Kimi K2.5 Release: The Open-Source Visual Agentic Intelligence Revolution This article addresses the core question: What substantive technical breakthroughs does Kimi K2.5 introduce over its predecessor, and how do its visual understanding, coding capabilities, and new Agent Swarm paradigm alter the landscape of complex task solving? Moonshot AI has officially released Kimi K2.5, marking not just an iterative update but a fundamental reshaping of architectural and capability boundaries. As the most powerful open-source model to date, Kimi K2.5 builds upon the foundation of Kimi K2 through continued pre-training on approximately 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens. This release establishes …
VisGym: The Ultimate Test for Vision-Language Models – Why Top AI Agents Struggle with Multi-Step Tasks The Core Question Answered Here: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at static image recognition, can they truly succeed in environments requiring perception, memory, and action over long periods? Why do the most advanced “frontier” models frequently fail at seemingly simple multi-step visual tasks? In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Vision-Language Models have become the bridge connecting computer vision with natural language processing. From identifying objects in a photo to answering complex questions about an image, their performance is often nothing short of …
Breaking the Boundaries of Agentic Reasoning: A Deep Dive into LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 Core Question: How can we translate complex mathematical and programming reasoning capabilities into an intelligent agent capable of interacting with the real world to solve complex, practical tasks? As Large Language Models (LLMs) gradually surpass human experts in pure reasoning tasks like mathematics and programming, the frontier of AI is shifting from “internal thinking” to “external interaction.” Traditional reasoning models operate primarily within a linguistic space, whereas future agents must possess the ability to make long-term decisions and invoke tools within complex, dynamic external environments. The LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601, introduced by …
The Modern AI Product Manager: Thriving in the Age of Agents When I joined Google three months ago, I witnessed what felt like three years’ worth of AI progress: Gemini 3 Pro and Flash, the Interactions API, Nano Banana Pro, the Gemini Deep Research Agent, Antigravity Agentic IDE, the Gemini Live API with Native Audio, and ADKs for Python, Java, Go, and TypeScript with state-of-the-art context handling. This unprecedented acceleration isn’t unique to Google—every major and emerging AI company is shipping at breakneck speed, thanks to AI coding agents. This revolution isn’t just changing technology—it’s fundamentally transforming product management. The …
From Vibes to Verdicts: A Repeatable Workflow for Testing Agent Skills with Lightweight Evals “ What’s the shortest path to know if my AI agent skill actually improved—or just started failing quietly? Run a micro-eval: prompt → capture the trace → score with deterministic checks → lock the behavior in version control. What This Article Answers Why do “vibes” fail when iterating on LLM agent skills? How can I turn “it feels faster” into a repeatable lab experiment? What exact commands and scripts (all in the source file) glue the pipeline together? Where do deterministic checks end and model-graded rubrics …
Skills, Commands, Agents, Plugins: Decoding the 4 Key AI Concepts In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI technology, if you are a frequent user of various AI tools—especially coding assistants like Claude Code—you have undoubtedly encountered these four terms in official documentation, community discussions, or technical blogs: Skills, Commands, Agents, and Plugins. These concepts are ubiquitous. They all seem related to “enhancing AI capabilities,” but if you look closely, it is easy to get dizzy. What are the actual differences between them? Are they overlapping functions? Which one should I use in a specific scenario? Recently, a community member raised …
AI and Distributed Agent Orchestration: What Jaana Dogan’s Tweet Reveals About the Future of Engineering A few days ago, Jaana Dogan, a Principal Engineer at Google, posted a tweet: “Our team spent an entire year last year building a distributed Agent orchestration system—exploring countless solutions, navigating endless disagreements, and never reaching a final decision. I described the problem to Claude Code, and it generated what we’d been working on for a year in just one hour.” This tweet flooded my Timeline for days. What’s interesting is that almost everyone could find evidence to support their own takeaways from it. Some …
AgentCPM: Open-Source Agents That Bring Deep Research to Your Device Can powerful AI assistants that handle complex, multi-step tasks only exist in the cloud, tethered to massive models and internet connections? What happens when a job requires over a hundred tool calls, but the data involved is too sensitive to leave a private server? The recent open-source release of AgentCPM-Explore and AgentCPM-Report by Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, and ModelBest offers a compelling new answer. They demonstrate that long-horizon, deep-research capabilities can thrive on local devices with remarkably compact models. Overview & Core Breakthrough: Redefining On-Device Intelligence The Core …
MemoBrain: The Executive Memory Brain for LLM Reasoning In the complex reasoning scenarios of tool-augmented agents, the continuous accumulation of long-horizon reasoning trajectories and temporary tool interaction results is constantly occupying the limited working context space of large language models (LLMs). Without the support of a dedicated memory mechanism, this undifferentiated information accumulation can disrupt the logical continuity of reasoning and cause the agent to deviate from task objectives—turning memory management from a mere efficiency optimization issue into a core link supporting long-horizon, goal-directed reasoning. MemoBrain is precisely an executive memory model designed to address this problem. It constructs a …
Why Proxying Claude Code Fails to Replicate the Native Experience: A Technical Deep Dive Snippet: The degraded experience of proxied Claude Code stems from “lossy translation” at the protocol layer. Unlike native Anthropic SSE streams, proxies (e.g., via Google Vertex) struggle with non-atomic structure conversion, leading to tool call failures, thinking block signature loss, and the absence of cloud-based WebSearch capabilities. Why Your Claude Code Keeps “Breaking” When using Claude Code through a proxy or middleware, many developers encounter frequent task interruptions, failed tool calls, or a noticeable drop in the agent’s “intelligence” during multi-turn conversations. This isn’t a random …
