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Mistral AI Releases Mistral Small 3.1 with Improved Performance Metrics
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BREAKING : Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1 with a better performance at multiple metrics. Apache 2.0, 81% MMLU, 150 tokens/s
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Baidu Releases ERNIE 4.5 and X1 Models
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Baidu released ERNIE 4.5 and X1 models. ERNIE 4.5 works on a pair with 4o, while X1 performs at a level of DeepSeek R1 (but half cheaper).
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 16 mars 2025
ERNIE 4.5 is available on Yiyan in case you have a Baidu account. https://t.co/1OosSdE18V pic.twitter.com/5FIwSvkeHRBaidu released ERNIE 4.5 and X1 models. ERNIE 4.5 works on a pair with 4o, while X1 performs at a level of DeepSeek R1 (but half cheaper). ERNIE 4.5 is available on Yiyan in case you have a Baidu account.
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Claude to get native RAG tools
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Claude will get native tools that model will be able to use in order to work with RAG (index files, search, etc). It is very possible that this will be supported in MCPs as well though
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Anthropic’s Harmony: AI Agent Preview
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BREAKING 🚨: Early preview of the upcoming Harmony feature for Claude.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 15 mars 2025
Harmony will allow users to give Claude FULL access to a local directory so it can research and operate with its content.
Is Harmony the 1st Anthropic's AI Agent? 👀 pic.twitter.com/c4aDNejpHpBREAKING : Early preview of the upcoming Harmony feature for Claude. Harmony will allow users to give Claude FULL access to a local directory so it can research and operate with its content. Is Harmony the 1st Anthropic's AI Agent?
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Updates
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Gemini changelog from 13.03 was updated:
– Update to Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental) in Gemini
– Deep Research is now powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental) and available to more Gemini users at no cost
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Deep Work: Multi-Agent AI Tasks for Pro Users
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Convergence released Deep Work for Pro users. Deep Work operates with multiple AI agents to complete multi-step tasks.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 13 mars 2025
This is Operator and Deep Research in one 👀 https://t.co/JTqpnBSkhM pic.twitter.com/8172wbrCI5Convergence released Deep Work for Pro users. Deep Work operates with multiple AI agents to complete multi-step tasks. This is Operator and Deep Research in one https://
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Anthropic API Updates for 2025
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Anthropic got some API updates – Cache-aware rate limits
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Google Upgrades Deep Research with Gemini 2.0
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BREAKING : Google is upgrading its Deep Research feature to be powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. The mention of Gemini 1.5 Pro has been removed from the description recently.
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental native image output
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental native image output is a GPT-4 moment