Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

New court documents just unearthed a trove of emails between OpenAI and Elon Musk, giving us a fly-on-the-wall look at the early days of the world’s most explosive AI drama.

From AGI dictatorship worries to million-dollar talent wars, the seeds of today's AI power struggles were planted deeper than anyone knew. Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Early emails between OpenAI, Musk revealed

• Suleyman: AI with ‘near-infinite’ memory achieved

• Transform blog posts into infographics

• Arc Institute releases ‘ChatGPT for DNA’

• 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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OPENAI & ELON MUSK

📧 Early emails between OpenAI, Musk revealed

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The Rundown: New court filings from Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI have exposed internal emails from the company's formative years — revealing intense early tensions around control, talent acquisition, and concerns about AI dominance.

The details:

• The newly released emails are dated between 2015 and 2018, covering OpenAI’s initial formation to Musk’s eventual departure from the company.

• Leadership worried about control over AGI, with Ilya Sutskever warning of concerns about potential "dictatorship" scenarios from Google or internally.

• Early salary battles erupted when DeepMind attempted to poach OpenAI's founding team, forcing rapid compensation increases of $100-200K per person.

• Internal debates around Microsoft collaboration surfaced, with Musk stating he'd pay "$50M not to seem like Microsoft's marketing b*tch.”

• Altman's role also sparked concerns, with Sutskever questioning his ‘cost function’ and whether AGI was his primary motivation.

Why it matters: Whenever both Elon and Sama are involved, you know the drama will be juicy. These email exchanges are incredible artifacts from the early days of OpenAI’s formation and shed additional light on Musk’s vendetta against Altman and the undercurrents that may have contributed to the board ouster chaos in Nov. 2023.

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MICROSOFT

🧠 Suleyman: AI with ‘near-infinite’ memory achieved

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The Rundown: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman just revealed the company has created prototypes with "near-infinite memory" capabilities in a new interview with Times Techies, calling it the ‘critical piece’ of AI development.

The details:

• Microsoft's prototypes can allegedly maintain persistent memory across unlimited sessions, breaking through current limitations.

• Suleyman expects this technology to be available by 2025, enabling AI systems that "just don't forget" with ongoing, evolving dialogues.

• Suleyman also said that memory is an ‘inflection point’ that makes it worth investing time in chats, changing the current frustrating and shallow experience.

• The Microsoft AI CEO also noted a coming shift from AI understanding and seeing context to a true proactive companion over a reactive chatbot.

Why it matters: While we’ve seen memory efforts from systems like ChatGPT, Suleyman’s ‘hollow’ description accurately portrays those early iterations. Unlocking the ability for limitless memory can lead to models that can form lasting, evolving relationships with users and better understand their needs and goals.

AI TRAINING

📊 Transform blog posts into infographics

The Rundown: Infography uses AI to automatically turn any blog post or text content into professionally designed infographics.

Step-by-step:

1. Create a free account at Infography (you get 5 credits to start).

2. Choose your content source (URL, topic, or direct text).

3. Select your preferred format (vertical, square, or presentation).

4. Edit and customize your design with brand colors and fonts.

Pro tip: Use the Brand section to save your style preferences for consistent designs across all your infographics.

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AI RESEARCH

🧬 Arc Institute releases ‘ChatGPT for DNA’

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The Rundown: Scientists at the Arc Research Institute just introduced Evo, an AI model trained on 2.7M microbial genomes that can both interpret and generate genetic sequences with unprecedented accuracy.

The details:

• Unlike traditional language models trained on text, Evo simultaneously learns from DNA, RNA, and protein sequences.

• In early tests, Evo already designed working genetic editing tools and accurately predicted how DNA changes would affect bacteria.

• Evo can generate entirely new genome-length sequences over 1M base pairs long, though they aren’t capable of forming fully viable organisms yet.

• The researchers deliberately excluded human-affecting viral genomes from training for safety reasons.

Why it matters: Having a ‘ChatGPT for DNA’ is a mind-blowing unlock, with the potential to drastically accelerate research, design new proteins for drug development, predict disease-causing mutations, and more. However, it also raises questions about how society will responsibly handle tools that can write genetic code as easily as we write emails.

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QUICK HITS

Stanford researchers unveiled SEQUOIA, an AI system that can predict gene expression patterns in cancer cells by analyzing standard biopsy images, potentially eliminating the need for expensive testing.

Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai revealed a breakthrough in efficient AI training, achieving competitive results compared to OpenAI’s reported $1B investment into training GPT-5.

The MIT Jameel Clinic released Boltz-1, an open-source biomolecular model that matches Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3's accuracy in predicting 3D structures.

Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell AI chips reportedly suffer overheating issues, prompting design revisions and raising concerns about data center deployment timelines.

Google's Gemini AI chatbot sparked concerns after delivering a threatening message telling a Michigan student to ‘die’ during a routine homework help conversation, prompting the company to acknowledge a safety filter failure.

U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping reached new landmark agreements on AI nuclear controls in the pair’s final meeting before the administration change, ensuring that only humans will make decisions with nuclear weapons.

Coca-Cola released a new AI-generated Christmas advertisement, partnering with Silverside AI to reimagine its original “Holidays Are Coming” spot.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

AI just beat Shakespeare at his own game—with readers struggling to ID generated verses and preferring them over the Bard's timeless works.

