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Welcome to another AI by Aakash. I follow the AI news, and test all the latest AI tools, so you don’t have to.
The personal agent market is THE trend of 2026. So we want to keep a pulse on all the top players. This week, OpenAI joined it with Dots.
The big question is: how does it compare to the other hotness out there like Instinct, Grokbot, and Hermes?
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I’ve been playing around with it since its release. And today, I am presenting you with my take - a complete guide to Dots (and whether it’s really worth your time).
But first, a word from our sponsors + this week’s top news.
Partnership
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Agents now read your docs more than people do. In August, sites on Mintlify logged 257 million agent requests against 131 million human page loads, and yet only 7% of the companies Mintlify surveyed have made every knowledge surface readable by an agent.
The 2026 State of Knowledge Report digs into that gap: why machine-readable content only gets you partway, how better navigation cut failed agent requests by 20x, and how teams at Anthropic, HubSpot, and Decagon are adapting. Your docs are where the work starts, and the report covers everything that has to come after them.
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News
The Week's Top News: Gemini 4 Argon is Out, But You Can’t Use It
After 7 months of mostly sitting on its hands, Google is back in the AI race with a frontier model. Google would like to have you believe it’s the best model with its chart showing it wins 12 of 15 benchmarks.
But it’s not the frontier, actually. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index publishes a composite index that helps you see it’s really tied for third place with GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1:
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The top two models right now are Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5. So, yes, Google is finally back in the top 3 labs. But, it’s 3rd best. And to use present tense itself is weird, because you can’t use it yet.
Google released it only to cyber defenders through the Fairwind program. Google is falling into the same trap as OpenAI of preannouncing models instead of releasing them the day of. Yes, Anthropic did this with Mythos, and that’s why Google is doing it. But Mythos was way ahead of the frontier, and Claude owned the frontier model at that time in Opus.
xAI and Anthropic are excelling in the department of announcing + rolling out the same day:
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It’s time for Google and OpenAI to catch up.
The other thing Google needs to do is ship more. Look at the pace of frontier releases by lab this year:
Anthropic: 7 releases, one every 38 days
xAI: 4 releases, one every 48 days
OpenAI: 4 releases, one every 61 days
Meta: 3 releases, one every 74 days
Google: 2 releases, one every 223 days