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We’re officially in AI acceleration mode. With GPT-5 looming, all three top AI labs have released major updates within hours of each other. Anthropic released Claude 4.1, beefing up as it tries to hold its ground in AI-assisted software engineering, a domain GPT-5 is likely about to challenge hard. Let’s unpack…

Today’s Summary:

• 🚀 Claude 4.1 boosts its coding powers

• 🎨 Flux.1 Krea rethinks photo AI aesthetics

• 📖 Google launches AI storybooks

• 🖼️ Alibaba unveils Qwen-Image AI

• 🏛️ AI revives ancient Roman texts

• 👀 Perplexity faces scraping backlash

• 🛠️ 2 new tools

TOP STORY

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1

The Summary: Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.1, an improved version of its flagship AI model focused on coding, research, and agentic tasks. It sets a new high score on SWE-bench (software engineering benchmark). The launch comes just ahead of GPT-5, setting the stage for a coding showdown.

Key details:

• Sets a new SWE-bench record at 74.5%, beating OpenAI’s o3 by 5.4 points

• Rakuten devs say Claude 4.1 can fix bugs deep in large codebases without breaking anything else

• Claude 4.1 refactors multi-file projects better than any previous version, according to GitHub test reports

• Anthropic applied ASL-3 safety classification to Claude 4.1

Why it matters: Claude currently leads in AI-assisted software development, and Anthropic is further refining its flagship model ahead of the imminent GPT-5 release, which is anticipated to be strong in coding. Anthropic said “substantially larger” Claude upgrades are just weeks away.

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FLUX.1 Krea sets new bar for open image models

The Summary: Black Forest Labs and Krea have released FLUX.1 Krea, an open-source image model built to generate more realistic, aesthetically rich images without the typical "AI look". It matches the best closed models in human evaluations and runs in local hardware on the existing 12B FLUX architecture.

Key details:

• Human evals show it competes with the best commercial models, while being fully open-source

• Rejects simplistic aesthetic scorers like LAION-Aesthetics, calling out their bias toward soft textures and overly bright imagery

• Early testers confirm better realism without overprompting, compared to standard Flux.1 Dev

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Create illustrated storybooks with Google Gemini

The Summary: Google Gemini now lets users generate fully illustrated 10-page storybooks with narration. It supports photos, personal files, and custom art style, turning bedtime ideas, drawings, or memories into shareable or printable books. The tool works in over 45 languages and is now live globally in the Gemini app.

Key details:

• Storybooks include generated art, text, and optional read-aloud audio in varied voices

• Users can upload photos, children’s drawings, or choose from art styles like crochet, pixel art, and claymation

• Each storybook is generated in under a minute, and can be downloaded or shared with a link

• Available worldwide across mobile and desktop Gemini apps

Why it matters: Google just handed every parent a creative superpower. Gemini storybooks can become personal artifacts built from kids’ own ideas, photos, and drawings as a co-creation with AI.

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QUICK NEWS

Quick news

• Perplexity accused of scraping websites blocking AI bots

• Alibaba launches Qwen-Image AI with state of the art text rendering

• AI predicts the past to restore ancient roman texts

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