Tooling6d ago
Factory launches Droid 1.0: programmatic tool calling by default, hundreds of tool calls per model request, leads native harnesses on its own Terminal-Bench 4 runs
AI coding agent company Factory announced Droid 1.0 on X and its blog at 22:31 UTC on Oct 29, calling it the largest update yet to its agent harness. The key change makes programmatic tool calling (PTC) the default: the model writes a JavaScript program that runs up to hundreds of tool calls in a sandbox in one model request. In Factorys own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scored 57.6% with GPT-6.1 Sol ($0.79 per passed task) and 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 ($4.73), ahead of Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode and Devin on the same models.
Benchmark8d ago
Artificial Analysis launches Intelligence Index v5: 60% private test sets, Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 58 and the open-weights gap widens to 12 points
On Oct 28 independent evaluator Artificial Analysis released Intelligence Index v5, its biggest revision since v4 in January: it adds Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 and Terminal-Bench-Science, swaps Humanity's Last Exam for HLE-Diamond, and now draws 60% of its weight from private or held-out test sets. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58, ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 57 and GPT-6.1 Sol at 55; the top open-weights model, Kimi K3.1 Pro (weights not yet released), scores 46, widening the gap from 3 points in v4.3 to 12. It also launched Progress Index v1 for comparing models across years.
Release11d ago
BOSS Zhipin's Nanbeige lab open-sources Nanbeige4.3-33B, a 33B dense agent model with 512K context under Apache 2.0, reporting 80.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 vs 73.0 for Qwen3.8-27B
At 12:11 UTC on 2026-10-25, the Nanbeige LLM Lab of BOSS Zhipin (Kanzhun Limited) announced Nanbeige4.3-33B from its account @nanbeige (post), with the model and its Base version released as open weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 (model card). It is a 33B dense model on a Llama-style architecture with a 512K context window, positioned as the teacher model of the Nanbeige4.3 series that will be distilled into smaller models such as Nanbeige4.3-3B. The official model card compares it with Qwen3.8-27B, Muse-Glimmer-30B and Gemma4-31B using the same harness at highest thinking effort: 80.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Qwen3.8-27B 73.0) and 65.5 on DeepSWE (42.5), but 60.3 on SWE-Bench Pro, slightly below Qwen's 61.7, and 84.8 on GDPval vs 86.4. All figures are self-reported and not yet independently reproduced.
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