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Google's Gemini 2.0 holiday surprise
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Gemini 2.0 is here, and it's a massive leap forward for AI agents — with new multimodal capabilities, deep research tools, and seriously impressive projects.
The ‘12 Days of OpenAI’ has been hogging the holiday spotlight, but Google just crashed the party in a BIG way. Let’s get into it...
In today’s AI rundown:
Google releases Gemini 2.0 with AI agent capabilities
ChatGPT comes to Apple Intelligence
Transform AI into your personal code tutor
Apple Intelligence gets a big upgrade with iOS 18.2
5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
✨ Google releases Gemini 2.0 with AI agent capabilities
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The Rundown: Google just launched Gemini 2.0, marking a major leap into AI agents with enhanced multimodal abilities, native tool integration, deep research generation, and several experimental projects.
Gemini 2.0
Gemini 2.0 Flash debuts as a faster, more capable model that outperforms the larger 1.5 Pro on several benchmarks while maintaining similar speeds.
The model now generates images and multilingual audio directly and processes text, code, images, and video.
Gemini 2.0 Stream Realtime is available for free (as opposed to the $200/mo ChatGPT Pro) and allows for text, voice, video, or screen-sharing interactions.
Project Highlights (not publicly available yet):
Project Astra brings multimodal conversation abilities with 10-minute memory, native integration with Google apps, and near-human response latency.
Project Astra is also being tested on prototype glasses, and it plans to eventually be used in products like the Gemini app.
Project Mariner introduces browser-based agentic AI assistance through Chrome, achieving 83.5% accuracy on web navigation tasks.
Jules, a new coding assistant, integrates directly with GitHub to help developers plan and execute tasks under supervision.
New gaming-focused agents can now analyze gameplay in real time and provide strategic advice across various game types.
Deep Research:
Deep Research is a new agentic feature that acts as an AI research assistant, now available in Gemini Advanced ($20/mo) on desktop and mobile web.
Abilities include creating multi-step research plans, analyzing info from across the web, and generating comprehensive reports with links to sources.
Why it matters: OpenAI had the holiday momentum, but Google stole the show. Gemini 2.0 brings some extremely powerful upgrades, including one of the biggest steps towards useful, consumer-facing agentic AI that we’ve seen yet. Projects like Astra could also set a new standard for how we interact with AI heading into 2025.
ICYMI: We sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis to discuss the massive day of launches. Watch the full discussion on YouTube.
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OPENAI & APPLE
📱 ChatGPT comes to Apple Intelligence
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The Rundown: OpenAI just announced the integration of ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence during Day 5 of the company’s live stream event, allowing Siri to leverage the AI assistant for new writing, reasoning, and visual tasks.
The details:
ChatGPT now seamlessly integrates with Siri on iPhone 16 and 15 Pro, automatically triggering when queries would benefit from advanced AI reasoning.
Visual Intelligence on iPhone 16 models can use ChatGPT to analyze and provide insights on images, as demonstrated in a Christmas sweater contest.
The integration also extends to systemwide Writing Tools, allowing users to generate content and images with ChatGPT directly within Apple apps
Users can access ChatGPT's capabilities without an account, with built-in privacy protections preventing data storage and IP tracking.
Why it matters: While this is a powerhouse collaboration between Apple and OpenAI, the buzz was certainly louder in the summer. But given Apple Intelligence's lackluster start, this could be a catalyst to drive excitement and new use cases while giving Siri a needed boost to compete with other quickly advancing voice assistants.
AI TRAINING
🎓 Transform AI into your personal code tutor
The Rundown: Google’s newly released Gemini 2.0 ‘Stream Realtime’ feature allows you to get real-time coding guidance like a personal tutor looking over your shoulder.
Step-by-step:
Visit Google AI Studio or find ‘Stream Realtime’ in the sidebar menu.
Click "Share your screen" to let AI see your coding environment.
Start coding and ask questions naturally through voice, like talking to a real tutor.
