Anthropic Allows to Connect AI Apps to Tools and Data Through MCP

Anthropic launched Integrations this month, a new way to connect apps and tools to its AI assistant Claude. It also announced that it has expanded its Advanced Research capability to allow this chatbot to search the web, users' Google Workspace, and its Integrations. These tools, available in beta for paid users, are part of the company's effort to compete with Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT. In November, Anthropic launched its MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard connecting AI apps to tools and data. With Integrations, Claude can work seamlessly with remote MCP servers across web and desktop apps. Several Integrations from Anthropopic partners, such as Atlassian, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Square, and PayPal, expand what Claude can do. For example, the Atlassian Integration lets Claude summarize and create pages in Atlassian’s Confluence workplace software.

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GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 Mini, and GPT‑4.1 Nano, New OpenAI Models with Context Windows with Up to 1M Tokens

OpenAI launched three new models — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano — in its API this month, featuring larger context windows (up to 1 million tokens) and improved performance in coding and instruction over GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o mini. "To this end, the GPT‑4.1 model family offers exceptional performance at a lower cost," said the company. "For tasks that demand low latency, GPT‑4.1 nano is our fastest and cheapest model available; it delivers exceptional performance at a small size with its 1 million token context window." Only available via the API, GPT‑4.1 arrives as OpenAI rivals like Google and Anthropic released, respectively, Gemini 2.5 Pro, which also has a 1-million-token context window, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Also, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek launched an upgraded V3. "OpenAI’s ambition is to create an “agentic software engineer,” as CFO Sarah Friar put it during a tech summit in London last month. GPT-4.1 costs $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens. GPT-4.1 mini is $0.40/million input tokens and $1.60/million output tokens, and GPT-4.1 nano is $0.10/million input tokens and $0.40/million output tokens. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on the race to build artificial general intelligence (Goldman Sachs’ Disruptive Tech Summit in London on March 5, 2025) "And then the third that is coming is what we call A-SWE. We're not the best marketers, by the way, you might have noticed. But Agentic… https://t.co/oFd0SKGu3S — Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) April 12, 2025  

Brisk AI Teaching Assistant Chrome Extension Reached 2,000 K-12 Schools

Over 2,000 K-12 schools in 100 countries have installed Brisk’s Chrome extension, which allows teachers to write lesson plans, tests, and presentations, and grade work, since its launch in February 2025. With 40 tools, the platform uses generative AI, computer vision, and other features. The most popular tool in the stack, “Targeted Feedback,” uses generative AI to read student essays (on Google Docs) and create comments tailored to age, a grading rubric, or other standards. Before sharing anything with students, teachers can review and edit the comments. "The existing edtech stack as we know it, which is around 140 different tools that the average teacher in the U.S. uses in a given school year, is not ready for AI," said Brisk’s CEO and founder, Arman Jaffer. The San Francisco-based Brisk raised $15 million in funding with investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Owl Ventures, South Park Commons, and Springbank Collective. The funding will be used in part to build more tools, and in part to expand to more platforms. A Microsoft integration, aimed at the many Microsoft shop schools, is planned for autumn 2025.

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OpenAI Made Its Latest Image Generator Available In Its API for Developers

OpenAI released the image generation feature of ChatGPT to its API on Wednesday, allowing developers to integrate it into their apps and services. Launched in late March, this feature went viral for its ability to create realistic Ghibli Studio-style photos and AI action figures. Over 130 million ChatGPT users created more than 700 million images in just the first week of the tool’s availability, according to the company. OpenAI's natively multimodal model, gpt-image-1, can create images across different styles, follow custom guidelines, leverage world knowledge, and render text. Developers can generate multiple images at a time using gpt-image-1 and control the generation quality, thereby adjusting the speed. All images created are watermarked with C2PA metadata, allowing them to be identified as AI-generated by supported platforms and apps. According to OpenAI, gpt-image-1 employs the same safety guardrails as image generation in ChatGPT. Pricing is $5 per million input tokens for text and $10 per million input tokens for images, and $40 per million output tokens for images. That translates to around 2 cents, 7 cents, and 19 cents per generated image for low, medium, and high-quality square images, respectively. OpenAI said that companies like Adobe, Airtable, Wix, Instacart, GoDaddy, Canva, and Figma are already using or experimenting with gpt-image-1. Figma’s Figma Design platform, for example, now allows users to generate and edit images via gpt-image-1, while Instacart is testing the model for images related to recipes and shopping lists. imagegen is launched in the openai api! build cool stuff plz — Sam Altman (@sama) April 23, 2025

OpenAI Released the Smartest Agentic Models o3 and o4-Mini

OpenAI released this month o3 and o4-mini, the smartest models trained to think for longer before responding, typically in under a minute. These agentic models can search the web for public utility data, write Python code to build a forecast, generate a graph or image, and explain the key factors behind the prediction, chaining together multiple tool calls. They tackle multi-faceted questions and produce detailed and thoughtful answers to solve more complex problems. OpenAI o3 is our most powerful reasoning model that pushes the frontier across coding, math, science, visual perception, and more," said OpenAI. "It performs especially strongly at visual tasks like analyzing images, charts, and graphics. In evaluations by external experts, o3 makes 20 percent fewer major errors than OpenAI o1 on difficult, real-world tasks—especially excelling in areas like programming, business/consulting, and creative ideation." OpenAI o4-mini is a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning—it achieves remarkable performance in math, coding, and visual tasks.  

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