a flaky MCP server costs you twice, once for the tool call that errors and again for the tokens your agent spends recovering from it.
we tested @merge_api against the native servers for Outlook, OneDrive and SharePoint to see how often that actually happens.
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Congrats on your connector launch, Arena!! Merge is honored to be powering your connectors.
yesterday, @merge_api signed on one of the top AI labs in the world, in the middle of one of the fastest AI buildouts out there.
so proud of the team.
@merge_api for Workforce is now live on the Microsoft Marketplace!
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Bullish on XAI, GrokBot and their connectors. Thanks for hosting us!!
Heading to Boston this Thursday for the Chief AI Officer Summit by the @AI_AInstitute!
I'll be giving a talk on how to build AI tools that employees actually want to use, so if you're going to be around, come say hi.
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Just onboarded one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world onto @merge_api.
We've made a lot of product bets over the past year, and it's incredible to see our team's hard work continue to pay off.
✨️
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Dots from @OpenAI can now use your company's approved tools through Merge for Workforce.
Same identity, access, and audit controls IT already set for every other agent, and they hold even after an employee closes the app.
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Next week, Oct 28th, @merge_api is teaming up with @FoundHerHouse and Harvard Undergraduate Women in Entrepreneurship for a fall happy hour at Russell House Tavern.
If you're around Boston, come say hi!
RSVP:
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Two frontier models a few points apart on the Intelligence Index can differ 7x in the tokens they burn per task.
GPT-6 Astra (@OpenAI) scores 52.7 and finishes an average Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task in 27K output tokens. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores 56.0 and uses 197K. GPT-6.1 Sol comes in at 38K, while Muse Spark 1.3, Gemini 4 Argon and MiMo-V2.6-Pro all land between 60K and 64K.
Output tokens are what you pay for. Sending simple requests to a leaner model is one of the easiest ways to cut inference spend, and Merge Gateway routes them for you.
Scores via week of Oct 5.
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The two top models on the Intelligence Index take about twice as long per task: Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 (@AnthropicAI) vs. Muse Wonder (@Meta).
Muse Wonder finishes an average task in 6.8 minutes with a 52.4 score. Opus 5.5 takes 13.2 and Sonnet 5.5 takes 15.3, scoring 57.6 and 56.0. Muse Spark 1.3 and GPT-6 Astra (@OpenAI) follow at 8.1.
When someone is waiting on the answer, minutes can matter more than a few index points. Merge Gateway lets you send latency-sensitive requests to the fast model and the hard ones to the strong one, behind one endpoint.
Scores via week of Oct 12.
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New in Merge Unified: Auto-link. Create a linked account directly from credentials you already hold, no reauthorization needed.
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The top six open-weights models all come from Chinese labs, led by MiMo-V2.6-Pro (@Xiaomi) at 46.3.
DeepSeek's new V4.1 Flash 1017 is right behind at 45.1, then Z AI's GLM-5.3 (44.8), StepFun's Step 5 Preview (43.7), and Kimi K3 (43.6). Meta's Muse Spark Open (@Meta) lands further back at 38.9.
Open weights mean you can run them on your own infrastructure. Merge Gateway routes to self-hosted models alongside hosted ones, behind one endpoint.
Scores via week of Oct 19.
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MERGE IS HIRING
i've been at merge for almost 4 years, and it has been a wild ride.
we're hiring in sf, nyc and berlin!
check out the roles here:
hosted a cute dinner in dallas tonight!
Waitlist for our Vercel Ship afterparty tn is 1k+ long somehow🥹
Who needs a spot?
Say hello to eight new connectors in @merge_api!
- Amazon Seller Central (@amazon)
- Plaid (@Plaid)
- Zoho Books (@Zoho)
- Zoho Cliq (@Zoho)
- Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster)
- RingCentral (@RingCentral)
- Iterable (@Iterable)
- Namespace (@namespacelabs)
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We used to watch migrations die waiting on customer reauth. Auto-link skips it: hand us a credential you already have, and the account's onboarded instantly, no reconnect needed.
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We just got ranked again on @Paraformtalent's Talent Density Index alongside, @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and @ThinkyMachines.
Everyone at Merge owns real problems, and the bar keeps going up because the people you work next to keep raising it!
Thank you to the team and if you want to grow with us, we're hiring.
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congrats to the @labelbox team!! @merge_api is honored to be powering your connectors.
Today we’re announcing our Series E.
We’ve raised $100M+ led by Infinitum Partners. We believe every company will soon run on agents that learn from their own work.
- For frontier labs, Horizon provides RL environments that teach frontier models to do real work.
- For enterprises, Recursion brings managed agents into the apps your teams already use, improving with every run.
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