#Agent

OpenAI's median researcher used $601 of coding-agent inference a day at API prices, up from under $1, in January 2026. Eoch AI's new report. > OpenAI researchers' coding-agent usage, valued at API list prices, is doubling roughly every month > By mid-August 2026, the median researcher used $601 a day and about $2M a year, roughly matching or exceeding what employing a researcher costs. > This pace probably can't last, since one more year would reach about $185M per median researcher, and list-price figures reveal nothing about what OpenAI actually spends.

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Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active. - Frontier reasoning efficiency - Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic tasks - Trained end-to-end from scratch Full weights release this month. Learn more about Beam: http://reflection.ai/beam

Hi! I work on Cowork. Probably no surprise, but we want to make our users as powerful as possible with Claude - and you're right that explaining and keeping up with the capabilities is hard. Affected users got both an email and an in-app notice, but I'm grateful for the feedback - I think this change was more surprising to people than I'd like it to be. This one will be a longer explainer, bear with me! The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, and security reasons - mapping in just the data you explicitly added to your session. People loved what they were able to do with Claude but didn't love the disk, battery, and performance cost of running the VM locally. Also, people didn't love that closing your laptop means the work stops. The "new" version of Cowork runs model inference and the VM in the cloud. Each session gets its own sandbox, not sharing state with other sessions. When the VM needs something on the users' device (like a file), the desktop app is responsible for that file access tool call. To be clear, Claude will only access files in folders that the user explicitly added to the session, the same way Claude only saw files explicitly added to the VM in the "old" version. Sandboxes are destroyed when the session ends! We think this solves a lot of problems we've heard about (like using Cowork from a phone, keeping work running, or getting all the same power without losing battery to the VM) - but we'll keep iterating on new feedback we hear!

Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active. - Frontier reasoning efficiency - Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic tasks - Trained end-to-end from scratch Full weights release this month. Learn more about Beam: http://reflection.ai/beam

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You can’t safely test an enterprise agent on a real company’s data. So we built a company for it to work in. Era is live today, and it’s free. It generates a complete simulated enterprise that behaves like a real one across Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Zendesk, Gong, Deel and more, along with cloud databases and storage. Agents interact with it through live MCP and API interfaces. People leave. Deals change. Records get duplicated. Permissions differ across systems. And because Era generated the company, it knows the exact ground truth. Test, benchmark and improve agents against realistic enterprise workloads, use the failures for targeted post-training, then rerun the same environment to measure the impact. Huge thanks to our research partners @NVIDIA, @Decart, @Composio, @openlayerco, @Deel, @Eragon and @Plurai, with more coming soon.

Everyone got a coding agent. Nobody got a QA engineer. Until today. Meet Ship, your Autonomous Quality Engineer. It tests deployed PRs, reproduces bugs from Slack and Linear, and hands Claude or Codex the context to fix them. Try it free: https://ship.contextqa.com