Is this the final frontier for human creativity or simply the beginning of a new chapter in how we define art? Let's get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• AI poetry outshines human classics in blind test

• ChatGPT desktop app gains direct app integration

• Create your own AI writing assistant

• TikTok launches Symphony Creative Studio

• 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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AI RESEARCH

✍️ AI poetry outshines human classics in blind test

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The Rundown: A new study from the University of Pittsburgh researchers just revealed that AI can now generate poetry that readers not only struggle to distinguish from human-written texts but actually prefer over works by legendary poets like Shakespeare and Dickinson.

The details:

• In experiments with over 1,600 participants, readers could identify AI-generated versus human-written poems just 46.6% of the time.

• AI-generated poems were also consistently rated higher across 13 different qualitative measures, including rhythm, beauty, and emotional impact.

• Five poems rated as ‘least likely’ to be human were written by famous poets, while four rated most "human-like" were AI-generated.

• When participants were explicitly told poems were AI-generated, they rated them lower regardless of authorship.

Why it matters: This study may ruffle some feathers in the literature community, but it's a clear sign that it's becoming impossible to distinguish between AI and human writing — even in creative domains like poetry. Some difficult questions are about to be raised as AI begins to rapidly surpass humans in unexpected areas of culture.

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OPENAI

🖥️ ChatGPT desktop app gains direct app integration

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The Rundown: OpenAI just pushed an update to its desktop app that enables ChatGPT to interact directly with third-party applications on Mac for seamless AI-assisted workflows, along with expanded Windows desktop app access.

The details:

• The new ‘Work with Apps’ feature allows ChatGPT to read and analyze content from select developer tools, including VS Code, Xcode, Terminal, and iTerm2.

• Users can now get AI assistance without copying and pasting, with ChatGPT automatically understanding code context via the connected apps.

• Multiple apps can be connected simultaneously for more complex workflows, with OpenAI planning to expand beyond developer tools in the future.

• The new feature is available in early beta for Plus and Team users, and Enterprise and Education users will receive access in the coming weeks.

• The Windows desktop app is also now available to all users, featuring Advanced Voice Mode, shortcuts, a companion window, and more.

Why it matters: With rumors of an upcoming ‘Operator’ agent, this feels like a major stepping stone towards a system that can naturally understand and take action with our workspaces. This update is about to create some wild new workflows and shift users towards a new mindset with ChatGPT interactions.

AI TRAINING

✍️ Create your own AI writing assistant

The Rundown: Using code templates provided with xAI, you can easily create an AI assistant that replicates your unique writing style using the xAI API.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit x.ai, create an account, and generate an API key (you’ll get $25 free credits).

2. Install the necessary libraries in Python using pip.

3. Set up your API credentials securely.

4. Use the provided code template by xAI to create your assistant.

5. Ask any AI chatbot to code a content-writing AI assistant and paste the API code from step 4.

Pro tip: We’ve created a pre-configured AI assistant that you can access directly here. You just need to add your API key, writing examples, and prompts.

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BYTEDANCE

🤳 TikTok launches Symphony Creative Studio

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The Rundown: TikTok just released Symphony Creative Studio, an AI-powered video generation platform that offers new automated tools for brands to produce and scale advertising content.

The details:

• The new platform converts product information or URLs directly into TikTok-ready videos in minutes, drawing from top-performing content styles.

• Advertisers can now leverage AI digital avatars, choosing from pre-built or customized options with the ability to edit voice, position, style, and more.

• A translation and dubbing feature enables automatic content conversion into multiple languages in over 30 languages with lip-sync capabilities.

• The platform includes a daily auto-generation feature that creates new video options based on brand history and platform trends.

• All AI-generated content is automatically labeled for transparency, with the company touting built-in safeguards for avatar likeness rights.

Why it matters: TikTok’s Symphony is shifting the marketing world in the AI era. Tasks that previously required teams of copywriters, videographers, editors, translators, and media buyers are now handled by a single brand manager curating AI-generated content, with improved ad results as the cherry on top.

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• 📦 Scale AI - Head of Procurement

QUICK HITS

InVideo launched a new AI video creation tool that can generate multi-minute videos with music and text in various styles from a single prompt.

Google released a new standalone Gemini iPhone app featuring Gemini Live voice conversations, image generation capabilities, and broader integration with Google services.

AI visionary Francois Chollet announced his departure from Google after a decade, with plans to launch a new venture while maintaining involvement with his Keras open-source AI framework.

Anthropic added new developer tools in its Console to automatically improve prompts, with the ability to manage examples and evaluate outputs to boost response accuracy and consistency.

Stripe introduced a new agent toolkit, enabling developers to integrate payments, financial services, and usage-based billing into LLM-powered agent workflows.

Apple released its Final Cut Pro 11 editing software, featuring new AI-powered features like Magnetic Mask for green screen-free object isolation and LLM-driven caption generation.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The next evolution of AI isn't just about conversation; it's about action — and OpenAI's upcoming ‘Operator’ agent is ready to take control of your real-world tasks.

But in a market quickly being flooded with similar tools, will OpenAI's agent be able to stand out above the crowd? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI’s ‘Operator’ agent is coming

• AI research agents design new COVID-fighting proteins

• Transform product photos into ad campaigns

• OpenAI presents U.S. AI roadmap

• 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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OPENAI

🤖 OpenAI’s ‘Operator’ agent is coming

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The Rundown: OpenAI is planning to launch ‘Operator’ in January, a new AI tool that can actively complete tasks like booking flights or writing code on a user’s behalf, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

The details:

• Operator will be capable of controlling a web browser to complete real, multi-step process tasks with minimal human oversight.

