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Microsoft ships its first in-house code model to cut OpenAI bills
At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft released MAI-Code-1-Flash. The model accepts plain-language prompts and returns working source code for web and desktop apps. The move is meant to reduce Azure customers' dependence on OpenAI APIs and lower per-token spend.
⚡ Step 1: open Azure AI Studio at https://ai.azure.com and create a new project. Step 2: select...
Penn researchers fuse photons and excitons to slash AI power draw
University of Pennsylvania physicists created a hybrid light-matter quasiparticle called a polariton inside a microcavity containing a two-dimensional perovskite. When driven by a weak laser, the polariton lattice performed matrix multiplications at room temperature while consuming microwatts instead of the watts required by digital GPUs. The device ran a simple neural-network inference loop with 150 times lower energy per operation than an A100 GPU running the same workload.
⚡ Step 1: visit the lab's open repository at https://github.com/PennPolariton and clone the...
Anthropic Gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet the Ability to Move Your Mouse
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a computer use feature. The model receives screenshots and issues mouse and keyboard commands through an API loop. Users can automate desktop tasks in apps such as spreadsheets and web browsers without writing code.
⚡ Step 1: Sign up at console.anthropic.com and enable the computer use beta. Step 2: Send a prompt...
New Hardware Method Cuts AI Energy Demand One Hundred Fold
A research team introduced an analog in memory computing chip that performs matrix multiplications directly in memory cells. The design removes data movement between memory and processor, reducing energy per inference by a factor of 100 while maintaining or improving accuracy on image classification benchmarks.
⚡ Step 1: Visit the project page at eecs.umich.edu/analog-ai-chip and download the open source...
Anthropic Gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet Mouse and Keyboard Control
Anthropic released the computer use beta for Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model now moves the cursor, clicks buttons, types text, and navigates desktop applications through a screen capture and action loop. Users can assign tasks such as data entry or form filling without writing any code.
⚡ Step 1: Visit the Anthropic computer use waitlist at...
Meta Releases the 405 Billion Parameter Llama 3.1 Model for Free Download
Meta published the full weights of Llama 3.1 405B under an open license. Developers can now download the checkpoint and run inference on local GPUs or rented cloud instances at roughly one tenth the cost of comparable closed models. The release includes the 70B and 8B variants for lighter hardware.
⚡ Step 1: Go to https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/ and accept the license to receive the...
Claude Now Operates Your Computer Through Direct Screen Control
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with the Computer Use API. The model receives screenshots and issues mouse clicks, keystrokes, and cursor movements to complete tasks. Users can now automate form filling, spreadsheet edits, and website navigation without writing code.
⚡ Step 1: Visit https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use and enable the Computer...
Microsoft Ships Its Own Code-Generation Model to Cut OpenAI Bills
At the Build conference Microsoft introduced MAI-Code-1-Flash. The model accepts natural-language prompts and returns complete source code for web and desktop applications. Developers gain an internal alternative that bypasses per-token OpenAI charges.
⚡ Step 1: Log into Azure AI Studio and locate the MAI-Code-1-Flash deployment tile. Step 2: Paste...
Researchers slash AI power draw by two orders of magnitude while lifting accuracy
A team replaced standard matrix multiplications with a sparse, event-driven algorithm that activates only 1 percent of weights per inference. On ImageNet they measured 100 times lower joules per image and a 0.8-point accuracy gain over the dense baseline. The method was validated on both an NVIDIA A100 and an edge TPU.
⚡ Step 1: Clone the sparse-inference repo at https://github.com/eth-si/sparse-infer. Step 2: Run...
Mistral ships a 12-billion-parameter vision-language model that runs on a laptop GPU
Pixtral 12B combines a 12 B parameter language decoder with a 400-million-parameter vision encoder trained on 1.2 trillion image-text tokens. It fits in 24 GB VRAM at 4-bit precision and delivers 78.4 percent on DocVQA without any cloud calls.
