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I\u2019ll probably end up saying this every blog post, but here goes: It has been an exciting week (or two) in the world of AI! There was a convergence in the force, and all the big players made their announcements virtually simultaneously. We\u2019ve got new versions of Claude from Anthropic. OpenAI released their virtual software engineer, Codex, and has acquired Jony Ive\u2019s design studio to build AI-powered hardware. Google announced their Jules coding agent, AI Mode search, and dropped VEO 3 at their Google IO25 conference. And Microsoft announced their Copilot Coding Agent and Windows MCP support at their BUILD conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dig in!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u00a0<\/h2>\n

What happened<\/h3>\n

Anthropic released Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet. These are state-of-the-art models that outperform all other models on several key benchmarks. Opus is the big model, and Sonnet is the mid-size model. Opus is used for absolute top-level performance whereas Sonnet is still strong but faster and cheaper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why<\/em> it matters\u00a0<\/h3>\n

I\u2019ll admit, it\u2019s hard to get too excited about each new top-of-the-line model as they are released, especially as someone who doesn\u2019t live and breathe AI. But let me tell you that the power of these new models is incredible and the arms race among the top LLMs is pushing the frontier at an astounding pace. Yardi is working with Anthropic on some initiatives and with this latest release, you can see why. Give Claude 4 a try<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u00a0<\/h2>\n

What happened<\/h3>\n

OpenAI<\/a> had two major announcements. The first one is the release of what they\u2019re calling \u201cCodex\u201d. I know most of you aren\u2019t software engineers, so this may be a bit hard to grasp, but let me make this clear: Codex is a true, AI-powered software engineer. It can not only write code, it can integrate with a software engineering team to accomplish tasks that used to require a very expensive and highly trained human. On top of that, Open AI lets companies use it for free!<\/p>\n

The second big announcement is that OpenAI has acquired Jony Ive\u2019s design studio<\/a> (for $6.5B no less) to develop new AI-powered hardware. Technically, they\u2019re spinning up a new company called IO, but practically, it\u2019s the hardware department for OpenAI.<\/p>\n

Why<\/em> it matters<\/h3>\n

OpenAI is still king of the hill and is pushing forward in exciting, new ways. The impact that AI-powered software engineering will have is hard to overstate. As we\u2019ll see below, Google and Microsoft are both jumping on the bandwagon, and this will unlock a 10x if not 100x improvement in software companies\u2019 ability to deliver code.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While AI chatbots and agents are becoming incredibly powerful, they are still locked into an older form factor that makes utilizing them less than ideal. Sam Altman was hinting at a hardware solution which makes it much easier to unlock the power of ChatGPT without having to pull out a phone or laptop. <\/p>\n

Google\u00a0<\/h2>\n

What happened<\/h3>\n

Google\u2019s big developer conference, Google IO, was last week. They made several big announcements:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n