Today’s clearest signal across all ten labs: the agent is now the product, not the chatbot. DeepSeek moved its agent-first V4-Pro to general availability, Perplexity piped regulated multi-bank wealth data into its Computer agent, and Cohere pushed agent orchestration deeper into the enterprise — all inside a single news cycle. Perplexity What happened Perplexity partnered …

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Today the frontier AI race quietly relocated – off the cloud and onto the desk. Perplexity and Nvidia shipped a fully local AI agent the same week OpenAI made its case for owning the entire compute stack, while Europe’s sovereignty bloc hardened around the EU AI Act. The through-line for B2B buyers: where your agents …

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Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity at a valuation north of $30 billion — a signal that AI’s money is consolidating around the compute-and-inference layer even faster than around the models themselves. From OpenAI switching on ads across Europe to a leadership earthquake at Google DeepMind, today was about who controls the …

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The whole field pivoted to agents at once. Perplexity, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and DeepSeek all shipped agent-first releases this cycle, and 500K-to-1M-token context windows have quietly become table stakes rather than a headline feature. The contest is moving from which model is smartest to which agent finishes the job. Perplexity What happened Perplexity shipped …

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AI hallucination in proposals is a commercial risk, not a typo. Why answer traceability beats generated prose when your signature is on the bid.

How long does it take to respond to an RFP? The benchmark is 33 hours. Here is what sits inside those hours, and which of them you can actually cut.