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ANTHROPIC ® INTRODUCING OPUS 4.8 LEAK FORBIDDEN-STRINGS FILE · NPM SOURCE MAP · MARCH 31, 2026 BITSMINDS Source: WaveSpeed AI · decodethefuture.org
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Anthropic's Leaked Forbidden-Strings File Names Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.8 and a New Tier Above Opus Called Capybara

Inside the 512K-line Claude Code source map that npm shipped on March 31 was a feature literally called Undercover Mode — and inside Undercover Mode was a hard-coded list of names it was supposed to scrub from public builds. That list spells out Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.8, a never-released Sonnet 4.7 and animal codenames Capybara and Tengu — with Capybara described internally as a new tier sitting above Opus.

WaveSpeed AI / ChaoBro / AI Nexus Daily

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Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max Lands With a 1M-Token Context, AA Index 56.6, and a 35-Hour Agent Run
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Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max Lands With a 1M-Token Context, AA Index 56.6, and a 35-Hour Agent Run

Qwen3.7-Max-Preview ships with a 1M-token context, extended-thinking mode, and benchmark gains across CritPt, Humanity's Last Exam, and Terminal-Bench Hard — clearing Gemini 3.5 Flash on the AA Intelligence Index.

Qwen (Alibaba Cloud)

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Google's Gemini 'Omni' Video Model Leaks Days Before I/O 2026, Pointing to a Unified Multimodal System
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Google's Gemini 'Omni' Video Model Leaks Days Before I/O 2026, Pointing to a Unified Multimodal System

Test UI strings inside Gemini reveal a new Google video model that lets users remix and edit clips directly in chat, with a likely debut at I/O 2026 on May 19-20.

9to5Google

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Unveils TML-Interaction-Small, a Full-Duplex Voice Model That Beats GPT and Gemini
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Unveils TML-Interaction-Small, a Full-Duplex Voice Model That Beats GPT and Gemini

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released a research preview of TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B mixture-of-experts model that responds in under 0.4 seconds and listens while it speaks — outpacing GPT-realtime-2 and Gemini 3.1 Flash Live on the FD-bench latency test.

TechCrunch

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OpenAI Ships GPT-Realtime-2, Translate, and Whisper, Bringing GPT-5 Reasoning Into Voice Apps
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OpenAI Ships GPT-Realtime-2, Translate, and Whisper, Bringing GPT-5 Reasoning Into Voice Apps

OpenAI rolled out three new voice models on May 7 — a reasoning agent with a 128K context window, a 70-language live translator at $0.034 a minute, and a streaming Whisper that transcribes as you speak.

OpenAI

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Google Ships Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite to GA at $0.25 per Million Input Tokens
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Google Ships Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite to GA at $0.25 per Million Input Tokens

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available on Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, pitched as the cheapest, fastest member of the Gemini 3 family for high-volume agentic, classification, and tool-use workloads.

Google Cloud Blog

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Mistral Medium 3.5 Lands With Cloud Coding Agents and 77.6% on SWE-Bench
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Mistral Medium 3.5 Lands With Cloud Coding Agents and 77.6% on SWE-Bench

Mistral fuses chat, reasoning, and coding into a single 128B dense model and pairs it with Vibe — async cloud-based coding agents that hand back work as pull requests instead of terminal output.

Mistral AI

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DeepSeek V4 Preview Closes Gap With Frontier Models at a Fraction of the Price
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DeepSeek V4 Preview Closes Gap With Frontier Models at a Fraction of the Price

Chinese lab DeepSeek released two open-weight V4 preview models with 1M-token context windows, matching closed-source rivals on reasoning while undercutting them on price.

TechCrunch

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NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Open Multimodal Model with 9x Throughput
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NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Open Multimodal Model with 9x Throughput

NVIDIA's new 30B-A3B mixture-of-experts model unifies vision, audio, and language into a single open system, delivering up to nine times the throughput of comparable open omni models for AI agents.

