Good morning, AI enthusiasts. DeepSeek had the AI world in a tailspin weeks ago, but another challenger from across the Atlantic sped into the AI assistant race in a big way.

This time, it’s not from China but from France, by the EU’s largest AI startup: Mistral. With blazing-fast responses, new features, and flexible deployment options, is the revamped ‘le Chat’ platform the next rival to steal the spotlight from Silicon Valley?

In today’s AI rundown:

• Mistral revamps le Chat assistant

• GitHub powers up Copilot with agentic features

• Outreach automation with ChatGPT

• OpenAI co-founder exits Anthropic

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MISTRAL

🇫🇷 Mistral revamps le Chat assistant

Image source: Mistral

The Rundown: French AI lab Mistral just unveiled new iOS and Android mobile apps for its ‘le Chat’ assistant, alongside a major platform update featuring enhanced response speeds and enterprise deployment options.

The details:

• The app features core capabilities like web search, document processing, code interpreter, and image generation powered by BFL’s Flux Ultra model.

• Mistral also introduced a new ‘Flash Answers’ feature that processes responses at over 10x the speed of competitors like ChatGPT and Claude.

• New pricing tiers include a free plan, a Pro tier at $14.99/month, a Team tier at $24.99/user/month, and an Enterprise option with custom deployment.

• Enterprise customers gain unique deployment flexibility with options for on-premise installation and custom model implementation.

Why it matters: While Mistral’s models aren’t the industry leaders, its focus on speed and flexible deployment options shows how the AI assistant wars are shifting from raw capabilities to practical advantages like performance and enterprise features – and could now have more of the features needed to entice a broader user base.

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MICROSOFT

🤖 GitHub powers up Copilot with agentic features

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The Rundown: GitHub just announced several major updates to its Copilot assistant, including a new agent mode that can self-correct code, ‘Vision’ for image-to-code generations, an upcoming autonomous coding agent, and more.

The details:

• Agent mode enables Copilot to independently iterate on code, fix runtime errors, and suggest terminal commands while inferring additional tasks.

• A new Vision feature lets users generate code directly from inputted images and mockups, with automatic interface and alt text creation.

• Copilot Edits is now generally available in VS Code, supporting multi-file changes with natural text commands and automatic suggested changes.

• GitHub also teased Project Padawan, an autonomous coding agent coming this year that handles GitHub issues and generates fully tested pull requests.

Why it matters: When the AI coding boom first began, many saw it as a simple complement to human developers. But with constantly accelerating capabilities and emerging agentic features, we’re quickly moving from a completion tool to a true coding partner that can handle complex development tasks independently.

AI TRAINING

📧 Outreach automation with ChatGPT

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use ChatGPT o3-mini to automatically analyze company data and generate personalized outreach emails at scale using its reasoning and web search capabilities.

Step-by-step:

1. Structure your company data with key details like name, contact info, and recent updates in a clear format for ChatGPT.

2. Define your outreach goals and configure your AI prompt with instructions for tone and structure to generate personalized emails.

3. Use o3-mini's web search to find new prospects and generate detailed emails based on their updates.

Pro tip: Create an automated workflow with Operator that searches for new companies, generates emails, and drafts them directly in your email client. The Rundown University members can access the top prompts here.

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ANTHROPIC

🚪 OpenAI co-founder exits Anthropic

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The Rundown: OpenAI co-founder and key ChatGPT architect John Schulman has reportedly departed AI startup Anthropic after just five months, marking yet another significant shift from a top mind in the field.

The details:

• Schulman originally joined Anthropic in August, citing a desire to focus more deeply on AI alignment research and hands-on technical work.

• Schulman previously spent 9 years at OpenAI as part of the founding team and is credited as a key component of creating ChatGPT.

• Neither Schulman nor Anthropic have detailed the reasons behind the unexpected departure.

• Anthropic's chief science officer, Jared Kaplan, expressed support for Schulman's decision to pursue new opportunities in a statement to Bloomberg.

Why it matters: The sands at the top of the AI leaders are constantly shifting. Schulman’s initial move was viewed as a major shift to the safety-focused Anthropic — and while rumored to have an o3-level model behind closed doors, the startup’s pace of shipping (at least consumer-facing) has ground to a halt since 3.5 Sonnet.

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OpenAI is initiating a nationwide search for data center locations across 16 U.S. states to expand its $500B Stargate project beyond Texas.

U.S. bipartisan House lawmakers introduced legislation prohibiting Chinese AI app DeepSeek from being allowed on federal devices, citing national security concerns.

Rideshare giant Lyft is partnering with Anthropic to deploy Claude-powered AI tools across its platform for customer service, product testing, and more.

Google announced that AI-edited images created in Magic Editor's Reimagine feature on Pixel devices will now be tagged with DeepMind's SynthID watermarking tech.

Pika Labs launched Pikadditions, a new video-to-video feature that enables users to integrate any subject or object into existing footage.

