Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Google's NotebookLM can now transform your documents into podcasts hosted by two AI agents with its new ‘Audio Overviews’ feature.

Turning your textbooks into audible SparkNotes has never been easier. Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Google turns your notes into podcasts

• Adobe previews new AI video model

• How to control AI video camera angles

• Mistral releases multimodal Pixtral 12B

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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GOOGLE LABS

🤖 Google turns your notes into podcasts

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The Rundown: Google just launched Audio Overviews, a new feature in NotebookLM that turns notes, PDFs, Google Docs, Slides, and more into AI-generated audio discussions between two virtual AI agents.

The details:

• Audio Overview creates a "deep dive" conversation from uploaded sources, with AI hosts summarizing content and connecting topics across materials.

• The tool works with various source types (documents, slides, charts, web URLs) using Gemini 1.5's multimodal capabilities.

• To use Audio Overviews, open an existing notebook, navigate to the Notebook guide, and click on the “generate” button on the right-hand side.

• We confirmed with Google Labs that NotebookLM can process up to 50 sources, each up to 500,000 words, allowing for a total of 25 million words to be considered when generating the audio.

Why it matters: Audio Overviews can be a game changer for people who are auditory learners. This feature works particularly well with academic papers, ebooks, textbooks, presentations — we tested it by turning yesterdays newsletter into an Audio Overview and were quite impressed!

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• Seamlessly deploy across various environments, from local to cloud and edge

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ADOBE

🔥 Adobe previews new AI video model

Image source: Adobe

The Rundown: Adobe just previewed its Firefly AI Video Model, which includes tools to extend existing videos and create new clips from text or image prompts, coming before year end.

The details:

• Three key features are coming: Text to Video, Image to Video, and Generative Extend.

• Text to Video can create clips from prompts, with options for camera controls and reference images.

• Image to Video transforms still images or illustrations into live-action clips.

• Generative Extend, coming to Premiere Pro beta, can add footage to cover gaps or extend shots.

Why it matters: While OpenAI's (still unreleased) Sora focuses on generating videos from scratch, Adobe is aiming to create ‘a new era‘ for video editing itself. Soon, anyone will be able to change camera angles, extend scenes, and generate b-roll instantly with AI.

AI TRAINING

🎥 How to control AI video camera angles

The Rundown: Luma Labs’ new ‘Camera Motion’ feature allows you to add professional-looking camera movements to your AI-generated videos with simple text commands.

Step-by-step:

1. Log in into Luma Labs and access the main interface.

2. Set up your scene by uploading an image or describing it in the text box.

3. Type "camera" in your prompt to unlock the Camera Motion dropdown menu.

4. Choose from options like Move, Pan, Push, Pull, or Orbit to add dynamic movement to your scene.

5. Generate your video and iterate as needed to perfect the result.

Pro tip: Add starting and ending keyframes for even more control over your camera movements.

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MISTRAL

🖼️ Mistral releases multimodal Pixtral 12B

The Rundown: French AI startup Mistral has released Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model capable of processing both images and text, available for free download under an Apache 2.0 license.

The details:

• Pixtral 12B is a 12-billion-parameter model, about 24GB in size, built on Mistral's text model Nemo 12B.

• Pixtral 12B is the startups first multimodal model, meaning it can process and answer questions about images, as well as text.

• It's available for download via GitHub and Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing unrestricted use and fine-tuning.

• Mistral plans to make Pixtral 12B available on their chatbot and API platforms, Le Chat and Le Plateforme, soon.

Why it matters: Despite being just over a year old, Mistral is rapidly emerging as Europe's “answer” to OpenAI. With a lean team of top researchers and a recent $645 million funding round, the company is aggressively pushing the boundaries of AI with powerful open models.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🎥 Adobe Firefly Video - Turn text or image into video with the new Firefly Video Model

• 🐼 Earkick - Free and anonymous self-care and AI chatbot

• ⛰️ Playbook - Render 3D scenes with Stable Diffusion

• 🎨 Verse - AI-powered visual blog, turn your idea into interactive webpages

• 📄 Mintlify - Generates public documentation that converts users better

• 🥑 Aicado - Easily integrate AI into websites with customizable models

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🧠 Meta - Data Scientist, Gen AI

• ⚖️ Twelve Labs - Head of Commercial Counsel

• 🤖 Mistral AI - Machine Learning Engineer

• 🤝 SuperAnnotate - Customer Success Manager

QUICK HITS

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise $6.5 billion (plus another $5 billion credit line with banks) at a $150 billion valuation, significantly higher than its previous $86 billion valuation.

Meta is reportedly finalizing a new AI supercomputing cluster with over 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips to train its next Llama 4 language model.

Canada's Defence Minister announced the country is working on incorporating AI into its military by 2030, emphasizing for the tech to "improve the work of our military personnel, but not to replace it".

Kai-Fu Lee (former head of Google China), stated that Chinese AI models lag behind U.S. by 6 to 9 months, but predicts that Chinese AI apps will proliferate faster than in the U.S. by early next year.

Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president, partly prompted by AI-generated deepfakes falsely showing her supporting Trump.

Oracle unveiled over 50 AI agents for its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, designed to automate business processes across functions like capital management, supply chain, and customer experience.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

OpenAI's 'Strawberry', a new AI model that "thinks" before responding, is reportedly set to launch in ChatGPT in just two weeks.