NVIDIA Blog

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5: Smarter, Faster, and Built for Agentic Work
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5: Smarter, Faster, and Built for Agentic Work

OpenAI's GPT-5.5, codenamed "Spud," brings 82.7% Terminal-Bench 2.0 performance and autonomous multi-step task execution — a step toward OpenAI's unified AI super app.

TechCrunch

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DeepSeek Releases V4: Open-Source Frontier Model at a Fraction of the Price
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DeepSeek Releases V4: Open-Source Frontier Model at a Fraction of the Price

DeepSeek's V4-Pro and V4-Flash arrive with 1.6 trillion parameters, a 1M-token context window, and Apache 2.0 licensing — matching near-frontier performance at 21x less cost than Claude Opus 4.7.

Simon Willison

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Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro: Tops ARC-AGI-2 Benchmark with 2M Token Context and Agentic Coding
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Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro: Tops ARC-AGI-2 Benchmark with 2M Token Context and Agentic Coding

Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro hits a verified 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark — more than double its predecessor — and arrives with a 2-million-token context window, multi-step agentic coding, and support across Gemini API, Vertex AI, and NotebookLM.

Google

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Meta Launches Muse Spark: Multimodal AI with Parallel Agents, Health Insights, and Shopping Intelligence
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Meta Launches Muse Spark: Multimodal AI with Parallel Agents, Health Insights, and Shopping Intelligence

Meta Superintelligence Labs unveils Muse Spark, a fast multimodal model that deploys parallel AI subagents, analyzes medical images, generates functional websites, and surfaces social-powered shopping recommendations.

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xAI Launches Grok 4.3 Beta: Native Video Input, Document Generation, and Desktop Automation
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xAI Launches Grok 4.3 Beta: Native Video Input, Document Generation, and Desktop Automation

xAI has launched Grok 4.3 in beta with native video processing, PDF and spreadsheet generation, and tighter Grok Computer integration — behind a $300/month SuperGrok Heavy paywall ahead of a broader May rollout.

TechSifted

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.6: Open-Source Giant with 1T Parameters and 300-Agent Swarms
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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.6: Open-Source Giant with 1T Parameters and 300-Agent Swarms

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model capable of coordinating 300 parallel sub-agents across 4,000 steps — available on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT License.

MarkTechPost

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Google Gemma 4: Open Models That Outperform Systems 20x Their Size
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Google Gemma 4: Open Models That Outperform Systems 20x Their Size

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 on April 2, a family of four open-weight multimodal models under Apache 2.0 that bring frontier-level reasoning and agentic capabilities to phones, edge devices, and developer environments.

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5: The First 10-Trillion-Parameter AI Model
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Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5: The First 10-Trillion-Parameter AI Model

Anthropic has revealed Claude Mythos 5, the first publicly acknowledged 10-trillion-parameter AI model, engineered for cybersecurity, advanced coding, and deep academic reasoning — but not yet available to the public.

Anthropic / AI Analytics Diaries

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Microsoft Launches Three MAI Models to Rival OpenAI and Google in Speech, Voice, and Image
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Microsoft Launches Three MAI Models to Rival OpenAI and Google in Speech, Voice, and Image

Microsoft unveils MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 through its Foundry platform, marking the company's boldest push yet to build AI infrastructure independent of its OpenAI partnership.

TechCrunch

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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 With Major Coding and Vision Upgrades
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 With Major Coding and Vision Upgrades

Claude Opus 4.7 is now generally available, bringing a 13% coding benchmark improvement, 3x higher image resolution support, and a new xhigh effort setting -- at the same price as Opus 4.6.

Anthropic

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NVIDIA Launches Ising: Open AI Models to Supercharge Quantum Computing
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NVIDIA Launches Ising: Open AI Models to Supercharge Quantum Computing

NVIDIA unveils Ising, the world's first family of open-source AI models built to accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computing through AI-powered calibration and error correction.

