Tag: agentic ai
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Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with 2× Reasoning Performance
Key points Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, describing it as its most capable model to date and the first in the Gemini family to receive a “.1” mid-cycle update rather than the usual “.5” increment. Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, which the article says is more than double […]
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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 […]
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Qwen 3.5: Alibaba’s Native Multimodal Agent Model Arrives
Key points Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen 3.5 on February 16, 2026, with a flagship 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model built for the agentic AI era. The flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B activates only 17 billion parameters per forward pass despite having 397 billion total parameters. Listed specifications include a 256K-token native context window, 1M tokens on the hosted Qwen3.5-Plus, […]
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Qwen3-Coder-Next: Alibaba’s Ultra-Sparse 80B Coding Agent
Key points Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3-Coder-Next in February 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, an open-weight coding model that activates only 3 billion of its 80 billion total parameters per forward pass. On SWE-Bench Verified with the SWE-Agent scaffold the model scores 70.6%, and it also scores 62.8% on SWE-Bench Multilingual and 44.3% on […]
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MiniMax M2.5: Frontier AI Performance at a Fraction of the Cost
Key points Announced on February 12, 2026, MiniMax’s M2.5 ships as open weights under a modified MIT license and, according to the company, matches leading proprietary systems at one-tenth to one-twentieth of their cost. M2.5 is a mixture-of-experts model with 229 billion total parameters, 10 billion active parameters and a 200,000-token context window, designed for […]
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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.5 with Agent Swarm and Frontier Vision
Key points Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5 on January 27, 2026, an open-weight model combining a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with native multimodal reasoning and Agent Swarm. Kimi K2.5 is built on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 1 trillion total parameters, of which only 32 billion are activated per token. Agent Swarm decomposes complex tasks into subtasks […]
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GLM-5: Zhipu AI Ships a 744B Open-Weight Frontier Model
Key points On February 11, 2026, Zhipu AI released GLM-5 through its Z.ai platform with 744 billion total parameters and a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. GLM-5 has 744B total parameters with 40B active per token, spanning 80 layers and 256 experts of which 8 are active at inference, a sparsity rate of about 5.9%. GLM-5 scored 50 […]
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GLM-4.7-Flash: Z.ai’s Efficient 30B MoE Model for Coding and Agents
Key points Z.ai released GLM-4.7-Flash on January 20, 2026, a fully open-source model under the MIT license that is available for free via the Z.ai API platform. Despite its 30B label, the model uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 31.2 billion total parameters but only approximately 3 billion active parameters during any given inference pass. It […]
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M Token Context Window
Key points Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, 2026, upgrading its flagship model with a 1 million token context window in beta at unchanged pricing. The 1M token window is a fivefold expansion over Opus 4.5’s previous 200k token context window. On MRCR v2, a needle-in-a-haystack retrieval test that buries facts inside large […]
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Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6: Flagship Performance at Mid-Tier Cost
Key points Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6 on February 17, 2026, and says it matches Claude Opus 4.6 on many benchmarks while costing five times less. Sonnet 4.6 has a 1 million token context window in beta, described as the first Sonnet-class model able to process entire codebases, lengthy legal contracts or dozens of research […]