🕵️ Anthropic rolls out Voice Mode for Claude
⏩ DeepSeek releases an upgraded R1 reasoning model on Hugging Face...
Hey AI enthusiasts! 👋 Happy Thursday and welcome back to The AI Journal, where we condense the week’s avalanche of breakthroughs into one sharp, five-minute read.
Today we’re talking voice-first Claude, a “fully agentic” browser, 685-billion-parameter reasoning models and more.
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Anthropic’s new Voice Mode for Claude
DeepSeek drops R1 update on Hugging Face
Opera teases its agentic “Neon” browser
and more…
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🎥 Reed Hastings joins Anthropic’s board - Netflix’s co-founder will advise Anthropic on scaling “AI for good” and ethical governance.
📈 DeepSeek releases an upgraded R1 reasoning model on Hugging Face - 685 B parameters, MIT-licensed and aimed at research & commercial use.
🤖 Opera’s “Neon” agentic browser can surf the web for you - Autonomous agents handle research, coding and even online shopping while you sleep.
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🔎 Deep Dive: Anthropic launches Voice Mode for Claude
Anthropic has begun rolling out a beta “voice mode” for its Claude assistant, letting iOS and Android users hold fully spoken conversations with the chatbot, no typing required.
💡 Key Highlights:
English-only beta with five synthetic voices that answer in real time.
Live bullet-point summaries appear on-screen as you talk, and full transcripts are saved to your chat history.
Users can switch seamlessly between voice and text mid-conversation.
Pro and Team tiers link Gmail and Google Calendar; Enterprise also hooks into Google Docs for richer context.
Voice exchanges count toward the same daily chat quota as text, so free-tier limits stay unchanged.
Launch positions Claude against voice assistants in ChatGPT, Gemini Live and Grok, as all three vie for hands-free dominance.
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🙋️ See You Monday
That’s a wrap for this Thursday’s edition. We hope Claude’s new voice inspires you to talk (literally) to your AI—and maybe let Opera’s Neon surf while you sleep.
See you Monday for more tools, tutorials and trends.
— The AI Journal Team 🤖
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