TWO AI introduced SUTRA-R0, a multilingual reasoning model that surpasses DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI-o1-mini in Indian language benchmarks.

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Google’s latest answer in the AI model race just landed, and it’s bringing a whole family of new models to the scene.

But with OpenAI’s buzzy o3 grabbing headlines and 2.0 Pro’s modest benchmark gains, can these new releases keep Google’s December hype train rolling?

Speaking of o3… OpenAI recently launched ‘Deep Research’ — and our next workshop on Friday will teach you how to leverage this powerful new tool (and take advantage of free alternatives). Learn more and register here.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 lineup with Pro

• Nvidia's AI teaches robots to move like athletes

• How to research and validate business ideas with AI

• OpenAI signals hardware push with trademark filing

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

✨ Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 lineup with Pro

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The Rundown: Google just unveiled several new AI models in its Gemini 2.0 lineup, including the highly anticipated Pro Experimental and the cost-efficient Flash and Flash Lite, which also makes its Flash Thinking reasoning model available to all app users.

The details:

• 2.0 Pro Exp. features a massive 2M token context window and excels at coding tasks, with enhanced capabilities for complex prompts and world knowledge.

• A new budget-friendly 2.0 Flash-Lite model delivers better performance than 1.5 Flash while maintaining the same speed and pricing.

• The 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental reasoning model is now freely available in the Gemini app, showing users step-by-step thought processes in real time.

• All new models feature multimodal input capabilities, with outputs like image generation and text-to-speech planned for release in the coming months.

Why it matters: Google has officially made the leap many were waiting for with its flagship 2.0 Pro model — but unlike the high-powered December releases that were major steps up on the competition, 2.0 Pros benchmarks look a bit underwhelming compared to both 1.5 Pro and the current hype surrounding OpenAI’s latest releases.

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NVIDIA

🏀 Nvidia's AI teaches robots to move like athletes

Image source: Nvidia

The Rundown: Nvidia and Carnegie Mellon researchers just introduced ASAP, an AI framework that lets humanoid robots learn complex movements from simulations — enabling the replication of iconic celebrations and moves from professional athletes.

The details:

• The system works in two stages: initial training in simulation followed by a specialized neural network that adapts movements for real-world physics.

• Unitree G1 robots demonstrated complex motions in testing, including recreating moves from athletes like LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo.

• The framework reduced motion errors by 53% compared to existing methods — a major advance in bridging the gap between virtual and physical training.

• Hardware limitations remain challenging, with two test robots suffering damage from overheated motors during high-intensity movements.

Why it matters: The acceleration in robotic movement capabilities over the last year has been mind-blowing—and what better way to show it than through some of the world's most iconic celebrations? As training gets faster and more efficient, the next step may be for robots to take the actual field in leagues of their own.

Check out video footage of the movements here.

AI TRAINING

🔍 Research and validate business ideas with AI

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Perplexity with the new DeepSeek model to rapidly validate business ideas by analyzing market opportunities, competition, and viability.

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1. Enable Perplexity Pro and DeepSeek reasoning (5 free daily searches for new users).

2. Provide your business idea and ask to analyze market fundamentals with targeted prompts.

3. Request to research competition and revenue models and create your validation roadmap using its insights.

Pro tip: Use your free DeepSeek searches strategically - save them for complex queries that require advanced reasoning rather than basic market data. The Rundown University members can also access our pre-written prompts here.

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OPENAI

📱 OpenAI signals hardware push with trademark filing

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The Rundown: OpenAI just filed a trademark application covering everything from humanoid robots to AI wearables, hinting at ambitions to move into physical products through partnerships with hardware veterans like former Apple designer Jony Ive.

The details:

• The application includes smart jewelry, VR/AR headsets, wearables for ‘AI-assisted interaction,’ smartwatches, and more.

• Also listed are ‘user-programmable humanoid robots’ and robots with ‘communication and learning functions for assisting and entertaining people.’

• OpenAI has frequently been linked to Jony Ive, with Sam Altman reiterating that he hopes to create an AI-first phone ‘in partnership’ with him last week.

• The company recently began rebuilding its robotics team, with Figure AI also abruptly ending its collaboration agreement with OpenAI this week.

Why it matters: While competing in consumer hardware would’ve felt insane a few years ago, Apple’s turbulent rollout of AI and unprecedented growth of OpenAI could offer a new window of opportunity. Altman has also said that AI advances warrant a “new kind of hardware” — and maybe humanoids are that final form he envisions.

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Google revised its AI ethics principles to remove restrictions on the use of the technology for weapons and surveillance applications.

OpenAI shared a demo of an automated sales agent system during an event in Tokyo, which has the ability to handle tasks like enterprise lead qualification and meeting scheduling.

Amazon scheduled a hardware event for Feb. 26 in New York, where it is expected to unveil its long-awaited AI-enhanced Alexa overhaul.

Enterprise software giant Workday announced plans to cut 1,750 jobs or 8.5% of its workforce as part of an AI-driven restructuring plan.

