AI Year in Review · Oct 10, 2025 – Oct 10, 2026

AI agents & coding agents

146 stories in this category.

Hark Pro (Hark)

Brett Adcock's Hark Pro, a free personal agent

Grok Bot model routing (xAI)

Grok Bot routes tasks to Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno

Hermes Index (Nous Research)

Nous Research launches the Hermes Index; Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 63.31

Personal Agent Protocol (Meta AI)

Meta and Sierra announce the Personal Agent Protocol

Agent Lens (CoreWeave)

CoreWeave Agent Lens brings human-friendly insights to agent observability

Forge (CoreWeave)

CoreWeave launches Forge, the whole agentic loop in one place

NVIDIA Vera CPU (CoreWeave)

CoreWeave to offer NVIDIA Vera, the first CPU built for AI agents

Dots (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches dots, always-on ChatGPT agents on GPT-6 Astra

UltraFast mode (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches UltraFast mode on Cerebras with a $500 Pro tier

Decisions API (OpenAI)

OpenAI previews a Decisions API for fast fixed-choice answers

cf CLI (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare goes agent-first with cf, one CLI for its whole dashboard

OpenAI "Dots" persistent agents

Always-on agents with their own cloud computer/browser that keep working while your device is off; Agents API gets Computer Use.

Agents API (OpenAI)

OpenAI ships the Agents API in public beta: the Codex harness as a managed service

Assistant Benchmark (Merit Systems)

Assistant Benchmark ranks 116 submitted AI assistants across 16 hand-tested dimensions

Projects (Cursor)

Cursor launches Projects: one view for agents, chats and work

Trusted Person network (Instinct)

Instinct adds email and a Trusted Person network for agent-to-agent coordination

Navier-Stokes solution claim (agent swarm) (OpenAI)

OpenAI claims a Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize solution from a 10,000-agent swarm

Automated research intern milestone (OpenAI)

OpenAI says it reached its automated research intern milestone, targets an automated AI researcher by March 2028

Muse Code (Meta AI)

Muse Code leaves beta with $5 / $20 / $50 plans and a TypeScript SDK preview

Codex with GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI)

Codex gets GPT-6 Astra: notes across context windows and async questions

OpenClaw 2.0 (OpenClaw)

OpenClaw 2.0: native computer use via Cua Driver, cloud fleets, 16,977 PRs

ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)

ChatGPT Work adds website sign-in via credential handoff

Foundation (Chroma)

Chroma launches Foundation: unified memory for your agents

Hermes desktop bot mode (Nous Research)

Nous Research ships bot mode for Hermes desktop

OpenBot (CopilotKit)

CopilotKit releases OpenBot, an open take on the bot pattern

Computer History (Cua)

Cua open-sources Computer History, memory for computer-use agents

Mojo (Modular)

Mojo goes fully open source under Apache 2.0

Cloudflare OS (Cloudflare)

Cloudflare OS: Kenton Varda's Sandstorm reborn as open source agent infrastructure

Muse Code + Muse Spark 1.2 (Meta AI)

Meta ships Muse Code, a terminal coding agent that's 12-21x cheaper if you feed Meta your data

Prime Agent (Prime Intellect)

Prime Intellect's Prime Agent: a self-improving RLM harness claiming 95.5% on ARC-AGI 3's public set

DeepSeek V4-Flash (DeepSeek)

DeepSeek V4-Flash enters public beta, beating its bigger sibling on agent benchmarks at $0.14/$0.28

Production-trained router (Cursor)

Cursor launches a router trained on production traffic: near-Fable satisfaction at ~60% lower cost

Terminal Bench 2.0 — GPT-5.6 results (Wolfbench)

Wolfbench: GPT-5.6 Sol on max thinking beats GPT-5.5 on both score and cost

Codex + ChatGPT Work (OpenAI)

Codex and the unified ChatGPT Work app cross 9 million active users

Codex Micro (OpenAI)

OpenAI ships its first hardware: a $230 Codex Micro keypad built with Work Louder

DOOMQL (Peter Gostev)

A playable Doom clone in ~2,000 lines of SQL, one-shotted by GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra

ChatGPT for Work (unified app) (OpenAI)

Codex becomes the unified ChatGPT app, with Work mode and hosted Sites

Aria (Weights & Biases)

W&B Aria auto-research agent goes GA

Linzumi (Linzumi)

Linzumi launches shared chat for fleets of AI coding agents

Fugu (Sakana AI)

Sakana AI launches Fugu multi-agent orchestration API

Codex Computer Use in Europe (OpenAI)

OpenAI rolls out Codex Computer Use, Chrome extension, Memory and Chronicle to European users

