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Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent
Perplexity is launching “Teammates,” always-on agents that work through ongoing projects on their own virtual machines. The feature requires the Max plan…
Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets
OpenAI is talking about the AGI era, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. At the same time, co-creators of today’s models are leaving OpenAI,…
METR finds Anthropic may have crossed its own AI acceleration warning threshold back in July
Nonprofit METR spent eleven weeks auditing Anthropic’s internal research data and concluded that the pace of model development has roughly doubled, with…
Thinking Machines’ Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters.…
Anthropic’s $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuation
Anthropic’s IPO is in trouble as investors push back on the $1.5 trillion valuation and the tech market sells off. The article Anthropic’s $1.5 trillion…
Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending
Anthropic is introducing a new feature in Claude called Personal Finance, which allows users to connect their bank and card accounts and ask questions…
OpenAIs GPT-6 Cyber can both break into systems and propose how to fix them
With GPT-6 Cyber, OpenAI is introducing an AI model built to find security vulnerabilities in software, develop exploits, and suggest patches. According…
Google’s Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percent
Google Deepmind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available. The video-generation model now creates clips up to 15 seconds long, can be edited…
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so…