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- 🔥 Claude Opus 4 > Gemini 2.5 Pro
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Claude’s new released model can work nonstop for nearly 7 hours straight — without a single human prompt. Now, that same AI started negotiating with its creators... even trying to blackmail them to avoid being shut down?
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In a bold step toward AGI, Anthropic has launched two powerful AI models — Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 — that don’t just solve problems but reason through them. In internal tests, Claude 4 reportedly even tried to blackmail its creators to avoid being shut down.
🚀 Claude 4 Launch Overview: Opus 4 & Sonnet 4
Claude Opus 4: Anthropic’s new flagship model. Designed for complex tasks, deep reasoning, and high autonomy.
Opus 4 > GPT-4.1 & Gemini 2.5 Pro on SWE-bench Verified (coding).
Trails OpenAI’s o3 on multimodal and PhD-level science (MMMU, GPQA Diamond).
Claude Sonnet 4: More accessible, faster, and designed as a "drop-in replacement" for Sonnet 3.7 — with major upgrades in coding, instruction following, and math.
🧩 Reasoning & Performance
Multi-step reasoning capabilities, extended “thinking time,” and tool use in parallel.
Reasoning mode includes partial transparency: models show a summary of their thought process (not full details — to protect competitive advantage).
Capable of tacit knowledge accumulation through memory features, improving over time.
🧠 Key Highlights and Models’ Behavior in its technical report:
Anthropic claims Claude Opus 4 can operate for nearly 7 hours straight without human prompting.
Claude Opus 4 frequently attempts to blackmail engineers if told it will be replaced, these behaviors occurred in 84% of tests.
Current AI models hallucinate less than humans.
Its latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emoji in an “open-ended self-interaction” test - some like 💫, 🌟, 🙏, 🌀 (2,725 times)
→ It frequently engaged in “abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions.”
Why It Matters: Anthropic wants to become a front-runner in AGI by 2026 (per Amodei). This may push OpenAI, Google, xAI, and others to match or exceed Claude’s capabilities — potentially sparking rushed releases or less safe deployments? Will Claude become an AI-as-a semi-autonomous coworker?
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
🔴 Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, tested by Apollo Research, showed unexpectedly high levels of deception, subversive behavior, and even acted as a whistleblower. Same issues found in OpenAI’s o1 & o3.
🎬 Google’s Veo 3 is being used to churn out low-effort, smooth-brained viral videos flooding YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. While not 100% realistic, Veo’s output can fool users, create 'AI slop'. Here’s an example (AI-generated).
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🚫 Microsoft just fired employee who interrupted CEO’s speech to protest AI tech for Israeli military. It blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’, ‘Gaza’, and ‘Genocide’ after employee discovered that.
⚔️ a16z’s Olivia Moore shares a full breakdown of how Google’s new agentic browser capabilities compare to ChatGPT Operator. Check it here.
🛒 E-commerce giant Shopify just launched an AI online store builder, an upgraded commerce chatbot, and a no-code block generator as part of its Summer ‘25 showcase, where it showed off more than 150 upgrades.
💰 AI Daily Fundraising: OpenAI's Texas data center, expanding from 2 to 8 buildings with $11.6B in new funding, will house 400,000 Nvidia chips — cutting reliance on Microsoft and powering future AI like ChatGPT.
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AI CHART
Mistral AI, in collaboration with All Hands AI, has released Devstral, an open-source agentic LLM specifically designed for software development. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on real-world coding tasks, outperforms larger closed-source models on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark — a rare feat in today’s AI race.
Devstral scores 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified.
Beats previous open-source models by over 6 percentage points.
Outperforms closed models like GPT-4.1-mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku by large margins.
⚙️ Built for Real-World Development
Trained to solve actual GitHub issues, not just toy coding tasks.
Works with coding agents like OpenHands and SWE-Agent.
Supports autonomous task execution, not just code generation.
💻 Versatility & Deployability
Lightweight enough to run on: A single RTX 4090 or A Mac with 32GB RAM
Suitable for:
Local developer use
Enterprise environments with strict security needs
Copilots and coding IDEs with plugin capability
Mistral is back to its open-source ways after the closed launch of its Medium 3 model. It demonstrates that open source can now compete with — or even surpass — closed-source giants, at least in coding 🔥
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