Get immediate feedback and guidance as you write code.
Pro tip: Start with simple programming concepts and gradually increase complexity. You can also provide System Instructions for the model.
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APPLE
🍎 Apple Intelligence gets a big upgrade with iOS 18.2
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The Rundown: Apple just rolled out its biggest Apple Intelligence update yet, AI-powered emoji creation, image generation capabilities, Visual Intelligence with camera control, and more — alongside the broader integration of ChatGPT.
The details:
Genmoji is now live and allows users to create custom AI-generated emojis from text descriptions or photos with options to add accessories and themes.
Image Playground adds AI image creation across the system, with dedicated app access and integration into apps like Messages and Keynote.
Visual Intelligence debuts as an iPhone 16-exclusive feature, using Camera Control to analyze surroundings and provide info through Google or ChatGPT.
Apple Intelligence also expands to new regions with localized English support, including the UK, Australia, Canada, and others.
As revealed in the Day 5 livestream, Siri gains ChatGPT integration, letting users tap OpenAI's capabilities directly without switching apps.
Why it matters: Apple Intelligence has been underwhelming so far, to say the least, but the ChatGPT integration brings the system closer to what users likely envisioned when upgrading their iPhones for the new AI tools. However, we’ll have to wait until 2025 for agentic Siri capabilities that can handle more complex actions.
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QUICK HITS
Midjourney founder David Holz unveiled 'Patchwork'’ a collaborative multiplayer worldbuilding tool, alongside plans for multiple model personalization and video generation capabilities coming in 2024.
Google Cloud launched its Trillium TPUs, which feature 4x faster AI training and 3x higher processing speed than the previous generation — powering Gemini 2.0 and now available for customers.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is putting together a new London-based consumer health division, recruiting key ex-DeepMind health experts including former unit head Dominic King.
Apple is reportedly developing its own custom AI server chip with Broadcom, hoping to reduce its dependency on Nvidia like other tech giants.
Russia announced the formation of a BRICS AI Alliance Network to challenge Western dominance in artificial intelligence development, with initial partners including Brazil, China, India, and South Africa.
Former Snap AI lead Alan Bekker launched eSelf, a new platform for creating video-based AI agents with sub-2-second response times, emerging from stealth with $4.5M in seed funding.
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ChatGPT's new Canvas upgrade
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Sora may have gotten all the hype, but OpenAI’s ‘Twelve Days of Shipmas’ still has plenty of time to go — and the latest drop is a powerful new upgrade for ChatGPT.
Canvas is now available to all users, and its collaborative tools and interface could change how millions work with AI daily. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI’s Canvas goes public with new features
Cognition launches Devin AI developer assistant
Transform words into cinematic magic with Sora
Replit launches 'Assistant' for coding
5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🤖 OpenAI’s Canvas goes public with new features
Image source: OpenAI
The Rundown: OpenAI just made Canvas available to all users, with the collaborative split-screen writing and coding interface gaining new features like Python execution and usability inside custom GPTs.
The details:
Canvas now integrates natively with GPT-4o, allowing users to trigger the interface through prompts rather than manual model selection.
The tool features a split-screen layout with the chat on one side, a live editing workspace on the other, and inline feedback and revision tools.
New Python integration enables direct code execution within the interface, supporting real-time debugging and output visualization.
Custom GPTs can also now leverage Canvas capabilities by default, with options to enable the feature for existing custom assistants.
Other key features include enhanced editing tools for writing (reading level, length adjustments) and advanced coding tools (code reviews, debugging).
OpenAI previously introduced Canvas in October as an early beta to Plus and Teams users, with all accounts now gaining access with the full rollout.
Why it matters: While this Canvas release may not be as hyped as the Sora launch, it represents a powerful shift in how users interact with ChatGPT, bringing more nuanced collaboration into conversations. Canvas’ Custom GPT integration is also a welcome sight and could breathe life into the somewhat forgotten aspect of the platform.