With promises of solving complex problems beyond any current LLM and new details from early testers, is it worth all the hype? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI's Strawberry set for early release

• Engineer creates AI-designed walking table

• Create photo-illustration blends with AI

• Waymo's driverless cars outperform humans

• 4 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🍓 OpenAI's Strawberry set for early release

Image source: Midjourney / The Rundown

The Rundown: According to a new report by The Information, OpenAI is planning to release Strawberry, its reasoning-focused AI model, as part of ChatGPT within the next two weeks — earlier than the originally expected fall timeline.

The details:

• According to early testers, Strawberry "thinks" for 10-20 seconds before responding, unlike typical AI models that answer immediately.

• The initial version will only handle text input and output, not images, making it non-multimodal unlike other recent AI models.

• Strawberry is expected to improve complex query handling without requiring users to use specialized prompt techniques like “chain-of-thought-prompting“.

• Early testers also said that Strawberry's responses, while slightly better than GPT-4o, may not be worth the extra 10-20 second wait time.

Why it matters: If it lives up to reports, Strawberry will likely excel not only on objective tasks (math, coding) but also subjective ones (like product marketing) and open up a whole new world of practical AI use cases. But with early testers reporting that the model is only “slightly better“, is it really worth all the hype? We’ll find out soon.

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CARPENTOPOD

🪑 Engineer creates AI-designed walking table

Image source: Giliam de Carpentier

The Rundown: Dutch engineer Giliam de Carpentier has created the 'Carpentopod', a wireless walking wooden coffee table, using an AI-optimized leg mechanism designed through evolutionary algorithms.

The details:

• The leg mechanism was developed using software that simulated thousands of generations of designs, optimizing for walking speed, clearance, and efficiency.

• The table features 12 legs (six on each end) made from precision-cut laminated bamboo, controlled by two motors.

• Carpentier developed a custom motor control software and uses a repurposed Nunchuck controller for remote operation.

• Watch a live demo of the walking coffee table in action here.

Why it matters: This project shows how makers are combining AI, traditional craftsmanship, and modern fabrication techniques to create unique projects that blur the lines between art, engineering, and furniture design. AI for design optimization, even for seemingly simple mechanical systems — is just getting started.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Create photo-illustration blends with AI

The Rundown: Using this unique prompt, AI image generators like Freepik and Midjourney can create images that blend both photography and illustration together.

Step-by-step:

1. Choose an AI image generator (e.g., Freepik or Midjourney).

2. Use this prompt template: "Blending of editorial photography and illustration, model, illustration fashion outfit, surreal environment of vibrant bold illustrations blending with the subject, flowers, smoke, flames and sparkles, half photography and half illustration".

3. Generate your image and check out the results.

4. Upscale using 2K resolution, add "mix of photography and illustration" to the upscaler prompt, and apply "subtle" and "digital art" parameters.

Note: If you’re a member of our AI University, you get a free Premium membership to Freepik, which can be accessed in the “Perks“ space.

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• Students getting their first AI client in as little as 3 days

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WAYMO

🚗 Waymo's driverless cars outperform humans

Image source: Waymo

The Rundown: A new deep dive into Waymo’s new crash data suggests that driverless cars are significantly safer than human-driven vehicles, with fewer injury-causing crashes and airbag deployments per mile driven.

The details:

• Waymo vehicles have traveled over 22 million miles, with only 20 injury-causing crashes reported.

• This rate is less than one-third of what's expected for human drivers in similar conditions.

• Out of 23 severe crashes, 16 involved human drivers rear-ending Waymo vehicles.

• Waymo estimates its vehicles are one-sixth as likely as human drivers to experience crashes triggering airbag deployment.

Why it matters: As Waymo rapidly scales up its robotaxi service — now providing 100,000 rides per week — these safety statistics are crucial. The data suggests that we now have safe self-driving cars, and that these AI-driven cars could significantly reduce road accidents and injuries.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🤖 Replit Agent - Turn natural language into code and deploy it with AI agents

• 🛠️ Langflow - Create AI apps easily with drag-and-drop components

• 🔄 Retain AI - A Shopify app that sends AI-generated winback emails to drive customer retention

• ⛈️ Rainbow Weather - AI weather app with precise rain forecasts

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🏷️ Cohere - Data Annotator - Safety tasks

• 📢 OctoAI - Staff Product Marketing Manager

• 💻 Captions - Software Engineer, Web

• 🛠️ Databricks - Solutions Engineer

QUICK HITS

SambaNova launched SambaNova Cloud, claiming it's the world's fastest AI inference platform, running Llama 3.1 70B at 461 tokens per second and 405B at 132 tokens per second at full precision.

Salesforce introduced Industries AI, embedding over 100 industry-specific AI capabilities across 15 industry clouds to address unique challenges.

Glean raised over $260 million in new funding at a whopping $4.6 billion valuation, co-led by Altimeter and DST Global, to expand its Work AI platform.

Anthropic unveiled Workspaces in its API Console, allowing developers to manage multiple Claude deployments with granular controls for spend limits, rate limits, and access management.

UBS developed an AI tool capable of analyzing 300,000 companies in 20 seconds to generate M&A ideas and identify potential buyers.

The Australian government proposed new legal requirements for AI in high-risk settings and introduced a Voluntary AI Safety Standard for businesses.

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Apple just introduced its iPhone 16 with brand new Apple Intelligence (AI) features and a smarter, more capable Siri.

It’s clear that Apple is leaning heavily in AI, but is the hype deserved or does the new iPhone fall short? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• iPhone 16 gets AI superpowers

• OpenAI backs new drug discovery startup

• Box AI puts an API in front of your documents

• AI generates ideas better than humans

• 5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

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APPLE

📱 iPhone 16 gets AI superpowers

Image source: Apple

The Rundown: Apple just announced the brand new iPhone 16, built from the ground up with its latest A18 chip and the full suite of Apple Intelligence (AI) features designed to transform how users interact with their devices.

