Key Takeaways Cline has surpassed 5 million installs on the VS Code Marketplace, making it the most widely used open-source autonomous coding agent available for VS Code. The extension is Apache 2.0 licensed and completely free to install; you pay…
Key Takeaways Windsurf is an AI-native IDE built by Codeium, now owned by Cognition AI following a July 2025 acquisition that included the IDE product, IP, and $82M ARR. The Cascade agent is Windsurf’s core differentiator: it tracks your edits,…
Key Takeaways GPT-5.5 leads Terminal-Bench 2.0 at 82.7%, compared to Claude Opus 4.7 at 69.4% and Gemini 3.1 Pro at 68.5%. Claude Opus 4.7 wins SWE-bench Pro at 64.3%, ahead of GPT-5.5 (58.6%) and Gemini 3.1 Pro (54.2%), making it…
Key Takeaways Cursor 3 launched in April 2026 with a dedicated Agents Window that lets you run unlimited parallel AI agents, each in its own Git worktree, with cloud-to-local handoff support. Windsurf’s SWE-1.5 model scores 40.08% on SWE-bench while delivering…
Key Takeaways Suno v5.5, released March 26, 2026, adds voice cloning (“Voices”), Custom Models trained on your own tracks, and stronger dynamic range versus v5, but voice features require a paid plan. Udio v4 outputs 48kHz stereo audio and generates…
Key Takeaways Wispr Flow costs $15/month (or $12/month billed annually) and is the only tool here with cross-platform support across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android as of 2025. Superwhisper runs Whisper models entirely on your device, meaning voice data never…
Key Takeaways Granola captures system audio directly on your Mac or Windows desktop, meaning zero visible bot in the participant list, and it costs $14 per user per month on the Business plan. Read AI deploys a bot that joins…
Key Takeaways Microsoft Agent 365 is a governance and control plane for AI agents across an organization’s entire fleet, not a standalone AI assistant. It became generally available in May 2026 and is bundled into the Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier…
Key Takeaways Clay is a flexible data enrichment platform starting at $134/month, best for technically skilled GTM operators who want to build custom workflows from scratch. Unify is a signal-driven outbound platform starting at $1,460/month, best for BDR teams that…
Key Takeaways Gemini 3.1 Pro was released by Google DeepMind on February 19, 2026, as a point-version upgrade within the Gemini 3 series, optimized specifically for complex reasoning, scientific computation, and long-horizon agentic workflows. It scores 94.3% on GPQA Diamond…