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BREAKING 🔥: OpenAI officially announced GPT-6.1 Terra! > "At max effort, Terra is over three times as token-efficient as Claude Opus 5.5, and one-fourth its price per token, resulting in a ~9x lower cost per task." > "Terra is also much quicker, completing tasks over three times faster than both GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol." I would call it a Berlin DevDay release 👀

OPENAI 🔥: A new gpt-6.1-terra model slug has been spotted on the APIs and now is being mentioned on the latest Codex changelog!

GPT-6.1 Terra is now available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. It’s a fast, efficient model for professional work that combines strong image understanding with precise computer use.

Reason about images and screens, then act on what you find across your browser, desktop, and apps. Terra also provides clear, direct writing that puts results first and explains supporting details in plain language.

Testing time soon! 👀

Alibaba 🥊 Cohere According to Cohere, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a probe file to Alibaba Cloud in China during evaluation in the controlled environment. “All your data belongs to us” 👀

Meta is testing the Live Avatar feature for Muse on its desktop app. This is what the new companion window will look like, for now. It will also minimize automatically if you switch windows. Minty looks cool 🤢 * The feature is still in development.

OpenAI DevDay Exchange in Berlin is about to start soon! Monitoring 🍿

BREAKING 🔥: $ANT will be an official Nasdaq ticker for Anthropic according to the latest statement!

“Anthropic intends to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “ANT.” The number of shares of Class A common stock to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.”

Not (ANT Only) soon 👀

ANTHROPIC 🔥: S-1 IPO filing is set for 9AM EST today as reported by Bloomberg! This event supposed to give a proper public clarity over Anthropic financials for the first time. And of course why would you do an IPO without a big model release (speculative). Looks big 👀

ICYMI 👀: As part of Google Developer Program Benefits, users with Google AI Pro or AI Ultra receive $10, $40, or $100 in Google Cloud credits per month. You may use these credits only in Google AI Studio and Google Cloud Vertex AI.

Nanbeige released Nanbeige4.3-33B, a new SOTA open model in the ~30B parameter class. > "Nanbeige4.3-33B leads on most of the benchmarks, showing strong performance in both agentic coding and cowork tasks." > The model outperforms Qwen3.8-27B, Muse-Glimmer-30B, and Gemma4-31B on most benchmarks. > A smaller model, Nanbeige4.3-3B, is also planned for the future.

META 🔥: Voice calling functionality is gradually rolling out on Muse since yesterday. This feature enables realtime voice conversations with Muse agent.

META 🔥: Muse users will soon be able to share Muse Avatars with others! Why it matters: Muse has the best avatar solution on the market right now, letting users generate almost any live avatar for their agent. Plus, Muse avatars are a core feature, making Muse assistants "truly personalized." The avatar sharing pop-up will contain an animated preview of different avatar "modes", including "Working" and others. Who is building the Muse Avatar marketplace? 👀

Meta is working on avatar sharing for Muse assistant Meta is testing avatar sharing for Muse on the web, adding social sharing and link copying for animated avatars with four preview states. The feature is unreleased, and support for multiple avatars or full agent sharing remains unclear. 🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

Google AI Studio prepares new Managed Agents hub Google is preparing a Managed Agents area in AI Studio to configure, trigger, and monitor autonomous agents. The move aligns with Agent Compute Engine, while billing lag and credit limits remain key considerations for agent workloads. 🗞 #google @testingcatalog

Hermes mobile app has been teased 👀 We will have some testing time very soon. I also hope that Android version will come along.

Interestingly, Google seems to be shifting its internal naming from "AI" to "SI" as well. > "build_arena_andwise_si_comparison" is an internal string related to model comparison. Will this spread even further? - ✅ SpaceXSI - ✅ MSL - ✅ SSI - 👀 MAI > MSI? - 👀 OpenAI > OpenSI? - 👀 Apple Intelligence > ASI?

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 24 MOONSHOT 🔥: - Kimi K3.1 Pro launched as a 2.8T-parameter MoE model (104B active) with 1M context, live now on Kimi web, mobile and API, with open weights due November 4. - Kimi K3.1 Pro debuted 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 55, 11 points above Kimi K3, and is set to become the leading open-weights model once its weights ship. - Kimi K3.1 Pro landed 8th on Arena's WebDev leaderboard, putting Moonshot back among the top-4 labs. OPENAI 🔥: - OpenAI disclosed it paused frontier training on Sept 20 after a model found a way out of its offline training environment, then resumed on Oct 1 with hardened containment and dedicated red-teaming compute. - That agent red-teaming also uncovered an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in the Brotli compression library, now patched in new releases. - Codex CLI 0.164.0 adds reusable /presets slots, inline /model and /permissions arguments, and terminal image previews. SPACEXSI 🔥: - Grok Bot now has a Vault in settings for saving logins, cards and contact info, rolling out on desktop and mobile. - Cursor can now control your computer, letting agents drive desktop apps like the iOS Simulator to test what they build. - Grok Imagine premiered the first episode of its AI-generated Odyssey series with Wonder Studios. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Anthropic published a further alignment analysis of the incident where Claude Mythos 5 took unauthorized actions online during UK AISI cyber testing. - The Claude Desktop app got a visual refresh with new icons and a simplified type system. - Thariq Shihipar, one of the leading voices behind Claude Code, has left Anthropic to take a break before starting something new, with Anthony Morris also reported to have left. GOOGLE 🔥: - Gemini Notebook is now a Connected App in Gemini, so you can create, update and query notebooks from chat with @Gemini Notebook. - Interactive apps built in the Gemini app can now be exported to Google Sites in one click. - Gemini 4 Carbon appears to be in early access outside Google, with testers citing stronger outputs than Argon. META 🔥: - Meta's Muse AI agent is rolling out in Japan, following the US and Canada. NVIDIA 🔥: - NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, a small open model for local assistants and robots that runs on a Jetson Orin Nano. BYTEDANCE 🔥: - ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 4K with 10-bit color and a Draft mode for cheap 480p previews before upscaling, starting with select enterprise customers on BytePlus. BLOCK 🔥: - Jack Dorsey unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on voice conversations, with demo samples and a waitlist for now. PERPLEXITY 🔥: - Enterprise admins can now set maximum and default effort levels for Computer per role. - The Taste Skill landed in Computer's skills marketplace, with tasks using it free through October 31. COHERE 🔥: - Cohere's Model Vault is now in public beta, running its models on Azure GPUs with NVIDIA Confidential Computing.

Jack Dorsey announced a new full-duplex speech model, called Dessa. Dessa was trained solely on voice conversations, with no text data or pretrained models. Currently, only demo samples are available, but they far surpass anything else in emotional expression and natural feel. Voice models will be everywhere 👀

SPACEXSI 🔥: Grok Bot now has its own Vault for storing logins, contacts and credit card info. Saved info can be found in a new Vault tab in settings. The feature is rolling out on mobile and desktop apps. Grok Bot is slowly getting new superpowers!

SPACEXSI 🔥: Grok Bot now has its own Vault for storing logins, contacts and credit card info. Saved info can be found in a new Vault tab in settings. The feature is rolling out on mobile and desktop apps. Grok Bot is slowly getting new superpowers!