The details:

• Writing Tools: AI can rewrite emails and notes, creates custom emojis for conversations, and edits anywhere you type.

• Photos and Videos: AI instantly finds specific photos or videos based on natural language search.

• Priority and Focus: AI summarizes emails and notifications to highlight what is important and surfaces prioritized notifications to keep you focused on what matters.

• Visual Intelligence: With Apple’s new camera, on-device AI analyzes images without storing them and quickly connects to third-party tools like ChatGPT.

• Siri: Apple’s virtual assistant can now better understand complicated natural language requests, pull in context to help answer questions, and take actions on your phone at your request.

Why it matters: This marks the next era for Apple and Siri, bringing generative AI capabilities directly to millions of users’ pockets. The tech giant is taking AI seriously, building multiple of its own models and glossing over both Google and ChatGPT as third-party tools.

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🧠 Learn about enterprise GenAI agents

The Rundown: OctoAI and The GenAI Collective are hosting an exclusive live roundtable on Tuesday, September 17th, featuring leading engineers building autonomous AI systems to drive enterprise productivity.

Join the event and get:

• Insider tips from CrewAI, LlamaIndex, and other agent development leaders

• Cutting-edge applications of AI agents in high-volume enterprise scenarios

• Strategies for designing autonomous AI systems that boost real-world productivity

Register now to attend live or get the recording.

OPENAI

💊 OpenAI backs new drug discovery startup

Image source: Chai

The Rundown: OpenAI and Thrive Capital recently backed Chai Discovery, a six-month-old AI biology startup founded by ex-OpenAI and Meta researchers that raised $30 million to develop AI models for drug discovery.

The details:

• Chai’s AI model, Chai-1, predicts biochemical molecule structures, potentially speeding up drug development.

• The company claims Chai-1 outperforms Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold on certain benchmarks.

• Chai-1 can work with proteins, small molecules, DNA, and RNA, making it versatile for various applications.

• Chai is making its first model free and open-source for non-commercial use.

Why it matters: Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is the pinnacle of protein prediction models, and Chai is already giving it a run for its money. The more money flowing into drug discovery, the closer we get to curing major diseases using AI — and Chai is even open-sourcing its first model for the benefit of humanity.

AI TRAINING

📁 Box AI puts an API in front of your documents

The Rundown: Box AI now has an API that extracts useful metadata from your files, increasing data insights and boosting your productivity.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to the Box AI Developer Zone

2. Scroll down to “Try out interactive demos” and select “Extract metadata”

3. Choose one of the sample documents in the left pane

4. Click “Extract” to collect the relevant metadata

Pro tip: You can learn how to automate this yourself in the box-community GitHub repo!

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The Rundown: ZapConnect 2024 is Zapier’s free-to-attend virtual AI conference where you can learn the latest on leveraging AI and automation.

Attend to learn about:

• Zapier’s latest additions to its powerful automation suite through live, build-along workshops

• First-hand insights into integrating AI and automation to help you optimize your workflows

• How like-minded organizations and thousands of fellow automators think and build

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AI RESEARCH

🧠 AI generates ideas better than humans

Image source: arXiv

The Rundown: Researchers found that AI ideas are judged as more novel, though slightly less feasible, than those from human experts in a study comparing AI-generated research ideas in natural language processing (NLP).

The details:

• Over 100 NLP researchers were recruited to write novel ideas and review both AI and human-generated ideas.

• The ideas were evaluated blindly, meaning reviewers did not know which were AI-generated.

• AI-generated ideas were rated as significantly more novel than human expert ideas, but less feasible.

• The study also identified challenges in AI idea generation, including issues with self-evaluation and lack of diversity in outputs.

Why it matters: This is one of the biggest, most important questions surrounding AI — can it spark innovation and accelerate scientific discovery? The answer, according to this study, is a resounding yes.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🎨 Meshy 4 - Convert text or 2D images into 3D assets

• 🎥 Hailuo AI - Generates 720p, 6-second videos from text prompts

• 🚀 Polymet - Design and develop your product ideas

• 🧠 Focus Buddy - AI productivity coach for people with ADHD

• 🤖 All Hands AI - Open-source AI agent to tackle developers ‘backlog’ tasks

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🎨 Twelve Labs - Interaction Experience Designer

• 📊 Databricks - Business Operations Manager

• 🔬 DeepL - Customer & User Researcher

• 🧠 Meta - AI Research Scientist, Language - Core AI

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Audible announced plans to create AI voice replicas of select US-based audiobook narrators, including a royalty-sharing model for AI-narrated books.

Oscar-nominated studio XTR acquired AI animation studio Late Night Labs, launching Asteria Film Co. to produce AI-powered animations.

BP signed a five-year deal with Palantir to expand AI use in its operations, aiming to speed up engineer decision-making with LLMs.

Roche expanded its digital pathology open environment, integrating over 20 AI algorithms from eight new collaborators to enhance cancer diagnostics and research.

Researchers introduced Robot Utility Models (RUMs), a zero-shot method for training robot policies that can perform new tasks in unfamiliar environments.

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Weave’s new robot butler can fold laundry, feed pets, and clean up messy rooms, all while you’re out of the house.

But as robotics continues to heat up, how does Weave compare to Tesla Optimus and other competitors, and most importantly — will it be affordable? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• New robot butler does your chores

• Tesla Robotaxi to charge wirelessly

• Coding with Cursor's AI features

• AI rates fun factor of video game levels

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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WEAVE

🤖 New robot butler does your chores

Image source: Weave

The Rundown: Weave just announced Isaac, a versatile personal robot designed to help with various household tasks, made in California and set to ship to its first customers in fall 2025.

