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In today's edition: Here's your essential roundup of the top 20 AI platforms, Perplexity's hybrid computing, and Microsoft's Build keynote on agents and qubits.👇
📊 Top 20 Artificial Intelligence Platforms for 2026
🖥️Perplexity Computer splits work between local and cloud
🔗Cognition unifies all your coding agents in one place
🤖 How to use the Minimax Agent
🤖 Microsoft Launched Scout-Personal Assistant
🌍 Anthropic is Expanding Claude Mythos to 15+ Countries
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Turn On Gemini Daily Brief
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Microsoft's tuned MAI models undercut GPT-5.4 and ease its OpenAI reliance. Microsoft launched seven MAI models, all trained from scratch with no distillation. One tuned version matched GPT-5.4 on Excel tasks at up to 10x lower cost. For the first time, you can run them on OpenRouter and tune the weights yourself.
AI agents now read your docs almost as much as humans do.
Mintlify analyzed 790 million requests across its documentation platform. The finding: AI coding agents account for 45.3% of all traffic, nearly tied with traditional browsers at 45.8%.
Two tools are driving almost all of it:
Claude Code: 25.2% of total traffic, more requests than Chrome on Windows
Cursor: 18% of total traffic
Together they account for 95.6% of all identified AI agent traffic
The rest of the field, OpenCode, Trae, ChatGPT, and NotebookLM, is showing up but nowhere close.
One caveat: OpenAI's Codex doesn't send an identifiable user-agent header, so the real agent percentage is likely even higher.
The takeaway for anyone maintaining developer docs: your documentation now serves two audiences. Structure and machine-readability matter as much as clarity for human readers.
In 2026 as new updates and improvements take over the field of AI, the ranking of these AI platforms will have to shift. We look at the 20 best artificial intelligence platforms for 2026, and why we think they deserve to be on the list.
Perplexity announced hybrid agentic inference for Perplexity Computer: the system can now split tasks between a local model running on your machine and frontier models in the cloud. Private data stays on-device, token efficiency goes up, and you stop sending everything through an API.
The agentic coding startup just shipped Devin Desktop, which brings every local and cloud agent into one Kanban board instead of leaving them scattered across tools. Thanks to the open Agent Client Protocol, developers can dispatch and review external agents like Codex and Claude Code alongside Devin, with context shared across sessions.
This tutorial teaches devs how to use the Minimax Agent desktop app for offline AI workflows. You’ll learn to process documents, create multimedia, build and deploy games, and connect custom MCP tools. It also covers how to automate local tasks using custom agents integrated with platforms like Telegram.
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Llama 2
The next generation of Meta's open source large language model. Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use.
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axe-api
The next-generation Rest API Framework.
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If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Microsoft is launching Scout, a new AI assistant designed to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Built on the OpenClaw framework, Scout is an always-on agentic assistant, designed to work alongside the user with a persistent identity and style.
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Martin Scorsese just went public as an adviser to AI image startup Black Forest Labs, with a new video detailing the Academy Award-winning director using the company’s FLUX model to help storyboard a new film. Scorsese signed on last year as a partner and adviser to Black Forest Labs, utilizing its FLUX AI image models for preproduction of a new film.
Microsoft just made a full-stack agentic AI push at Build 2026, releasing new models, its first always-on agent, a quantum chip, a platform for “agent-first” devices — positioning Windows and Microsoft 365 as the control layer for agents. Microsoft AI released seven new MAI in-house models spanning reasoning, coding, image, voice, and transcription, with access through Microsoft Foundry.
Codex builds these apps end to end, taking a single prompt and turning it into working software that runs on a URL of its own. From there it validates the build and returns a production link ready to share. Because every deployed link goes live straight away, Codex first saves a version you can review and approve.
Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, of which the all-powerful model Claude Mythos is at the heart of, to about 150 new organizations across more than 15 countries in an effort to find and fix critical software vulnerabilities using AI. The expanded list of orgs with access to Mythos now covers power, water, healthcare, comms, and hardware.
How do companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash apply machine learning to improve their products and processes? We put together a database of 200 case studies from 64 companies that share practical ML use cases and learnings from designing ML systems.️
AI Tutorial
How to Turn On Gemini Daily Brief
Go to https://gemini.google.com/app and sign in. (It works on mobile as well.)
To access the new feature, first open Settings, click "Personal Intelligence," and:
Connect Google Workspace to Gemini under "Connected Apps."
Turn on Memory.
Once that's done, go to gemini.google.com again and on the sidebar, click "Daily Brief."
Gemini will automatically generate personalized updates using information from Gmail, Google Calendar, and your Gemini chats.
Review sections like "Top of mind" for urgent updates and "Looking ahead" for longer-term tasks and goals.
You can chat about items, mark them complete, dismiss them, or check their source directly from the Daily Brief.
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