Kimi K2.7 Code on CoreWeave Inference (Weights & Biases / CoreWeave)

Kimi K2.7 Code goes live on W&B/CoreWeave Inference

HiveMind (Weights & Biases)

Weights & Biases launches HiveMind for coding-agent observability

Devin Desktop (Cognition Labs)

Cognition rebrands Windsurf into Devin Desktop multi-agent hub

Hermes Desktop (Nous Research)

Nous Research launches Hermes Desktop agent app for Mac/Win/Linux

RTX Spark (NVIDIA)

NVIDIA announces RTX Spark Arm + Blackwell platform for local AI PCs

Agent Arena (Arena (LMArena))

Arena launches Agent Arena for real-world agent workflow evals

Universal Cart / AP2 / UCP (Google)

Google launches Universal Cart, AP2 and UCP for agentic commerce

AI Studio native Android apps (Google)

Google AI Studio builds free native Android apps; 250K in week one

DeepSWE (Datacurve)

Datacurve's DeepSWE: a contamination-free coding benchmark

Antigravity 2.0 (Google)

Antigravity 2.0 becomes Google's central agentic coding harness

Gemini Spark (Google)

Gemini Spark announced as a 24/7 proactive personal AI agent

Google Search agentic capabilities (Google)

Google Search adds Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agentic capabilities

Codex Mobile (OpenAI)

OpenAI Codex Mobile arrives in the ChatGPT mobile apps

Managed Agents (Gemini API) (Google DeepMind)

Gemini API gets Managed Agents with hosted sandboxes and the Interactions API

Grok Build (xAI)

xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI coding tool in beta

CoreWeave Sandboxes (CoreWeave)

CoreWeave Sandboxes launch in preview via the W&B SDK

Hermes CLI agent (Nous Research)

Hermes passes OpenClaw as #1 CLI agent on OpenRouter, adds computer use

Coding Agent Index (Artificial Analysis)

Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index benchmarks model + harness combos

Link wallet for agents (Stripe)

Stripe launches Link wallet giving AI agents scoped payments

Devin for Terminal (Cognition Labs)

Cognition launches Devin for Terminal CLI coding agent

Cursor SDK (Cursor)

Cursor launches SDK exposing the runtime that powers the IDE

Projects.dev (Stripe)

Stripe opens Projects.dev: 32 infra providers provisionable by agents

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Google DeepMind)

Google launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Gemini Deep Research Max (Google DeepMind)

Google ships Gemini Deep Research + Deep Research Max on Gemini 3.1 Pro

Codex Computer Use + Chronicle (OpenAI)

Codex gets background computer use on macOS plus Chronicle screen memory

W&B LEET Workspace Mode (Weights & Biases)

W&B LEET TUI ships workspace mode with multi-run compare and GPU metrics

Euphony (OpenAI)

OpenAIDevs releases Euphony, an open-source Codex session log visualizer

Windsurf 2.0 (Windsurf)

Windsurf 2.0 ships Agent Command Center and full Devin integration

Warp any-CLI-agent support (Warp)

Warp now supports any CLI agent with vertical tabs and mobile control

Marimo Pair (Marimo)

Marimo Pair drops coding agents inside reactive Python notebooks

W&B Automations (Weights & Biases)

W&B Automations launch: event triggers from training runs

MemPalace (MemPalace (Ben Sigman & Milla Jovovich))

MemPalace open-source AI memory system goes viral with 26K stars

Cursor 3 (Cursor)

Cursor 3 ships as agent-first rebuild, dropping the VS Code fork

Claw Chief (Ryan Carson)

Ryan Carson open-sources Claw Chief, an AI chief of staff

claw-code (Ultraworkers (Sigrid Jin & Bellman))

Claw-code clean-room rewrite becomes fastest repo to 100K GitHub stars

ARC-AGI-3 (ARC Prize Foundation)

ARC-AGI-3 launches: humans score 100%, frontier models under 1%

Manus My Computer (Manus (Meta))

Manus launches 'My Computer' desktop app for macOS and Windows

W&B iOS App (Weights & Biases)

Weights & Biases launches native iOS app for monitoring training runs

Google AI Studio (vibe coding overhaul) (Google)

Google AI Studio gets full-stack vibe coding with Antigravity and Firebase

Codex Subagents (OpenAI)

OpenAI ships subagents for Codex with custom TOML configs

Unsloth Studio (Unsloth AI)

Unsloth Studio: web UI for local fine-tuning with 2x speed, 70% less VRAM

Cursor in JetBrains (ACP) (Cursor)

