Ben's Bites: Anthropic IPO filing breakdown, GPT-6.1 Terra, Kimi K3.1 Pro and more
Ben's Bites · rss · 2026-10-27
This week's Ben's Bites leads with the question "Is Anthropic the best business in the world?" and links the author's visual breakdown of Anthropic's IPO filing.
Key items:
- OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra targets computer use and writing; a strong $20-plan daily driver at half the price of Sol.
- Kimi K3.1 Pro ships as an open-source model benchmarked at Opus 5.5 level.
- Block's speech model Dessa can listen and speak simultaneously (author is skeptical of the hype); 1Password for Agents can sign agents into sites without exposing passwords.
- Open-source releases: Browserbase's BELL personal assistant stack, Reduck for reliable agent web access around anti-bot walls, pwn.watch for scheduled security monitoring, and Cloudflare's experimental Coworkers for AI teammates.
- Thorsten Ball shares his agent workflow: describe outcomes, generate variations, request proof, and use scheduled checks instead of constant back-and-forth.
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