• CEO Sam Altman said during a recent Reddit AMA that agentic capabilities will “feel like the next giant breakthrough” over simply improving models.

• Operator joins a flurry of agent competition, with Anthropic (computer use), Microsoft (Copilot Agents), and Google (Jarvis) working on similar tools.

• The tool is reportedly set for a January release as both a research preview and developer API.

Why it matters: Agents continue to be all the rage in AI and mark a shift from increasingly smarter chatbots to systems that can actually navigate the real world on our behalf. OpenAI’s agent execution will be interesting to watch — with so many similar offerings, what differentiator will make the tool stand out above the rest?

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AI RESEARCH

🦠 AI research agents design new COVID-fighting proteins

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The Rundown: Stanford researchers just introduced the Virtual Lab, an AI research platform where specialized AI agents collaborate with human scientists to tackle complex scientific challenges — successfully designing and validating new nanobodies against recent COVID variants.

The details:

• The system uses multiple AI agents with distinct specialties (immunologist, ML specialist, computational biologist) coordinated by an AI Principal Investigator.

• The AI team members hold structured "meetings" to discuss and refine their work, requiring only light guidance from human scientists.

• Over 90% of the AI-designed molecules were stable and worked as intended when produced in the lab.

• Lab testing identified two promising candidates from 92 designed proteins that can attach to both new COVID variants and the original virus.

Why it matters: AI superteams are now tackling scientific research — and soon, we’ll all be having check-ins with an expert panel of our subject of choice. As AI reaches Ph.D.-level intelligence and beyond, the thought of what can be accomplished by groups of genius agents with an endless array of specialties is staggering to consider.

AI TRAINING

✨ Transform product photos into ad campaigns

The Rundown: Ideogram lets you turn product photos into custom-sized marketing assets with legible text.

Step-by-step:

1. Upload your product photo to Ideogram Canvas.

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3. Select "Magic Fill" and choose your preferred selection tool (brush, lasso, or rectangle).

4. Add AI-generated text effects and export your marketing-ready asset.

Pro tip: Create templates by saving your favorite aspect ratios and styles for consistent branding across all your product marketing materials.

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OPENAI

🗺️ OpenAI presents U.S. AI roadmap

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The Rundown: OpenAI just presented a comprehensive blueprint for American AI infrastructure and international cooperation, proposing sweeping changes to power, regulations, and partnerships to compete with China's growing AI capabilities.

The details:

• The plan calls for creating special ‘AI Economic Zones’ where states can fast-track permits and approvals for AI infrastructure projects.

• OpenAI envisions a "North American AI Alliance" that could eventually expand to include other democratic allies globally.

• The blueprint also advocates modernizing the power grid with a National Transmission Highway Act that prioritizes transmission, fiber, and natural gas.

• The company reportedly spoke with the government about a potential $100B, 5-gigawatt data center that is five times larger than any existing facility.

Why it matters: With a new incoming U.S. administration having significantly different views for the country’s AI initiatives, OpenAI is wasting no time in upping the pressure to address the massive energy and compute demands needed to continue accelerating — and staying ahead of rival Chinese AI giants.

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QUICK HITS

Formation Bio, OpenAI, and Sanofi unveiled Muse, an AI system that drastically accelerates clinical trial recruitment, with Sanofi already implementing it in Phase 3 trials to streamline drug development timelines.

Chinese robotics firm Deep Robotics started commercial sales of its X30 quadruped robot, featuring a $54,000 price tag with industrial use cases like site inspections, security patrol, and more.

GEMA became the first performing rights organization to sue OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement of song lyrics, filing a lawsuit in Munich, Germany.

AI safety advocate Dan Hendrycks is joining Scale AI, becoming an advisor for with $14B data labeling company alongside his roles at The Center For AI Safety and xAI.

Microsoft launched adapted AI models, offering specialized small language models to address sector-specific challenges in manufacturing, automotive, and agriculture.

DeepL introduced Voice, a real-time translation service supporting 13 spoken languages and 33 written languages, initially focusing on text-based output for Teams meetings and in-person conversations.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

AI robots can now learn to perform surgery just like a (human) medical resident — by watching and imitating their mentors at work.

With human-level precision already achieved in key procedures, could this be healthcare's next revolution? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• AI robot masters surgical tasks

• Apple’s new AI home command center

• Master any software with ChatGPT

• Nous supercharges AI models with Reasoning API

• 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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AI, ROBOTICS & HEALTHCARE

🤖 AI robot masters surgical tasks

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The Rundown: Researchers at Johns Hopkins University just achieved a breakthrough in surgical robotics, training a robot to perform complex medical procedures solely by having it watch videos of human surgeons at work.

The details:

• The da Vinci Surgical System robot learned and performed critical surgical tasks, such as needle manipulation, tissue lifting, and suturing, with human-level skill.

• Using a new imitation learning approach, the system trained with hundreds of surgical videos captured by da Vinci robot wrist cameras.

• The AI model combines ChatGPT-style architecture with kinematics, essentially teaching the robot to "speak surgery" through mathematical movements.

• The system also showed unexpected adaptability, like automatically retrieving dropped needles — a skill it wasn't explicitly programmed to perform.

