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On October 8, Google Cloud announced the launch of Gemini Agent for enterprise customers at the Gemini at Work 2026 conference. The product is positioned as a “universal work agent” and supports Gemini Enterprise, Workspace, and third-party services. Google says Gemini Agents only need users to give them goals to get things done, answer questions, handle knowledge-based work, create media content, and write programs. In addition to acting as a personal assistant, the Gemini agent can also be used as a 'team member'. It can be a PM in a team, a financial analyst, etc. Currently, the agent supports Gemini and Claude models, and will be compatible with various closed-source and open-source models in the future. The official API will be available for developers to integrate Gemini Agent into third-party apps. (Source: IT House) Manus announced a new round of financing of $500 million on October 8, Manus parent company Butterfly Effect announced that it has recently completed a new round of financing of more than $500 million. This round of financing was led by Boyu Investment and IDG Capital, and continued to be supported by the old shareholders Tencent, Sequoia China and Zhenge Fund. That's less than a month after Manus officially announced its return to independent operations on Sept. 1. According to people close to Manus, after many setbacks, the team has not changed much and the state is stable, and the main attention is still focused on product development. According to relevant sources, the current round of financing targets a valuation of about $4 billion. Founder and CEO Xiao Hong left a footnote for this experience after the launch of the new product on September 28. “I thought our journey was just a note, and I didn't expect to have a chance to write a chapter. It would be great if we had the chance." (Source: Tencent Technology) Xiaomi Automobile Pengcheng series first-selling monthly lock orders exceeded 70,000 units On October 8, Xiaomi officially announced the official lock list data of Xiaomi Automobile "Pengcheng" series first-selling month: As of October 7, Xiaomi Pengcheng N70 and N90 series cumulative lock orders exceeded 70,000 units. It is worth noting that this data comes against the backdrop of the market contraction of nearly 20% in January-August. On October 1, Lei Jun said that the delivery of Xiaomi Pengcheng in September had exceeded 10,000, directly pulling the overall delivery of Xiaomi vehicles in September to exceed 40,000 units. Previously, Xiaomi's sales for many months remained at the level of 30,000 units. The industry believes that with the further climb of production capacity in the fourth quarter, the Xiaomi Pengcheng series is expected to promote the delivery scale of Xiaomi vehicles to a new level, and at the same time accelerate the pace of new energy substitution in the 200,000-300,000 yuan home SUV market. (Source: Sina Finance) Claude Haiku 5.5 was released, and the price of the small model API dropped by 90%. On October 8, Beijing time, Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, a faster and cheaper small artificial intelligence model designed to meet the needs of high-volume enterprise workflows and sub-agent task execution. The average cost of the new version is reduced by about 75% compared to the previous product Haiku 4.5, saving up to 90% in standard hint loading operations of less than 100,000 tokens. Benchmark data showed that Haiku 5.5 achieved significant performance improvements in all technical evaluations. In the OSWorld 2.1 computer usage benchmark, Haiku 5.5 achieved a success rate of 72.4%, much higher than the 15.7% of the previous generation. In addition, the model is the first in the Haiku series with adjustable inference difficulty settings, enabling developers to dynamically balance cost parameters and smart requirements based on specific workload requirements. The strategic repositioning of the Haiku framework highlights Anthropic's focus on handling massive enterprise workloads while preserving its larger Sonnet and Opus models for heavy coding and complex inference tasks. (Source: Bianews) Blogger: iPhone duo