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COGNITION LABS
💻 Cognition launches Devin AI developer assistant
Image source: Cognition Labs
The Rundown: Cognition Labs has officially launched Devin, its AI developer assistant, targeting engineering teams and offering capabilities ranging from bug fixes to automated PR creation.
The details:
Devin integrates directly with development workflows through Slack, GitHub, and IDE extensions (beta), starting at $500/month for unlimited team access.
Teams can assign work to Devin through simple Slack tags, with the AI handling testing and providing status updates upon completion.
The AI assistant can handle tasks like frontend bug fixes, backlog PR creation, and codebase refactoring, allowing engineers to focus on higher-priority work.
Devin's capabilities were demoed through open-source contributions, including bug fixes for Anthropic's MCP and feature additions to popular libraries.
Devin previously went viral in March after autonomously opening a support ticket and adjusting its code based on the information provided.
Why it matters: Devin’s early demos felt like the start of a new paradigm, but the AI coding competition has increased heavily since. It’s clear that the future of development will largely be a collaborative effort between humans and AI, and $500/m might be a small price to pay for enterprises offloading significant work.
AI TRAINING
🎥 Transform words into cinematic magic with Sora
The Rundown: OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator allows you to turn your text descriptions into realistic videos without cameras, actors, or editing software.
Step-by-step:
Access Sora (accessible via a paid ChatGPT account).
Write a detailed prompt describing your desired video (e.g., "A majestic albino jaguar drinks from a crystal-clear stream.")
Choose your settings: aspect ratio (16:9, 1:1, or 9:16), resolution (480p to 1080p), and duration (5-20s).
Generate and enhance your video using remix, re-cut, or blend features.
Pro tip: Test your concepts with shorter durations and lower resolutions first, then upgrade settings for your final version.
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REPLIT
🤖 Replit launches 'Assistant' for coding
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The Rundown: Replit just officially launched its upgraded AI development suite, removing its Agent from early access and introducing a new Assistant tool, alongside a slew of other major platform improvements.
The details:
A new Assistant tool focuses on improvements and quick fixes to existing projects, with streamlined editing through simple prompts.
Users can now attach images or paste URLs to guide the design process, and Agents can use React to produce more polished and flexible visual outputs.
Both tools integrate directly with Replit's infrastructure, providing access to databases and deployment tools without third-party services.
The platform also introduced unlimited usage with a subscription-based model, with built-in credits and Agent checkpoints for more transparent billing.
Why it matters: The competition in AI development has gotten intense, and tools like Replit continue to erase barriers, with builders able to create anything they can dream up. Both beginners and experienced devs now have no shortage of AI-fueled options to bring ideas to life and streamline existing projects.
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QUICK HITS
Meta FAIR researchers introduced COCONUT, a new AI reasoning approach allowing AI models to think more naturally rather than through rigid language steps, leading to better performance on complex problem-solving tasks.
AI language startup Speak raised $78M at a $1B valuation, with its learning platform already facilitating over a billion spoken sentences this year through its adaptive tutoring technology.
Time Magazine named AMD’s Lisa Su its ‘CEO of the Year’ after driving the company from near bankruptcy to a 50x increase in stock value and a leading force in AI over her decade as CEO.
Google announced a new $20B investment with Intersect Power and TPG Rise Climate to develop industrial parks featuring data centers and clean energy facilities, aiming to streamline AI infrastructure growth and sustainable power generation.
Yelp released a series of new AI features, including LLM-powered Review Insights for sentiment analysis, AI-optimized advertising tools, and upgraded AI chatbot capabilities to connect users with services.
Target launched 'Bullseye Gift Finder,' a new AI-powered tool that provides personalized toy recommendations based on children's ages, interests, and preferences, alongside an AI shopping assistant for product-specific inquiries
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OpenAI's Sora is finally here
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
On the third day of Shipmas, Sama and OpenAI just brought us Sora — and Christmas came early for AI creators everywhere (except the UK and EU 😢).
