Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the first AI with Hybrid Reasoning

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• 🧠 Claude's 'hybrid reasoning' changes the AI game.

• 🎵 Musicians release silent album to fight AI.

• 🌐 Perplexity AI browsers will search the web for you.

• 🧠 Alibaba's AI gets a brain upgrade.

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Anthropic

🧠 Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The First AI with Hybrid Reasoning

Anthropic just dropped a game-changer. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the first AI to fuse instant responses with extended, controllable reasoning—plus a new coding assistant, Claude Code.

What’s new?

🔹 Hybrid Reasoning Mode – Users can toggle between standard AI responses and an “extended thinking” mode, where Claude shows its step-by-step reasoning in a scratchpad.
🔹 Customizable AI Thinking Time – API users control how long Claude processes a task (up to 128K tokens), balancing speed, cost, and accuracy.
🔹 State-of-the-Art Coding – Claude 3.7 outperforms competitors like o1, o3-mini, and DeepSeek R1 on real-world coding benchmarks.
🔹 Agentic Coding with Claude Code – A new command-line AI agent that can edit files, read and write code, and run tests (limited preview).

Why does this matter?

Claude just entered the reasoning race. With OpenAI rumored to be launching a hybrid reasoner, Anthropic is taking the lead—delivering precise AI control, smarter coding tools, and a glimpse into the next-gen AI revolution.

Alibaba

🧠 AI Reasoning Goes Open-Source—Qwen’s Bold Move

Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped a game-changer.

They’ve unveiled QwQ-Max-Preview, an AI model that doesn’t just answer—it thinks. And soon, it’ll be open-source.

What’s new?

🔹 Supercharged Reasoning – Built on Qwen2.5-Max, this AI excels in math, coding, and agentic tasks, handling complex problems with human-like logic.
🔹 Thinking in Action – The new Thinking (QwQ) feature lets users see the AI’s step-by-step reasoning inside Qwen Chat.
🔹 Open-Source Power – QwQ-Max and Qwen2.5-Max will be fully open-source under Apache 2.0, giving developers unrestricted access.
🔹 Smaller Models, Big Impact – A lightweight QwQ-32B variant is coming for local AI deployments with lower computing needs.

Why does it matter?

AI reasoning is the next big battleground. With Qwen pushing open-source, high-level reasoning won’t just be a premium feature—it’ll be industry standard.

Chinese labs are stepping up. The AI race is getting interesting. 🚀

Trending Today

• Nothing unveiled its upcoming AI-powered Nothing Phone (3a), featuring an unboxing video by 1X’s recently debuted NEO Gamma humanoid robot.

• 1,000 musicians (including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, and Billy Ocean) have released a silent album— “Is This What We Want?”—to protest against planned changes to UK copyright laws, which would make it easier for AI companies to train AI models using musicians' copyrighted work, without permission or giving them compensation, unless they proactively opt-out.

• Perplexity has revealed that it’s working on an AI-powered web browser—called Comet—which will be able to perform “agentic searches.” enabling search the web in real-time, locate information, understand more complex instructions, perform tasks, and make autonomous decisions.

• Two developers Anton Pidkuiko and Boris Starkov at ElevenLabs’ recent Hackathon, introduced Gibber Link, a sound-based communication protocol that allows AI agents to detect each other on calls and switch from human speech to direct data transmission — reducing time and compute costs

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