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Claude 4 Opus Launches: 3× Gains in Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

Anthropic's newest flagship delivers unprecedented multi-step reasoning and native computer-use capabilities that outperform prior models by wide margins.

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Claude 4 Opus Launches: 3× Gains in Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
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A landmark paper from Stanford and FAIR shows agents that iteratively refine their own strategies via online experience close the gap to frontier models faster.

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xAI Open-Sources Grok-3-Base: 314B Parameter Model for the Community

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New Research: Self-Improving Agent Loops Outperform Static Training
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