Microsoft Ignite starts next week, November 17! The MAI team is bringing something new: new models, demos, and speaker sessions from the people who built them.
every company wants to build cloud-based autonomous agents for internal work and to power products. we built Claude Managed Agents as the API platform for building the most powerful AND the most secure agentic systems.
starting today, companies can host it themselves. we've iterated over the past year towards what we believe is the very best architecture for performance and safety. plus: agent identity for governance, otel for observability, and kill switches for peace of mind.
last but not least, for the first time, we are shipping a real evals product with self-hosted managed agents, so you can hillclimb to the consistently high quality outcomes you need your agents to achieve.
we've already got customers building systems to solve the world's hardest problems. bio research, chip design, and we're seeing people build serious software factories on this thing.
im really proud of this one. our team is so insanely focused on building the platform that makes it possible to leverage models to solve crazy problems safely and securely. this is a big step, and we can't wait to see what you build.
Today, Search is getting a massive upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen! It’s the biggest model improvement to Search yet. And it’s available now for all users, globally.
Why it’s awesome:
- Crazy fast
- Cutting-edge intelligence, with advanced reasoning, more precise instruction following, and better tool calling
- More visual responses, including images and custom tables, charts, and simulations
- More scannable response layout
- Better understanding of intent (including for long multi-part queries with ambiguous typos)
- Broader range of links to the web (improved reasoning -> more query fan-outs)
TL;DR: powerful and fast. Take Hydrogen for a spin in Search and let me know what you think!
one of the best ways to get the most out of grok bot is with our many connectors. the more context and tools your bot has, the more helpful it can be to your work and life!
try asking bot to look at messages from your family and update your calendar for important events
or look at messages from potential clients for your small business and help manage your bookings
Building software takes more than code generation. Here's what an effective agentic engineering workflow looks like with GitHub Copilot 👇 https://t.co/wGGKj5mVVD
Add expressive speech to any product. Eleven v4 Turbo: rich emotion, audio tags like [laughs] and [whispers], 90+ languages, ~150ms median time to first speech.
A lot of getting good work out of Claude now is just finding the context it’s missing and figuring out how to close that gap
Claude Meetings is one way to bring in the remaining slices and has proved very useful internally
Claude can now join your meetings as an active participant.
It’s unlike anything I’ve used on a call, it can:
• Build a doc or whiteboard live as you talk
• Check connected tools with your OK
• Answer the team when asked out loud
The work kicks off before the call ends.
Your dot now has…
⚡️ Faster replies
💬 Less jargon
🫡 Better follow-through
And, they can now follow your custom instructions. Tell your dot in the thread things like how to behave or which actions need your go-ahead.
“always talk in lowercase.”
“Show me a draft before sending any emails.”
You can also set custom instructions and rules in Customize > Behavior on mobile, or through your dot’s menu on web and desktop.
"software factory" is everywhere rn. my take:
most engineers use AI their own way, with their own prompts and setups. a software factory is when the company sets up its AI agents (AI that does tasks on its own) once, and every team uses those same ones, with the same tools, rules, and security
ex. a bug gets flagged, one agent finds the cause, another writes the fix and opens a PR, and a person reviews it
Claude Managed Agents is one way to build this. as of today you can self-host it (private beta), so the agents and their history can run in your own cloud
New video: @dejno and @luccasiau discuss how we launch new models on our API and the features that ship with them.
They also dig into how to rethink your harness and measure cost per task when you upgrade to a new model.
Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking.
Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
Mariko Mori has pushed the boundaries of art for three decades. For her retrospective "All That Shines," she used Claude to write code for a computer-generated animation, presented as a new video installation.
Claude joins as a visible participant. Ask it a question out loud or in chat, or have it start a doc. Your team can see what it’s building and correct it as it takes shape.
Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking.
Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen
While Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon are built for deep, long horizon reasoning, Gemini 4 Hydrogen brings cutting-edge intelligence to everyone — with speed and efficiency for everyday coding and agentic workflows.
Surpassing Argon on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at its default thinking level, at 2.5x the speed of Gemini 3.8 Flash, Hydrogen is engineered for high-velocity everyday work with:
— Multi-model orchestration & parallel agent workflows in Google @Antigravity
— Four tunable thinking levels for reasoning on demand (low to xhigh)
— Reliable harness execution for iterative coding & debugging
— Multimodal & embodied reasoning at scale
Start building with Gemini 4 Hydrogen today: with the Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio and @AndroidStudio, client-side via @Firebase AI Logic, in Google @Antigravity for paid Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and in Gemini for business.
Get the details: https://t.co/HJjLsBNA8M