Why it matters: The surge in robotic capabilities for both training and dexterity is opening up new use cases — and surgery is next on the list. This video learning approach could do for surgical robotics what LLMs did for AI, allowing robots to rapidly learn and adapt to any procedure instead of hand-coding for each individual movement.

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APPLE

🏠 Apple’s new AI-powered home command center

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The Rundown: Apple is preparing to launch a new wall-mounted AI smart home display – positioning the device as a central hub for everything from video calls to appliance management, according to a new report from Apple insider Mark Gurman.

The details:

• The tablet-like device will feature a 6-inch screen with a camera, speakers, and proximity sensing to adjust displays based on user distance.

• The display will utilize Siri and Apple Intelligence, allowing users to control apps and appliances, use FaceTime as a home intercom, play music, and more.

• A premium version with robotic arm is also reportedly in development, which will be marketed as a “home companion with an AI personality.”

• The launch is expected as early as March, and pricing is likely competitive with existing smart displays like Google’s Nest Hub and Amazon’s Echo Hub.

Why it matters: After lagging behind Amazon and Google in the smart home space, Apple is finally making its big move. But rather than just another smart display, this appears to be Apple's first dedicated AI hardware product — potentially setting the stage for how we'll interact with home AI in the future.

AI TRAINING

🎯 Master any software with ChatGPT

The Rundown: ChatGPT’s new Advanced Voice Mode can be your personal guide to navigate and learn any new software or application in real time, getting instant answers and step-by-step guidance.

Step-by-step:

1. Open the ChatGPT desktop app alongside your new software and position windows side-by-side.

2. Start with a clear description of what you're seeing (e.g., "I'm looking at the main screen of PowerPoint and see...").

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Pro tip: Take it one step at a time and confirm each action before moving forward. This ensures you're truly learning rather than just following instructions blindly.

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NOUS RESEARCH

🔧 Nous supercharges AI models with Reasoning API

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The Rundown: Nous Research just introduced the Forge Reasoning API Beta, a system that dramatically enhances language model capabilities through advanced reasoning techniques, enabling smaller models to compete with industry giants.

The details:

• The system combines three key technologies: Monte Carlo Tree Search, Chain of Code, and Mixture of Agents to boost model performance.

• When powered by Forge, their 70B Hermes model outperformed larger models like o1 and Sonnet on complex math tasks.

• Forge works with Hermes 3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini, GPT-4 and more, with the ability to also combine multiple LLMs to ‘enhance output diversity’.

• Nous also launched a free chat platform featuring their Hermes 3 model alongside the limited API release.

Why it matters: While tech giants pour billions into training larger models, Nous shows that reasoning might be the real unlock that levels the playing field. Forge’s ability to boost smaller models is impressive — but even more compelling may be what will happen when these techniques are applied to already industry-leading systems.

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• 🚀 The Rundown - Head of Growth

• 🛠️ Waymo - Software Engineer, Router Eval

• 💡 Cohere - Senior Member of Technical Staff, RAG

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• 🤝 Meta - Business Development Manager, AI Partnerships

QUICK HITS

Baidu announced a series of new AI products at the company’s Baidu World event, including an I-RAG text-to-image generator, Miaoda no-code development tool, and upcoming AI-powered smart glasses.

Alibaba introduced Accio, an AI-powered B2B search engine that uses natural language processing to connect global buyers and sellers, showing a 40% increase in purchasing intentions during pilot testing.

Enterprise AI platform Writer secured a massive $200M Series C investment boosting its valuation to $1.9B, with the startup set to expand into healthcare, retail, and financial services workflows.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman has returned after a three-month sabbatical, with plans to take on a new technical role within the company.

Amazon unveiled a $110M "Build on Trainium" initiative to accelerate university AI research using its custom chips, providing researchers free access to massive 40,000-chip clusters with open-source requirements for resulting innovations.

AI-powered news app Particle launched on iOS, offering personalized summaries, multi-perspective coverage analysis, and interactive features to help users better understand and engage with current events.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The crown jewel of scientific AI research just went open-source, with DeepMind releasing its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold 3 to researchers worldwide.

With brilliant new minds now gaining access to this powerhouse tool, could the open-source turn trigger biology's biggest breakthrough yet? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• DeepMind opens AlphaFold 3 to researchers worldwide

• Qwen unveils powerful new open-source coding AI

• Create multilingual subtitles with Gemini

• AI detects blood pressure and diabetes from short videos

• 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE DEEPMIND

🧬 DeepMind opens AlphaFold 3 to researchers worldwide

Image source: Google DeepMind

The Rundown: Google DeepMind just open-sourced its groundbreaking AlphaFold 3 protein prediction model, enabling academic researchers to access both code and training weights for the first time since its limited release in May.

The details:

• The Nobel Prize-winning technology can predict interactions between proteins and other molecules like DNA, RNA, and potential drug compounds.

• Academic researchers can access the model's full capabilities for non-commercial use, though commercial applications remain restricted.

• The system has already mapped over 200M protein structures, demonstrating unprecedented scale in structural biology.

• Several companies, including Baidu and ByteDance, have already created their own versions based on the original paper's specifications.

• DeepMind's spinoff, Isomorphic Labs, maintains exclusive commercial rights, having recently secured $3 billion in pharmaceutical partnerships.

