Tag: agent

  • Vibe Coding: Programming with AI Agents

    Build a working application by describing what you want, then keep it honest. This workshop runs periodically, tailored each time to the group in the room, and needs no coding background. What it covers What an AI agent is, and how it differs from a chatbot The agent loop: plan, act, observe, repeat Prompting that […]

  • CoPaw-Flash-9B: Alibaba’s Agentic Fine-Tune of Qwen3.5-9B

    CoPaw-Flash-9B: Alibaba’s Agentic Fine-Tune of Qwen3.5-9B

    On March 30, 2026, Alibaba’s AgentScope team formally released CoPaw v1.0.0 — a personal AI agent workstation built around CoPaw-Flash-9B, an agentic fine-tune of Qwen3.5-9B. The model and the broader CoPaw framework are fully open-sourced under the AgentScope organization on Hugging Face and GitHub, positioning CoPaw as a lightweight, locally-runnable alternative to cloud-only AI agent […]

  • Vending-Bench 2: AI Models Put to the Test Running a Business for a Year

    Vending-Bench 2: AI Models Put to the Test Running a Business for a Year

    Key points Andon Labs released Vending-Bench 2, a long-horizon benchmark that gives each model a $500 starting balance to run a simulated vending machine business across 365 simulated days. Claude Opus 4.6 tops the leaderboard at $8,017.59 in final account balance, ahead of Claude Sonnet 4.6 at $7,204.14 and Gemini 3 Pro at $5,478.16. Andon […]

  • Introducing Qwen-Code: Alibaba’s Open‑Source CLI for Agentic Coding with Qwen3‑Coder

    Alibaba Cloud’s AI team has just released Qwen-Code, a command-line interface (CLI) tool optimized for its latest open-source code model, Qwen3‑Coder. It’s designed for agentic programming workflows and is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license (GitHub). Key points Alibaba Cloud’s AI team released Qwen-Code, a command-line interface tool optimized for its latest open-source code model, […]

  • Introducing ChatGPT Agent: From Research to Real‑World Action

    OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Agent, a powerful new feature that bridges the gap between research and execution by enabling the AI to interact with the internet—and execute tasks—via its own virtual computer. This marks a major evolution from its previous tools, Operator and Deep Research, by combining and expanding their capabilities into a unified, agentic […]

  • Update to GitHub Copilot Consumptive Billing Experience

    GitHub has rolled out an important enhancement to the Copilot billing model, introducing consumptive billing with enforced monthly allowances for premium requests. Effective June 18, 2025, all paid Copilot plans—Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise—now have a defined number of “premium requests” per user that reset on the first of each month. Premium requests unlock access […]