Chinese Firm Introduces Manus AI, a General Purpose AI Agent Said to Outperform OpenAI’s DeepResearch

Manus AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by the AI firm Monica, was introduced last week. China based 'The Butterfly Effect' is Monica's parent company, and called Manus a general AI agent that can handle a wide range of tasks of high complexity. After a video showcasing the capabilities of the AI agent was shared on social media platforms, Manus was ...
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Microsoft Said to Be Developing AI Reasoning Models to Compete With OpenAI

Microsoft is reportedly developing in-house AI reasoning models, known as MAI, to rival OpenAI, with plans to offer them to developers. These models, led by Mustafa Suleyman, perform nearly as well as OpenAI's and Anthropic's on key benchmarks. The company has also tested models from xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek as potential OpenAI alternatives for Copilot. Microsoft remai...
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Mistral Introduces New OCR API That Can Convert PDF Documents Into AI-Ready Format

Mistral introduced the Mistral Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is capable of analysing and processing PDF documents and converting it into an AI-ready text format such as Markdown or raw text file. The tool is capable of extracting data from PDFs to make them digestible for...
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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QwQ-32B Open-Source Reasoning Model, Said to Perform Similar to DeepSeek-R1

Alibaba’s Qwen Team, a division tasked with developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, released the QwQ-32B AI model on Wednesday. It is a reasoning model based on extended test time compute with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The developers claim that despite being smaller in size compared to the DeepSeek-R1, the model can match its performance based on bench...
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