Love seeing real-world agent benchmarks like this 👇 MiniMax-M3: $0.018 to spin up an inbox, write and send a business email end-to-end. The cheapest model on the board - and it finished the job. This is what efficient intelligence looks like. (Yes! We’re a frontier lab - we don't just build video and music models, we also train and open-source our frontier LLMs for you to use.)

On BuildBetter's own August benchmark, across one workspace with 6,018 calls and 8,533 support conversations, AOT returned 99% of the verified customer evidence, compared with about 11% for query-time search at a hundred passages per question. Book a demo 👀

How fast is the Claude Code plugin ecosystem actually growing? Plugin-touching commit activity grew 8.8x in the six months after the initial launch. Researchers studied 1,926 repositories hosting plugin marketplaces, covering 8,351 plugins across 2,018 marketplaces and 77,773 commits. These are maintained artifacts rather than write-once files. Feature commits run at 39.6% against 17.2% for conventional open source. Software engineering tasks account for 61.3% of all plugins, and Claude co-authors 34.9% of every commit in the dataset. Natural-language instruction files and their implementation scripts co-evolve at above-chance rates, and 78% of those co-changes are functionally coupled. Prose and code have become one versioned unit, a maintenance dependency with no analogue in traditional software. Paper: Chat with Paper:

$GOOGL LAUNCHES GEMINI 3.8 LIVE AND 3.8 LIVE EXTENDED THINKING Google introduced two new real-time voice models designed for conversational AI and agentic workflows. Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale and lower-cost deployment, while 3.8 Live Extended Thinking adds deeper multi-step reasoning while continuing to speak and narrate progress during longer tasks. Both models support near real-time visual understanding, automatic switching across 97 languages and background tool/API calls without interrupting the conversation. 3.8 Live Extended Thinking ranks #1# on Artificial Analysis’ Speech-to-Speech Quality Index at 82.6 and scored 68.6% on τ-Voice agentic task completion. Both are available through the Gemini Live API at $0.005/min for audio input and $0.018/min for audio output. Google is also partnering with Salesforce $CRM, Genspark and Lumeris, while broader integrations span platforms including LiveKit, Vercel, Agora and Pipecat.