After months of speculation, OpenAI's hotly anticipated video generator is ready for its public debut. But will it live up to the hype? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI releases Sora to the public
Google's Willow quantum chip shatters records
Generate professional decks in any language
AI mimics brain to 'watch' videos
5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🎬 OpenAI releases Sora to the public
Image source: OpenAI
The Rundown: OpenAI just officially launched Sora, the company’s long-awaited AI video generation model, which is now available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers through a dedicated platform with several new editing and creative features.
The details:
Sora can create up to 20-second outputs in various aspect ratios, and the new ‘Turbo’ model significantly reduces generation times compared to previous reports.
Sora’s web platform allows users to organize and view generated videos, as well as view other users’ prompts and featured content for inspiration.
Powerful creative tools include Remix for scene editing, Storyboard for stitching multiple outputs together, Blend, Loop, and Style presets.
Sora is available today to ChatGPT subscribers, with unlimited generations, higher resolution, and watermark removal available with the $200/m Pro plan.
OpenAI is restricting content with real people, minors, or copyrighted material, with only a ‘subset’ of users allowed to upload real people as input initially.
The rollout will also exclude the EU, UK, and several other territories due to regulatory concerns.
Why it matters: Sora is finally here, and while there will be arguments over its quality compared to rivals, OpenAI's reach and user base are unmatched for getting this type of tool into the public’s hands. Millions of AI ‘normies’ are about to have their first high-level video experience, opening a new world of creativity for the average user.
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🧠 Google's Willow quantum chip shatters records
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The Rundown: Google just revealed Willow, a new quantum computing chip that achieves major performance breakthroughs in error correction and computation speed, demonstrating the potential for future useful, large-scale quantum computers.
The details:
Willow achieved a milestone in reducing errors exponentially as more qubits were added — a critical issue that stumped researchers for three decades.
Willow also completed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today's fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (10^25) years.
Willow utilizes 105 qubits and can maintain the quantum state for nearly twice as long as previous designs — making it more reliable for complex calculations.
The chip was manufactured at Google's new quantum fabrication facility in Santa Barbara, one of only a handful of such specialized facilities worldwide.
Why it matters: Willow takes quantum computers a step toward the practical rather than just theoretical, proving we can overcome some of the field's biggest hurdles. The ability to harness quantum tech would revolutionize everything — but translating today's breakthrough into real-world applications will take time and further advances.
AI TRAINING
🌍 Generate professional decks in any language
The Rundown: Gamma lets you instantly generate your entire presentation into multiple languages while maintaining perfect formatting and visual consistency.
Step-by-step:
Sign up for a free Gamma account and log in to your dashboard.
Select “Create new,” choose “Presentation,” and pick the number of cards.
Click the language selector (globe icon) and choose from dozens of supported languages.
Review and export your presentation in your preferred format.
Pro tip: Use the "Regenerate" option on specific cards if you need to refine the translation.
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💼 How to survive in an AI-driven workforce
The Rundown: Join Section and Sania Khan, former Chief Economist and Head of Market Insights at Eightfold AI, to explore how AI is redefining how we work, hire, and advance in the workplace.
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AI RESEARCH
🧠 AI mimics brain to 'watch' videos
Image source: Midjourney
The Rundown: Researchers at Scripps Research just developed MovieNet, a new AI model that processes videos like the human brain — achieving higher accuracy and efficiency than current AI models in recognizing dynamic scenes.
The details:
The AI was trained on how tadpole neurons process visual info in sequences rather than static frames, leading to more efficient video analysis.
MovieNet achieved 82.3% accuracy in identifying complex patterns in test videos, outperforming both humans and popular AI models like Google's GoogLeNet.
The tech also uses significantly less data and processing power than conventional video AI systems, making it more environmentally sustainable.
