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Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.
Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.
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GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
OpenAI's GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, far longer than any model since. Since Claude 3 Opus took the top spot in February 2024, the l…
Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
Zhipu AI is bringing GLM-5.2 to its ZCode development environment, pitching the model's long-context capabilities for complex coding tasks. New customers get a …
Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’…
Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock
In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers …
Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop
Nvidia's next AI server rack, Kyber NVL144, has been delayed more than a year to 2028 because of circuit board manufacturing problems, according to analyst firm…
Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours"
A Google Deepmind developer ported the 2003 real-time strategy game "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to iPhone and iPad using Anthropic's Claude Cod…
Mistral CEO Mensch says proprietary AI models give labs a front-row seat to your business processes
Mistral founder Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models. He claims AI labs are storing more and more customer data and have, in some c…
Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%
The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, n…
Anthropic developer shares prompting tips for Fable 5 that focus on finding your own blind spots first
Anthropic developer Thariq Shihipar argues that with Claude's new model, Fable 5, the bottleneck is no longer the model itself but the user's blind spots. He de…
Anthropic launches its own drug discovery programs to tackle diseases Big Pharma considers unprofitable
Anthropic is launching its own drug development program for neglected diseases that the pharmaceutical industry considers unprofitable. Novartis CEO Vas Narasim…
OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore
Greg Brockman admits ChatGPT's plugins, heavily marketed in 2023, failed "because the models weren't ready." Instead of app extensions, he sees the future in an…
Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 aces formal math benchmarks and catches real bugs in code
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, an open-source model for formal verification in Lean 4. Beyond math, the model found five previously unknown bugs while scann…
Claude Code v2.1.201
Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents
Microsoft reportedly plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August. Rarely used features like Copilot Podcasts are getting…
Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific
Anthropic is trying to block Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they're getting around the restrictions through …
Claude Code v2.1.200
GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public
The hedge fund Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab report that a finely tuned open-weight model outperforms the most powerful AI models in the evaluation of f…
Upcoming deprecation of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash
We will deprecate Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code c…
Claude Code v2.1.199
Microsoft launches $2.5 billion "Frontier Company" to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise clients
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new unit called "Frontier Company" that puts 6,000 engineers directly at enterprise customers. The goal is to integrate…
Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters
Anthropic is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip. The project is still early, but Anthropic has already hired chip…
Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"
Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examp…
Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen Big Tech's grip on its chip business
Nvidia is increasingly acting like a central bank for AI startups, actively shaping the compute market. The article Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen …
OpenAI reportedly offers the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company
OpenAI is reportedly offering the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company. What the government would give in return, if anything, is still uncl…
Claude Code v2.1.198
SpaceX shows investors a slim AI smartphone prototype powered by xAI technology
SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI smartphone that's supposedly thinner than an iPhone and integrates xAI tech. The device runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chi…
Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. This is the first open-weight model offered as a selectable option in the Co…
AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings
AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leadin…
Run NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
We're excited to introduce US-based frontier open-weight models in AWS GovCloud (US). With this release, Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OS…
Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud
Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at…