| WELCOME | Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. . | | TOP LAUNCHES | Claude tops the coding ladders | | Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest flagship model built for heavy coding, agent workflows, and full computer-use tasks. It delivers stronger reasoning, faster multi-step execution, and more efficient token use, giving teams a top-tier model for deep technical work. Gatling Studio lets you record a real browser session and turn it into a clean load test in minutes. Click through your product, hit stop, and it hands you usable code you can drop straight into your CI or IDE. No rebuilding flows by hand, no digging through noisy recordings Comet for Android brings an actual assistant into your mobile browsing. Open a page, ask something, get a summary, clean up your tabs, pull research, whatever — and it all happens right inside the browser. No app-hopping. No juggling. Just a browser that actually does some of the work for you. Pavis gives you a live transcript of your conversations and flags manipulation tactics the moment they happen. It catches things like pressure pushes, guilt pivots, fake urgency, shaky claims, and gives you simple follow-up questions so you don’t get talked into something you didn’t agree to. Dimension is an AI that connects with your calendar, email, Slack and Drive and actually acts. It sees context behind what you’re working on, takes over busy-work like briefing you for a stand-up or fixing a broken deployment, and lets your messy stack finally stop feeling like your life.
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| | WHAT’S HOT | Google cuts the flattery | | Written by Jeff Benson | This week, Google’s war with OpenAI deepened when it dropped Gemini 3, the first major update to its AI model in eight months. | While no one’s confusing Gemini 3 with Grok (which shipped 4.1 this week), this version supposedly won’t care too much about being nice. The CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, wrote that the upgrade meant “trading cliché and flattery for genuine insight — telling you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.” | That is amazing, Google, and how perceptive and thoughtful of you to…oh, sorry. What we meant to say is that we’ll have to see whether users respond better to the upgrade than they did to OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout in August. GPT-4o stans revolted when they learned that GPT-5’s emergence meant they’d be losing access to the previous model. Within a week, OpenAI brought 4o back from beyond the sunset. | Developers are wasting no time putting Gemini 3 to work: | Google Antigravity, which lets people run multiple coding agents in an IDE, launched this week and uses Gemini 3 Pro. Trickle, a 2023 Golden Kitty runner-up that leverages AI to vibecode webapps, upgraded to tap into Gemini 3. “Self-evolving IDE” Dropstone, which just dropped last week, now lets you “plug the Gemini 3 API into Dropstone to get Google-level reasoning with Dropstone-level memory and control.”
| And, of course, Gemini 3 will be just about everywhere Google is, including its web searches, at a time when browsers and LLMs are starting to merge. Google injected Gemini straight into Chrome’s veins in September. The following month, OpenAI made its own browser, Atlas, that runs on ChatGPT. | |
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| FROM THE FORUMS | Who’s winning the AI dev stack? | | fmerian started a thread asking: “Did Anthropic win the AI coding race?” He points out how the latest Claude release from Anthropic has stirred things up, and now the community’s weighing in — not just on benchmarks, but on what “winning” even means in this space. | If you’ve been watching AI coding tools, this is where people are dropping their current verdicts, surprises and doubts. | |
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