🌀 Claude gains real-time web access
High school student creates AI benchmark using Minecraft
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Hey there, AI enthusiasts. The knowledge gap narrows as Claude AI can now search the internet for up-to-date information while maintaining conversational fluency.
When AI assistants can access and synthesize real-time information from across the web, we're witnessing the transition from static knowledge models to dynamic information companions.
In Today’s AI Daily:
- Anthropic enables web search for Claude
- OpenAI launches advanced audio models for developers
- Minecraft becomes innovative benchmark for testing AI
- Google adds Mind Maps to NotebookLM
- Microsoft brings shopping capabilities to Copilot
ANTHROPIC
🌐 Anthropic enables real-time web access for Claude
Image source: Anthropic / Screenshot
The AI Daily: Anthropic just added web search to its Claude AI assistant, so it can now look up real-time info from the internet to give better answers.
Key notes:
- Claude can now find up-to-date information online while still chatting like a helpful assistant.
- It shows sources for where it got the information, so users can double-check facts.
- Right now, the feature is only for paid users in the U.S.
- Claude reads the search results for you, so you don’t have to check different websites yourself.
- Anthropic says they’ll make it available to free users and more countries soon.
Why it matters: Most AIs can’t access new info after their training ends. Claude’s new web feature fixes that by letting it search the internet while still being easy to talk to. This makes it super helpful for people who need up-to-date facts—like students, researchers, or professionals—without switching between apps or tools.
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OPENAI
🔊 OpenAI launches advanced audio models for developers
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The AI Daily: OpenAI just released a suite of next-generation audio models in their API, featuring state-of-the-art speech-to-text capabilities and a more customizable text-to-speech system designed to power the next generation of voice agents.
Key notes:
- gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe are new models that turn speech into text with fewer mistakes, even in different languages
- The new gpt-4o-mini-tts model lets you tell the AI how to sound—like calm, excited, or friendly
- These models work well even when there’s background noise, strong accents, or fast talking
- OpenAI trained these tools using lots of real audio and new learning methods to make them better
Why it matters: Talking to AIs is becoming just as important as typing. These new tools help AIs sound more human and understand people more easily. That means better voice assistants for things like customer support, stories, or helping people with disabilities.
MC-BENCH
🧱 Minecraft becomes new testing ground for AI capabilities
Image source: MC-Bench / Screenshot
The AI Daily: A high school student has built a fun website called Minecraft Benchmark (MC-Bench), where people can test and compare how different AI models build things in Minecraft and vote on which performs better.
Key notes:
- The site lets users give AI models a text prompt, like “build a spaceship,” and then compares the different builds side by side.
- Voters don’t know which AI made which build until after they vote.
- Big tech companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are helping cover the costs of running it.
- Eight volunteers are helping improve the site and add new features.
Why it matters: Most AI tests are too complicated for everyday people to understand. But with MC-Bench, anyone can see how good an AI is just by looking at its Minecraft build. It’s a fun, simple way to learn about AI and compare what different models can do.
FAST TRACKS
🗞️ What Matters in AI Right Now?
Google enhanced NotebookLM with interactive Mind Maps feature, enabling users to visualize complex information in diagrams that simplify topics from legal studies to coding.
Microsoft added product shopping capabilities to Copilot, allowing users to request recommendations and set up price tracking alerts for desired items.
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Perplexity upgraded its Sonar models with three customizable search modes—High, Medium, and Low—delivering superior performance than competitors at lower costs according to benchmark testing.
Sakana AI introduced Sudoku-Bench, a new reasoning benchmark based on complex Sudoku puzzles developed in partnership with Cracking The Cryptic and Japanese puzzle company Nikoli.
Krea AI released Video Training for Wan 2.1, allowing users to train the model with their own videos and images to learn custom styles, motions, and objects.
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