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Researchers from TikTok owner ByteDance just unveiled OmniHuman-1, showing off the most insane AI model yet for generating videos indistinguishable from real footage.

They can clone any human into a video with just a single photo and audio input. But is society ready for what this means for the future of digital content?

In today’s AI rundown:

• ByteDance’s AI-human model breakthrough

• Apple introduces AI-powered party planner

• Build a personal AI automation tool

• AI creates a database to help detect cancer earlier

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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BYTEDANCE

🎭 ByteDance’s AI-human avatar model breakthrough

Image source: ByteDance

The Rundown: Researchers from TikTok owner ByteDance just unveiled OmniHuman-1, an AI system that can generate some of the most realistic deepfake videos we’ve ever seen, all from just a single reference image and audio input.

The details:

• The system can create convincing videos of any length and style, with adjustable body proportions and aspect ratios.

• It handles diverse inputs from cartoons to challenging human poses while maintaining style-specific motion characteristics.

• It’s trained on 19,000 hours of video and can even modify movements in existing footage.

• Despite 10 U.S. states enacting laws against AI impersonation, detection and regulation remain major challenges.

Why it matters: ByteDance hasn't publicly released OmniHuman-1, but the demos have officially erased the line between real and AI-generated. As similar powerful systems inevitably become available, society faces an urgent challenge: verifying what's real in a world where anyone can create perfectly fake videos.

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APPLE

🍎 Apple introduces AI-powered party planner

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The Rundown: Apple just released Invites, a new AI-powered event planning app that integrates Apple Intelligence with multiple Apple Services to create custom invitations and manage events.

The details:

• The app uses AI to generate custom images and text for invitations through Image Playground and Apple Intelligence Writing Tools.

• It also integrates multiple Apple services (Photos, Music, Maps, Weather) into a single event portal.

• Unlike most Apple services, it's accessible to non-Apple users for RSVPs and photo sharing.

• While free to download in the app store, this marks Apple's first AI-powered standalone app, suggesting a shift in their AI strategy.

Why it matters: While competitors race to build powerful models, Apple takes a different approach by integrating AI into focused, practical apps. The company is still finding its footing after a rocky start with Apple Intelligence, but its track record of perfecting features through iteration might be exactly what's needed.

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⚡️Build a personal AI automation tool

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build your own AI automation running locally and privately using N8N's automation platform and Ollama's language models, such as DeepSeek.

Step-by-step:

1. Install Docker Desktop and Ollama, then set up N8N using Docker commands found here.

2. Download a language model through Ollama (7B or 14B size recommended).

3. Create a new N8N workflow with a chat trigger and AI Agent node.

4. Select your Ollama model and add Window Buffer Memory for conversation context, then start chatting!

Pro tip: Use "host.docker.internal:11434" as your base URL in N8N to ensure smooth communication between N8N and Ollama.

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AI RESEARCH

🔬 AI creates a database to help detect cancer earlier

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The Rundown: Johns Hopkins researchers just created AbdomenAtlas, an AI-powered dataset of 45,000 3D CT scans with 142 annotated anatomical structures, dramatically accelerating medical image analysis for early cancer detection.

The details:

• The dataset is 36 times (!) larger than its closest competitor, combining scans from 145 hospitals worldwide.

• Using AI and 12 expert radiologists, the team completed in two years what would have taken humans 2,500 years.

• The system achieved a 500-fold speedup for organ annotation and 10-fold for tumor identification.

• The team plans to release AbdomenAtlas publicly and continues adding more scans, organs, and tumor data.

Why it matters: AbdomenAtlas could transform early cancer detection by giving AI models much more comprehensive training data. However, even at 45,000 scans, it represents just 0.05% of annual US CT scans — highlighting how early we are in building truly comprehensive medical AI systems.

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Figure ended its collaboration agreement with OpenAI, hinting at a major breakthrough in end-to-end robot AI to be revealed within 30 days.

Kanye West confirmed he's using AI on his upcoming album 'BULLY,’ comparing the role of technology in music to that of autotune.

LiveKit introduced a new transformer model for more natural AI voice conversations, reducing unintentional interruptions by 85% through improved end-of-turn detection.

Google published its 2024 Responsible AI Progress Report and updated its Frontier Safety Framework, introducing new protocols for managing AI risks and security.

Hugging Face released open-Deep-Research, an open-source alternative to OpenAI's Deep Research, achieving 55% accuracy on the GAIA benchmark with autonomous web navigation capabilities.

Adobe enhanced Acrobat's AI Assistant with contract intelligence features to help users understand complex legal documents and identify key terms.

Snap unveiled a mobile-first AI text-to-image model that can generate high-resolution images in 1.4 seconds on iPhone 16 Pro Max, and it plans to integrate it into Snapchat features.

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. SoftBank just announced a massive $3B annual commitment to OpenAI alongside 'Cristal Intelligence'’ a joint venture to bring customized AI tools exclusively to Japanese businesses.