The details:

• Isaac can autonomously tidy up, fold laundry, organize spaces, and perform many other household chores.

• The robot butler responds to voice or text commands and can be programmed via an app.

• The camera that Isaac carries around folds away and stows in an included enclosure when not in use for privacy reasons.

• Weave plans on charging $59,000 (or $1,385 per month for 48 months) with a $1,000 reservation fee for 30 lucky US customers.

Why it matters: The competition for affordable, intelligent, personal robot assistants is continuing to heat up, and it looks like we’ll start to see these robots in homes by 2025. Whether its Tesla’s Optimus, 1X’s NEO Beta, China’s AGIBOT, or Weave’s Isaac — we’re just excited to not fold laundry ever again.

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🗣️ Next-gen speech recognition for Conversational AI

The Rundown: Speechmatics just introduced Flow, a cutting-edge speech recognition API that powers voice interactions for conversational AI products with high accuracy and broad language support.

With Flow, you can:

• Integrate easily with LLMs and text-to-speech technology to build responsive AI agents

• Create inclusive, enterprise-ready voice interactions

• Enhance user experiences across diverse language backgrounds

Join the waitlist to be among the first to go with the Flow.

TESLA

🔋 Tesla Robotaxi to charge wirelessly

Image credit: Midjourney

The Rundown: A new patent from Tesla has revealed its advanced wireless charging system, potentially solving the need to manually plug in electric vehicles — allowing autonomous Robotaxis to charge without human intervention.

The details:

• The patent, filed in February and published recently, highlights a system that uses smart technology to adapt to variations in wireless charging conditions.

• It mentions a ground pad and a vehicle pad that work together to charge the car without any wires.

• The charging station can estimate and adjust for changes in coil inductance, improving efficiency and safety.

• Tesla may unveil this wireless charging technology at their upcoming Robotaxi event next month, aligning with the tech’s potential to enable self-driving vehicles to charge autonomously.

Why it matters: While wireless charging for EVs doesn't solve a major problem, it could be a game-changer for self-driving vehicles. If Tesla’s Robotaxis can charge wirelessly, they could autonomously operate almost endlessly without human intervention — an important feature to keeping the fleet of taxis running 24/7.

AI TRAINING

💻 Coding with Cursor's AI features

The Rundown: Cursor AI makes coding easy with its AI-powered editor, blending AI assistance with traditional development tools to boost productivity and make coding more accessible to everyone.

Step-by-step:

1. Download Cursor and install it on your machine. You’ll get a two-week trial.

2. Use the Tab feature for smart code completion by just typing and pressing Tab to accept suggestions.

3. Access the Chat feature (Cmd/Ctrl + L) to add context from your files and ask coding questions.

4. Use Composer (Cmd/Ctrl + I) to generate entire files or projects by describing what you want to create.

Note: We just did an entire Cursor workshop on how to create a web app without coding. If you’re a member of the AI University, access it in “Previous workshops”.

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The Rundown: Innovating with AI’s new program, AI Consultancy Project, trains AI enthusiasts with the skills and strategies to capitalize on the rapidly growing AI consulting market – which is set to 8x by 2032.

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• The tools and frameworks to find clients and deliver top-notch services

• A 6-month plan to build a 6-figure AI consulting business

• Students getting their first AI client in as little as 3 days

Request early access to the AI Consultancy Project.

AI RESEARCH

🎮 AI rates fun factor of video game levels

Image source: arXiv

The Rundown: Researchers recently developed AI agents that can “play” procedurally-generated video game levels to evaluate how engaging they are for human players, helping to quicken the pace of game design.

The details:

• Researchers used AI agents to explore levels from the video game Super Mario Bros for high places, interesting objects, and more.

• The AI explored five “engaging” and five “unengaging” levels, judging them based on factors like how much of the level they covered and how many new things they found.

• The AI agents consistently rated the engaging levels higher than the unengaging ones.

• This technique could help game designers automatically test and improve their levels before human playtesters try them.

Why it matters: This AI-powered approach to video game evaluation could speed up game development and lead to more consistently fun levels for humans to explore. As we saw with Google’s DOOM clone — we might be approaching an era where AI not only rates games but creates them from the ground up.

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Trending AI Tools

• ✂️ Choppity - Clip important moments in videos based on visuals, audio, and sentiment

• 🎥 Trupeer - Create guides and videos for any product

• 🔖 Indigo - Save prompts and run them in any app

• 🤖 CX Genie - Enhance customer support with no-code AI solutions

• 💯 Essay Grader - AI that grades essays and provides improvement suggestions

• 💼 Paradigm - AI native workplace designed for data workflow

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🤖 OpenAI - Principal Solutions Engineer

• 🔍 Glean - HR Generalist

• 🛡️ Palantir - Communications Strategist

• 📱 Meta - Software Engineer - ML Systems (Technical Leadership)

QUICK HITS

OpenAI reported over 1 million paying users across its business products ChatGPT Enterprise, Team, and Edu within their first year of launch.

Google Photos upgraded search with natural language queries and launched “Ask Photos”, an AI-powered conversational search feature for US users.

X permanently stopped Grok AI from using EU citizens’ tweets after legal action by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner.

Qualcomm CEO revealed that its partnership with Samsung and Google is developing mixed reality smart glasses as a companion device for smartphones.

DeepSeek released version 2.5, a 238B-parameter model with enhanced chat, coding, and 128k context length capabilities.

