AI continues to evolve at breakneck speed, with new tools transforming how we create, work, and even run businesses. This week’s updates highlight advances in image generation, productivity, and autonomous agents.

Seedream 4.0
ByteDance’s Seed Vision team has released Seedream 4.0, a next-gen image model delivering photorealistic 2K visuals in under two seconds.

Claude for Documents
Anthropic has upgraded Claude into a true productivity partner. It can now create and edit spreadsheets, presentations, Word docs, and PDFs directly in the app.

Cofounder AI Agents
The General Intelligence Company unveiled Cofounder, an AI platform designed to autonomously run business operations.

AI is not just speeding up tasks it’s reshaping creation, collaboration, and business itself. The future is arriving fast, and these updates give a glimpse of what’s next.

Seedream 4.0 High-Quality Image Generation Model

Seedream 4.0, developed by ByteDance’s Seed Vision team, is a next-generation multimodal AI model excelling in both rapid text-to-image generation and professional-grade editing, offering bilingual (Chinese-English) prompt support and blazing-fast 2K output in about 1.8 seconds. Built for creators and enterprises, it uses Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture for superior efficiency, and supports advanced batch generation—making multiple, consistent images at once for streamlined workflows. Users can provide up to 6 reference images for highly precise, prompt-driven edits, switch seamlessly between creative modes, and leverage smooth image-to-video transitions via integration with tools like Seedance, all with no login or usage limits on many platforms. Highly acclaimed for its photorealism, ultra-accurate detail retention, dynamic rendering, and real-time usability, Seedream 4.0 stands out against global competitors—and, as Bindu Reddy notes, feels like the first AI “with a real soul

Claude Empowers Users to Create and Edit Spreadsheets, Docs and More

Anthropic recently launched a major update to Claude, enabling it to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and PDFs directly within Claude.ai and its desktop app. This new feature transforms Claude from a text-based assistant into an active collaborator capable of producing ready-to-use files based on user instructions, whether working from uploaded data, researching information, or starting from scratch. Users can get polished outputs such as cleaned data, statistical analyses, charts, financial models with working formulas, project trackers with automated dashboards, or presentations converted from PDFs. Claude operates in a secure private computing environment where it writes and executes code to generate files and perform complex analyses, significantly shrinking the gap between idea and execution. Currently, this feature is available as a preview for Max, Team, and Enterprise plan users, with Pro users gaining access soon. Users enable it via experimental settings, upload or describe their needs, interact with Claude through chat, and download completed files or save them directly to Google Drive. While this powerful update boosts productivity by automating tasks that would normally require programming or advanced skills, Anthropic advises careful monitoring for potential data risks since Claude gains internet access to perform these operations. This feature marks a significant step toward making sophisticated, multi-step project work accessible through natural conversation.

Smarter AI Agents for Running Businesses Autonomously

The General Intelligence Company of New York, founded by Andrew Pignanelli and Abhishyant Khare, has announced Cofounder, an advanced AI agent combining three types of memory to deliver state-of-the-art performance in retrieval and real-world business automation. Their mission is to empower millions of small businesses globally by enabling anyone with an idea to start and run an agent-native company supported by intelligent AI agents. Cofounder is designed to orchestrate swarms of agents that handle day-to-day business operations autonomously, functioning like a digital Fortune 500 staff available 24/7. Backed by Compound and Acrew, the company aims to transform how businesses operate by using general intelligence to run companies, pushing toward a future where AI-driven agents manage complex business tasks seamlessly. They invite talent to join their mission to build this future in New York City and beyond.

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Top AI Products from this week

• Genstore.ai – Create and launch a new store within minutes, and sell confidently with the support of your own team of AI agents that supports you from setup to design to launch. We handle marketing automation and campaign management so you can focus on selling.

• Incredible Small 1.0 by Incredible – RESEARCH PREVIEW — Agentic AI Models that can take 1000+ actions at once, and work with large datasets. 100+ app connectors. Try the research preview assistant now at www.incredible.one. Built in Sweden, by Incredible 🇸🇪

• Gram by Speakeasy – Gram is an open source platform that enables your team to build MCP servers that perform. Start with your API, add context, refine prompts, and compose custom workflow-based tools until LLMs are executing reliably in production. Start building for free!

• Latitude 2.0 - Create an AI Agent from a single prompt. Instead of building agents by hand, describe what you need and Latte creates, connects, and runs them for you. From workflows to production-ready AI assistants, all it takes is one prompt.

• 10X PPC – Get the work of a seasoned PPC strategist - without the fees. This AI Agent finds, filters, and exports high converting keywords so you launch smarter campaigns 10X faster.

• Modal Notebooks – Modal Notebooks are a collaborative environment for high-performance interactive computing. They let you explore data, run code, and test ideas in a shared editor. Powered by a GPU-enabled Python kernel that launches in seconds on Modal’s AI infrastructure.

This week in AI

• Grok Background Thinking - Grok is developing Background Thinking, an upcoming feature that enables AI to process context continuously in the background, boosting reasoning and task depth.

• Apple AirPods Pro 3 Launch - Apple unveils AirPods Pro 3 with 2x active noise cancellation, Live AI translation, heart rate tracking, 8-hr battery, IP57 water resistance, and seamless iPhone fitness integration.

• Vibe Coding Platform - Open-source vibe coding platform built with Vercel AI and tuned GPT-5 agent can write/read files, run commands, autofix errors, and demoed multiplayer Pong in Go.

• Master Any Subject with NotebookLM - Google’s NotebookLM creates flashcards, quizzes, reports, and audio overviews from your documents, turning passive reading into active learning and deeper understanding.

• Adobe Premiere iPhone Launch - Adobe Premiere launches on iPhone with multi-track editing, AI audio tools, 4K HDR, auto-captions, and Firefly integration. Edit, share, and create pro videos on the go.

Paper of The Day

This document presents CP-Model-Zoo, a natural language query system for Constraint Programming (CP) models. It helps users find expert-validated CP models from a database by matching their problem descriptions using advanced language model embeddings, eliminating the need for manual labeling. The system achieves high accuracy in retrieving relevant models for various expertise levels and offers a user-friendly web interface. This approach supports learning and application of CP for a broader audience and enables interactive querying of combinatorial optimization problems with minimal human intervention.

To read the whole paper 👉️ here.