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Radar Trends to Watch: May 2025

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Published: May 6, 2025 20:26

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has received a lot of attention for standardizing the way models communicate with tools, making it much easier to build intelligent agents. Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) now adds features that were left out of the…

Radar Trends to Watch: May 2025

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Published: May 6, 2025 09:58

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has received a lot of attention for standardizing the way models communicate with tools, making it much easier to build intelligent agents. Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) now adds features that were left out of the…

Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025

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Published: April 1, 2025 10:30

March has been the biggest month that Trends has ever had. In addition to almost daily announcements about AI, a lot has been going on in programming, in security, in operations (which usually doesn’t merit its own topic), and even in quantum computing.…

Radar Trends to Watch: March 2025

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Published: March 4, 2025 11:00

Anthropic’s announcement of Claude 3.7 Sonnet notwithstanding, the breakneck pace of major AI announcements seemed to slow down through February. That gave us some time to look at some other topics. Two important posts about programming appeared: Salvatore…

Radar Trends to Watch: February 2025

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Published: February 4, 2025 11:10

Last month, DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model (now apparently named DeepThink), with capabilities similar to OpenAI o1. What’s important about DeepSeek isn’t its benchmark results; there are a number of models on the same level as o1. What’s…

Radar Trends to Watch: January 2025

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Published: January 7, 2025 11:13

Despite its 31 days, December is a short month. It’s hard for announcements and happenings other than office parties to get attention. Fighting this trend, OpenAI made a series of announcements: their “12 Days of OpenAI.” Not to be upstaged, Google…

Radar Trends to Watch: December 2024

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Published: December 3, 2024 11:10

It’s the end of the year for Radar! We hope all of our readers enjoy the holidays. Here’s one prediction for 2025: Is this the end of the road for improving LLM performance by scaling either the number of parameters or the training data? No one knows yet.…

Radar Trends to Watch: November 2024

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Published: November 5, 2024 11:04

October had many language model releases. The mid-size models, and even the small models, are catching up to frontier models like GPT-4.5o in performance. But the release that blew us all away wasn’t a language model: It was Claude’s computer use API.…

Radar Trends to Watch: October 2024

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Published: October 1, 2024 09:55

The model release train continues, with Mistral’s multimodal Pixtral 12B, OpenAI’s o1 models, and Roblox’s model for building 3D scenes. We also have another important AI-enabled programming tool: Cursor is an alternative to GitHub Copilot that’s getting…

Radar Trends to Watch: September 2024

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Published: September 3, 2024 10:00

This month, we’ll give AI a rest. Alex Russell has finished an excellent series of posts titled, “Reckoning.” It’s a must-read for web developers. If you want to understand why our networks and laptops are much faster than they were 15-20 years ago, but…