The pace isn't slowing down. From specialized biotech models to the rise of personal "agent computers," here is your Futurepedia Weekly AI Roundup. Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind
Perplexity Personal Computer
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Weekly AI Roundup: New Models and Personal Agent Computers
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OpenAI Codex Evolves Into Autonomous AI Teammate With Multimodal Capabilities
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OpenAI's Codex is starting to work the way you do. Mac app control, expanded tool connections, image generation, memory, and task automation — all in one agent.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 18 avril 2026
The gap between "AI assistant" and "AI teammate" just got a lot smaller. pic.twitter.com/rk7qY9OBaDOpenAI's Codex is starting to work the way you do. Mac app control, expanded tool connections, image generation, memory, and task automation — all in one agent. The gap between "AI assistant" and "AI teammate" just got a lot smaller.
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Claude Design Powered by Claude Opus 4.7 Vision Model
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Claude Design is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic’s most capable vision model, and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out today. https://t.co/94SIa3tLvO
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 18 avril 2026Claude Design is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic’s most capable vision model, and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out today.
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ByteDance Seedance 2.0 tops AI video benchmarks with cinematic control
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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 just topped every major AI video benchmark — and it’s now available on various platforms 🎬
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 17 avril 2026
Native audio, 90-sec multi-shot videos, cinematic camera control, full multimodal input. All in one pass.
Where to access it:
• Dreamina (official, free for… pic.twitter.com/vqUIz8JnK9ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 just topped every major AI video benchmark — and it’s now available on various platforms Native audio, 90-sec multi-shot videos, cinematic camera control, full multimodal input. All in one pass. Where to access it:
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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.7 Advanced Model
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Claude Opus 4.7 might be the new default ‘serious work’ model for builders. Anthropic just shipped Opus 4.7:
Stronger advanced coding & agentic workflows
High‑res vision (2,576px / ~3.75MP) for dense UIs & diagrams
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Perplexity Personal Computer: Mac-based AI Agent
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Your AI shouldn’t stop at the browser.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 17 avril 2026
Perplexity Personal Computer turns your Mac into an always‑on AI agent that:
▪️Automates research & reports
▪️Works with your local files/apps
▪️Runs in secure, sandboxed environments on your own machine
Now available for macOS Sonoma –… pic.twitter.com/T8cZgmYBAQYour AI shouldn’t stop at the browser. Perplexity Personal Computer turns your Mac into an always‑on AI agent that:
Automates research & reports
Works with your local files/apps
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GPT-Rosalind Revolutionizes Drug Discovery with AI Protein Reasoning
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🧬AI is coming for one of science's biggest bottlenecks.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 17 avril 2026
Drug discovery has always been a 10-15 year slog. GPT-Rosalind is built specifically to change that; protein reasoning, genomics, biochem, and scientific tool use all in one frontier model.
This is what AI for real-world… https://t.co/wUI3nRLVY1AI is coming for one of science's biggest bottlenecks. Drug discovery has always been a 10-15 year slog. GPT-Rosalind is built specifically to change that; protein reasoning, genomics, biochem, and scientific tool use all in one frontier model. This is what AI for real-world
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NVIDIA Lyra 2.0 Transforms Single Images into Explorable 3D Worlds
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@NVIDIAAIDev just dropped Lyra 2.0 — and it turns a single image into a persistent 3D world you can actually explore.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 16 avril 2026
Generating large, consistent 3D environments has been a major weakness for current models: they forget layouts, lose track of motion, and objects wobble or blur… pic.twitter.com/gsq1295QYa@NVIDIAAIDev just dropped Lyra 2.0 — and it turns a single image into a persistent 3D world you can actually explore. Generating large, consistent 3D environments has been a major weakness for current models: they forget layouts, lose track of motion, and objects wobble or blur
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Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Brings Controllable Expressive Speech
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🎙️AI voice just got a major upgrade.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 16 avril 2026
Google’s new Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS brings more controllable, expressive, high‑quality speech with simple prompt “audio tags” to steer tone, pacing, and style.
Rolling out in preview via Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and Google… pic.twitter.com/zPD3mbQJ9uAI voice just got a major upgrade. Google’s new Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS brings more controllable, expressive, high‑quality speech with simple prompt “audio tags” to steer tone, pacing, and style. Rolling out in preview via Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and Google