AI Automation Research & Market Insights
Data-informed perspectives on the AI agent market, automation trends, and what they mean for how non-technical professionals and lean teams get work done.
- 51 Research Run Kimi K3 Locally: The 0.8 Token Reality
Run Kimi K3 locally on CPU with ~55GB RAM? The binary exists, its license grants no permission to use it, and decode runs at 0.8 tokens per second.
- 52 Research AI Agent Sandbox: What It Is and Isn't
An AI agent sandbox is where your agent's code actually runs. How Cloudflare Computer builds one on Durable Objects, what its benchmarks show, and the limits.
- 53 Research LoopX: A Control Plane for Agent Loops
LoopX is a local state kernel that keeps objectives, gates, evidence and quota stable while Codex or Claude Code runs. What it does, and what it refuses to do.
- 54 Research AI Agent Evaluation: The 56% Pass Ceiling
AI agent evaluation on 107 real business tasks: the best model passes 56.1%, and the same model shifts 7 points depending on which harness runs it.
- 55 Research What Is reverse-skill? A Security Skill Router
reverse-skill hit 14K GitHub stars routing AI agents through security work. What it is, why the 10K-in-a-day claim is wrong, and the authorization line.
- 56 Research What Is Numbat? Perplexity Agent Guard
Numbat is Perplexity's open-source agent security suite for coding agents. How hooks, 52 rules, and monitor-only defaults work after the HF incident.
- 57 Research OptMem: Permanent Memory in 426 Tokens
OptMem stores agent memory in plain files instead of a vector store, in a 426-token prompt. What that buys you, what it costs, and where it breaks.
- 58 Research Alibaba's open-code-review, Explained
Alibaba open-code-review is free and Apache-2.0. What the hybrid rules-plus-LLM design buys you, what it actually costs to run, and who it fits.
- 59 Research Kimi K3 Technical Report: What It Reveals
Moonshot's 47-page Kimi K3 technical report: the KDA architecture, a WebDev Arena first, real cost curves, and a cyber eval most coverage skipped.
- 60 Research Opus 5 Code Review: Precise but Noisier
In CodeRabbit's own test, Opus 5 wrote more precise review comments but caught fewer known bugs and 4x the nitpicks. What that means for your code review agent.