All of AI's New Models and Tools
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
While much of the week's discourse centered on models we can't use yet, the rest of the AI industry shipped a ton. Meta reenters the frontier race with Muse Spark, Z.AI open sources a model rivaling the US leaders, Anthropic launches managed agents, and Google quietly drops one of its most useful Gemini updates yet. In the headlines: Perplexity's revenue doubling, GitHub straining under agentic coding, and Anthropic's latest setback in its Pentagon legal battle.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, all of AI's new models and tools, and before that in the headlines, one model that you're not getting apparently is OpenAI's forthcoming spud. |
| 0:10.0 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
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| 1:07.8 | experiences like Enterprise Claw, which is basically the enterprise-grade version of Arc Free Claw Camp that's supported and led by Newfark-Gaspar. |
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| 1:18.3 | enterpriseclaw.a.i. |
| 1:21.5 | OpenAI obviously could not let Anthropic have all the fun when it comes to models |
| 1:25.9 | too powerful to release to the general public. |
| 1:28.3 | On Thursday morning, Axios reported that OpenAI also plans a staggered rollout of their new model |
| 1:33.4 | because, once again, of the cybersecurity risk. Now, this is just from one source, but it isn't all |
| 1:38.6 | that surprising to see. Certainly, it doesn't seem to be surprising the denizens of AI Twitter, |
| 1:42.9 | and some think that this is a forced response to Anthropic. writes Daniel Mack, breaking, open AI will not release Spud. The information reported just a few weeks ago that it was set to be released, quote, in a few weeks. Greg Brockman talked about it on the big technology podcast. Dario forced their hand, total anthropic victory. Leo synthwave D.D. simply says, lull. |
| 2:03.8 | Dax from OpenCode writes, |
| 2:05.3 | This was already a thing since at least GPT 5.3, |
| 2:08.4 | but now we have to suffer a cycle of confusing mystery and go through this hole. |
| 2:11.6 | Well, it was BS last time, but maybe this time is different. |
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