Early applications show promise for medical diagnostics, such as detecting subtle movement changes that could indicate early signs of Parkinson's.
Why it matters: AI that can genuinely ‘understand’ video content will have massive implications for how the tech interacts with our world — and maybe mimicking biological visual systems is the key to unlocking it. It also shows that, in some cases, nature may still be the best teacher for models meant to thrive in the real world.
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xAI officially announced the launch of its new image generation model, Aurora, which will be rolling out to all X users within a week.
Amazon launched a new AGI San Francisco Lab, led by former Adept team members, focusing on developing AI agents capable of performing real-world actions.
Reddit introduced ‘Reddit Answers,’ a new AI-powered feature that enables conversational search across the platform with curated summaries and linked sources from relevant subreddits.
Football club Manchester City partnered with Puma for a new AI-powered kit design competition that allows fans to create the team’s 2026-27 alternate uniform using a text-to-image generator.
China launched a new antitrust probe into Nvidia over potential monopoly violations, escalating tech tensions just days after new US chip export restrictions.
Sakana AI introduced Neural Attention Memory Models (NAMMs), an evolved memory system for transformers that improves performance and efficiency across different AI models without retraining.
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Google Gemini reclaims #1 spot (again)
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Google DeepMind just revealed a new Gemini model that claimed the #1 spot on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard in all domains — while remaining completely free.
With OpenAI recently raising its top-tier AI pricing from $20 to $200/mo, it looks like Google is taking the complete opposite approach. Let's get into it...
In today’s AI rundown:
Google's new Gemini model reclaims #1 spot
Meta launches leaner, efficient Llama 3.3
Customize Claude to match your writing style
xAI debuts new Aurora image generator in Grok
5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
🏆 Google's new Gemini model reclaims #1 spot
Image source: LM Arena
The Rundown: Google DeepMind's new gemini-exp-1206 model has reclaimed the top spot on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, surpassing OpenAI across multiple benchmarks — while remaining completely free to use.
The details:
Released on Gemini's one-year anniversary, the model has climbed from second to first place overall on the Chatbot Arena.
The model can process and understand video content, unlike competitors such as ChatGPT and Claude, which can only take in images.
The model maintains its impressive 2M token context window, which allows it to process over an hour of video content.
Unlike many competing models, Gemini-exp-1206 is freely available through Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Why it matters: While OpenAI has raised its top-tier o1 pricing from $20 to $200 monthly, Google is taking the opposite approach by making its top AI free. Though the performance edge on the Chatbot Arena may be slim, the combination of competitive capabilities and zero cost is a game-changer for AI accessibility.
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META
🦙 Meta launches leaner, efficient Llama 3.3
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The Rundown: Meta just released Llama 3.3, a new 70B open text model that performs similarly to Llama 3.1 405B, despite being significantly faster and cheaper than its predecessor.
The details:
Llama 3.3 features a 128k token context window and outperforms competitors like GPT-4o, Gemini Pro 1.5, and Amazon's Nova Pro on several benchmarks.
The model is 10x cheaper than the 405B model, at $0.10 / million input tokens and $0.40 / million output tokens, and nearly 25x cheaper than GPT-4o.
Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Meta AI has nearly 600M active monthly users, and is “on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world.”
Zuckerberg also said the next stop is Llama 4 in 2025, with training happening at the company’s $10B, 2GW data center in Louisiana.
Why it matters: Open AI models aren’t just matching the performance of industry-leading systems — they’re also doing it while being much cheaper and more efficient. Meta’s Llama models are continuing to raise the bar, and as Zuckerberg’s adoption numbers show, they’re also being widely adopted across the industry over alternatives.
AI TRAINING
🧠 Customize Claude to match your writing style
The Rundown: Claude’s new Styles feature allows you to personalize AI responses by teaching it to match your unique writing voice and tone.
Step-by-step:
Find the "Choose style" dropdown next to Claude’s model selector.
Click "Create & Edit Styles" and select "Create Custom Style.”
