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AI Week in Review 26. 07. 04

5+ hour, 11+ min ago  (711+ words) Anthropic's advice for using the powerful but expensive Fable 5 is to reserve the model for high-stakes, long-context judgment tasks rather than brute-forcing small operations. Define high-level outcomes rather than micro-managing step-by-step instructions and save reusable context via Markdown files. Anthropic…...

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AI Week in Review 26. 04. 25

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (940+ words) Open AI released GPT-5. 5 and the even more powerful GPT-5. 5 Pro, their most capable frontier models yet. The flagship GPT-5. 5 and GPT-5. 5 Pro, called the "Spud" model internally during training, take long-horizon agentic AI to new heights, with improvements in…...

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AI Week in Review 26. 04. 04

3+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (594+ words) The permissive Apache 2. 0 license for Gemma4 eliminates licensing friction for enterprises, and the high performance of the 26 B and 31 B models for their size make them highly cost'effective and useful AI models for local use. These AI models are exciting because…...

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AI Week in Review 25. 02. 21

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (621+ words) Claude Sonnet 4. 6 is available on all Claude plans, including free tier, while API costs $3 / $15 per million input/output tokens. Gemini 3. 1 Pro has improved adjustable reasoning with three levels of reasoning modes. Gemini 3 "Deep Think" model released recently was already using…...

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AI Week in Review 26. 02. 14

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1350+ words) Overall, GLM-5 is a high-performing open-weights competitor to commercial frontier models, built for agentic AI tasks such as AI coding. Access is via their chat interface, APIs such as on Open Router, and open weights on Hugging Face. The model…...

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AI Week in Review 26. 01. 31

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1084+ words) Open Claw is your personal computer AI assistant and a viral sensation with 115 K Git Hub stars! The open-source AI assistant named Clawdbot that runs 24/7 on your own computer became a viral sensation in recent weeks as users found it…...

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AI Week in Review 26. 01. 17

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1147+ words) Cowork is designed to make using Claude for new work as simple as possible. You don't need to keep manually providing context or converting Claude's outputs into the right format, nor do you have to wait for Claude to finish…...

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AI Week in Review 26. 01. 10

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1309+ words) Google announced an AI overhaul of Gmail powered by Gemini 3. This update infuses many AI features into Gmail: AI overviews that summarize long email threads; natural language questions and search; contextual AI-drafted suggested emails and replies; and an upcoming AI…...

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