With Stargate's $500B data centers and now Cristal Intelligence, are we witnessing Japan's big move in the global AI race?

Community note: We’re hosting a live workshop today at 3 PM EST going in-depth how to build and deploy complete mobile apps with AI. RSVP here.

In today’s AI rundown:

• SoftBank and OpenAI announce 'Cristal Intelligence'

• Anthropic challenges hackers to break its AI

• Automate meeting prep with AI Agents

• EU invests $56M to build open-source AI rival

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

SOFTBANK

🇯🇵 SoftBank and OpenAI announce 'Cristal Intelligence'

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The Rundown: SoftBank just announced a $3 billion annual commitment to OpenAI's technology while launching ‘Cristal Intelligence,’ a joint venture to bring customized OpenAI tools exclusively to Japanese businesses.

The details:

• SoftBank will spend $3B annually on OpenAI technology across its subsidiaries, including Arm and PayPay.

• Cristal Intelligence will offer a specialized business version of ChatGPT and OpenAI's API, which is exclusively available in Japan.

• The joint venture aims to provide secure, customized enterprise integrations, potentially competing with traditional consulting firms.

• This partnership follows SoftBank's involvement in "Stargate," a $500B data center initiative with OpenAI and Oracle.

Why it matters: This massive investment ($3B per YEAR) signals Japan's serious push into the global AI race through SoftBank's growing alliance with OpenAI. With their recent Stargate partnership and now Cristal Intelligence, SoftBank is going all in on building the infrastructure to dominate AI deployment across Asia.

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ANTHROPIC

🔒 Anthropic challenges hackers to break its AI

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The Rundown: Anthropic just unveiled Constitutional Classifiers, a new AI safety system with promising results, and is inviting the public to help stress-test it after surviving over 3,000 hours of unsuccessful bug bounty attempts.

The details:

• The system uses AI to generate training data in multiple languages and writing styles, helping it catch diverse jailbreak attempts.

• In testing against 10,000 advanced jailbreak attempts, it blocked 95.6% of attacks, compared to just 14% for unprotected Claude.

• 183 bug bounty hunters spent over 3,000 hours trying to break the system for a $15,000 reward, but none succeeded in fully jailbreaking it.

• Anthropic is inviting the public to test the system until February 10.

Why it matters: As AI models become increasingly powerful, it is crucial to prevent them from being manipulated to cause harm. While most companies rely mainly on training for AI safety, Anthropic's new approach of using AI to catch jailbreaks shows promise, and opening it to public testing flaunts their commitment to making AI safer.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Automate meeting prep with AI Agents

The Rundown: Lindy AI allows anyone to create AI agents with no code, such as a ‘Pre-meeting Prep Agent‘ that automatically researches attendees, gathers email history, and sends you a comprehensive pre-meeting brief before every meeting.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Lindy AI and create a new automation from scratch, or select a starting template.

2. Set up ‘Calendar Event Started trigger’ (customize timing for pre-meeting briefs).

3. Add conditions to check for external attendees and configure research actions, e.g., internet search or email history.

4. Set up email brief delivery with all the gathered information.

5. Your AI agent can send briefs 15 minutes pre-meeting, saving you time to prep in between tight windows.

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EUROPEAN UNION

🇪🇺 EU invests $56M to build open-source AI rival

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The Rundown: The European Union has announced a $56M investment to develop OpenEuroLLM, a new open-source large language model that works with all 30 European languages.

The details:

• The project will leverage EU supercomputers like Spain's Mare Nostrum and Italy's Leonardo.

• While $56M is tiny compared to OpenAI's reported $40B raise, it's 10x what DeepSeek claimed to have spent on their breakthrough model.

• The initiative promises fully open models, software, and data that can be fine-tuned for specific sectors like healthcare and banking.

• The goal is to create an open-source LLM that European companies and governments can build upon, with EU values "baked in."

Why it matters: After years of scrutiny focusing on AI regulation, the EU is finally stepping into the AI race (…sort of). While $56M is puny compared to major AI giants investing billions, the EU may succeed in specialized, industry-specific AI, especially following DeepSeek's recent success with low-budget open-source models.

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ARC Prize found OpenAI’s new o3-mini AI model to patch o1 on its ARC-AGI-1 Semi-Private Test Set while being 100x less the cost.

Meta published its Frontier AI Framework, emphasizing its commitment to open-source development while focusing on mitigating cybersecurity and weapon risks.

The Beatles won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance with "Now and Then," an AI-enhanced song that used noise reduction to clean up an old Lennon demo.

OpenAI expanded ChatGPT's WhatsApp integration globally, adding image uploads and voice message support simply by texting 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478).

UK researchers developed self-healing asphalt using biomass waste and Google Cloud's AI, potentially solving the country's ‘pothole crisis’.

Microsoft is forming a new unit called the Advanced Planning Unit (APU) within its AI division to study AI's implications for society, health, and work.

