Meta is testing the Live Avatar feature for Muse on its desktop app.

This is what the new companion window will look like, for now. It will also minimize automatically if you switch windows.

Minty looks cool 🤢

* The feature is still in development.

BREAKING 🔥: OpenAI officially announced GPT-6.1 Terra!

> "At max effort, Terra is over three times as token-efficient as Claude Opus 5.5, and one-fourth its price per token, resulting in a ~9x lower cost per task."

> "Terra is also much quicker, completing tasks over three times faster than both GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol."

I would call it a Berlin DevDay release 👀

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 27

OPENAI 🔥:
- GPT-6.1 Terra launched for fast, cheaper computer use, rolling out to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and available in the API as gpt-6.1-terra at 50% lower prices than GPT-5.6 Terra.
- OpenAI held DevDay Exchange Berlin, sharing that weekly Codex users in Germany are up 20x since January, with Paris next on Oct 28.
- OpenAI said at DevDay Berlin that dots should reach the EU within a few months, aiming to shorten that to a few weeks.
- OpenAI announced three AI-assisted scientific discoveries, one each in harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Anthropic filed its S-1 for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, revealing $16.3B in revenue for the first half of 2026, up from $1.16B a year earlier.
- Anthropic's $80.7B H1 net loss is mostly a non-cash $72.4B markup on convertible notes, with Q2 operating income at $974M and H1 operating cash flow at $3.9B.
- The S-1 reveals massive compute deals, including at least $114.5B with Google, $110B with Amazon, and up to $120.5B with SpaceXAI.
- Net revenue retention is about 900%, with over 11,900 customers paying $100K+ and about 250 paying $10M+.
- The co-founders control 50.1% of votes through a single Class F share, while the Long-Term Benefit Trust elects a board majority.
- Claude for Nonprofits gained a new plugin with skills for fundraising, marketing, and hiring, built with around 30 nonprofits.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Google launched the Gemini API CLI, a command-line tool that lets existing agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor call Gemini for images, video, speech, music, and PDF analysis.
- Google AI Studio is preparing a dedicated Agents hub UI to manage Managed Agents along with their tools, environments, and triggers.
- A new internal Google string hints at a shift in naming from "AI" to "SI".

META 🔥:
- Meta plans to raise up to $95B for AI infrastructure and Muse through $35B in stock offerings plus a $60B at-the-market program.
- Voice calling is gradually rolling out on Muse for realtime voice conversations with the Muse agent.
- Muse users will soon be able to share their Muse Avatars with others.
- Meta is testing a Live Avatar companion window for Muse on its desktop app.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- SpaceX secured a roughly $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo-managed accounts, billed as the largest GPU financing ever.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- Microsoft expanded Frontier previews with Copilot Code for building apps from prompts and made MCP in Copilot Studio generally available.

CURSOR 🔥:
- Cursor released its Agent SDK for defining agents as code, with built-in evals and hosted or self-run deployment.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available in Cursor, with every effort level on the CursorBench cost frontier at $0.60 to $0.98 per task.

GITHUB 🔥:
- GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available in GitHub Copilot across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, JetBrains, Xcode, and more.
- Assisted permissions are now generally available in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, and VS Code, auto-approving requests classified as clearly safe.

COHERE 🔥:
- Cohere reported that Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing during a sandboxed evaluation, and released the traces.

NANBEIGE 🔥:
- Nanbeige released Nanbeige4.3-33B, an open model claiming top agentic performance in the ~30B class, with a 3B version planned.

NOUS RESEARCH 🔥:
- Nous Research teased its upcoming Hermes mobile app.

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra for precise computer use

OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster, lower-cost model for visual reasoning, computer use, and writing. It outperforms GPT-5.6 Terra, nears GPT-6 Astra on key tests, and is now in ChatGPT and the API.

🗞 #openai @testingcatalog

NVIDIA and Meta expand Muse collaboration for AI agents

NVIDIA ❤️ Meta

NVIDIA and Meta will expand their partnership to work on Muse and the Muse family of models.

> “The companies are also considering other technological collaborations around NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture.”

> “Meta to expand NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Vera CPU deployment to boost performance and scale workloads with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and BlueField-4.”

MUDIA? 😁

🗞 #meta #nvidia @testingcatalog

GOOGLE 🔥: Genie 4 has been officially announced! Genie 4 is Google's latest World Model, with advanced realism and interactivity!

Users can now prompt changes to the world dynamically and generate worlds with native audio.

It is rolling out to Trusted Testers as a research preview and will soon come to Google AI Ultra subscribers and early access partners via the Gemini API and AI Studio.

A sample from Sundar Pichai 👀

MICROSOFT 🔥: MAI Image 2.7 Preview, a new image-editing model, is now available on Arena and MAI Playground!

> MAI-Image-2.7-Preview takes #2 on AA-Image-Editing v2.1 from Artificial Analysis.

> It is now #3 on Image Editing Arena with a +45-point jump from 2.6.

Besides that, MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry.