IronClaw: NEAR's Secure AI Agent + MiniMax 2.5 Matches Opus 4.6

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   Good morning, Legion, happy Friday. In case you missed it, Cointelegraph ran a story yesterday featuring near AI and Iron Claw. It's a very insightful read on the type of competitive edge that NEAR is able to provide to the current AI market.

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   As the article goes NEAR AI’s Illia Polosukhin is building a more secure, rust based version of Open Claw that won't leak your private keys. Called Iron Claw. Polosukhin says, you can sell the solution with Iron claw is quote to not let the LLM touch secrets at all.

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   Secrets are reportedly stored in an encrypted vault, with the large language model granted permission to use them only for specific sites. Lots of work being done, probably even over this weekend at near AI on Iron Claw. Stick around the NEAR Legion for Alpha drops on this one. Things are heating up on near. Next up, mini Max 2.5 is having a moment.

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   It's on par with opus 4.6. Featuring state of the art performance in coding. Excel data analysis. Deep research document generation and summarization. It's also optimized thinking efficiency for 100 TPS to achieve three times faster than Opus, and is on average 20 times cheaper than opus.

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   My goodness, it's only February! Two final stories from the corporate bigwigs. Anthropic has raised 30 billion USD at a 380 billion post-money valuation, while the CEO of Microsoft, AI, Mustafa Suleyman, spoke to the Financial Times about why most of the tasks accountants, lawyers and other professionals currently undertake will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months.

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   Listen in below and have a great weekend.