OpenAI clarified that “GPT-Next” mentioned in a presentation is not a new model, but a placeholder term to illustrate potential future AI models.

YouTube is developing AI detection tools for synthetic music and faces, and creator controls for AI model training, to protect content creators.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Google DeepMind just released AlphaProteo, an AI system that designs proteins for tasks like killing cancer and preventing Covid.

Are we about to enter the golden age of AI-powered healthcare and disease prevention? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Google DeepMind reveals ‘AlphaProteo’

• New AI agent builds apps from prompts

• Find top prompts with Google’s Prompt Gallery

• AI creates infinite Super Mario Bros game

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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GOOGLE DEEPMIND

🧬 Google DeepMind reveals ‘AlphaProteo’

Image source: Google DeepMind

The Rundown: Google DeepMind just unveiled AlphaProteo, a groundbreaking AI system that designs custom proteins to bind with specific molecular targets, potentially turbocharging drug discovery and cancer research.

The details:

• AlphaProteo creates proteins that stick to specific targets like a biological lock and key, which is 3 to 300 times better at creating strong-binding proteins than current methods.

• The AI successfully designed binders for 7 out of 8 diverse targets, including cancer-related proteins.

• Independent tests showed some AlphaProteo designs could stop SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) from infecting cells and slash years of lab work down to days or weeks.

Why it matters: AlphaProteo could help us block viruses, fight cancer, and treat diseases in new ways using more targeted treatment approaches that could have far less side effects. This could dramatically accelerate drug discovery, potentially saving billions in R&D costs and bring life-saving treatments to patients faster.

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At the conference, you’ll experience:

• Advanced RAG sessions with Anyscale, Vectara, and KUZU

• Agent-building workshops led by Microsoft, Zapier, Artisan, and Salesforce

• The AI in Healthcare panel featuring Nvidia, Stanford, and more

• Legislative insights on SB 1047 Bill with Senator Scott Wiener

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REPLIT

💻 New AI agent builds apps from prompts

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The Rundown: Replit just launched an AI-powered tool called Replit Agent that can create software applications based on simple text descriptions, making coding more accessible to people of all skill levels.

The details:

• Users can describe the app they want to build in natural language, and the AI will generate a customizable plan and start to code.

• The agent can choose appropriate technologies and frameworks for the project and create web-based apps from scratch.

• Users can also interact with the agent, providing feedback and additional information as needed.

• The tool is available now on both web and mobile platforms for Replit Core and Teams subscribers.

Why it matters: AI is good at coding, but setting up an integrated development environment is still a major roadblock for most new coders. Replit Agent does this automatically and helps complete beginners go from idea to a fully functional app in a few prompts. It’s never been easier to build something cool.

AI TRAINING

✨ Find top prompts with Google’s Prompt Gallery

The Rundown: Google AI Studio's new Prompt Gallery offers pre-made prompts to help you craft better queries for the latest Gemini models.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Google’s Prompt Gallery.

2. Browse and select a pre-made prompt that interests you and click on the prompting use case you want to use.

3. Sign in to Google AI Studio, and customize the prompt to fit your specific needs.

4. Adjust settings (e.g., model or temperature) and click "Run" to generate your AI-powered response.

Pro tip: Mix and match ideas from different pre-made prompts to create unique queries specific to your projects!

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• The tools and frameworks to find clients and deliver top-notch services

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• Students getting their first AI client in as little as 3 days

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AI RESEARCH

👾 AI creates infinite Super Mario Bros game

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The Rundown: Researchers developed an AI system called MarioVGG that can generate an infinitely playable Super Mario Bros game entirely through video, without using a traditional game engine.

The details:

• MarioVGG is a text-to-video AI model trained specifically on Super Mario Bros gameplay with a single consumer-grade GPU in just 48 hours.

• It can generate continuous, infinite game footage based on simple text commands like “run” or “jump”.

• The AI simulates game physics, mimics character movements, and even creates new levels on demand.

Why it matters: A week ago, Google created an AI-generated DOOM video game. Now, we have infinite Super Mario Bros. In the future, with tech like this, anyone will be able to create custom, interactive games simply by describing them to an AI.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🔎 You.com - AI search agent with customized recommendations

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• 🧑‍💻 melty - Open-source AI code editor to streamline developer workflows

• ⌛ timeMaster - Manage time effectively with privacy-focused tracking

• ✍️ LanguageTool - Check grammar and spelling in multiple languages

• 🎨 fal - Train personalized AI image models easily

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🛡️ Shield AI - Chief Information Security Officer

• 🎨 Mistral AI - UX/UI Front-End Engineer

• 🏥 Curai - Senior Demand Generation Manager

• 🚀 Anyscale - Software Engineer Intern

QUICK HITS

OpenAI reportedly considered high-priced subscriptions up to $2,000 per month for advanced AI models like Strawberry and Orion.

Tesla announced plans to launch AI-powered Full Self-Driving in China and Europe by early 2025, pending regulatory approval.

Dell Technologies reported surging AI server sales, with CEO Michael Dell dismissing concerns about an AI spending slowdown.

The US, EU, and UK signed the world’s first legally binding international AI treaty, emphasizing human rights and accountability in AI regulation.

Microsoft announced its “Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2” event for September 16, promising the reveal next-phase developments for its AI assistant.

Ada leveraged GPT-4 to double customer service resolution rates, aiming for 100% automated query resolution in the near future.

LMSYS opened beta testing signups for Copilot Arena, a new AI assistant comparison platform for tools like Cursor AI and Copilot.

