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Alibaba has released Qwen3.7 Max, the flagship model in its Qwen3.7 series, featuring a 1 million token context window. The text-only model is designed for agent-centric workloads with strengths in coding, office productivity, and long-horizon autonomous execution, and includes explicit prompt caching support.

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash today with 4x faster output token generation than competing frontier models while surpassing Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks. The company announced Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month and introduced Gemini Omni, a new multimodal series that outputs video.

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash, positioning it as an agent-first model designed for autonomous coding and multi-hour workflows. The company claims the model outperforms its 3.1 Pro predecessor on coding and agentic benchmarks while running 4x faster than competing frontier models, with an optimized version achieving 12x speed gains.

IBM Research has launched the Open Agent Leaderboard, the first open benchmark that evaluates complete AI agent systems rather than just underlying models. The leaderboard reveals that agents using identical models can achieve significantly different success rates and costs depending on system architecture, with failed runs costing 20-54% more than successful ones.

Anthropic has released three new capabilities for Claude Managed Agents: dreaming (research preview) for pattern recognition and self-improvement, outcomes for defining success criteria with automated evaluation, and multiagent orchestration for delegating tasks to specialist agents.

Amazon Web Services has released agent-guided workflows in SageMaker AI that use AI coding agents to automate model customization. The feature includes nine pre-built skills covering use case definition, data preparation, fine-tuning technique selection (SFT, DPO, RLVR), evaluation, and deployment to Amazon Bedrock or SageMaker endpoints.

Tencent has released Hy3-preview, a 295-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 21 billion active parameters and a 256K context window. The model scores 76.28% on MATH and 34.86% on LiveCodeBench-v6, with particularly strong performance on coding agent tasks.

OpenAI announced major updates to Codex, its automated coding tool, adding background desktop control that lets it operate apps and click through interfaces while users continue working. The update includes 111 plugin integrations and matches capabilities Anthropic released for Claude Code last month.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, the latest version of its flagship Opus family designed for long-running, asynchronous agent tasks. The model features a 1 million token context window and costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

OpenAI has updated its Agents SDK with sandboxing capabilities that allow AI agents to operate in controlled environments, plus an in-distribution harness for frontier model deployment. The features launch initially in Python, with TypeScript support planned.

Amazon has introduced stateful MCP client capabilities on Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, enabling agents to pause mid-execution for user input, request LLM-generated content, and stream real-time progress updates. The update transforms one-way tool execution into bidirectional conversations between MCP servers and clients, supporting interactive workflows previously impossible with stateless implementations.

OpenAI is developing a unified desktop application that combines ChatGPT, its browser, and Codex code generator into a single product. The move is intended to streamline user experience and focus resources on one integrated platform, with emphasis on agentic AI capabilities that can autonomously handle tasks like software development and data analysis.

OpenAI Codex subagents reached general availability after weeks of preview, enabling developers to define custom agents as TOML files and parallelize task execution. The feature mirrors Claude Code's implementation with default subagents for exploration, worker, and default operations.