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AI is moving away from one-size-fits-all systems. What we are seeing instead is openness, specialization, and distribution across research and search. These are today’s updates.
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Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5 open-source model
OpenAI launches Prism for scientific research
Yahoo introduces Scout AI search assistant
Tools, resources, and a prompt to analyse your competitor's playbook. ⬇️
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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal model
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, an open-source, natively multimodal model that the company says matches or outperforms leading proprietary models across coding and video reasoning benchmarks. A key feature is Agent Swarm, which allows coordination of up to 100 parallel sub-agents and more than 1,500 tool calls, reducing execution time by up to 80 percent in complex tasks.
OpenAI launches Prism, a free AI workspace for research
OpenAI introduced Prism, a GPT-5.2-powered LaTeX editor built for scientific and technical research. Available free to all ChatGPT users, Prism supports drafting papers, managing citations, summarizing literature, and converting whiteboard photos into formatted equations and diagrams. OpenAI reports ChatGPT already handles 8.4 million weekly queries across advanced science and math topics.
Yahoo launches Scout, an AI-powered answer engine
Yahoo released Scout, a free AI search experience that combines conversational answers with prominently linked source results. Scout is powered by Anthropic’s Claude, Bing’s open web APIs, and Yahoo’s internal knowledge graph covering more than 1 billion entities and 500 million user profiles. The product is now rolling out publicly.
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Competitor Playbook Analyzer
When to use this?
When you want a fast, C-suite briefing on a competitor’s new launch, announcement, or funding news.
You are a senior strategy consultant for a [your industry + company type]. I will paste a competitor’s press release or blog post below. Your job:
Summarize in 5 bullet points: what’s new, why it matters, which customers it targets, and which competitors it threatens.
Flag one near-term risk and one long-term risk for us if we don’t respond.
Recommend 2 potential countermoves we could take.
Output format:
Competitor Move | Why It Matters | Who’s Threatened | Risks | Countermoves
Competitor content:
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