This Was a Big Week for AI

🧠 Monday AI & Tech Brief

Your theme-based roundup of what really moved AI today

Welcome to this Monday’s AI & Tech News edition. Last week quietly turned into a benchmark war, with major labs racing to prove who really leads in reasoning, coding, and research-grade AI. Here’s what matters.

🚀 Model Wars: Benchmarks Are Heating Up

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is currently leading the charts. The model scored 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified, becoming the first AI system to cross the 80% mark. More interestingly, Anthropic claims it outperformed human engineers in controlled coding tests—something few labs openly state.

OpenAI responded fast. On December 9, it released GPT-5.2, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants. Internally, this was reportedly a “code red” move after Google’s Gemini 3 announcement. OpenAI claims GPT-5.2 tops several benchmarks, including 55.6% on SWE-Bench Pro, positioning it as a strong competitor in real-world software tasks.

Google, meanwhile, upgraded its Gemini Deep Research agent, posting notable gains like 46.4% on HLE and 66.1% on DeepSearchQA. The bigger update? Google has now opened this research agent to third-party developers via AI Studio, signalling a push beyond first-party products.

🔬 AI in Science: From Papers to Practice

A new platform called SciSciGPT has debuted, focusing on human-AI collaboration in scientific research. Instead of replacing scientists, it uses models like Claude to assist with data analysis, hypothesis exploration, and research navigation. This feels like a shift away from “AI replaces researchers” toward “AI works alongside them.”

Adding to this, Nature published studies showing how AI can model brain and behavioural dynamics. One tool, AmadeusGPT, allows researchers to interactively analyse animal behaviour—something that would traditionally take weeks of manual work.

🧠 Reasoning & Intelligence Milestones

Google has rolled out Gemini 3 Deep Think mode for subscribers. This version is designed for long-form reasoning, and early results show strong performance in mathematics, science, and logic-heavy tasks. It’s clearly aimed at users who want fewer fast answers and more thought-out ones.

In another interesting development, researchers found that GPT-4.5 passed the Turing Test better than humans 73% of the time in short conversations. While this doesn’t prove AGI, it does suggest that conversational intelligence is now crossing human-like thresholds in specific settings.

⚙️ Open Source & Strategy Shifts

The original authors of the Transformer paper have launched Rnj-1, a new open-source AI model trained entirely from scratch. The goal is explicit: strengthen US-led AI development amid rising global competition, particularly from China.

Meanwhile, OpenAI has reportedly paused expansion plans around ads, shopping agents, and its Pulse assistant. The company is instead refocusing on core ChatGPT improvements, likely due to increasing pressure from Google, Anthropic, and open-source alternatives.

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Cheers,

Keval, Editor