DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Nov 3

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Anthropic's amended IPO filing shows $17B in Q3 revenue and $895B in compute commitments.
- Message threads are now in public beta on the Claude Messages API.

OPENAI 🔥:
- OpenAI raised bug bounties to up to $172K and teamed up with Cathedral Systems on a security sprint.
- OpenAI released LifeVal, a benchmark for everyday assistant tasks.
- Dots are expanding to GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Terra.
- Sam Altman says the model behind the Navier-Stokes result is the next GPT and is coming soon (via deredleritt3r).

GOOGLE 🔥:
- An early Gemini Live mode is showing up in Antigravity (via testingcatalog).
- The Antigravity app added a built-in side-panel browser and a PDF viewer.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok Bot can now make phone calls for you.
- Grok Bot is testing private bot sharing with specific users (via blankspeaker).
- Grok Bot is testing free usage resets for opting in to training data (via blankspeaker).

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-context, open-weight vision-language embedding models in 9B and 0.6B sizes.

TENCENT 🔥:
- Tencent launched Hyra 2.0, its upgraded Hunyuan Research Agent.

ALIBABA 🔥:
- Qianwen Go opened a free tier that gives each user a dedicated VM for agent tasks.

NVIDIA 🔥:
- NVIDIA open-sourced Auto Ontology, a semantic layer that grounds agent SQL queries.

FACTORY 🔥:
- Factory released Droid 1.0, a coding-agent harness that works with any model.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.