Why it matters: Scientific research is one of the most exciting areas for AI, and the wider availability of AlphaFold via open-source should massively accelerate breakthroughs across biology and medicine – while also leveling the playing field beyond well-funded institutions or pharmaceutical companies.

TOGETHER WITH WEIGHTS & BIASES

📊 Multimodal GenAI tracking and evaluations made easy

The Rundown: Weave is a lightweight developer toolkit that simplifies tracking and evaluation of your multimodal LLM applications — bringing comprehensive observability to text, images, and audio.

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QWEN

🚀 Qwen unveils powerful new open-source coding AI

Image source: Qwen

The Rundown: Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen just released a suite of new AI coding models, with its flagship 32B version matching GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet's performances on key benchmarks while remaining completely open-source.

The details:

• The Qwen2.5-Coder series spans six different sizes (0.5B to 32B parameters), making it accessible for various computing environments and tasks.

• The 32B version achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models in code generation, repair, and reasoning tasks.

• The models integrate with popular development tools like Cursor and are proficient across over 40 programming languages.

• Each size has two variants: a base model for custom fine-tuning and an instruction-tuned version ready for direct use.

Why it matters: AI’s coding abilities continue to level up, and open-source models like Qwen are now matching and exceeding the top players in the industry. Advanced programming capabilities are quickly becoming available to a much wider audience — no coding background is necessary.

AI TRAINING

🎬 Create multilingual subtitles with Gemini

The Rundown: Google Gemini’s video input feature lets you transform any video into multiple languages with accurate transcripts and professional subtitles.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Google AI Studio and select Gemini 1.5 Pro 002.

2. Upload your video and generate a timestamped transcript.

3. Use translation prompts to create subtitles in target languages.

4. Enhance subtitles with proper formatting and timing.

Pro tip: Mention the source language in your initial prompt for better accuracy, and use Subtitle Edit Online for final touches. We have also written detailed prompts that you can copy and paste from here.

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AI RESEARCH

🏥 AI detects blood pressure and diabetes from short videos

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Japanese researchers just developed an AI system that can screen for conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes using a brief video of someone's face and hands—with accuracy at levels comparable to or exceeding those of cuffs and wearable devices.

The details:

• The system combines high-speed video capture with AI to analyze subtle changes in blood flow patterns, analyzing 30 regions of the face and palm.

• Initial tests show 94% accuracy in detecting high blood pressure and 75% accuracy for diabetes compared to traditional diagnostic methods.

• A 30-second video achieved 86% accuracy in blood pressure detection, while even a 5-second clip maintained 81% accuracy.

• Researchers envision future integration into smartphones or smart mirrors for more convenient at-home health monitoring.

Why it matters: It may be time to ditch the bulky blood pressure cuffs—a simple selfie will soon do the trick. Integrating this type of AI breakthrough into accessible forms like an app or website would dramatically increase access to vital screenings while making personal health monitoring much easier and more effective.

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QUICK HITS

Free event: AI Safety and the Risks of AGI. Find out what people aren’t talking about, but should be (for the sake of humanity), when it comes to AGI. RSVP here.*

Lex Fridman released a new interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who discussed the firm’s approach to AI safety and predicted AGI may arrive by 2026-2027, as well as conversations with researcher Amanda Askell and co-founder Chris Olah.

AI sales automation startup 11x secured $50M in new funding, valuing the company at $320M as it expands its AI bots that can handle sales tasks in 30 languages.

Anthropic hired Kyle Fish as its first dedicated "AI welfare" researcher, who will explore whether future AI models might experience consciousness and require moral consideration.

The Vatican and Microsoft unveiled a digital AI-powered twin of St. Peter’s Basilica created from 400,000 images, enabling virtual visits and help identifying structural damage ahead of the 2025 Jubilee.

Jerry Garcia's estate announced a partnership with ElevenLabs, bringing the late Grateful Dead icon's AI-recreated voice to audiobooks and written content in 32 languages.

Leading AI companies are reportedly rushing to develop new benchmarks and testing methods, with current standards falling behind the ability to measure increasingly sophisticated AI models.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The race to AGI just got a deadline, and it's a lot sooner than anyone expected.

OpenAI's Sam Altman is now betting on 2025 for the big milestone — but will rumors of scaling challenges force him to eat his words? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Altman predicts AGI in 2025

• The Beatles make AI history with Grammy noms

• Extract insights from any technical PDF

• MIT's AI trains robot dogs in virtual worlds

• 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

📈 Altman predicts AGI in 2025

Image source: Y Combinator

The Rundown: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just predicted that artificial general intelligence will be achieved in 2025, coming alongside conflicting reports of slowing progress in LLM development and scaling across the industry.

The details:

• In an interview with YC founder Gary Tan, Altman said the path to AGI is ‘basically clear’ and will require engineering, not new scientific breakthroughs.

• A new report revealed that the rumored ‘Orion’ model shows smaller improvement over GPT-4 than previous generations, especially in coding tasks.

• The company also reportedly formed a new "Foundations Team" to tackle fundamental challenges, such as the scarcity of high-quality training data.

• OpenAI researchers Noam Brown and Clive Chan backed Altman’s AGI confidence, believing the o1 reasoning model offers new scaling capabilities.

Why it matters: Altman’s prediction would mean a drastic leap in the company’s AGI scale (currently level 2 of 5) — but the CEO has remained consistent in his confidence. With OpenAI suddenly prioritizing o1 development, it makes sense that the reasoning model might have shown new potential to break through any scaling limits.