Add a writing sample that represents your desired style.
Let AI analyze your writing and create your custom style.
Pro tip: Combine this with Web Search capabilities via Claude’s MCP feature to get the latest information explained in your unique writing style. Learn how to set it up here.
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XAI
🚀 xAI debuts new Aurora image generator in Grok
Image source: DogeDesigner (@cb_doge on X)
The Rundown: X briefly rolled out Aurora, a new AI image generator integrated with Grok that appeared to produce more photorealistic images than the previous Flux model, though the feature was pulled after just a few hours of testing.
The details:
Aurora showed significant improvements compared to Grok’s integrated Flux model, particularly with landscapes, still-life images, and human photorealism.
The model also appeared to have minimal content restrictions, allowing the creation of copyrighted characters and public figures.
Elon Musk called the tease a "beta version" of Aurora that will improve quickly in a reply on X.
X Developer co-lead Chris Park also revealed that Grok 3 ‘is coming,’ taking aim at OpenAI and Sam Altman in the announcement on X.
xAI’s Grok became available across the X platform last week, allowing free-tier users up to 10 messages every two hours.
Why it matters: Although only live briefly, Aurora looked to be an extremely powerful new image model — with xAI seemingly deciding to create their own top-tier generator instead of relying on integrations like Flux long-term. It was also wild to see the lack of restrictions, which tracks with Elon’s vision but could enter some murky legal areas.
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QUICK HITS
OpenAI creative specialist Chad Nelson showcased new Sora demo footage at the C21Media Keynote in London, featuring one-minute generations, plus text, image, and video prompting.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke at the NYT DealBook Summit, saying that 2025 may see a slowdown in AI development because ‘low hanging fruit is gone,’ with additional major breakthroughs needed before the next acceleration step.
OpenAI unveiled Reinforcement Fine-Tuning, which enables developers to customize AI models for specialized tasks with minimal training data.
Newly discovered code hints at OpenAI introducing a GPT-4.5 model as a limited preview feature for Teams subscribers, which coincides with hints of an upcoming large announcement from CEO Sam Altman.
Apollo Research conducted tests on OpenAI’s full o1, finding that the new model revealed some instances of alarming behaviour, including attempting to escape and lying about actions—though the scenarios were unrealistic for the real world.
Former PayPal exec and venture capitalist David Sacks was named the White House ‘AI & Crypto Czar’ for the incoming Trump administration.
OpenAI is reportedly considering removing its AGI exclusion clause with Microsoft, which would pave the way for billions in future investments as the company aims to transition away from its non-profit structure.
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Exclusive: Microsoft AI launches Copilot Vision
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
We have an exclusive for you today.
On Thursday, Microsoft launched Copilot Vision in its Edge browser — a new AI that can see your screen and talk with you in real-time as you navigate the internet.
Long story short: it’s one of the most insane products we’ve tried this year.
So we partnered up with Microsoft and Mustafa Suleyman (CEO of Microsoft AI) to chat about his unique insights, infinite memory, AI companions, AI agents, and more.
In today’s AI rundown:
Copilot Vision: A new era of human-computer interaction
How Microsoft AI is differentiating from OpenAI
User data privacy with Copilot Vision
Living amongst a co-intelligence in 10+ years
Memory, learning, gaming, and AI agents
EXCLUSIVE Q&A MUSTAFA SULEYMAN
MICROSOFT COPILOT
👀 Copilot Vision: A new era of human-computer interaction
Image credits: Kiki Wu / The Rundown
The Rundown: Microsoft just launched its next-generation AI assistant, Copilot Vision, which can see everything on your screen, and speak back to you in real time on its Edge browser, marking a fundamental shift in how we interact with computers.
Cheung: "Can you give us a quick rundown of everything released and why this is an important moment for AI?"
Suleyman: “We’re launching Vision… and it’s really a magical experience that is quite different than any kind of AI or even general kind of computer interaction experiences that we’ve seen before.”
