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One-Minute Daily AI News 4/18/2026

  1. Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering.[1]
  2. Qwen Team Open-Sources Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: A Sparse MoE Vision-Language Model with 3B Active Parameters and Agentic Coding Capabilities.[2]
  3. The Google app for desktop is now available for Windows users around the world.[3]
  4. Anthropic just launched Claude Design, an AI tool that turns prompts into prototypes and challenges Figma.[4]
Sources:

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2026/bringing-ai-driven-protein-design-tools-everywhere-0417

[2] https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/16/qwen-team-open-sources-qwen3-6-35b-a3b-a-sparse-moe-vision-language-model-with-3b-active-parameters-and-agentic-coding-capabilities/

[3] https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/google-apps-windows-english/

[4] https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-just-launched-claude-design-an-ai-tool-that-turns-prompts-into-prototypes-and-challenges-figma

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