The Register
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2 months ago
Anthropic released a set of financial agent templates for Claude that package skills, connectors to external data sources, and subagents to assist with tasks like customer screening, earnings review, and account reconciliation. Claude's Opus 4.7 model achieved 64.37 percent accuracy on Vals AI's Finance Agent benchmark. Users must review and approve Claude's work before it is used in client-facing operations or filed documents.
Allen Institute (AI2)
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2 months ago
MolmoAct 2, an open-source robotics foundation model, was released alongside its code and training data after 400K downloads of initial artifacts. The model achieves 87.1% success on real-world manipulation tasks and runs 37 times faster than its predecessor, with inference taking 180 milliseconds per action versus 6,700 milliseconds previously. The release includes a 720-hour bimanual manipulation dataset and integration into Hugging Face's LeRobot platform, enabling researchers to customize and deploy the model for physical tasks without extensive retraining.