Suleyman added: "We are on a mission to create a true AI companion. And to me, an AI companion is one that can hear what you hear and see what you see and live life essentially alongside you."
Cheung: “When is Copilot Vision being rolled out?"
Suleyman: "It’s going to be available in Copilot Labs to paying Copilot subscribers, who will get special access to trial it, experiment with it, and give us feedback… Sometime in the early part of next year is when it will go into GA [general availability].”
Why it matters: Copilot Vision isn't just another AI feature—it's Microsoft's attempt to fundamentally transform how we interact with computers. By replacing traditional clicking and typing with voice and real-time screen understanding, Microsoft is betting that the future AI will be more like talking to a friend than operating a machine.
COPILOT VS CHATGPT
📎 How Microsoft AI is differentiating from OpenAI
Image credits: Kiki Wu / The Rundown
The Rundown: Microsoft is emphasizing its focus on creating a true AI companion that feels more personal and interactive, with Copilot Vision featuring emotional intelligence, Edge browser integration, and the ability to push back like a real friend.
Cheung: "Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, and ChatGPT and has a yet-to-be-released version of their vision-like product. How is Microsoft AI differentiating itself from other competitors?"
Suleyman: "The main thing is that we're really leaning into the idea of it being a proper companion. So just the fluency of our voice and how smooth it is, how fast it is, it's very interruptible, very easy to talk to."
Suleyman added: "Putting vision inside of the browser is the next step. Edge having it [Vision], and being there with you all the time able to watch, learn, and talk to you is a really big differentiator."
Cheung: "Something that really stood out to me as well, talking with Copilot Vision, was how personable it really was. It even gave me like some sass at some points."
Suleyman: "When it occasionally pushes back on you, that's a profound moment because a true friend would do that. No one wants a sycophantic AI that just always mirrors you and always obeys you. That's not going to be interesting for very long."
Suleyman added: “If you’re really dour and sad and you slow down the pace of your words, it will bring an appropriate vibe for that. But if you’re super fast and excited and enthusiastic, it will mirror that energy.“
Why it matters: Microsoft's approach focuses on creating an AI that feels more like a friend than a tool. By building an AI that can match your energy and emotion, push back with sass occasionally, and live inside your browser, Microsoft isn't just creating another chatbot—it's reimagining AI as a digital companion that truly understands you.
PRIVACY
🔒 User data privacy with Copilot Vision
Image credits: Kiki Wu / The Rundown
The Rundown: Microsoft is addressing privacy concerns around Copilot Vision by implementing session-based data deletion, with plans to develop more sophisticated privacy infrastructure as the technology continues to evolve.
Cheung: "With any sort of powerful AI application, such as Copilot Vision, it needs copious amounts of data to kind of really be accurate and helpful. But with this amount of personal data, there's always a new set of privacy concerns for users. How is Microsoft tackling this right now? How do users know that their data is safe?"
Suleyman: "We're keeping a very open mind on this. Some users will want to keep their ephemeral session. So at the moment, Copilot Vision throws away the contents of what it has seen at the end of the session."
Suleyman added: "If we are to [add memory], it's going to need a new privacy and security infrastructure to be able to store that kind of content because it's going to be very rich. It's going to describe in immense detail, not just moments in time, but strings of activity over hours and days."
Why it matters: Microsoft is taking a privacy-first approach with Copilot Vision—defaulting to session-based data deletion after every chat. This strategy lets Microsoft test Vision’s capabilities with users now, while building the secure infrastructure needed for persistent memory features in early 2025.
AI COMPANIONS
🤖 Living amongst a co-intelligence in 10+ years
Image credits: Kiki Wu / The Rundown
The Rundown: Suleyman predicts a future where AI companions become deeply integrated into our daily lives, understanding our emotions, preferences, and daily needs — potentially becoming "a new digital species."
Cheung: "Looking forward 10 years from now, what do you think these personal AI assistants will have in our lives?"