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MUSIC & AI

🎵 The Beatles make AI history with Grammy noms

Image source: The Beatles

The Rundown: "Now and Then," The Beatles' AI-enhanced final song, released a year ago, just became the first AI-assisted track to receive Grammy nominations — marking a historical moment for AI's role in music production.

The details:

• The song earned nominations for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance, competing against artists like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.

• The track used AI "stem separation" technology to clean up and isolate John Lennon's vocals from a 1978 unreleased demo.

• The AI technique mirrors noise-canceling technology used in video calls, training models to identify and separate specific sounds.

• The nomination follows the Grammy’s 2023 denial of consideration to viral AI creator Ghostwriter due to the unauthorized use of vocals.

Why it matters: The Beatles have been pioneers throughout music history, so it’s only fitting that they help carry the baton into this new era of AI-assisted production and creation. The coming wave of song generation will be an even bigger shift, but this technique shows how artists can also use AI as a tool for preservation and restoration.

AI TRAINING

🎯 Extract insights from any technical PDF

The Rundown: Claude’s new visual document feature lets AI analyze and understand complex PDFs containing charts, diagrams, and graphics, transforming how we extract information from technical documents.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to Claude AI and enable "Visual PDFs" in your Feature Preview settings.

2. Upload your PDF containing charts, diagrams, or technical illustrations.

3. Ask specific questions about visual elements (e.g., "Explain the relationship shown in this diagram").

4. Combine visual analysis with text queries for comprehensive insights.

Pro tip: Frame your questions to specifically reference visual elements. This helps you get more precise and detailed answers about charts and diagrams.

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🧠 Free session: How Salesforce’s CEO thinks about AI ROI

The Rundown: Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff is sitting down with Scott Galloway at Section’s free virtual conference on Nov. 14 to talk about his three big AI investments.

Marc is joined by AI leaders at Moderna, S&P Global, and ServiceNow to discuss:

• Practical insights and advice based on their own AI deployments

• Where they are (or aren’t) getting ROI from their AI investments

• How you can use AI to transform your own organization

Register for free to secure your spot.

AI RESEARCH

🐶 MIT's AI trains robot dogs in virtual worlds

Image source: MIT CSAIL

The Rundown: MIT researchers unveiled an AI system called LucidSim that trains four-legged robots using generated imagery — achieving unprecedented real-world performance without ever seeing actual environments during training.

The details:

• LucidSim combines physics simulations with AI-generated scenes to create diverse training environments for robotic learning.

• Robots trained in LucidSim’s artificial environments completed complex tasks like obstacle navigation and ball chasing with up to 88% accuracy.

• The platform uses ChatGPT to auto-generate thousands of scene descriptions, creating varied training scenarios with different weather and lighting conditions.

• Traditional training methods relying solely on human demonstration achieved only 15% success rates on the same tasks.

Why it matters: A paradigm shift is underway in how advanced robots are trained. By eliminating the need for extensive real-world training data, systems like LucidSim could dramatically accelerate the development of more capable robots while also reducing the time and resources needed to deploy them in real-world settings.

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• 🧠 Maibrain - Preserve the voice and experiences of your loved ones so you can interact with them in the future

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🚀 The Rundown - Head of Growth

• ☁️ Lambda - Engineering Manager, Cloud

• 🛠️ Coreweave - Principal Engineer

• 📊 Meta - Quality Data Analyst

• 🎨 Grammarly - Principal Product Designer

QUICK HITS

AI music generation startup Suno showcased new demos of its soon-to-be-released v4 model, with enhanced audio samples demonstrating improved naturalness and consistency.

The U.S. Commerce Department ordered chipmaker TSMC to halt the export of advanced chips for AI applications to Chinese customers starting this week.

Chinese tech giant Baidu will reportedly unveil AI-powered smart glasses equipped with voice and camera capabilities at its upcoming Baidu World event, positioning the product as a competitor to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses at a lower price point.

A federal judge dismissed a Raw Story and AlterNet copyright lawsuit against OpenAI over AI training data, expressing skepticism about the news outlets' ability to prove harm.

The Washington Post launched "Ask The Post AI," a new generative AI search tool that taps into the publication's archives to provide direct answers and curated results to reader queries.

OpenAI VP of Research and Safety Lillian Weng announced she is departing the company after seven years, marking another significant exit from the startup’s leadership.

xAI launched a free tier of its Grok chatbot in select regions, offering limited access to Grok 2, Grok 2 mini, and image analysis capabilities.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The art world just witnessed a $1.3M reality check from an unexpected painter — a humanoid robot named Ai-Da.

As traditional notions of creativity and authorship get challenged, is the AI and robotics boom about to usher in a new artistic era? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• AI robot artwork shatters auction estimates

• Anthropic expands Claude AI to defense sector

• Transform research tabs into reports

• ByteDance unveils powerful AI portrait animator

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI, ROBOTICS & ART

🎨 AI robot artwork shatters auction estimates

Image source: Sotheby’s

The Rundown: Humanoid robot artist Ai-da just made history at Sotheby’s Auction House, with its portrait of computer science pioneer Alan Turning selling for $1.3M — marking the first major auction sale of a robot-created artwork.

The details:

• The "AI God" painting sparked intense bidding interest with 27 offers, selling for nearly 10x the originally estimated value of $120,000 to $180,000.

