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Investor Update – April 2026

Our goal for May is to grow MRR 20% – and we're open minded about if this growth comes from 150 Pro vs 15 Teams subscriptions.

From the builderVal TownOfficial blog

Text-to-CAD

The purpose of this repo (harness and skills) is really to just give the models more direct tools to generate and inspect STEP files.

DiscussionText-to-CADHacker News

ERNIE-5.1-Preview Tops LMArena Text Leaderboard as No.1 Chinese Model!

ERNIE-5.1-Preview builds on the pre-training foundation of ERNIE-5.0 while compressing total parameters to approximately 1/3 and active parameters to approximately 1/2, achieving leading performance at its model scale using only about 6% of the pre-training cost of comparable models.

From the builderERNIEOfficial blog

Zed is 1.0

It means we've reached a tipping point where most developers can quickly feel at home in Zed.

From the builderZedOfficial blog

Warp is now open-source

But the tl;dr is that I actually think we can build a better product, more quickly if we build it with our community + agents.

DiscussionWarpHacker News

Introducing Parallel Agents in Zed

Threads now dock on the left by default, next to the Agent Panel, with the Project Panel and Git Panel on the right.

From the builderZedOfficial blog

Browser Use BYOK, Code Mode & Sensitive Data

Browser Use V3 sessions can now use your own LLM API keys (BYOK), with your own rate limits and pricing. A new Code Mode has the agent write a reusable Python script instead of only completing the task once.

Product updateBrowser UseProduct release notes

Firecrawl v2.9.0

Firecrawl v2.9.0 adds the /interact endpoint, so after scraping a page you can click, fill forms or navigate further, either by describing the action in plain language or by writing Playwright code. A new query format on /scrape returns a direct answer to a natural-language question in data.answer. PDF parsing gains fast, auto and ocr modes plus a maxPages limit, and Java and Elixir join the official SDKs.

Product updateFirecrawlGitHub Releases

Introducing Zed's Agent Metrics

Session counts and turn counts do not measure outcome quality. A shorter session might produce better code.

From the builderZedOfficial blog

Browser Use Free Tier & New Pricing

Browser Use Cloud now has a free tier in which every project gets free browser sessions with no credit card required, including scheduled tasks at a minimum one-hour interval. Proxy data now costs $5 per GB, down from $10.

Product updateBrowser UseProduct release notes

Easydict v2.18.0

Easydict 2.18.0 adds a MiniMax translation service. Apple TTS now picks premium or enhanced voices over compact ones.

Product updateEasydictProduct release notes

Browser Use v2.0

Browser Use CLI 2.0 brings Browser Use to the terminal, working with Claude Code, Cursor and other AI coding tools while syncing cookies and sessions from your real browser profile. The first-run flow has been redesigned and includes 5 free tasks with no credit card. On the stealth side, Chromium 146 is deployed, an hCaptcha solver is added and reCAPTCHA accuracy is better, and an update on the page notes that the current CLI is now version 3.0.

Product updateBrowser UseProduct release notes

Hidden Gems: Part 3

By default, Zed treats the project search multibuffer like a singleton per pane.

From the builderZedOfficial blog

Browser Use v3.0

Browser Use has introduced the BU Agent API, an experimental agent built from scratch for web scraping, data extraction, file manipulation and complex multi-step workflows. SDK 3.0 (3.0.x) brings breaking changes and a new client.run() API. Existing features including sessions, profiles, browser control, structured output, streaming, files and skills remain available.

Product updateBrowser UseProduct release notes

Split Diffs are Here

Our split diff view looks like one multibuffer, but under the hood it's actually two.

From the builderZedOfficial blog

Introducing Theme Builder

Change one color, and you're suddenly playing whack-a-mole with readability issues across your entire interface.

From the builderZedOfficial blog