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI transition from instant answers to complex reasoning just leveled up again, with OpenAI’s new feature putting even the hardest benchmarks on notice.

With ‘Deep Research’ autonomously crushing complex research tasks in minutes, the evolution of how we use AI assistants just took another major leap forward.

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI debuts AI research assistant

• OpenAI introduces o3-mini reasoning model

• How to build your own free AI Operator

• Sam Altman’s stance on open source

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🔍 OpenAI debuts AI research assistant

Image source: OpenAI

The Rundown: OpenAI just launched Deep Research, a new ChatGPT feature that conducts extensive web research on complex topics and delivers detailed reports with citations in under 30 minutes.

The details:

• The system uses a specialized version of o3 to analyze text, images, and PDFs across multiple sources, producing comprehensive research summaries.

• Initial access is limited to Pro subscribers ($200/mo) with 100 queries/month, but if safety metrics remain stable, it will expand to Plus and Team users within weeks.

• Research tasks take between 5-30 minutes to complete, with users receiving a list of clarifying questions to start and notifications when results are ready.

• Deep Research achieved a 26.6% on Humanity’s Last Exam, significantly outperforming other AI models like Gemini Thinking (6.2%) and GPT-4o (3.3%).

Why it matters: ChatGPT excels at quick, instant answers, but Deep Research represents the first major consumer attempt at tackling complex tasks that take humans days. Combined with the release of Operator, the landscape is shifting towards longer thinking with autonomous actions — and better results to show for it.

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OPENAI

🧠 OpenAI introduces o3-mini reasoning model

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The Rundown: On Friday, OpenAI released o3-mini, a new cost-efficient reasoning model that brings advanced STEM capabilities to both free and paid users while significantly reducing costs and response times compared to previous versions.

The details:

• Free users can access reasoning capabilities for the first time via o3-mini, with paid users getting expanded rate limits of up to 150 messages daily.

• o3-mini shows particular strength in technical domains like math and coding, matching or exceeding o1's performance while responding 24% faster.

• Developers can also fine-tune the ‘reasoning effort’ with three settings — low, medium, and high — to balance speed and accuracy for different use cases.

• The system costs 63% less to run than its predecessor, bringing the price down to $1.10 / million input tokens while maintaining competitive performance.

Why it matters: DeepSeek has dominated the headlines over the past week, but OpenAI always seems to have another ace up its sleeve. o3-mini will expose the free tier of AI users to their first ‘reasoning’ experience—and with the full o3 coming in ‘less than a few months,’ the next step up in the model cycle is just around the corner.

AI TRAINING

🤖 How to build your own free AI Operator

The Rundown: With this tutorial, you can run a powerful AI browser automation tool on your computer that can control web browsers and perform tasks autonomously without paying for expensive subscriptions like ChatGPT’s $200/month plan.

Step-by-step:

1. Download Ollama and install a language model (e.g., deepseek-r1:14b or qwen2.5:7b).

2. Clone the web interface repository with git clone. (https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui.git)

3. Set up Python environment and install dependencies.

4. Launch the interface, configure your AI assistant, and see it perform web actions for you.

Pro tip: Start with basic tasks to understand the system's capabilities before moving to complex automation. We just did a full workshop on how to set it up properly, which you can access here.

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OPENAI

🗣️ Sam Altman’s stance on open source

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The Rundown: OpenAI held a Reddit AMA following the launch of its o3-mini model, with CEO Sam Altman, CPO Kevin Weil, and others tackling questions ranging from candid commentary on open-source tech to upcoming feature and model timelines.

The details:

• Altman revealed that he personally thinks ‘we have been on the wrong side of history’ regarding open source and that OpenAI needs to figure out a strategy.

• The CEO also said that he guessed the full o3 would be released in ‘more than a few weeks, less than a few months.’

• Altman also commented on DeepSeek, calling it a ‘very good model’ and saying OpenAI will ‘produce better models, but maintain less of a lead.’

• Weil provided a few nuggets about upcoming releases, saying more agents and a new image generator will be available very soon.

Why it matters: The biggest headline is the open-source commentary, which is the biggest criticism OpenAI faces. While no changes seem imminent (Altman said not everyone at the company shares his opinion, and it's not a high priority), a shift in any capacity would be a paradigm-altering moment for the entire industry.

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U.S. AI czar David Sacks shared a new report estimating DeepSeek has spent over $1B on computing, calling the $6M training cost number ‘highly misleading.’

The EU activated the first phase of its AI Act, banning AI systems deemed ‘unacceptably risky’ and imposing penalties of up to $35M euros.

Google’s X moonshot lab launched Heritable Agriculture, an agriculture company using AI and machine learning to accelerate plant breeding for improved crop yields.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman announced a new cross-disciplinary research unit, recruiting economists, psychologists, and others to study AI's societal impact.

MIT researchers unveiled ChromoGen, an AI model that predicts 3D genome structures in minutes instead of days and enables DNA analysis and how if impacts cell function and disease.