• The piece combines traditional portrait artistry with AI-driven techniques, using cameras in Ai-Da's eyes and robotic arms to capture and create the image.

• The work is part of a larger series examining humanity's relationship with technology, and the work was previously exhibited at the UN's AI for Good Summit.

• Sotheby’s said the artwork is the first by a humanoid robot artist, and Ai-Da commented that it ‘serves as a dialogue about emerging technologies.’

Why it matters: Is the world ready to embrace non-human artists? If you’ve seen the reactions to AI artwork on social media, the answer is probably not, but it's clear some are ready to challenge traditional notions of creativity and authorship. One day, pieces like Ai-Da’s may be historical artifacts from the early days of the AI and robotics boom.

TOGETHER WITH NORTHERN DATA GROUP

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Start powering your AI responsibly and get started with Northern Data Group today.

ANTHROPIC

🪖 Anthropic expands Claude AI to defense sector

Image source: Ideogram / The Rundown

The Rundown: Anthropic just announced a major partnership with Palantir and AWS to bring its Claude AI models to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies, joining Meta and OpenAI in the tech’s shifting role within government operations.

The details:

• Claude will be integrated into Palantir’s IL6 platform powered by AWS, one of the highest security environments designed for classified government ops.

• The move allows defense agencies to leverage AI for complex data analysis, pattern recognition, document processing, and rapid intelligence assessment.

• Special policies are crafted to enable foreign intelligence analysis and threat detection, with weapons development and cyber operations restrictions.

• Access will be limited to authorized personnel in classified environments, with security protocols and strict compliance in place.

Why it matters: AI firms have historically been cautious about intertwining with military applications, but with OpenAI, Meta, and now Anthropic operating with the government and defense contractors, the floodgates have opened. Having access to top AI models quickly becomes a massive security and military advantage.

AI TRAINING

📚 Transform research tabs into reports

The Rundown: NotebookLM can turn your browser tabs and research materials into well-organized, AI-powered briefs and reports.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to Google’s NotebookLM and create a new notebook.

2. Add your open browser tabs by pasting URLs as sources.

3. Generate an initial brief with a structured prompt (e.g., "Write a 1-page brief on [topic] with key trends, examples, and implications").

4. Refine with focused follow-up prompts targeting specific industries or perspectives.

Pro tip: Create a customized Audio Overview for stakeholder-specific summaries and export your insights.

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🗺️ Discover the world's favorite vector search

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AI RESEARCH

🎭 ByteDance unveils powerful AI portrait animator

Image source: ByteDance

The Rundown: ByteDance just revealed X-Portrait 2, an AI system that can transform static images into expressive animated performances by mapping facial movements onto a driving video.

The details:

• X-Portrait 2 requires just a single reference video to ‘drive’ the motion and an image to transform into a new character or style.

• The system can transfer subtle facial expressions and complex movements like pouting, frowning, and tongue movements with realism and fluidity.

• X-Portrait 2 works across realistic portraits and cartoon characters, opening possibilities for animation, virtual agents, and visual effects.

• The update builds on the July release of X-Portrait 1 and could potentially be integrated into TikTok as a free competitor to larger AI avatar/lip sync platforms.

Why it matters: We’re not far off from professional-grade character animation being accessible to anyone — with wild implications for both content creation and creativity as a whole. But with nearly indistinguishable levels of lip-syncing and character transfer, will the world lose its sense of true ‘reality’ in the process?

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New AI Job Opportunities

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• 📊 The Rundown - Partnerships Manager

• 🤖 Meta - AI Research Scientist, Computer Vision

• ✍️ Rad AI - Technical Writer

• 💼 OpenAI - Revenue Operations Manager

QUICK HITS

Microsoft began integrating Copilot AI features into standard Microsoft 365 subscriptions in certain Asia-Pacific markets, signaling a potential shift away from its separate Copilot Pro subscription model.

Black Forest Labs launched a new upgrade to its FLUX1.1 pro model, featuring a new ‘Ultra’ mode for 4x higher image resolution in text-to-image generations and a ‘raw’ mode for more realistic generations.

Fast-food giant Wendy’s is partnering with Palantir to deploy an AI-powered supply chain management system that predicts shortages and automates inventory ordering.

Mistral debuted a new multi-language content moderation API that powers its Le Chat platform, helping developers implement safety guardrails in applications across nine policy categories.

Krea AI added custom model training capabilities, allowing users to create personalized AI models to learn specific characters, artistic styles, and product designs.

Chinese EV maker XPENG unveiled Iron, a nearly 6-foot-tall robot equipped with dexterous hands and the company's Turing AI chip, already deployed in its vehicle factory alongside its autonomous driving technology.

Nous Research launched its first public chatbot interface called Nous Chat, powered by its Hermes 3-70B model.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

OpenAI just acquired the $15M+ domain name chat.com (which now leads to ChatGPT) from HubSpot's founder, making it one of the largest domain deals in history.

Could the shift from "ChatGPT" to simply "chat" signal the end of the GPT era — and the start of something new? Let's get into it...

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI acquires $15M+ domain name

• Nvidia unveils major robotics AI toolkit

• Master any topic with interactive AI learning

• Microsoft unveils multi-agent AI system

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

💰 OpenAI acquires $15M+ domain name

Image source: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Rundown: OpenAI has acquired the domain name chat.com (which now redirects to ChatGPT) from HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah, marking what could be one of the largest domain purchases in history.

