 websites to compile a comprehensive answer, with a polished interface and export to Google Docs.
Manus AI research agent has everyone talking
Manus is a new AI research agent (manus.im) that creates a to-do list, browses the web in a real Chrome browser, and generates files, described on the show as 'Operator on steroids' and seemingly powered by Claude 3.7 behind the scenes. The crew tested it live on a research task and praised its slick UI.
OpenAI launches Responses API with Web Search, File Search, and Computer Use
OpenAI announced a new agent-focused developer stack at a livestream: the Responses API, a new way to build with OpenAI designed for agentic workloads, plus an Agents SDK. It ships with three built-in tools: Web Search, a File Search tool providing built-in RAG over your files, and a Computer Use tool for agents that operate computer interfaces.
Cloudflare ships support for building MCP servers on Workers
Cloudflare published tooling and docs for building and deploying Model Context Protocol servers on Cloudflare Workers, riding the MCP wave sweeping the AI community. Senior PM Dina Kozlov joined the show's MCP deep dive to walk through it alongside MCP builder Jason Kneen.
Google ships Gemini-powered Data Science Agent in Colab
Google launched a Data Science Agent inside Google Colab, powered by Gemini, that can autonomously generate complete, working notebooks from natural language descriptions of an analysis task. It automates data loading, exploration, and modeling boilerplate for data scientists.
Microsoft ships OmniParser v2 for faster screen parsing in GUI agents
Microsoft released OmniParser v2, a better and faster screen-parsing model that converts UI screenshots into structured elements for GUI agents. It improves the computer-use agent stack and is available with a public Gradio demo.
Weights & Biases releases an AI agents whitepaper and announces agents course
Weights & Biases released a whitepaper on evaluating AI agent applications and announced an upcoming agents course built in collaboration with OpenAI's Ilan Biggio, with signups at wandb.me/agents. The push targets agent evaluation and observability tooling for the community.
xAI launches DeepSearch, an agentic research feature with live X access
Alongside Grok 3, xAI launched DeepSearch, an agentic deep-research feature comparable to Perplexity or OpenAI's Deep Research, with a leg up on real-time information thanks to native access to X search. Alex's initial tests were underwhelming, nicknaming it 'Shallow Search' after it spent 34 seconds on a query where OpenAI's Deep Research took 11 minutes and cited 17 sources.
Block open-sources Goose, a local AI agent framework
Block (the company behind Square) released Goose, an open-source local agent framework that runs on your machine and can use any LLM to execute tasks with tools. It was a centerpiece of the show's agents discussion as an open alternative for building autonomous workflows locally.
Browser-use: open-source alternative to OpenAI's Operator
Browser-use is an open-source library that lets LLM agents control a real web browser, positioned on the show as the OSS counterpart to OpenAI's Operator. It enables anyone to build browsing agents with their model of choice instead of a closed hosted product.
Exa ships free DeepSeek R1 chat demo with web search
Exa integrated DeepSeek R1 into a free hosted chat demo that combines the reasoning model with Exa's web search. Mentioned in the tools section as a no-cost way to try R1 grounded with live search results.
Perplexity adds DeepSeek R1 as a Pro reasoning model option
Perplexity integrated DeepSeek R1 into its Pro search product, letting subscribers choose R1 as the reasoning model behind answers. It was one of several tools that raced to host R1 on Western infrastructure within days of the model's release.
ByteDance UI-TARS: open computer-use models that control your PC
ByteDance released UI-TARS, open computer-use models in 7B and 72B parameter sizes that can control a Mac or PC, with desktop apps for both platforms. ByteDance claims they beat GPT-4-class models on GUI/computer-control benchmarks.
OpenAI launches Operator, an agentic browser for ChatGPT Pro
OpenAI launched Operator, an agentic browser-use product that performs tasks for you on the web, available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers at operator.chatgpt.com. As Sam Altman framed it on the launch stream: you give agents a task and they go off and do it.
W&B programming agent breaks SOTA on SWE-bench Verified
Weights & Biases announced a state-of-the-art AI programming agent built with OpenAI's o1 that broke the SOTA score on SWE-bench Verified. The work was developed and tracked with W&B Weave, the team's LLM observability toolkit.
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