The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis Are Agent Swarms the Next AI Paradigm?
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Jan 28, 2026 They dig into agent swarms becoming practical, spotlighting Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 and its swarm design for parallel AI teams. Headlines cover massive Anthropic funding, Nvidia chip moves in China, and a UK AI upskilling push. New multimodal models and Google’s agentic vision for image and tool use also get attention.
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Anthropic's Big Bet On Scale And Growth
- Anthropic's massive fundraising and revenue forecasts signal an intensifying capital race among frontier AI labs.
- Their rising training cost projections push profitability timelines later while underwriting aggressive growth bets.
Recursive Inference Improves Test‑Time Scaling
- Heavy mode inference (recursive self-improvement) yields measurable benchmark gains by iterating outputs back into the model.
- Quen 3 Max Thinking showed notable score improvements on PhD‑level and coding benchmarks using this approach.
OpenWeights Near Frontier Performance
- Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 narrows the gap to frontier models while being cheaper than top Western offerings.
- Its multimodality and benchmark wins signal OpenWeights models reaching near‑frontier capability.