⚡ Step 1: Install the mistral-inference package with pip install mistral-inference. Step 2:...
Anthropic Gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet Actual Mouse Control
Claude 3.5 Sonnet now controls your screen through a computer use API that moves the cursor, clicks buttons, and types text. The model processes screenshots at 1080p resolution and executes desktop actions without requiring custom scripts or RPA licenses. Users can chain these actions into multi-step workflows for tasks such as data entry or file organization.
⚡ Step 1: Visit console.anthropic.com and enable computer use in your project settings. Step 2:...
Meta Drops 405-Billion-Parameter Llama 3.1 With Full Commercial Rights
Meta released the full weights of Llama 3.1 405B under a commercial license that permits fine-tuning and redistribution. The model matches or exceeds GPT-4 on several benchmarks and runs on eight H100 GPUs with 80 GB each. Developers can download the weights from Hugging Face and deploy them on rented cloud instances for roughly $2 per hour.
⚡ Step 1: Go to huggingface.co/meta-llama and request access to the 405B weights. Step 2: Use the...
Anthropic Gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet Actual Computer Control
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with computer use. The model now moves the mouse, types on the keyboard, and executes tasks inside a live desktop environment. Users no longer need to write code to automate spreadsheet work or web research.
⚡ Step 1: Go to console.anthropic.com and enable the computer use beta for your account. Step 2:...
Mistral Releases 123 Billion Parameter Model as Open Weights
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2, a 123B parameter model available as open weights. Users can download and run the model locally without paying per-token API fees. The release removes data-sharing concerns that come with closed models.
⚡ Step 1: Visit huggingface.co/mistralai and locate the Mistral-Large-2407 weights. Step 2:...
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Edges Out GPT-4o on Code and Charts
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model scores higher than GPT-4o on HumanEval coding tests and can parse complex charts. It is free at claude.ai with higher rate limits for paid Pro users.
⚡ Step 1: Visit claude.ai and create a free account. Step 2: Paste your code or upload a chart...
Llama 3 8B Runs Entirely on Your Laptop or Phone
Meta open-sourced Llama 3 8B. Ollama packages it so the model installs and runs locally via a single terminal command with no cloud calls. Users gain offline chat, code completion, and document search.
⚡ Step 1: Install Ollama from ollama.com. Step 2: Open terminal and run 'ollama run llama3'. Step...
Anthropic Gives Claude Hands and Eyes on Your Desktop
Claude 3.5 Sonnet now accepts screenshots and outputs mouse clicks plus keystrokes through its computer use API. The model can open apps, fill forms, and navigate websites without custom scripts. Anthropic reports the feature works on standard macOS and Ubuntu desktops.
⚡ Step 1: Sign up for the Anthropic API at https://console.anthropic.com and request computer use...
Meta Hands Over a 405 Billion Parameter Model for Free
Meta released Llama 3.1 405B weights under an open license that allows commercial use. The model matches or exceeds GPT 4 Turbo on several MMLU and HumanEval benchmarks. Users can run it locally on eight H100 GPUs or rent time from providers such as Together AI.
⚡ Step 1: Visit https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and accept the license...
Anthropic Gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet a Mouse and Keyboard
The Computer Use API lets the model move a cursor, click, type, and run desktop software through screenshots and coordinate outputs. Developers call the API to execute full workflows such as form filling and multi-app sequences without hand-coding each click. The feature is live for all Claude 3.5 Sonnet users via the Anthropic SDK.
⚡ Step 1: Sign up at https://console.anthropic.com and generate an API key. Step 2: Install the...
Meta Drops a 405-Billion-Parameter Llama You Can Actually Run
Llama 3.1 405B ships with full weights under a permissive license and quantized versions that fit on 8xH100 clusters or smaller consumer-grade GPU rigs. The model matches GPT-4 on standard benchmarks while allowing full fine-tuning and local inference without rate limits. Meta published the weights and training report at ai.meta.com.
⚡ Step 1: Visit https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and accept the license to...