The details:

• Dharmesh Shah, the tech billionaire and founder of HubSpot and agent.ai, acquired chat.com in March of 2023 for a reported $15.5 million.

• Two months after purchase, Shah announced the domain's sale to an unnamed buyer, also donating $250,000 of the profits to Khan Academy.

• Yesterday (over a year since Shah’s announcement), Sam Altman confirmed OpenAI's acquisition of the domain, which now leads directly to ChatGPT.

• Shah confirmed that the $15M+ domain name was sold to OpenAI but implied that he sold the domain for shares in the startup.

Why it matters: While $15M+ in stock from the fastest-growing startup in history is significant, it's a drop in the bucket for a company that just raised $6.6B. The shift from "ChatGPT" to simply "chat" could signal OpenAI's broader vision away from the GPT era, potentially preparing for a future dominated by o1-style reasoning models.

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NVIDIA

🤖 Nvidia unveils major robotics AI toolkit

Image source: NVIDIA

The Rundown: Nvidia just announced a comprehensive suite of new AI and simulation tools for robotics development at the 2024 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), including new humanoid capabilities, training systems, and a partnership with open-source platform Hugging Face.

The details:

• Nvidia's Isaac Lab framework is now generally available and provides open-source tools for training robots at scale.

• A Project GR00T initiative introduced new specialized workflows for humanoid robot development, from motion generation to environment perception.

• A new partnership with Hugging Face integrates their LeRobot platform with Nvidia's tools, hoping to accelerate AI robotics initiatives.

• The chipmaker also unveiled a Cosmos tokenizer, which is capable of processing robot visual data up to 12x faster than existing solutions.

Why it matters: The race to develop capable humanoid robots is on, and Nvidia is positioning itself as the foundation layer for the entire industry. With an avalanche of new training tools and increasingly capable AI models to infuse into physical hardware, the acceleration from the entire robotics sector shows no signs of slowing down.

AI TRAINING

🧠 Master any topic with interactive AI learning

The Rundown: Google's experimental Learn About feature provides an interactive, in-depth learning experience with AI-powered explanations, visual aids, and dynamic content exploration.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Google’s Learn About page (available only in selected countries).

2. Enter your topic or choose from curated collections.

3. Explore interactive content with vocabulary builders, timelines, and visual aids.

4. Use Simplify, Go Deeper, or Get Images options to customize your learning.

Pro tip: Use the suggested follow-up questions and related topics to create a comprehensive understanding of your subject.

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🧠 Dive into AI strategies with industry experts

The Rundown: Section invites you to its AI:ROI Conference next week, a free event that offers valuable perspectives on AI adoption from some of the top minds in the industry.

Speakers include:

• General Catalyst Managing Director Marc Bhargava on AI-driven investment strategies

• NYU professor Scott Galloway offering predictions for AI in 2025

• Moderna's VP of AI & Product Platforms Brice Challamel discussing the company’s 80% internal AI adoption and its impact

Register for free to secure your spot.

MICROSOFT

🚀 Microsoft unveils multi-agent AI system

Image source: Microsoft

The Rundown: Microsoft researchers just introduced Magentic-One, an AI orchestration system that coordinates multiple specialized agents to tackle complex real-world tasks like writing code, operating a browser, and even ordering food from a restaurant.

The details:

• The system starts with an "Orchestrator" agent, which leads a team of four other specialized AIs to coordinate a desired multi-step task.

• The agents autonomously plan, execute, and adjust strategies, with demos showcasing sandwich ordering, finding stock trends, and more.

• Magentic-One is open-source and was released alongside an AutoGenBench testing tool for evaluating agentic performance.

• Magentic-One shows competitive performance against top specialized agent systems across various benchmarks like GAIA, AssistantBench, and WebArena.

Why it matters: The dream of having your own team of AI agents ready to tag-team a daily task list is getting closer. Multi-agent coordination is clearly a crucial component for leveraging tools to complete complex real-world tasks, and Microsoft’s open-source approach could help level up the coming agentic revolution even more.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🌊 Video Ocean - Create stunning videos from text and images in minutes

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• 🔊 PopPop AI Vocal Remover - Free AI-powered tool to separate or remove vocals from any song

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• 📝 The Rundown - Content Writer

• 💼 Glean - Head of Consulting Services

• 📊 Shield AI - Senior Accountant

• 🛡️ Palantir Technologies - Marketing, US Defense

• 🤝 Writer - Senior Partner Marketing Manager

QUICK HITS

Google accidentally leaked "Jarvis," an AI system capable of autonomously controlling a computer and performing web-based tasks, on the Chrome Web Store briefly ahead of its planned December release.

Saudi Arabia unveiled plans for "Project Transcendence," a $100B AI initiative to establish the kingdom as a global tech powerhouse through investments in data centers, startups, and infrastructure.

Perplexity is reportedly set to raise $500M at a $9B valuation despite ongoing legal challenges from major publishers over the startup’s content usage practices.

Chinese AI video platform KLING is launching a ‘Custom Models’ feature, allowing users to train personalized video characters using 10-30 video clips for consistent appearances across scenes and camera angles.

Microsoft filed a patent for a ‘response-augmenting system’ designed to combat AI hallucinations, having the model double-check its answers against real-world information before responding to users.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team