AI daily brief, Oct 9: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google ship updates
A roundup of the day's updates: GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast reaches the API and Codex, Claude Dashboards and Motion enter beta, and Gemini Enterprise gains a universal agent.
DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 9 OPENAI 🔥: * GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is rolling out in the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work, running up to 8x faster than Sol Standard at $12/$60 per million tokens. * Steering in Codex is now instant, so you can correct a running task in real time, on day four of the 28-day pledge. * OpenAI's Node SDK 7.31.0 adds API support for prewarmed hosted environments. ANTHROPIC 🔥: * Claude Dashboards is in beta on paid plans, building live dashboards from data platforms like BigQuery and Snowflake or from CRMs like Salesforce. * Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, turning reports and charts into short animations written as code. * Claude Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free. * Anthropic launched OSS Scanner, which gives opt-in open-source projects free, regular security scans by its strongest models. * Anthropic updated its usage policy for the first time in over a year, including a ban on sustained abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude. GOOGLE 🔥: * Google Cloud launched the Gemini agent in Gemini Enterprise, a "universal agent for work" that runs inside Workspace apps, on your devices and in tools like Slack. * Google renamed its in-development Antigravity voice agent from Concierge to "Chief of Staff" in the latest test build, still not released. STEPFUN 🔥: * StepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter MoE model with 27B active parameters built for agentic work, is now on OpenRouter. SPACEXAI 🔥: * SpaceXAI is donating $1.5 million in Grok tokens to the Omarchy Linux project as a founding patron of its foundation. JETBRAINS 🔥: * JetBrains released Mellum2.1, an open 12B MoE coding model for agents under Apache 2.0. HUGGING FACE 🔥: * Hugging Face released Carbon-A, a 1.2B-parameter gene-finding model, along with a database of 566 million predicted genes. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.
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