Security researchers discovered an exposed DeepSeek database containing over 1M user prompts and API key records, raising vulnerability and privacy concerns.

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI has been making plenty of moves with the U.S. government, but it might’ve just been handed its most sensitive assignment yet — helping protect the nation's nuclear arsenal.

With the company’s models now deployed across National Labs for nuclear science, physics, and disease research, AI is quickly becoming a national security cornerstone.

Reminder: Our next workshop is today at 4 PM EST! Learn about how to automate tasks with OpenAI’s Operator and create your own free, personalized, offline assistant.

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI teams up with National Labs on nuclear security

• Google’s new AI handles phone calls

• Create AI visuals containing legible text

• Riffusion launches free AI music platform

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

☢️ OpenAI teams up with National Labs on nuclear security

Image source: Reuters

The Rundown: OpenAI just announced a new partnership with U.S. National Laboratories, giving thousands of government scientists access to its most advanced AI models for critical research, including nuclear weapons security.

The details:

• 15k scientists will gain access to o1 models, with OpenAI supporting research including cybersecurity, power grid protection, disease treatment, and physics.

• The company will also deploy an AI model on Los Alamos' Venado supercomputer in partnership with Microsoft.

• OpenAI researchers with security clearances will consult on nuclear security projects focused on weapons safety and nuclear war risk reduction.

• The partnership follows OpenAI's recent release of ChatGPT Gov, a specialized platform for government use across federal agencies.

Why it matters: AI systems are being integrated into the U.S.’s most sensitive national security infrastructure, and OpenAI continues to position itself as a crucial part of the country’s tech development. But if AI’s scientific capabilities reach even a fraction of the level many expect, it will become a global government necessity, not just a priority.

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GOOGLE

📞 Google’s new AI handles phone calls

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The Rundown: Google just released two new Search Labs experimental features that handle phone calls on a user's behalf, including ‘Ask for Me’ for inquiring about local services and ‘Talk to a Live Representative’ for customer service calls.

The details:

• ‘Ask for Me’ can contact local businesses to gather pricing and availability information for services like auto repairs and nail salons.

• Users enter requirements through a search interface, with Google's AI handling the phone call and providing a summary via text or email within 30 minutes.

• A separate ‘Talk to a Live Representative’ feature waits on hold with customer service lines and alerts users when a representative is available.

• Both features utilize Google's advanced Duplex AI technology for natural-sounding voice interactions.

Why it matters: With much of the younger generation hating phone interactions, these new Google features could have major mass appeal. With much of customer service also transitioning to artificial intelligence, the future is (for better or worse) likely looking like a wave of AIs calling other AIs.

AI TRAINING

🖼️ Create AI visuals containing legible text

The Rundown: Ideogram turns text into eye-catching images for free, with a special ability to incorporate legible text into the generated visuals.

Step-by-step:

1. Sign up for a free account at Ideogram (you'll get free daily generations).

2. Click "What do you want to create?" on the dashboard and craft a detailed prompt.

3. Adjust settings like aspect ratio and magic prompts and hit "Generate" to get four unique images.

Pro tip: After generating your images, use "Remix" for subtle tweaks, "Retry" for new variations, or "Upscale" for higher resolution.

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RIFFUSION

🎵 Riffusion launches free AI music platform

Image source: Riffusion

The Rundown: San Francisco startup Riffusion just launched Fuzz, a new free generative AI music platform that allows users to create full-length songs and can adapt to a user’s preferences and tastes over time.

The details:

• The platform allows users to create full-length original music through simple text prompts, audio snippets, or image inputs.

• Fuzz also features an adaptive learning element, allowing the model to learn a user’s musical preferences through their generations and profiles.

• The company raised $4M in 2023, with electronic music group The Chainsmokers acting as advisors and testers for the platform.

Why it matters: This has been a big week for free AI music, with the open-source YuE and now Fuzz hitting the scene. With increasing capabilities and lower costs, it's clear there is an AI music revolution coming — and it's likely that many songs in the wild are already leveraging the tech in some capacity without listeners even realizing it.

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🛠️ Trending AI Tools

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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise up to $40B at a staggering $340B valuation, potentially more than doubling its worth from late 2024.

Google is rolling out Gemini 2.0 Flash across its mobile and web apps, featuring faster responses, improved image generation through Imagen 3, and enhanced performance.

Krea AI teased Krea Chat, an upcoming tool powered by DeepSeek that provides a text interface for generating and editing images and videos on the platform.

Mistral released Small 3, a 24B-parameter open-source model that matches the performance of 70B models at 3x the speed and is deployable on consumer hardware.

Sakana AI unveiled TinySwallow-1.5B, a new tiny Japanese language model that can run offline on smartphones and achieves top performance among similar-sized models.

ElevenLabs officially announced a $180M Series C funding round, bringing the AI speech startup’s valuation to over $3B.