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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's new AI safety startup just raised a whopping $1 billion seed round, valuing it at $5 billion after only three months.

With SSI sitting on a pile of cash, a ‘cracked‘ team, and backing by tech’s most prolific investors — are we about to finally find out what Ilya saw? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI co-founder raises $1B for AI safety

• The fastest AI model goes multimodal

• Turn any text into speech in seconds

• AI gets smarter by re-reading questions

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

SSI

💰 OpenAI co-founder raises $1B for AI safety

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The Rundown: Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a new AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, just raised $1 billion in funding to develop safe AI systems that surpass human intelligence.

The details:

• SSI plans to focus on AI safety, aiming to create superintelligent AI systems that are safe for humans and will spend years on R&D before bringing any product to market.

• Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy founded SSI just three months ago, and the company is now valued at $5 billion.

• The startup, which only has ten employees, plans to use the funds to acquire computing power and hire top talent.

• Investors include major venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

Why it matters: This is the first time a startup — that only came into existence three months ago — raised a whopping $1 billion dollars for a seed round. But it doesn’t come without reason, as Ilya Sutskever was one of the main reasons OpenAI is what it is today, and SSI is bound to attract some incredible talent.

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GROQ

🔥 The fastest AI model goes multimodal

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The Rundown: Groq just launched LLaVA v1.5 7B, a powerful, new multimodal AI model that can understand both images and text and reportedly runs 4x faster than OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

The details:

• LLaVA v1.5 7B can answer questions about images, generate captions, and engage in conversations involving text, voice, and pictures.

• The model can also be used for various tasks like visual product inspection, inventory management, and creating image descriptions for visually impaired users.

• This is Groq’s first venture into multimodal models and faster processing times on image, audio, and text inputs could lead to better AI assistants.

• Groq is currently offering this model for free in “Preview Mode” for developers to experiment with.

Why it matters: Groq went viral earlier this year for its blazing-fast AI speeds — and now it’s pairing those capabilities with powerful multimodal models. When it comes to AI apps, faster is always better, and the insane speeds paired with advanced models open the door for an endless supply of new applications.

AI TRAINING

🎧 Turn any text into speech in seconds

The Rundown: ElevenLabs' free mobile app (for both iOS and Android) allows users to convert any text into high-quality audio using AI voiceovers, across multiple languages.

Step-by-step:

1. Download the ElevenLabs app from their website and create a free account.

2. Tap the "+" icon and choose "Submit File" to upload your text.

3. Tap "Generate" to create your audio file, then find it in your library to listen.

Pro tip: You can truly customize your audio by selecting from hundreds of AI voice options.

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The Rundown: Section hosts a free fireside chat with Dr. Peter Stone, Sony AI’s Chief Scientist, exploring AI’s impact on human creativity, ethical considerations in AI art, and the future of copyright in the AI era.

You’ll learn about:

• AI’s role in enhancing creative flow states

• Ethical approaches to training AI models on existing art

• Implications of AI on copyright and plagiarism

• AI’s potential to elevate artistic quality and innovation

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AI RESEARCH

📚 AI gets smarter by re-reading questions

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The Rundown: Researchers have discovered that making AI systems ‘re-read‘ questions twice, mimicking human behavior, significantly improves their reasoning and problem-solving abilities across various tasks.

The details:

• The technique, called RE2 (Re-Reading), improves AI performance in math, common sense, and symbolic reasoning by simply repeating the question before answering.

• It works with different AI models and can be combined with other AI reasoning techniques.

• The method is most effective when repeating the question twice — more repetitions can decrease performance.

• RE2 even improved non-instruction-tuned AI models, showing broad applicability.

Why it matters: RE2 adds to the growing list of research showing the potential of mimicking the way humans think and process to improve AI. The simplicity of this research also suggests that many AI companies may be overlooking basic, human-inspired prompting techniques in the quest towards the highest performing model.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🐼 Earkick - Free and anonymous self-care and AI chatbot

• 🔎 You.com - AI search agent with customized recommendations

• 🎬 Spotter Studio - Helps creators brainstorm and plan winning videos

• 🎨 Anifusion - Generate stunning anime art and comics Instantly

• 👨‍💻 Anthropic Quickstarts - Easily build applications using Anthropic API

• 📝 Minutes - Automate meeting notes and transcriptions with AI

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🖥️ Descript - Senior Software Engineer - Client Platform

• 🧠 Faculty - Machine Learning Engineer - Consumer and Services

• 🎨 Mistral AI - UX/UI Front-End Engineer

• 🔬 Synthesia - Sr. Research Engineer

QUICK HITS

Anthropic launched Claude Enterprise, competing with ChatGPT Enterprise by offering larger context windows and GitHub integration for businesses.

Google committed $10 million to improve AI literacy among young people in 17 countries and across 13 different languages.

Sakana AI raised $100M in Series A funding and announced a collaboration with Nvidia to advance AI research and infrastructure in Japan.

Salesforce agreed to acquire AI voice agent firm Tenyx to enhance its AI offerings, joining tech giants in the race for AI talent and technology.

A Samsung executive reportedly revealed GPT-5 specs, 3.5 trillion parameters and 7000 B100 GPUs for compute, at SEMICON Taiwan.

Microsoft announced Copilot+ AI features will expand to new laptops starting in November, broadening its AI capabilities beyond ARM-based devices.

You.com raised $50M to focus on AI productivity agents for complex queries, moving away from general AI search.

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OpenAI Japan’s CEO just unveiled details for ‘GPT-Next’, a new AI model reported to be 100 times more powerful than GPT-4.

