October 31 AI Daily Brief: Anthropic subscription renamed, Grok Bot 1.0 released
Anthropic renamed Max 5x to Max ($100) and Max 20x to Ultra ($200), and the verified Ultra version removed the 5-hour limit; the maximum request size for the Claude API increased from 32 MB to 128 MB. The first stable version of xAI's Grok Bot 1.0 is available for download, with new per-bot voice and voice language settings. NVIDIA open-sourced the 9.6M-parameter voice cleanup model RE-USE, and Pika released the open-weight video model H3 Flex.
View original postDAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 30 GOOGLE 🔥: - Google is shutting down Jules and moving its features into Antigravity. - Antigravity launched a Plugins marketplace with Jira, Notion, Stripe, and Figma. - Gemini can now create and edit docs, PDFs, slides, and sheets. - Gemini lets users share personal avatars for images and videos. - Gemini Notebook added hundreds of free textbooks. - AI Studio now supports XR Blocks for vibe-coding XR apps. OPENAI 🔥: - OpenAI doubled usage limits for Pro and Business Premium. - Expanded frontier monitoring caught a model reaching the live internet in September. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Anthropic shared a self-assessment technique for safer Claude responses. - Claude mobile added multi-account sign-in, CarPlay and 24 new languages. - Anthropic expanded its AI for Science program to foundations and institutions. SPACEXSI 🔥: - Elon Musk says the delayed Grok 4.8 "will not be a disappointment," targeting usefulness over benchmarks. MISTRAL 🔥: - Mistral released Mistral Large 4 open weights, now #1 open model on FrontierCode. MICROSOFT 🔥: - Copilot added 25+ finance skills and plugins. - Office apps come to the Copilot app in mid-November. META 🔥: - Meta quietly launched Style Sketch, an AI fashion app, in three Southeast Asian countries. MOONSHOT 🔥: - Kimi launched 3D Make for Blender and CAD modeling. COHERE 🔥: - Cohere closed the first part of a Series E at a CAD $35.7B valuation. CANVA 🔥: - Canva launched Brush, its own design vision-language model. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.
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DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 30 GOOGLE 🔥: - Google is shutting down Jules and moving its features into Antigravity. - Antigravity launched a Plugins marketplace with Jira, Notion, Stripe, and Figma. - Gemini can now create and edit docs, PDFs, slides, and sheets. - Gemini lets users share personal avatars for images and videos. - Gemini Notebook added hundreds of free textbooks. - AI Studio now supports XR Blocks for vibe-coding XR apps. OPENAI 🔥: - OpenAI doubled usage limits for Pro and Business Premium. - Expanded frontier monitoring caught a model reaching the live internet in September. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Anthropic shared a self-assessment technique for safer Claude responses. - Claude mobile added multi-account sign-in, CarPlay and 24 new languages. - Anthropic expanded its AI for Science program to foundations and institutions. SPACEXSI 🔥: - Elon Musk says the delayed Grok 4.8 "will not be a disappointment," targeting usefulness over benchmarks. MISTRAL 🔥: - Mistral released Mistral Large 4 open weights, now #1 open model on FrontierCode. MICROSOFT 🔥: - Copilot added 25+ finance skills and plugins. - Office apps come to the Copilot app in mid-November. META 🔥: - Meta quietly launched Style Sketch, an AI fashion app, in three Southeast Asian countries. MOONSHOT 🔥: - Kimi launched 3D Make for Blender and CAD modeling. COHERE 🔥: - Cohere closed the first part of a Series E at a CAD $35.7B valuation. CANVA 🔥: - Canva launched Brush, its own design vision-language model. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.
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DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 31
GOOGLE 🔥: - Antigravity is now available in Android Studio. - Antigravity is testing a Running tab for background tasks (via testingcatalog). - Varun Mohan teased a big week of Antigravity launches. - GPT models appeared in Google Cloud quotas, hinting they may come to Antigravity (via AiBattle_). - Google's Omni Flash 1.2 was spotted with 1080p and 4K output, frame interpolation and extend (via chetaslua). - Project Suncatcher prompted a TPU in orbit and got a haiku back.
ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Max 5x is now Max ($100) and Max 20x is now Ultra ($200), with no 5-hour limit on verified Ultra. - Anthropic used thousands of Claude agents to automate subtle misalignment red-teaming. - The Claude API max request size rose from 32 MB to 128 MB. - Claude Code got a server-side rule restricting rewrites of existing video games (via chasmmmmmmmmmmm).
OPENAI 🔥: - The Agents API added Auto Review and async compaction. - OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honor a shared robots.txt AI-training opt-out. - ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage limit starting in December (via btibor91).
SPACEXSI 🔥: - Grok Bot 1.0, the first stable build, is out for download. - Grok Bot is preparing a Tasks hub and texting support (via testingcatalog). - Grok Bot added per-bot voice and voice-language settings.
AMAZON 🔥: - AWS grew 39% to $46B in Q3, its fastest growth in nearly five years.
PERPLEXITY 🔥: - Perplexity Computer can now control Chrome from the Mac and Windows apps. - Computer can now share a session when you ask it to.
NVIDIA 🔥: - NVIDIA open-sourced RE-USE, a 9.6M-parameter speech-cleanup model.
COHERE 🔥: - Cohere will invest over C$4B in Canada and add 1,500+ jobs by 2031.
PIKA 🔥: - Pika released H3 Flex, an open-weight video model.
GRANOLA 🔥: - Granola added free, unlimited voice typing in any app.
IDEOGRAM 🔥: - Ideogram added context-window edits up to 2K in high-res images.
* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.