Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4 — tops SWE-bench, adds extended thinking
Posted 2026-05-23 · Review by 2026-07-23
Claude Opus 4 takes #1 on SWE-bench Verified. Extended thinking and parallel tool use make it the strongest coding agent model available.
Signal, not noise
The AI world, made legible.
Frontier
Full frontier →The live edge — what's cutting edge right now.
Claude Code
Anthropic
Powered by Opus 4.8 — SWE-bench Pro 69.2 %, Verified 88.6 %. Dynamic workflows with parallel subagents; fast mode 3x cheaper.
Claude Cowork
Anthropic
Desktop agent now with Claude for Small Business: 15 agentic workflows across finance, ops, sales, marketing, HR and CS. Opus 4.8 upgrades flow through.
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
SWE-bench Pro 69.2 %, Verified 88.6 %; dynamic workflows enable hundreds of parallel subagents. Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 at ~$965 B valuation.
Cursor
Cursor
Enterprise multi-team management GA; new pricing at $32–$96/seat/mo. SpaceX plans $60 B acquisition post-IPO (expected close July).
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Leads most published reasoning benchmarks and has the cheapest output among the majors; paired with Gemini Spark for long cloud tasks.
Granola
Granola
The bot-free favourite of VCs and consultants; captures audio locally on a Mac with no bot in the participant list.
The Landscape
All 16 debates →The forces shaping AI — ranked by Overall importance.
1 95 2 90 3 88
Bubble or supercycle?
Money & PhysicsIs the $800B+ of AI infrastructure a rational, telecom-style build-out — or a self-referential bubble inflating on its own balance sheets?
Jobs: white-collar bloodbath or augmentation?
Human StakesDoes AI eliminate knowledge work — especially entry-level — or expand it?
The ROI / productivity paradox
Money & PhysicsEveryone is buying AI; almost no one can prove it's working. Is the gap a measurement lag or a value mirage?
From The Wire
All dispatches →OpenAI deprecates Sora — exits the consumer video race
Posted 2026-04-26 · Review by 2026-09-26
Sora 2 is officially deprecated. The API shuts down 24 September 2026. OpenAI is refocusing on enterprise video tooling.
Apps
All 74 apps →The full, searchable list of every major AI application.
Claude Code
Anthropic
Powered by Opus 4.8 — SWE-bench Pro 69.2 %, Verified 88.6 %. Dynamic workflows with parallel subagents; fast mode 3x cheaper.
Claude Cowork
Anthropic
Desktop agent now with Claude for Small Business: 15 agentic workflows across finance, ops, sales, marketing, HR and CS. Opus 4.8 upgrades flow through.
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
SWE-bench Pro 69.2 %, Verified 88.6 %; dynamic workflows enable hundreds of parallel subagents. Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 at ~$965 B valuation.
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Leads most published reasoning benchmarks and has the cheapest output among the majors; paired with Gemini Spark for long cloud tasks.
HappyHorse
Alibaba
Currently tops the Artificial Analysis leaderboard.
Nano Banana Pro
Gemini 3 Pro Image; leads the image-arena leaderboard, with the best multilingual text rendering, free in the Gemini app.
Stacks
All 16 stacks →Tool combinations that work together — curated by profession and industry.
The Accountancy Stack
bookkeeping and advisory practices
automating the grunt work frees accountants for advisory — the higher-value seat.
The Consultants & Small Business Stack
generalists and lean teams
a small team can punch far above its weight — pick one strong generalist model and go deep, rather than spreading across many.
The Estate Agent Stack
estate and letting agents
the real wins are faster, more personal follow-up and listing copy that isn't boilerplate.
Learning
All learning →What to learn, and in what order — courses, programmes and concepts mapped to the competency you need.
Curated by Eric McLean