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[UPDATED] OpenAI Codex Web: Practical Notes

The first OpenAI hackathon in the EU was about writing Agents using Agents. We received access to Codex in our kit as part of ChatGPT Pro, but it by now also seems to be available to other paid plans including Plus. Codex in ChatGPT is different from Codex CLI. Read more...

[UPDATED] Notes on OpenAI Codex CLI

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BOND's 2025 AI Industry Trends Report Analysis

BOND, a VC firm, has released a 340 pages trend report on AI. Notes: Usage stats: AI Tool Adoption by Developers: 2023 vs 2024: 44% vs 63% (pg. 147) Microsoft Azure AI Foundry: 5x tokens processed Year-over-Year (pg. 150) CoreWeave, Oracle AI, Astera AI report steep revenue increases (pg. 165 - 167) recap of P... Read more...

[UPDATED] Exa Web Search MCP in OpenAI Prompts Playground

Web Search in the OpenAI Prompts Playground remains restricted for some models and disabled for others. With the addition of MCP support however, users may add other Web Search providers, e.g. Exa. Exa’s (remote) MCP server does not support the complete functionality of the Exa API, but setup is straightforward: Sign up Retrieve API key A... Read more...

Anthropic Claude 4, o3 improvements

Anthropic released Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet last week. Per the benchmark results they have published, Claude 4 Opus is roughly comparable to OpenAI o3. However, the updated Aider LLM Leaderboard places Claude 4 Opus on par with o4-mini, at a substantially higher cost. While Anthropic claims that “Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claud... Read more...