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Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack-native integration enabling asynchronous, teamwide delegation to Claude, positioning it as a "multiplayer, async, and proactive" workflow layer distinct from the solo, synchronous Claude Code. Internally, Claude Tag has been used to write and merge 65% of the product team's code and PRs. The feature is currently in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team plans, allowing admins to grant Claude access to selected channels, tools, data, and codebases within Slack. Product lead Cat Wu highlighted its flexibility with "100s of ways" to customize workflows, framing it as a team management tool rather than a simple AI assistant.
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chai-2 gemini-2.5-pro deepseek-r1-0528 meta scale-ai anthropic cloudflare grammarly superhuman chai-discovery atlassian notion slack commoncrawl hugging-face sakana-ai inference model-scaling collective-intelligence zero-shot-learning enterprise-deployment data-access science-funding open-source-llms alexandr_wang nat_friedman clementdelangue teortaxestex ylecun steph_palazzolo andersonbcdefg jeremyphoward reach_vb
Meta makes a major AI move by hiring Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer and acquiring a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion, doubling its valuation to about $28 billion. Chai Discovery announces Chai-2, a breakthrough model for zero-shot antibody discovery and optimization. The US government faces budget cuts threatening to eliminate a quarter million science research jobs by 2026. Data access restrictions intensify as companies like Atlassian, Notion, and Slack block web crawlers including Common Crawl, raising concerns about future public internet archives. Hugging Face shuts down HuggingChat after serving over a million users, marking a significant experiment in open-source LLMs. Sakana AI releases AB-MCTS, an inference-time scaling algorithm enabling multiple models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and DeepSeek-R1-0528 to cooperate and outperform individual models.
a calm before the storm
o1 o1-mini qwen2.5 gpt-4 llama-2-70b llama-7b anthropic openai alibaba microsoft blackrock groq aramco disney eth-zurich pudu-robotics slack long-context kv-cache-quantization diffusion-models reinforcement-learning robotics ai-integration multilinguality model-benchmarking model-performance model-optimization adcock_brett philschmid rohanpaul_ai jvnixon kateclarktweets sama
Anthropic is raising funds at a valuation up to $40 billion ahead of anticipated major releases. OpenAI launched new reasoning models o1 and o1-mini, with increased rate limits and a multilingual MMLU benchmark. Alibaba released the open-source Qwen2.5 model supporting 29+ languages, showing competitive performance to gpt-4 at lower cost. Microsoft and Blackrock plan to invest $30 billion in AI data centers, with Groq partnering with Aramco to build the world's largest AI inference center. Robotics advances include Disney Research and ETH Zurich's diffusion-based motion generation for robots and Pudu Robotics' semi-humanoid robot. Slack and Microsoft introduced AI-powered agents integrated into their platforms. Research highlights include long-context scaling for llama-2-70b using Dual Chunk Attention and KV cache quantization enabling 1 million token context on llama-7b models.