Beyond Code: Building Your First Non-Coding AI Workflow with Claude Agent SDK Have you ever wondered what the powerful engine behind Claude Code—one of the best coding tools available—could do besides writing code? As a developer who has long explored the boundaries of AI automation, I’ve been searching for more lightweight and direct solutions for building agents. While mainstream frameworks like CrewAI and LangChain continue to grow in complexity, I decided to turn my attention to an unexpected tool: the 「Claude Agent SDK」. My hypothesis was simple: if it can give AI exceptional coding capabilities, then applying its core principles—tool …
Context Graphs: Understanding Real Enterprise Processes to Unlock the Next Generation Data Platform for Agentic Automation Context is the next data platform If I asked you, “What is the actual process for signing a new contract at your company?” you might answer, “Oh, Sales submits a request, Legal reviews it, and then a leader approves it.” But that’s the “should” written in the policy manual. The reality is often this: Salesperson Zhang updates the deal stage in Salesforce, then messages Legal Specialist Li on Slack with a link to the latest Google Doc. Li leaves comments, schedules a calendar invite …
Vibium: The “Zero Drama” Browser Automation Infrastructure for AI Agents Snippet: Vibium is a browser automation infrastructure designed for AI agents, utilizing a single ~10MB Go binary to manage the Chrome lifecycle and expose an MCP server. It enables zero-setup WebDriver BiDi protocol support, allowing Claude Code and JS/TS clients to drive browsers with both async and sync APIs while automatically handling Chrome for Testing installation. Browser automation has long been synonymous with configuration headaches. From matching WebDriver versions to managing headless flags and handling flaky element detection, the “drama” often overshadows the actual utility of the automation. Vibium enters …
Agent Skills: The Open Standard for Extending AI Agent Capabilities Imagine your AI assistant as a skilled craftsman. While basic tools suffice for everyday tasks, specialized projects demand precision instruments. Agent Skills is the standardized system that allows AI agents to dynamically load these specialized capabilities, transforming a general-purpose assistant into a domain-specific expert. This open format provides a structured way to package instructions, scripts, and resources, enabling agents to perform complex tasks with greater accuracy and efficiency. At its heart, Agent Skills addresses a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence: the gap between an agent’s inherent capabilities and the specific, …
FunctionGemma: A Lightweight Open Model Specialized for Function Calling What is FunctionGemma, and why does it matter for building local AI agents? FunctionGemma is a specialized variant of the Gemma 3 270M parameter model, finely tuned specifically for function calling tasks. It serves as a strong foundation for developers to create custom, fast, and private on-device agents that convert natural language inputs into structured API executions. Abstract illustration of open source AI model with circuit connections Image source: Public web illustration representing open AI concepts This model stands out because it prioritizes efficiency on resource-constrained devices while maintaining high performance …
Scaling AI Agents: When Adding More Models Hurts Performance “ Core question: Does adding more AI agents always improve results? Short answer: Only when the task is parallelizable, tool-light, and single-agent accuracy is below ~45%. Otherwise, coordination overhead eats all gains. What This Article Answers How can you predict whether multi-agent coordination will help or hurt before you deploy? What do 180 controlled configurations across finance, web browsing, planning, and office workflows reveal? Which practical checklist can you copy-paste into your next design doc? 1 The Setup: 180 Experiments, One Variable—Coordination Structure Summary: Researchers locked prompts, tools, and token budgets, …
Agent Quality: From Black-Box Hopes to Glass-Box Trust A field manual for teams who build, ship, and sleep with AI Agents Article’s central question “How can we prove an AI Agent is ready for production when every run can behave differently?” Short answer: Stop judging only the final answer; log the entire decision trajectory, measure four pillars of quality, and spin the Agent Quality Flywheel. Why Classic QA Collapses in the Agent Era Core reader query: “My unit tests pass, staging looks fine—why am I still blindsided in prod?” Short answer: Agent failures are silent quality drifts, not hard exceptions, …
Running on a Budget, Yet Smarter—How “Money-Wise” Search Agents Break the Performance Ceiling Keywords: budget-aware tool use, test-time scaling, search agent, BATS, Budget Tracker, cost-performance Pareto frontier Opening: Three Quick Questions Hand an agent 100 free search calls—will it actually use them? If it stops at 30 and calls it a day, will more budget move the accuracy needle? Can we teach the machine to check its wallet before every click? A new joint study by Google, UCSB and NYU says YES. “Simply letting the model see the remaining balance pushes accuracy up while keeping the tab unchanged—or even smaller.” …
Google Interactions API: The Unified Foundation for Gemini Models and Agents (2025 Guide) Featured Snippet Answer (Perfect for Google’s Position 0) Google Interactions API is a single RESTful endpoint (/interactions) that lets developers talk to both Gemini models (gemini-2.5-flash, gemini-3-pro-preview, etc.) and managed agents (deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025) using exactly the same interface. Launched in public beta in December 2025, it adds server-side conversation state, background execution, remote MCP tools, structured JSON outputs, and native streaming — everything modern agentic applications need that the classic generateContent endpoint couldn’t comfortably support. Why I’m Excited About Interactions API (And You Should Be Too) If you’ve …
Google Launches Official MCP Support: Unlocking the Full Potential of AI Agents Across Services The Evolution of AI: From Intelligent Models to Action-Oriented Agents Artificial intelligence has undergone remarkable transformation in recent years. With the introduction of advanced reasoning models like Gemini 3, we now possess unprecedented capabilities to learn, build, and plan. These sophisticated AI systems can process complex information and generate insightful responses. Yet a fundamental question remains: what truly transforms an intelligent model into a practical agent that can solve real-world problems on our behalf? The answer lies not just in raw intelligence, but in the ability …