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🤝In Partnership: Early access to emerging AI companies
🤿Deep Dive: A Chinese open model beat GPT-5.5 and costs way less
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🤿Deep Dive: Half the Fortune 500 now uses Microsoft's Copilot Cowork
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Chinese Startup Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 with Frontier-Level Coding Performance, and a 1M Token Context Window
Intelligence: Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753 billion parameter open-weights model under an MIT license that beats GPT-5.5 on several major coding and agentic benchmarks while costing a fraction of the price of Western proprietary models.
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The model ships with a stable one million token context window, selectable thinking modes for balancing performance and speed, and a new architectural trick called IndexShare that cuts compute requirements by 2.9x at maximum context length.
On SWE-bench Pro it scored 62.1, beating GPT-5.5 at 58.6, and it came within a hair of Claude Opus 4.8 on FrontierSWE, MCP-Atlas, and Humanity's Last Exam, while topping GPT-5.5 across the board on those same tests.
The MIT license is a big deal for enterprises. It means teams can download the weights freely, run the model on their own infrastructure, customize it however they want, and avoid vendor lock-in entirely, with no royalties or acceptable use restrictions.
Coding plans start at $12.60 a month and API pricing comes in at $5.80 per million tokens combined, putting it well below Claude Opus 4.8 at $30 and GPT-5.5 at $35, while matching near-frontier performance.
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Microsoft Officially Launches Copilot Cowork Worldwide After Three Months of Enterprise Preview
Intelligence: Microsoft officially launched Copilot Cowork globally, an agentic system inside Microsoft 365 that runs complex multi-step tasks end to end, with more than half the Fortune 500 already using it after three months in preview.
Cowork is built to return completed results, not just drafts. Real preview use cases include a team comparing 4,000 files across two product versions in a fraction of the time it would have taken manually, and a sales lead getting a ranked list of stalled deals with specific follow-up context in a single morning.
It currently runs on Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6, with GPT-5.5 available in Frontier, and a new purpose-built Cowork 1 model coming in the next few weeks designed to handle everyday tasks at significantly lower cost.
Billing is usage-based and denominated in Copilot Credits, priced at $0.01 each on pay-as-you-go, with spending controls at the tenant, group, and user level so admins can set budgets and alerts before costs run away.
Nine new partner plugins are live now including Miro, monday.com, Moodys, and S&P Global Energy, with Adobe, Atlassian, Canva, and Databricks coming soon alongside full Dynamics 365 integration.
Microsoft says Copilot Cowork runs 30 to 40% cheaper per prompt than Claude Cowork using the Microsoft 365 connector, positioning it as the more cost-efficient option for organizations already in the Microsoft ecosystem.
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🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
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