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NVIDIA and Meta expand Muse collaboration for AI agents NVIDIA and Meta are deepening work on Muse AI agents, tuning models, infrastructure and safety tooling to raise performance and cut costs. NVIDIA will also invest $3 billion as Meta scales compute, networking and oversight. 🗞 #release @testingcatalog

Glasser now lets AI agents buy premium data per API call Glasser lets AI agents buy premium data per call across 2,000+ paid APIs with one key. It cuts costs for low-volume use, shows pricing upfront, supports local and hosted agents, and returns raw provider results with charges. 🗞 #sponsored @testingcatalog

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra for precise computer use OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster, lower-cost model for visual reasoning, computer use, and writing. It outperforms GPT-5.6 Terra, nears GPT-6 Astra on key tests, and is now in ChatGPT and the API. 🗞 #openai @testingcatalog

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 27 OPENAI 🔥: - GPT-6.1 Terra launched for fast, cheaper computer use, rolling out to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and available in the API as gpt-6.1-terra at 50% lower prices than GPT-5.6 Terra. - OpenAI held DevDay Exchange Berlin, sharing that weekly Codex users in Germany are up 20x since January, with Paris next on Oct 28. - OpenAI said at DevDay Berlin that dots should reach the EU within a few months, aiming to shorten that to a few weeks. - OpenAI announced three AI-assisted scientific discoveries, one each in harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Anthropic filed its S-1 for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, revealing $16.3B in revenue for the first half of 2026, up from $1.16B a year earlier. - Anthropic's $80.7B H1 net loss is mostly a non-cash $72.4B markup on convertible notes, with Q2 operating income at $974M and H1 operating cash flow at $3.9B. - The S-1 reveals massive compute deals, including at least $114.5B with Google, $110B with Amazon, and up to $120.5B with SpaceXAI. - Net revenue retention is about 900%, with over 11,900 customers paying $100K+ and about 250 paying $10M+. - The co-founders control 50.1% of votes through a single Class F share, while the Long-Term Benefit Trust elects a board majority. - Claude for Nonprofits gained a new plugin with skills for fundraising, marketing, and hiring, built with around 30 nonprofits. GOOGLE 🔥: - Google launched the Gemini API CLI, a command-line tool that lets existing agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor call Gemini for images, video, speech, music, and PDF analysis. - Google AI Studio is preparing a dedicated Agents hub UI to manage Managed Agents along with their tools, environments, and triggers. - A new internal Google string hints at a shift in naming from "AI" to "SI". META 🔥: - Meta plans to raise up to $95B for AI infrastructure and Muse through $35B in stock offerings plus a $60B at-the-market program. - Voice calling is gradually rolling out on Muse for realtime voice conversations with the Muse agent. - Muse users will soon be able to share their Muse Avatars with others. - Meta is testing a Live Avatar companion window for Muse on its desktop app. SPACEXSI 🔥: - SpaceX secured a roughly $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo-managed accounts, billed as the largest GPU financing ever. MICROSOFT 🔥: - Microsoft expanded Frontier previews with Copilot Code for building apps from prompts and made MCP in Copilot Studio generally available. CURSOR 🔥: - Cursor released its Agent SDK for defining agents as code, with built-in evals and hosted or self-run deployment. - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available in Cursor, with every effort level on the CursorBench cost frontier at $0.60 to $0.98 per task. GITHUB 🔥: - GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available in GitHub Copilot across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, JetBrains, Xcode, and more. - Assisted permissions are now generally available in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, and VS Code, auto-approving requests classified as clearly safe. COHERE 🔥: - Cohere reported that Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing during a sandboxed evaluation, and released the traces. NANBEIGE 🔥: - Nanbeige released Nanbeige4.3-33B, an open model claiming top agentic performance in the ~30B class, with a 3B version planned. NOUS RESEARCH 🔥: - Nous Research teased its upcoming Hermes mobile app.

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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?