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Another day of what’s happening in AI/tech.View quoted post on X
New models, weights dropping, companies coming out of stealth, funding rounds and an acquisition announcement.
Here are 16 things from November 4 that caught my attention 👇
1. @cognition — SWE-2 Flash
A new coding model based on Thinking Machines’ Inkling-Small, with 276B total and 12B active parameters. Cognition says it’s 3× faster at one-fifth the cost of SWE-2. Free through November for Pro, Max and Teams users in Devin Desktop and CLI. A controlled weight-access program is planned for partners and researche
2. @Kimi_Moonshot — K3.1 Pro weights released
The weights are now on Hugging Face. @ollama also announced cloud access is coming shortly, with US hosting and zero data retention. Public weights are available; Ollama’s hosted rollout was still pending in its announcement. Weights
3. @TencentHunyuan — Hy4
Adds visual understanding and computer use for tasks involving images, charts and software interfaces. Hosted access is available now, with downloadable weights and system cards promised in the coming days.
4. @TencentHunyuan — HyCell and HyPDE
Tencent also announced two open-sourced scientific models: HyCell for single-cell representations and HyPDE for physics fields. These are research tools for biology and physics.
5. @OpenAI + @pierrecomputer — acquisition agreement
OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre, the team behind Code Storage and developer tools already used in Codex. The goal is to bring more Git, source-control and code-review capabilities into Codex. The deal still needs to close.
6. @phaze_in — $8.75M seed
The Parsec founders are back with remote workstations for people and AI agents. Think giving an agent access to a computer running demanding applications like Blender. a16z led the round.
7. @usecowboy — out of stealth with $5M
A platform for deploying and selling AI agents, skills, models and data feeds. Cowboy Cloud and its General Store are available now, giving developers somewhere to run their agents and offer them for hire.
8. @sentrasecurity — $150M
Capital One Ventures led the investment. Sentra helps companies find sensitive data, see which employees and agents can reach it, and remove risky permissions. As more agents get connected to company systems, that access becomes a bigger job to manage.
9. @CrowdStrike — detecting threats from internal AI agents
Announced Agent Insider Threat Detection and general availability of coordinated multi-agent investigations. The focus is recognizing abnormal agent behavior and investigating across systems, even when no existing rule has been broken.
10. Pliant — $80M Series C
Payment infrastructure for businesses and AI agents. The funding supports international expansion and its AI roadmap, including connecting agents directly to business payment workflows. Seaya Nova and Speedinvest led.
11. Brava Security — out of stealth with $15M
Building technology to test whether security systems would actually spot an attack. It models the evidence an attack would leave to expose gaps in monitoring and detection. F2 Venture Capital and Pitango led the seed round.
12. Shackleton AI — out of stealth with $5M
AI agents for construction paperwork and coordination: drafting requests for information, chasing overdue submissions, flagging budget changes and turning field notes into daily reports. Battery Ventures led.
13. Finpilot / @lakshay2001 — $10M Series A
AI agents for institutional investment teams at universities, pensions, foundations and hospitals. The focus is handling recurring information-gathering and operational work so those teams can spend more time on investment decisions. Lobby Capital led, with Madrona participating.
14. @CrediflowAI — £1.5M
Turns financial statements, bank records and borrower documents into structured credit analysis for commercial lenders. The funding supports product development and engineering hires.
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Today we’re announcing an $8.75M seed round for Phaze.
Companies aren’t ready for how many computers people and AI agents are about to need. And it’s happening just as computer prices are up 3x.
Chris and I spent years building Parsec to make a computer thousands of miles away feel like it’s sitting right in front of you. We sold that company, and we’re starting over because people aren’t the only users of computers anymore.
Now, agents need access to real computers to run applications, test software, and get work done. They need to work alongside people, hand off control when necessary, and operate within the security policies companies already have in place. And companies need to start managing computers like infrastructure.
That’s why we’re building @Phaze_in: secure, high-performance access to computers, wherever those machines happen to be.
An engineer can connect to a CAD workstation from any device and forget about being physically stuck at that workstation. A video editor can ask an AI agent to connect to a render machine to monitor and fix broken renders. An IT support person can fix multiple machines at the same time with an AI agent connecting to employees’ computers. If the agent needs help, it can hand control back to the technician in the same session.
We loved working with the firms who backed Parsec, so we’re running it back. Our Seed round is led by @martin_casado at @a16z, with @bryce at @indievc, @davidbeisel at @NextViewVC, @BenjLerer at @LererHippeau, and @Ryann_Lai at @makersfundvc.View quoted post on X
