Hey — here's this week's AI roundup from silv.blog.

Curated from ~150 tweets liked by @mattsilv, Apr 5 - Apr 16, 2026:

AI for Everyone

Claude Opus 4.7 ships with triple the vision resolution. Same pricing as 4.6 ($5/$25 per million tokens), but Opus 4.7 accepts 2,576px images and double-checks itself more aggressively. Swap the model ID and hand it harder work. Read more →

Perplexity Personal Computer on Mac. A native app that drives your local files, apps, and browser. Max subscribers today, waitlist behind them. Read more →

Gemini comes to Mac as a native Swift app. First time Gemini runs outside a browser tab. Josh Woodward's team shipped 100+ features in under 100 days. Read more →

GPT-5.4 Pro claims a 60-year-old Erdős problem. Reportedly solved Problem #1196 in ~80 minutes of one-shot reasoning. The proof hasn't been verified by a mathematician yet, so treat this as "interesting if it holds up." Read more →

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS with audio tags. Drop [excited] or [whispered] into the prompt and the model acts on it. 30 voices, 100+ languages. Prompting it feels like directing a voice actor. Read more →

Perplexity Personal Finance with Plaid, free for all users. Link your accounts, ask about your spending. A decent Mint replacement even on the free tier. Read more →

Claude for Word enters beta. Team and Enterprise plans. Draft and revise from a sidebar with tracked changes preserved. The integration point where non-technical knowledge workers finally meet Claude. Read more →

AI for Developers

Cloudflare Agents Week dumps a full agent stack. Email Service with onEmail hook, post-quantum encrypted Mesh, Sandboxes GA, a renamed Browser Run with Live View and 4x concurrency, Registrar API for agent-owned domains, and an agentic dashboard. Every layer. Read more →

Opus 4.7 in Claude Code with a new xhigh effort level. Between high and max, trades latency for more reasoning. Max users get auto mode. Cat Wu: treat it like an engineer you delegate to, not a pair programmer. Read more →

OpenAI Codex gets computer use on macOS. Click and type in any app, gpt-image-1.5 baked in, thread automations that wake up to continue work. Plus plugins, SSH into devboxes, and document editing. Read more →

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B under Apache 2.0. Sparse MoE, 35B total, 3B active. Unsloth's 4-bit GGUF runs on 23GB of RAM, which puts a real coding model inside a lot of laptops. Read more →

Claude Code Routines in research preview. Saved prompt + repo + connectors, triggered on cron, GitHub events, or per-routine API endpoints. Runs on Anthropic's cloud. I've been waiting for this one. Read more →

Mythos Preview leaks in the Opus 4.7 launch chart. Anthropic's next model beats 4.7 on SWE-bench Pro by 13, Terminal-Bench by 13, HLE by 10. AISI confirmed it's the first model to complete their cyber range end-to-end. Read more →

Claude Managed Agents. Hosted service that splits harness, session, and sandbox into separate components. p50 time-to-first-token down 60% vs running your own harness. Read more →

Claude Code desktop app redesigned for parallel work, much faster. If you bounced off the first version, worth another look. Read more →

Claude Code Monitor tool streams background processes. kubectl logs -f | grep ERROR — Claude watches, opens a PR when it finds errors. Read more →

Honorable Mentions

• Physical Intelligence π0.7 — robots composing skills they learned separately (air fryer + sweet potato)
• Gemma 4 — 10M downloads in week one, 500M total across the family
• Claude advisor strategy — Opus 4.7 as advisor + Sonnet as executor, 2.7pts higher on SWE-bench Multilingual, 11.9% cheaper
• GLM 5.1 — first frontier-level open model in Code Arena's top three
• NVIDIA Ising — first open AI model family for quantum computing
• Voxtral — Mistral's 4B TTS, 70ms latency, 3-second voice cloning
• Shopify Autoresearch — 65% faster Polaris builds, open-sourced as pi-autoresearch
• Sequoia's thesis — sell the work, not the software

Try This Weekend

For everyone: Install Gemini on Mac, try Perplexity Personal Computer if you're on Max, link Perplexity Personal Finance with Plaid, or ask Gemini to build an interactive 3D visualization of something you're learning.

For developers: Switch to Opus 4.7 with xhigh effort in Claude Code, set up a Claude Code Routine on a GitHub event, run Qwen3.6 locally via Unsloth's 4-bit GGUF, or build an email agent with Cloudflare Email Service.

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