[Dev Catch Up # 90] - Claude Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, DeepSeekMath V2, Shopping Research to ChatGPT, FLUX.2, Flowglad, Cloudflare Vs AWS Vs Azure, Stanford’s agentic reviewer, Gitlogue, and more!
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Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.5. It brings stronger coding and reasoning. It is built for agentic multi step workflow. The pricing is lower when compared to Opus 4.1. Its SWE bench score stays ahead of other models. Check Anthropic’s announcement on Claude Opus 4.5 for more details.
Google has released Nano Banana Pro, the new image model built on Gemini 3 Pro. It can turn prompts into clear visuals like infographics, diagrams and storyboards. It has the ability to render long multilingual text inside images. Check Google’s Nano Banana Pro announcement for more details.
OpenAI has added Shopping Research to ChatGPT. It helps you compare products and its features. It reduces the time you spend searching for the right product. It also learns from your feedback and shows better matches as you refine your choices. Check OpenAI’s Shopping Research announcement for more details.
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.2, their new image model. It creates cleaner images with better faces, clearer text, and more steady output for prompts. It also has improved editing controls so you can adjust images without losing quality. Check the FLUX 2 announcement for more details.
OSS Highlight of the Week
This week we are featuring Flowglad. It is an open-source payment and billing infrastructure. It removes the usual pain of plans, prices, trials, and usage tracking. It acts as your single source of truth, so you do not manage billing tables, sync jobs, or webhooks. It works with your existing user IDs and handles billing checks for you, without any new customer IDs. Check Flowglad’s GitHub Repo for more details.
Good to know
I came across a table that compares Cloudflare, AWS, and Azure. It compares their storage, serverless, database, and container services in matching rows. So, you can see each service and its strengths at a glance. Useful if you want a quick comparison on Cloudflare Vs AWS Vs Azure.
Zerobyte is a simple backup automation tool. It allows you to schedule encrypted backups across different storage. You can also manage them from a clean web interface. Check the zerobyte GitHub repo to explore more on backup automation.
Gitlogue is a Git commit replay tool for the terminal. It plays your git history like a short film. It shows each change step by step, so you can see how the code evolved instead of reading long logs. Check the Gitlogue tool to learn more.
Tencent has open sourced HunyuanOCR, a lightweight model that can read text from images. It supports detection, recognition, document parsing, subtitle extraction, and even photo translation. Check HunyuanOCR GitHub repo to know more features.
Notable FYIs
Andrew Ng has built and open-sourced Stanford’s agentic reviewer tool. It reads your research paper and gives clear feedback in minutes. You upload a PDF and get fast, grounded comments instead of waiting months for a review. Check Stanford’s agentic reviewer tool to know how it works.
DeepSeek has released DeepSeekMath V2, a new model for hard math problems. It does not just aim for the final answer. It checks its own reasoning steps and fixes mistakes before moving to the next step. Check the DeepSeekMath V2 GitHub repo to know more.
Microsoft has introduced FARA 7B. It is a small agent model that can control a computer and handle tasks on its own. It is made for fast and simple automation. Check the FARA 7B page for more details.
Headlamp is a web UI for Kubernetes. You can use it in your cluster or as a desktop app. It can show many clusters, let you view logs, run commands, and edit resources in a clean and simple screen. It also follows your RBAC rules, so you only see actions you are allowed to do. Check the Headlamp GitHub repo to try it.
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That comparison table for Cloudflare vs AWS vs Azure is realy useful, especially for teams evaluating contaner orchestration options. The way you break down storage and serverless side by side makes it way easier to see tradeoffs. I'm curious how you think these platforms stack up once you start mixing serverless with stateful workloads?