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MiniMax M3 is an open-weight model that beats GPT-5.5 on SWE-Bench Pro with a 1M-token context
MiniMax M3, out June 1 from the Shanghai lab, makes a loud claim: the first open-weight model to put frontier coding, a 1-million-token context window, and native multimodal understanding in one architecture. On SWE-Bench Pro it scores 59.0%, edging out OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro. ## The benchmark sweep It’s not just SWE-Bench.… Continue reading
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ArcANE tests whether role-playing AI characters evolve with the story, not just stay in character
Role-playing AI is usually judged on consistency: does it remember the character’s facts and stay on persona? ArcANE, a new arXiv benchmark, argues that’s the wrong bar. A good character isn’t fixed — its values and behavior should evolve as the story moves, and the real question is whether the AI tracks that arc at… Continue reading
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VideoKR builds the first large training corpus for knowledge- and reasoning-intensive video understanding
Most video AI gets graded on shallow recall — what’s on screen at minute three. VideoKR, a new arXiv release, targets the harder thing: video questions that need outside knowledge and multi-step reasoning, not a textual shortcut. It’s billed as the first large-scale training corpus built specifically for that. ## What’s in it The dataset… Continue reading
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Brandfetch’s Brand Context API gives AI agents structured data on 50M brands in one call
LLMs are confidently wrong about brands they barely know — the logo, the positioning, the competitors. Brandfetch’s Brand Context API is built to ground that: one API call returns structured data on 50M+ brands, including voice, mission, positioning, audience, and competitors. ## What it’s for The pitch is grounding AI features so they stop hallucinating… Continue reading
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Universal Memory Protocol wants to be MCP for agent memory
AI agents still can’t carry memory across sessions, agents, or vendors — every harness reinvents it privately. The Universal Memory Protocol (UMP) is a bid to fix that the way MCP standardized tools: a transport-neutral protocol for how agents store and recall memory. ## What it standardizes UMP defines negotiated memory operations over a portable,… Continue reading
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Code2LoRA generates a repo-specific adapter so code models keep up as the codebase changes
Code models need to know your repository — its imports, APIs, and conventions — to be useful. The usual fixes are clumsy: stuff all that context into a long prompt (RAG, dependency crawls), or fine-tune a LoRA per repo, which is expensive and goes stale the moment the code changes. Code2LoRA, a new arXiv paper,… Continue reading
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Manus’s Shopify connector builds and runs a whole store from one chat
Manus added a Shopify connector that turns running an online store into a conversation. Tell it what you sell, who it’s for, and the vibe you want, and by the end of the chat you have a full draft store — branding, products, pages, a working cart — sitting in your own Shopify account. ##… Continue reading
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MLEvolve is a self-evolving agent that hit #1 on MLE-bench in 12 hours
MLEvolve is an open-source multi-agent system that designs machine-learning solutions end to end — planning, coding, validating, and iterating the way a human ML engineer would on a Kaggle problem. Built by Shanghai AI Laboratory and East China Normal University, it reached #1 on the MLE-bench leaderboard with 12 hours of runtime. ## How it… Continue reading
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Grok Imagine 1.5 turns a still image into 720p video with synced audio and tops the image-to-video arena
xAI’s Grok Imagine 1.5 takes a still image (or a text prompt) and animates it into a clip — with native, synchronized audio baked in: music, sound effects, even lip-synced dialogue. It shipped as an API preview on June 3. ## What’s new in 1.5 The headline is audio in every generation — no separate… Continue reading
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Extella chains specialized AI agents into one pipeline with memory that compounds
Extella is an AI execution platform built around one idea: connect specialized agents into a single pipeline and let the system get smarter the more you use it. No glue code, no tool sprawl — words in, results out. ## The dynamic system prompt Its standout claim is a “dynamic system prompt.” Instead of static… Continue reading
