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Grok Speech to Text and Text to Speech APIs
Fast and accurate. Natural, expressive voices. Simple pricing. Multilingual support.
AI Daily Brief — 16 April 2026
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 — +10.9 points on SWE-bench Pro vs 4.6, higher-res vision, file-system memory, new xhigh reasoning tier — and openly concedes Mythos…
Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
introducing c.ai books: classic literature, now playable
What if you could step inside a classic novel - not just read it, but play it? With c.ai Books, now you can. Pick a character,…
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
ProductAnnouncementsIntroducing Claude Opus 4.7Apr 16, 2026Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available.Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software…
AI Daily Brief — 15 April 2026
Stanford HAI publishes the 2026 AI Index — frontier models gain 30 points on Humanity's Last Exam; Anthropic leads by 2.7%. Dwarkesh hosts Jensen Huang.
RT Andy Ayrey: midjourney is one of the only apps which works exactly the same in both dreams and waking life and i find this both fascinating and com…
RT Andy Ayreymidjourney is one of the only apps which works exactly the same in both dreams and waking life and i find this both fascinating…
My bets on open models, mid-2026
What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.
New course: Spec-Driven Development with Coding Agents, built in partnership with @jetbrains, and taught by @paulweveritt. Vibe coding is fast, but of…
New course: Spec-Driven Development with Coding Agents, built in partnership with @jetbrains, and taught by @paulweveritt.Vibe coding is fast, but often produces code that doesn't match…
Customized Amazon Nova models improve molecular-property prediction in drug discovery
A single, optimized LLM unifies what previously required multiple models and can serve as a reasoning partner for medical chemists.
Partnering with Auctor
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Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
RT Mistral AI for Developers: Build once. Reuse everywhere. The Connectors API is now in Public Preview. Register MCP connectors once and use them acr…
RT Mistral AI for DevelopersBuild once. Reuse everywhere.The Connectors API is now in Public Preview. Register MCP connectors once and use them across Le Chat, AI…
Windsurf 2.0: Introducing the Agent Command Center and Devin in Windsurf
Ship more with local and cloud agents working together.
Weaviate Shared Cloud now generally available on AWS
Weaviate Shared Cloud is now generally available on AWS in US East and Europe, giving teams a fully managed, AI-native database on the provider and region…
Parcae: Doing more with fewer parameters using stable looped models
Parcae is a stable looped language model that matches the quality of a Transformer twice its size — a 770M model reaching 1.3B-level performance. We introduce…
How to make remarkable videos with Seedance 2.0
If you have never tried a video model before, now is the time.
Four New GA Features for Dedicated Read Nodes That Give Teams More Control and Observability
Four New GA Features for Dedicated Read Nodes That Give Teams More Control and Observability
Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio
Connect enterprise data to your AI applications with reusable connectors, direct tool calling, and human-in-the-loop approval controls.
Early Indicators of Reward Hacking via Reasoning Interpolation
Using importance sampling with fine-tuned donor prefills to predict reward hacking emergence during training
AI Daily Brief — 14 April 2026
Midjourney releases V8.1 Alpha — restoring V7-style aesthetics on V8.0's technical base, with faster HD mode, prompt shortener and updated Describe.
RT Summer Yue: 🚀 Muse Spark Safety & Preparedness Report for Meta AI is out. We start with our pre-deployment assessment under Meta's Advanced AI S…
RT Summer Yue🚀 Muse Spark Safety & Preparedness Report for Meta AI is out.We start with our pre-deployment assessment under Meta's Advanced AI Scaling Framework, covering…
V8.1 is live! Our iconic aesthetics are back w native 2K HD rendering – 3x faster and 3x cheaper vs V8. Full quality V8.1 1K mode is faster than V7 dr…
V8.1 is live! Our iconic aesthetics are back w native 2K HD rendering - 3x faster and 3x cheaper vs V8. Full quality V8.1 1K mode…