Cursor joins ACP registry and goes live in JetBrains IDEs

AutoResearcher (Andrej Karpathy)

Karpathy open-sources AutoResearcher for autonomous ML experiments

Codex app for Windows (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches the Codex app on Windows

Google Workspace CLI (Google)

Google releases a Google Workspace CLI

Wolf Bench (Weights & Biases)

Wolfram previews Wolf Bench, a multi-metric agent eval from W&B

Devin 2.2 (Cognition Labs)

Devin 2.2: computer use, browser, and self-verifying autonomous work

Nous Research Agent (Nous Research)

Nous Research ships a research agent

Perplexity Computer (Perplexity)

Perplexity introduces Perplexity Computer

Cloud Agents (Cursor)

Cursor launches cloud agents

LMLink (LM Studio)

LM Studio launches LMLink for remote access to local models

Time Horizon Benchmark (METR)

METR Time Horizon goes vertical: Opus 4.6 hits ~14.5-hour tasks

Dreamer (Dreamer)

Dreamer launches beta platform for building agentic apps with no-code AI

Code Factory (Ryan Carson)

Ryan Carson publishes the viral Code Factory agentic engineering blueprint

Deep Research (GPT-5.2) (OpenAI)

OpenAI upgrades Deep Research to GPT-5.2 with app integrations

WebMCP (Chrome 146) (Google (Chrome))

Chrome 146 introduces WebMCP, a native browser API for AI agents

AntFarm (Ryan Carson)

Ryan Carson releases AntFarm for agent coordination

Moltbook (Moltbook)

Moltbook: a Reddit built for and by AI agents

Codex App (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches standalone Codex app for managing parallel coding agents

OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)

OpenAI Frontier: enterprise platform for AI agents as coworkers

Chrome Auto-Browse (Google)

Google launches agentic Auto-Browse in Chrome with Gemini 3

Gemini 3 Flash Agentic Vision (Google)

Google adds Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash

Kimi Code (Moonshot AI)

Moonshot AI releases Kimi Code coding agent

Clawdbot (Peter Steinberger)

Clawdbot: open-source self-improving personal AI assistant for macOS

AI Prescription Renewals (Doctronic)

Doctronic launches first US pilot for AI prescription renewals

Ralph Wiggum (Ryan Carson)

Ralph Wiggum autonomous coding technique hits 1.2M views

Deep Research (OpenAI)

OpenAI Deep Research scores 26.6% on Humanity's Last Exam

Operator (OpenAI)

OpenAI Operator: first agentic ChatGPT with browser control

LLM Evaluation Jobs (Weights & Biases)

W&B launches LLM Evaluation Jobs for OpenAI-compatible APIs

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max in Cursor (Cursor)

Cursor offers GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for free through Dec 11

Serverless LoRA Inference (Weights & Biases)

W&B launches Serverless LoRA Inference on CoreWeave

Antigravity (Google DeepMind)

Antigravity: Google's free agent-first IDE powered by Gemini 3 Pro

Marimo VS Code / Cursor extension (Marimo)

Marimo ships reactive Python notebooks extension for VS Code and Cursor

W&B LEET (Weights & Biases)

W&B ships LEET, an open-source terminal UI for monitoring ML runs

Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Laude Institute / Stanford)

Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Harbor launch as new bar for coding agents

Code Arena (LMArena (LMSYS))

LMArena launches Code Arena for live agentic coding evaluations

Codemaps (Windsurf (Cognition))

Windsurf ships Codemaps, AI-annotated navigable maps of your codebase

AWS-OpenAI infrastructure partnership (Amazon Web Services)

AWS announces multi-year strategic infrastructure partnership with OpenAI

Cursor 2.0 & Composer (Cursor)

Cursor 2.0 ships with Composer, its own 4x-faster coding model

Pomelli (Google (Labs))

Google Labs launches Pomelli, an AI marketing agent

Email Assistant (Perplexity)

Perplexity launches privacy-first Email Assistant for inbox management

Pokee (Pokee AI)

Pokee: an agentic workflow builder

Director 2.0 (Browserbase)

Browserbase launches Director 2.0 with 1Password delegated auth

ChatGPT Atlas (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, its agentic AI browser

AI Studio Vibe Coding (Google DeepMind)

Google AI Studio launches 'Vibe Coding' build experience

TorchForge (Meta AI (PyTorch))

TorchForge: PyTorch-native library for scalable RL post-training

Amp Free (Amp)

Amp launches a free tier powered by ads and surplus model capacity

ChatGPT Memory (OpenAI)

OpenAI ships smarter ChatGPT memory management, no more 'memory full'