Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
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Sep 5
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot.
Sep 4
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful.
Sep 3
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber. The former targets long-horizon coding and autonomous agents, priced like 3.7 Flash at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.
Aug 25
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
Multiverse Computing published a paper proposing Quantization-Aware Healing (QAH). After compressing GPT-OSS 120B to 60B parameters and quantising it to MXFP4, the method distils directly from the original uncompressed model rather than a reconstructed bfloat16 checkpoint.
Aug 14
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.7 Flash, positioning it as its strongest workhorse model for coding and agents, just three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Jul 27
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up
Jul 1
ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration
Hugging Face released ScarfBench (Self-Contained Application Refactoring Benchmark) to evaluate AI agents migrating enterprise Java applications between Spring, Jakarta EE and Quarkus.
Jun 15
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
The UK AISI alignment team and Timaeus co-founded nonprofit Sequent, arguing alignment research is unprepared for superintelligence. It plans 40–80 full-time staff within two to three years and initial fundraising of $100–150 million.
May 28
AI Now Summit 2026
Innovations for global enterprises solving the world’s hardest problems.
Vibe gets to work.
The unified agent for long-horizon productivity and coding, launching with Work and Code modes. Plus, a new Vibe VS Code extension.
May 22
Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.
Introducing Mistral Medium 3.5, remote coding agents in Vibe, plus new Work mode in Le Chat for complex tasks.
May 16
Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.
May 6
AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields
Explore how AlphaEvolve's Gemini-powered algorithms are driving impact across business, infrastructure, and science.
May 4
Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement
Mar 17
Leanstral: Open-Source foundation for trustworthy vibe-coding
Mistral AI released Leanstral, the first open-source coding agent for Lean 4, using a sparse architecture with 6B active parameters. Its weights are available under Apache 2.0, and it is integrated into Mistral vibe and the free labs-leanstral-2603 API endpoint.
Mar 11
Rails testing on autopilot: Building an agent that writes what developers won't
Mistral built an autonomous agent on its open-source coding assistant Vibe to read Rails source files, generate or improve RSpec tests and run within CI/CD without human intervention.
Jan 28
Terminally online Mistral Vibe.
Mistral released the terminal coding agent Mistral Vibe 2.0, powered by the Devstral 2 model family, adding custom subagents, multiple-choice clarifications, slash-command skills, unified agent modes and automatic updates.
Dec 9
Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI.
Mistral AI released the next-generation Devstral 2 coding family, including 123B Devstral 2 under a modified MIT licence and 24B Devstral Small 2 under Apache 2.0, both open-source.
Jul 30
Announcing Codestral 25.08 and the Complete Mistral Coding Stack for Enterprise
Mistral AI released Codestral 25.08 and a complete enterprise coding stack comprising Codestral, Codestral Embed, Devstral and the Mistral Code IDE plugin.
Jul 11
Upgrading agentic coding capabilities with the new Devstral models
Mistral AI partnered with All Hands AI to release Devstral Medium and upgrade Devstral Small 1.1.
Jun 4
Introducing Mistral Code
Mistral released Mistral Code, an AI coding assistant combining Codestral, Codestral Embed, Devstral and Mistral Medium. It supports cloud, dedicated-capacity and local air-gapped GPU deployment, keeping code within enterprise boundaries.
May 28
Codestral Embed
Mistral AI released its first code-focused embedding model, Codestral Embed, outperforming Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI's large embedding model on real-world code retrieval.
May 21
Devstral
Mistral AI and All Hands AI jointly released Devstral, an agentic LLM for software engineering tasks, open-source under Apache 2.0.