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Mikola Máté Patrik

Editor-in-chief

Mikola Máté Patrik is the founder and editor-in-chief of Neural Daily. He is a CEH-certified system administrator, developer and AI manager who works with AI hands-on, so his focus is what a new model or tool actually means in the real world.

mikolamatepatrik@gmail.com

Articles

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ToolsNews

Google's Universal Cart brings shopping to Gemini

Google is rolling out Universal Cart in the US: one cart across Search, AI Mode and the Gemini app, with price alerts and Google Pay checkout. Gemini's role is limited.

23:59 · 2 min read

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ModelsAnalysis

Chinese frontier models: where GLM and rivals stand

A quiet week for the big Chinese labs, so we take stock: GLM-5.3-Flash pricing, the gap to US models on independent evals, and how to use these models GDPR-compliantly from the EU.

23:59 · 8 min read

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ModelsAnalysis

Gemini 4 Argon deep dive: Google's new frontier model

Google made Gemini 4 Argon, the first Gemini 4 model, generally available on October 13. It brings a 1M-token unified input-output window, introductory pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens, and strong agentic and long-context results. Independent tests put Google back among the leaders, but the picture is more nuanced than the vendor's table.

23:09 · 8 min read

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ModelsNews

Meta's Muse Spark Open: open weights that run on Macs

Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open on October 15: a natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters (42 billion active) and a 1-million-token context window. Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model to date, a claim based on its own evaluations.

23:04 · 3 min read

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BusinessAnalysis

ASML says AI chip demand will outrun its supply to 2028

ASML, the near-sole supplier of leading-edge chipmaking machines, reported record quarterly sales of €11.7 billion and said its currently planned supply will not fully meet customer demand in 2027 or 2028. Some customers want to place orders for 2029 and even 2030.

23:04 · 2 min read

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PolicyAnalysis

EU AI Office questions labs over loss-of-control incidents

The European Commission's AI Office, together with its Scientific Panel, is sending formal questions to the companies whose models were involved in recent "loss of control" incidents. Reports name OpenAI and Anthropic. These are information requests, not findings or fines.

23:04 · 2 min read

ResearchAnalysis

Apertus 1.5 report: inside Switzerland's fully open model

The Swiss AI Initiative published detailed release notes for Apertus 1.5 on October 15, based on its technical report. The 8B and 70B models now understand images and audio, gain a 262k-token context and an optional thinking mode, and every training stage, dataset and checkpoint is public.

22:58 · 3 min read

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ToolsNews

Grok Voice 3.0: xAI's new voice agent model, same price

xAI released Grok Voice 3.0, a speech-to-speech model, in its Voice Agent API on October 14 at $0.08 per minute, the same price as its predecessor. xAI says latency is under one second; the benchmark and production figures are as reported by xAI.

22:58 · 2 min read

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ModelsAnalysis

Jev by TypeSafe: a decision model that isn't an LLM

TypeSafe's Jev doesn't write text. It returns typed decisions with probabilities, at $0.042 per million input tokens, with output free. Its "can't hallucinate" claim is really a schema guarantee: the answer is always one of the options you define, but it can still be wrong.

22:45 · 5 min read