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Tracking AI models, launches, and industry shifts across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and beyond. Independent coverage.

Lahore, Pakistan
Joined June 2019
BREAKING: Google launches Gemini Decision 1. A new AI model built to make decisions instead of generating text. • Up to 1,000 questions per request • Text, images, audio, video & PDFs • $0.10 per 1M input tokens • No output-token charges AI is moving beyond chat. #Gemini #GoogleAI #AIart
Today we’re launching the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our new Gemini Decision 1 model in @GoogleAIStudio. Instead of generating text token by token, it’s built for closed-set choices scoring up to 1,000 questions across text, images, audio, video + PDFs in a single pass. A few details: - 3 decision types: yes/no, multiple choice (up to 255 options) + rubric scoring - $0.10 / 1M input tokens with $0 billed for output tokens (~5x cheaper than Flash-Lite) - leads on several benchmark evals with lowest calibration error Google teams are already building with it, below is a look at Stitch Rapid designing a full product flow in seconds (1x speed)
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BREAKING: Grok Bot 1.0 has been announced. Grok is expanding beyond individual AI chats into team collaboration. According to @bot, AI teammates can be shared, work in Slack and Microsoft Teams, and join meetings. A significant step toward AI-powered workplaces. #GrokBot #Grok #xAI
Introducing Grok Bot 1.0. AI teammates that work alongside your whole team. Share Bots, collaborate with them in Slack and Teams, invite them to meetings, and watch them learn and become more helpful.
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Grok 4.8 is getting closer. Elon Musk says pretraining is complete and reinforcement learning is underway. A limited rollout to Grok Bot users is planned for this week—not a public launch. xAI also rebuilt its RL and inference stack in C/C++. #Grok #xAI #GrokBot
Replying to @cradrrat
We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time. Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes. Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.
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