Agent Week: Claude Duet, Mercury 3, Flint, and the Offline Bet
About this episode
Claude Duet launches as a proactive cloud agent, Mercury 3 hits 1068 tokens per second, Flint is a coding model built by AI, Perplexity goes fully local on Mac, Beam open-weights at 501B, Glimpse rethinks visual reasoning, Kling 4.0 video goes global
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Anthropic Opens Claude Duet Research Preview to US Pro and Max Users | Unite.AI
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Recursive Launches Flint, a Laptop Coding Model It Says Was Largely Built by AI | TechCrunch
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Inception Launches Mercury 3, Setting a New Pareto Frontier in Speed and Intelligence | Yahoo Finance / Business Wire
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Claude on X (research preview announcement) | X (formerly Twitter)
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Perplexity's Computer can now run entirely on your Mac, even offline | 9to5Mac
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Perplexity Computer can run completely local on Mac, with a big caveat | Apple Insider
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Introducing Glimpse — Elorian
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Elorian's first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them | TechCrunch
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Introducing Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model — Reflection AI
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