It’s Been a Wild 48 Hours in AI. The Next 24 Could Top It
The past 48 hours had plenty of AI to unpack, but the next 24 hours might just rewrite the rules of the game.
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The AI world has moved at a maddening pace over the past 48 hours, and the next 24 hours promise even more disruption with the buzz around OpenAI finally dropping GPT-5 soon. Meanwhile, here’s a quick briefing on the key developments making headlines.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1
On August 5, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.1, calling it their best model so far for real-world coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks.
“Opus 4.1 advances our state-of-the-art coding performance to 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified,” Anthroic stated. Further, it boosts research and data analysis skills, especially in agentic search and detail tracking. The update is already available for paid Claude users, on Claude Code, API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, all at the same price as its predecessor.
“Our best model yet,” Alex Albert, head of developer relations at Anthropic, posted on X.
Anthropic also hinted at substantially larger improvements to their models in the coming weeks.
Genie 3 by Google DeepMind
On the same day, Google DeepMind launched Genie 3, a general-purpose world model capable of generating dynamic, interactive environments, from just a text prompt.
It generates navigable virtual worlds in real-time, at 24 fps and 720p resolution, maintaining temporal consistency for minutes at a time, a jump from Genie 2.
“The most impressive AI demo I’ve seen since ChatGPT,” said Ali Eslami, DeepMind scientist behind the Gemini project.
This is the first time a world model from Google allows real-time interaction with improved realism and consistency, inching us closer to games, simulations, and training environments built entirely from prompts.
ElevenLabs’s AI Music Model
Voice-AI unicorn ElevenLabs launched its first AI music generation model, Eleven Music with ethics. The model is claimed to be cleared for commercial use, as it was trained on licensed data, unlike others that’ve been under fire for training on copyrighted works.
“Very embarrassing for the couple of AI music companies that are known to train on people’s music without permission,” commented Ed Newton-Rex, CEO of Fairly Trained.
OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b and 20b
Still in the game, OpenAI released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, boasting strong real-world performance and efficiency at low cost. These models are available under the Apache 2.0 license, making them flexible for developers and enterprises alike.
Trained using a mix of reinforcement learning and insights from OpenAI’s top-tier internal models (like o3), both models demonstrate superior reasoning and strong tool-use capabilities, and are optimized to run on consumer hardware.
What’s Coming Next?
However, taking up all the limelight is GPT-5, which OpenAI is set to release anytime now. A few users on X, reportedly with early access to GPT-5, described the experience as “incredible”.