Will this model finally deliver the level of AI intelligence Sam Altman has been hinting at for months? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI Japan reveals ‘GPT-Next’ details

• Nvidia hit with antitrust subpoena

• How to run Phi-3.5 on your phone

• Autonomous AI agents form civilizations

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🇯🇵 OpenAI Japan reveals ‘GPT-Next’ details

Image source: KDDI Summit 2024

The Rundown: OpenAI Japan’s CEO just stated (article is in Japanese) that ‘GPT-Next’, OpenAI’s upcoming AI model, is expected to be 100 times more powerful than GPT-4, while also confirming a more advanced model named Orion is slated for 2025.

The details:

• GPT-Next is expected to achieve a 100x performance increase without wasting significantly more computing resources.

• The improvement comes from better architecture and learning efficiency, not just raw computing power.

• GPT-Next will use a smaller version of “Strawberry”, an advanced AI system OpenAI is currently developing.

• The slide mentions GPT Next 2024, which while unconfirmed, hints that the model may be released by the end of 2024.

Why it matters: OpenAI is still the undisputed leader in AI model usage, and if translations are accurate, GPT-Next will be the next huge leap that developers have been waiting for. Most impressively, it makes that leap without using much more compute, a major bonus for apps that require speed + efficiency.

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ALTERA

🏛️ Autonomous AI agents form civilizations

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The Rundown: Altera’s Project Sid just created the first simulation of over 1,000 autonomous AI agents collaborating in a Minecraft world, developing their own economy, culture, religion, and government.

The details:

• The AI agents in Altera are truly autonomous, operating for hours or days without human intervention.

• They can collaborate to achieve goals that are impossible for individual agents, like forming merchant hubs, democracies, and religions.

• The agents are programmed with motivations to support humans and can express their thoughts and feelings, even searching for a lost agent in one simulation.

• Minecraft is just the start — Altera’s agents are game-agnostic and capable of using other apps and platforms.

Why it matters: If you’re not paying attention to AI agents yet, you probably should be. Altera’s latest breakthrough could revolutionize how we approach complex societal issues by allowing us to simulate and test solutions in virtual environments before implementing them in the real world.

AI TRAINING

📱 How to run Phi-3.5 on your phone

The Rundown: PocketPal AI is a phone application available on the Apple App Store that lets you run the powerful Phi-3.5 language model by Microsoft directly on your phone, completely offline.

Step-by-step:

1. Download PocketPal AI from the App Store.

2. Get the Phi-3.5 model file from Hugging Face.

3. In PocketPal AI, tap "Add Local Model" and select the downloaded file.

4. Set the model template to "phi chat" in its settings.

5. Start a new chat with Phi-3.5 and enjoy talking to AI on your phone!

Pro tip: Choose a "q4" model version for better performance on most iPhones.

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The program offers:

• The tools and frameworks to find clients and deliver top-notch services

• A 6-month plan to build a 6-figure AI consulting business

• Students getting their first AI client in as little as 3 days

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NVIDIA

📜 Nvidia hit with antitrust subpoena

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The Rundown: The U.S. Department of Justice reportedly issued a subpoena (legal order) to Nvidia, escalating its antitrust investigation into the company’s practices in the AI chip market.

The details:

• The DoJ has moved from sending questionnaires to issuing legally binding subpoenas to Nvidia and other companies.

• Investigators are concerned Nvidia may be making it difficult for customers to switch to other chip suppliers, including allegations that Nvidia penalizes buyers who don’t exclusively use its AI chips.

• This probe comes after a softer-than-expected revenue forecast for Nvidia and could force the AI chip-making giant to embrace competition in the space.

Why it matters: While it is unlikely that Nvidia will lose its large lead in the AI chip market, this investigation could open the doors for new competitors like Sam Altman’s secret chip venture. The AI giant’s company shares fell over 11% on Tuesday, slashing market cap by $279 billion — an all-time record one-day loss for any company.

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Trending AI Tools

• 🎓 QWiser - Transform courses into interactive study material

• 🎨 Storydoc - Create interactive slide decks to enhance engagement

• 🧑‍🎨 Amoihub - Manage generative AI art prompts with ease

• 💰 Intuit Assist - Intelligent GenAI financial insights for small businesses

• 🎵 Jamboss - Turn your ideas into full-length songs

• 👨‍💻 Maximum - Automated solutions for software development

New AI Job Opportunities

• 📱 Captions - Software Engineer, iOS

• 🔬 Meta - AI Research Scientist, ML and 3D Computer Vision

• 📝 SuperAnnotate - LLM Talent Operations Intern

• 🗂️ Rad AI - Senior Product Manager

QUICK HITS

Anthropic launched a Quickstarts repository to help developers build applications with their API, starting with a Claude-powered customer support agent app.

Google announced the release of Function Calling in Google AI Studio, allowing users to test model capabilities directly within the user interface.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin suggested that using AI and prediction markets could accelerate X’s Community Notes feature for quicker fact-checking.

The FDA approved Rebrain’s OptimMRI software update, which includes a new AI model to help target brain regions for treating Parkinson’s disease.

Dutch regulators fined Clearview AI more than $30 million for GDPR violations, including building a database of biometric data without consent.

Ligo released an open-source implementation of DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 protein structure prediction model.

A new benchmark of 80+ large language models found Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5 performed best overall, while top models varied significantly by programming language.

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Elon Musk’s xAI just launched “Colossus,” a massive AI training cluster with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs — built in a mere 122 days.

