Tooling5d ago
GitHub Copilot Automations go team-wide: repo-owned shared automations, 24 new triggers, 20 new tools and AI credit limits
At GitHub Universe on Oct 28, GitHub shipped a batch of Copilot Automations updates. Shared automations now belong to the repository, act as Copilot, bill AI credits to the repo owner and keep running after their creator leaves. Automations gain 24 new GitHub event triggers, REST API triggers from external systems and chaining, plus 20 new tools and custom MCP servers. Teams can cap AI credits per run, day, week or month, automations can propose improvements to their own prompts from real outcomes, and VS Code 1.144 can run them in the cloud.
Release4d ago
Mistral releases the open weights of Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk": a 1T-total, ~52B-active multimodal MoE that Mistral says leads open models on FrontierCode 2.0
On Oct 29 Mistral released an improved Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) with open weights on Hugging Face (plus an NVFP4 quantized checkpoint), served on its API as mistral-large-4. After about three more weeks of reinforcement learning since the early-October preview, Mistral reports 19.7% on FrontierCode 2.0, Terminal-Bench 4.0 up from 28% to 41%, and new low/medium/high reasoning modes. The license is a modified MIT that allows commercial use, but running a model-as-a-service business needs a separate commercial license.
Research12d ago
Alibaba Tongyi Labs Open-Sources OpenGCUA: Full-Stack Generalist Computer-Use Agent Cutting OSWorld Steps by 53%
Alibaba Tongyi Labs (Tongyi-MAI) has published and open-sourced OpenGCUA (arXiv:2610.22200), establishing a fully open software stack for Generalist Computer Use Agents. Moving beyond brittle single-click GUI paradigms, OpenGCUA introduces a 'Code-Execution-as-Action' framework combining visual screen perception, accessibility trees, bash scripts, and Playwright APIs into unified programmatic execution blocks. Evaluated across eight frontier models on OSWorld-v2, OpenGCUA boosted mean scores by +19.6 points while cutting task steps by 53.0%, releasing an Apache-2.0 macOS menu-bar harness and Cross-Device SDK.
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