AI2 introduced Tülu 3 405B, the Seattle-based non-profit’s largest open-source model yet that surpasses DeepSeek V3 and GPT-4o on certain benchmarks.

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Put down the pitchforks and pick up your AI tools — the U.S. Copyright Office just gave creators the best of both worlds.

With new guidelines that protect human artistry while embracing technological innovation, are we about to witness a broader explosion of AI-enhanced creativity?

In today’s AI rundown:

• U.S. Copyright Office sets clear rules on AI

• Anthropic CEO weighs in on DeepSeek

• Create design-ready brand mood boards

• Unitree robots master traditional Chinese dance

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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AI & COPYRIGHT

📋 U.S. Copyright Office sets clear rules on AI

Image source: The U.S. Copyright Office

The Rundown: The U.S. Copyright Office just released a new report establishing firm guidelines on AI-generated works, ruling that AI outputs alone cannot receive copyright protection while preserving rights for human creators who use AI as a tool.

The details:

• The 52-page report determined that copyright protection requires meaningful human authorship and creativity, not just AI generation.

• Even with extensive prompt engineering, simply providing text prompts to AI systems generally doesn't qualify for copyright protection.

• The report highlighted works that combine human-authored elements with AI-generated content as copyrightable, but only for the human-created portions.

• The Office also said no new legislation is needed at this time to handle AI copyright issues, with current registration policies continuing as normal.

Why it matters: This guidance provides much-needed clarity for creators and companies working with AI tools while still protecting human authorship. As more artists and businesses continue to grapple with integrating AI into workflows while seeking to protect valuable IP, the ruling comes at a vital time.

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ANTHROPIC

📝 Anthropic CEO weighs in on DeepSeek

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The Rundown: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just published a new essay detailing his thoughts on DeepSeek’s R1 release and U.S. AI chip controls, also addressing misconceptions about the Chinese company's achievements.

The details:

• He argues that DeepSeek's progress follows expected industry cost reductions and matches the U.S. from months ago rather than a breakthrough.

• Amodei revealed that Claude 3.5 Sonnet's training costs were in the "tens of millions," challenging DeepSeek's claimed $6M efficiency advantage narrative.

• Looking ahead to 2026-2027, Amodei projects that building superintelligent AI will require millions of chips and tens of billions in investment.

• He also said current export controls are impacting DeepSeek's reliance on mixed chip types, suggesting the hardware restrictions are working.

Why it matters: Amodei’s views starkly contrast the hype we’ve seen across the media and global discourse regarding DeepSeek. The competition between the U.S. and China is entering a critical phase, and the industry debate seems to be shifting from whether to restrict chip exports at all to how extensively they should be controlled.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Create design-ready brand mood boards

The Rundown: ChatGPT lets you transform your brand ideas into professionally curated mood boards by getting color palettes, typography pairings, and visual style recommendations.

Step-by-step:

1. Provide ChatGPT with your brand details and 2-3 reference images of your desired aesthetic.

2. Request a color palette with hex codes specifying your industry and brand values.

3. Upload typography examples you like and get Google Fonts pairings.

4. Share mood board references and ask for detailed guidelines.

Pro tip: Keep your reference images consistent with your brand styles. If you’re a Rundown University member, copy/paste our prompts from here.

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UNITREE

💃 Unitree robots master traditional Chinese dance

Image source: CCTV

The Rundown: Chinese robotics company Unitree just showcased 16 humanoid robots performing traditional folk dances alongside human performers at China's Spring Festival Gala, demonstrating advances in AI-driven motion control.

The details:

• The robots utilized AI motion control and 3D laser SLAM technology to execute complex dance moves, such as handkerchief spinning and synchronized leg kicks.

• Unitree released a new open-source full-body dataset earlier this month, enabling humanoid robots to achieve more natural, human-like movements.

• AI algorithms also allow the robots to "understand" music and adjust their movements to match rhythm and beat in real time.

• The Unitree H1 robots also have 360^o panoramic depth awareness, allowing for coordinated dance moves and navigation.

Why it matters: The demos keep getting wilder, with Unitree showing major coordination and dexterity in this latest dance routine. The combination of motion control, environmental awareness, and synchronization between 16 humanoids is also a sign we’re entering a new era of capabilities for robots working alongside humans.

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Microsoft is investigating potential unauthorized data collection from OpenAI’s API by a DeepSeek-linked group, with U.S. AI czar David Sacks also saying there is “substantial evidence” that the company used OpenAI’s models for training.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman announced that the ‘Think Deeper’ feature is now free for all Copilot users, integrating with OpenAI's o1 reasoning model.

Luma Labs released a new Upscale to 4K feature, enabling video generations on its Dream Machine platform to be upscaled to 4K resolution.

The U.S. Navy banned its members from using DeepSeek for work or personal purposes due to security and ethical concerns.

The ‘Doomsday Clock’ moved to a record 89 seconds to midnight, with scientists citing AI-powered military operations among growing global threats.