NVIDIA Newsroom

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OpenAI Launches GPT-6: 40% Capability Jump, 2M Token Context, and Super-App Integration
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6: 40% Capability Jump, 2M Token Context, and Super-App Integration

OpenAI releases GPT-6 with a 40% performance leap, a 2 million token context window, and a unified super-app merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser into a single agent experience.

OpenAI

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Google Gemini 3.1 Ultra Breaks Reasoning Records with 94.3% on GPQA Diamond
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Google Gemini 3.1 Ultra Breaks Reasoning Records with 94.3% on GPQA Diamond

Google's flagship Gemini 3.1 Ultra achieves a verified 94.3% on GPQA Diamond and 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, setting new state-of-the-art benchmarks for complex scientific and logical reasoning.

Google DeepMind

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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano: Purpose-Built for the Subagent Era
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano: Purpose-Built for the Subagent Era

OpenAI's new small models are designed to function as parallel subagents inside larger AI workflows — fast, cheap, and capable enough to handle the bulk of agentic work.

OpenAI

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NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3: Nano, Super, and Ultra Open Models for Agentic AI
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NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3: Nano, Super, and Ultra Open Models for Agentic AI

NVIDIA debuted the Nemotron 3 family at GTC 2026, releasing Nano immediately and previewing Super (49B) and Ultra (253B) variants, along with three trillion tokens of pre-training data.

NVIDIA Newsroom

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Meta Releases Llama 5: Open-Source 600B Model Claims Frontier Dominance
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Meta Releases Llama 5: Open-Source 600B Model Claims Frontier Dominance

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Llama 5, a 600-billion-parameter open-weight model trained on 500,000 Blackwell GPUs that Meta says outperforms GPT-5 and Gemini on key benchmarks.

FinancialContent / Meta AI

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Google Releases Gemma 4: Open Models That Outperform Rivals 20x Their Size
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Google Releases Gemma 4: Open Models That Outperform Rivals 20x Their Size

Google launches Gemma 4, a family of open models ranging from 2B to 31B parameters that deliver unprecedented intelligence-per-parameter, outperforming models 20 times their size on key benchmarks.

Google Blog

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Meta Unveils Muse Spark: First AI Model from $14B Superintelligence Labs
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Meta Unveils Muse Spark: First AI Model from $14B Superintelligence Labs

Meta debuts Muse Spark, a proprietary multimodal model built by Alexandr Wang's elite superintelligence team, marking a dramatic shift away from the company's open-source Llama strategy.

TechCrunch

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5: A 10-Trillion-Parameter Step Change in AI Capability
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Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5: A 10-Trillion-Parameter Step Change in AI Capability

Anthropic has begun limited enterprise testing of Claude Mythos 5, a 10-trillion-parameter model that the company calls a 'step change' in AI performance, excelling at cybersecurity, complex coding, and academic reasoning.

Fortune

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Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with Massive 2 Million Token Context Window
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Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with Massive 2 Million Token Context Window

Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro sets a new industry benchmark with a 2 million token context window and 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, enabling AI to reason over entire codebases and lengthy documents in one pass.

MarkTechPost

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Google Gemini 2.0: The Model That Unifies Everything
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Google Gemini 2.0: The Model That Unifies Everything

Google unveils Gemini 2.0 with advanced multimodal capabilities and deep integration across all Google services.

Google AI Blog

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Anthropic Releases Claude 4: Deeper AI Understanding
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Anthropic Releases Claude 4: Deeper AI Understanding

Anthropic launches Claude 4 with dramatic improvements in text comprehension, coding, and mathematical reasoning.

Anthropic

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5: The Next Generation of AI
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5: The Next Generation of AI

OpenAI has announced GPT-5, its most advanced model yet, with enhanced reasoning capabilities and multimodal features.

OpenAI Blog

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