AI News for February 19.
Microsoft unveils a breakthrough in quantum computing and reveals their new generative AI game platform Claude gets extended thinking and Proxy takes on Operator here’s today’s AI news. Microsoft, under the name of Azure Quantum, unveiled a stunning update in the world of quantum computing.
A new quantum computing chip called Majorana 1 that uses a new state or matter called ‘Topoconductor’ to enhance the stability and scalability of quantum systems. Satya Nadella said, “most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid and gas.
Today, that changed.” This breakthrough should significantly reduce the errors usually associated with quantum computing and unlock many opportunities in the field. Satya also announced a new AI game development platform that is said to be coming soon to Copilot Labs.
In the video you can see an example of a game being generated and edited in real time. We can’t wait for this one. Claude got an extended thinking update today to bring it more in line with all of the other chain of thought models that we’ve seen recently. This also increased the speculation that Claude 4 might be dropping soon.
Finally, a company called Convergence released a rival to OpenAI’s Operator with a web browsing agent AI that can be used for free. We’ve already had a play with this one and we’re getting some really cool results. Can this small London startup generate a DeepSeek level impact with this amazing release?