Ragon Institute and MIT scientists unveiled MUNIS, an AI tool that accurately IDs viral targets to speed up vaccine design and outperform traditional lab methods.

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. ChatGPT just got its federal security clearance — and the U.S. government may be getting its most productive civil servant yet.

With OpenAI’s new Gov platform deploying across thousands of agencies, bureaucracy's slow-moving wheels are about to get an efficiency upgrade for the AI age.

Speaking of ChatGPT, our next workshop is this Friday at 4 PM EST. In it, you’ll learn how to automate tasks with OpenAI’s Operator! RSVP here.

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Gov platform

• Block releases open-source AI agent platform 'Goose'

• Create personalized illustrations for your brand

• YuE unlocks open-source AI music generation

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🏛️ OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Gov platform

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The Rundown: OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Gov, a specialized version of its flagship product designed specifically for U.S. agencies — allowing departments to securely take advantage of AI systems in their own private environment.

The details:

• The platform allows agencies to deploy ChatGPT within Azure environments, enabling sensitive data processing and adherence to security protocols.

• Gov users can access 4o, and Enterprise features like conversation sharing, custom GPTs, and admin controls for department-wide deployments.

• The government has already actively used ChatGPT, with data showing that over 90k employees across 3,500 agencies have generated 18M messages since 2024.

Why it matters: With AI models becoming intertwined in nearly every sector, it's no surprise that the government is adopting the tech internally and needs a more secure deployment for sensitive data and materials. This new, tailored option could significantly spur even broader AI adoption across federal agencies.

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BLOCK

🦢 Block releases open-source AI agent platform 'Goose'

Image source: Block

The Rundown: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block just launched Goose, an open-source AI agent framework that allows developers to build and deploy AI assistants across multiple platforms and systems.

The details:

• The platform supports any LLM backend, including OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Anthropic, while maintaining data privacy and deployment control.

• Goose integrates with Anthropic's MCP and APIs to enable a wide range of tool connections, with the ability to add new integrations mid-session.

• Early implementations at Block show Goose automating complex tasks like code migrations, dependency management, and test generation.

• The framework was released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing unrestricted commercial and research use.

Why it matters: The open-source movement is accelerating across AI, and Jack Dorsey’s latest bird-themed release is now bringing it to the agentic layer. Given Block's track record with Square and Cash App, Goose could do what those apps did for AI agents for payments — taking complex tech and making it accessible to everyone.

AI TRAINING

🖌️ Create personalized illustrations for your brand

The Rundown: Freepik lets you create your own branded illustration style by uploading reference images and getting consistent visuals across all your content.

Step-by-step:

1. Access Freepik AI's Create tab and click the plus icon in the Style section.

2. Upload your reference images (10-50 images recommended).

3. Choose your quality setting (Ultra, High, or Medium).

4. Generate illustrations by selecting your style and writing a prompt.

Pro tip: Check out our exclusive workshop on creating custom styles with Freepik here.

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AI RESEARCH

🎵 YuE unlocks open-source AI music generation

Image source: HKUST

The Rundown: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers just introduced YuE, an open-source AI music generation that transforms lyrics into complete songs, challenging closed commercial platforms like Suno and Udio.

The details:

• YuE leverages two specialized models — one for vocals and music and another for production elements — enabling the creation of songs up to 5 minutes in length.

• The system supports multiple languages and can handle complex vocal techniques like scatting and mixed-voice performances.

• Users can fine-tune their creations with controls for genre, instruments, mood, and vocal characteristics while still maintaining a coherent musical structure.

Why it matters: With commercial AI music platforms like Suno and Udio facing growing legal challenges from record labels, an open-source system could seriously shake up the space. Whether from YuE or another entrant, broader access to AI music tools is coming fast – and the music industry is already reckoning with the changes.

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🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🎥 Pika 2.1 - New AI video model with enhanced realism, motion, and control

• 🐋 Janus-Pro - DeepSeek’s new open-source AI image generation model

• 🤖 Qwen2.5-VL - New family of vision-language models with agentic capabilities to interact with computers and phones

• 📝 BulletPen - Transform spoken thoughts and rambles into polished writing

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Alibaba’s Qwen introduced Qwen2.5-Max, a new large-scale MoE model that outperforms DeepSeek-V3, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet across key benchmarks.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman chimed in on DeepSeek’s R1 release, calling it an impressive model and saying it’s ‘invigorating’ to have a new competitor.

Figure AI launched a new Center for Advancement of Humanoid Safety to establish industry-wide testing standards and quarterly safety reports for workplace robots.

Ex-OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler posted on X that he is ‘pretty terrified’ by the pace of AI development, saying no lab currently has a solution for alignment.

Convergence AI launched Proxy, a natural language agent it calls ‘Europe’s answer to OpenAI’s Operator.’

Hugging Face integrated four new serverless inference providers — fal, Replicate, Sambanova, and Together AI — enabling direct model deployment and faster inference.

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