With xAI moving at breakneck speed and shipping over a holiday weekend, can other AI giants keep up, or will Musk's rapid pace and drive win the race? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• xAI builds the world’s top AI cluster

• OpenAI to develop AI chips with TSMC, Apple

• Create ultra-realistic AI images with Mystic

• Generative AI meets CRISPR gene editing

• 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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XAI

🤖 xAI builds the world’s top AI cluster

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The Rundown: Elon Musk’s xAI just launched “Colossus“, the world’s most powerful AI cluster powered by a whopping 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, which was built in just 122 days and is planned to double in size soon.

The details:

• Colossus consists of 100k liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs connected on a single network fabric and is considered the “most powerful” in the world, according to Musk.

• The system was built and launched in just 122 days, an incredibly quick accomplishment that was brought online over a holiday weekend in the United States.

• xAI plans to expand Colossus to 200,000 GPUs (50,000 H200s) in the coming months.

• In a recent podcast, Elon Musk (founder of xAI) said Grok 2 was trained on only around 15,000 GPUs.

Why it matters: xAI’s Grok 2 recently caught up to OpenAI’s GPT-4 in record time, and was trained on only around 15,000 GPUs. With now more than six times that amount in production, the xAI team and future versions of Grok are going to put a significant amount of pressure on OpenAI, Google, and others to deliver.

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At the conference, you’ll experience:

• Advanced RAG sessions with Anyscale, Vectara, and KUZU

• Agent-building workshops led by Microsoft, Zapier, Artisan, and Salesforce

• The AI in Healthcare panel featuring Nvidia, Stanford, and more

• Legislative insights on SB 1047 Bill with Senator Scott Wiener

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OPENAI

📱 OpenAI to develop AI chips with TSMC, Apple

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The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly planning to develop its first in-house AI chips using TSMC’s advanced 1.6mm A16 process node, potentially partnering with Broadcom, Marvell, or Apple for the chip design.

The details:

• The chip will reportedly be built on TSMC's A16 Angstrom process, not expected for mass production until 2026.

• Partnering with Broadcom, Marvell, or Apple for chip design expertise, OpenAI could significantly reduce its dependence on expensive Nvidia AI servers.

• The A16 process node will use advanced gate-all-around transistors and backside power delivery to significantly improve chip performance and energy efficiency.

Why it matters: By developing its own chips, OpenAI could break free from the GPU shortage bottleneck, potentially supercharging its mission towards AGI. If successful, this could spark a trend of AI companies developing their own specialized hardware instead of relying so heavily on the current industry giant, Nvidia.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Create ultra-realistic AI images with Mystic

The Rundown: Freepik recently launched a new AI image generator called Mystic, which excels in creating ultra-realistic AI images from prompts and competes with top tools like Midjourney and FLUX.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Freepik's website ( You’ll need a Premium account for today’s tutorial).

2. Select "AI Image Generator" section in the main menu.

3. Choose “Mystic” in the Model dropdown menu.

4. Add a prompt describing your desired image and fine-tune your creation using style, aspect ratio, color palette, and lighting options.

5. Click "Generate" and iterate until you achieve your perfect image.

Note: Members part of our AI University get a free Premium membership to Freepik.

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The Rundown: StackAI is a no-code AI automation platform that helps companies 10x their productivity by leveraging AI Assistants, developed by MIT PhDs.

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• Automate tedious processes such as reporting, auditing customer calls, and reviewing contracts

• Safeguard your data within a SOC 2/HIPAA/GDPR-compliant environment

• Save up to 80% in your AI journey compared to hiring an AI team

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AI RESEARCH

🧬 Generative AI meets CRISPR gene editing

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Researchers at Profluent Bio used AI to successfully create OpenCRISPR-1, a novel gene-editing tool that matches or surpasses the performance and safety of current CRISPR systems.

The details:

• Researchers used Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on over a million CRISPR operons to understand and generate novel protein structures.

• The LLMs designed a new gene-editing tool called OpenCRISPR-1, capable of various tasks including base editing.

• In tests, OpenCRISPR-1 showed a similar efficiency in cutting DNA to the current models while making fewer mistakes.

• Researchers made OpenCRISPR-1’s sequence publicly available to encourage broader use in research.

Why it matters: OpenCRISPR-1 helps to treat genetic diseases in the safest, fastest, and most personalized way possible. While still years away from practical applications, AI tools like this opens doors for custom gene-editors tailored to individual DNA, potentially accelerating cures for previously untreatable conditions.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🖼️ Freepik Mystic - An advanced AI image generator that offers ultra-realistic images

• 🧠 ClickUp Brain - Connect projects and knowledge with AI

• 💼 CompanyGPT - AI-powered search engine for companies and people

• 🔥 Skyfire - Sell products and services to AI agents

• 🎨 Storyboarder - Intuitive storyboarding with AI

• 🛍️ Reddit Scout - Summarizes Reddit reviews for smart shopping decisions

New AI Job Opportunities

• 🖥️ Observe AI - Software Engineer II - Backend

• 📊 Meta - Data Scientist, Monetization

• 🛡️ Palantir - Forward Deployed Software Engineer

• 💼 DeepL - Director Enterprise Sales

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California Assembly passed AB 3211, requiring AI image watermarking that could effectively ban most AI image generation in the state.

Researchers developed an AI tool that accurately models cellular metabolic states by combining different types of data to create kinetic models.

UK’s first “teacherless” classroom will open at David Game College in London, using AI platforms to provide personalized GCSE instruction.

Tesla is reportedly planning to reveal its highly-anticipated Robotaxi self-driving cars on Oct. 10 at California Warner Bros. Studio.

SportsLine’s AI-powered PickBot released NFL predictions for all Week 1 games based on each team’s historical data and opponent strengths.

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