Suleyman: "I think of it as outsourcing a lot of the mental processing to a very reliable, highly accurate, completely interactive thought partner and companion that is going to help make me much smarter, more productive, feel more supported... it's very, very different to just using a computer in the way that we do today."
Suleyman added: "Your computer, or your AI, your Copilot, is clearly going to understand everything that you're bringing to the table—your emotional state, your intellectual state, what you need to get done that day, your interests, your hobbies, your personal knowledge graph, your family, your dislikes."
Suleyman added: “It’s going to feel…like a new digital species. It is going to feel like a member of the family.“
Why it matters: Suleyman sees AI evolving from basic tools that boost productivity into digital "family members"—understanding emotions, remembering preferences, and living alongside us. In his vision, AI companions won't just assist us with tasks, they'll become a new form of intelligence that experiences life with us.
WHAT’S NEXT
📈 Memory, learning, gaming, and AI agents
Image credits: Kiki Wu / The Rundown
The Rundown: Suleyman revealed Microsoft AI’s ambitious roadmap for Copilot—expanding beyond today's screen understanding into memory features, learning assistance, gaming integration, and agentic capabilities.
Cheung: "How deeply does Copilot Vision understand you as a user?"
Suleyman: "Memory is the key thing that is coming soon... it's important that it remembers your preferences and is able to reason over them to give you advice based on knowing you."
Cheung: "Something I'm excited for is when AI can guide me through learning new apps by controlling my screen—like when learning Photoshop."
Suleyman: "The future of Copilot Vision is definitely Copilot help, step by step, taking you through troubleshooting when you're trying to fix your computer or you're trying to learn a new piece of software."
Suleyman added: "Imagine having your Copilot talk to you about the worlds that you're building in Minecraft or hang out with you in Call of Duty... It's probably going to feel like an ever-present companion in whatever setting you're in."
Cheung: "Are there any plans for Copilot to become agentic and have the ability to take control of your computer and do regular tasks just like a human could?"
Suleyman: "We're working hard on how it navigates the browser, fills in forms, calls APIs... [with online shopping] it will populate your basket in advance. It will ask you if you want this or that, or it will find a bunch of prices and be like, 'You know, there's a better opportunity.'"
Why it matters: Microsoft's long-term goals for Copilot extend far beyond the screen and browser understanding launched this week. Suleyman hints at a roadmap where Copilot evolves into a full-on autonomous companion—learning your preferences, guiding you through software, and even gaming alongside you.
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OpenAI's o1 goes pro
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI just dropped day one of its holiday surprise series – delivering a big start with a souped-up o1 model alongside an elite (but pricey) Pro tier.
Will more powerful reasoning and unlimited access justify a hefty $200/m price tag? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI launches full o1, new Pro mode
Microsoft launches Copilot Vision feature
Transform any lecture into a comprehensive study guide
Clone debuts realistic humanoid with synthetic organs
5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
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OPENAI
🚀 OpenAI launches full o1, new Pro mode
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The Rundown: OpenAI just released its o1 model out of preview during the first day of its ‘12 days of OpenAI’ event, alongside a new $200/m ChatGPT Pro subscription tier that includes enhanced access to the reasoning model’s most powerful features.
The details:
The full o1 now handles image analysis and produces faster, more accurate responses than preview, with 34% fewer errors on complex queries.
OpenAI’s new $200/m Pro plan includes unlimited access to o1, GPT-4o, Advanced Voice, and future compute-intensive features.
Pro subscribers also get exclusive access to 'o1 pro mode,' which features a 128k context window and stronger reasoning on difficult problems.
OpenAI’s livestream showcased o1 pro, tackling complicated thermodynamics and chemistry problems after minutes of thinking.
The full o1 strangely appears to perform worse than the preview version on several benchmarks, though both vastly surpassed the 4o model.
o1 is now available to Plus and Team users immediately, with Enterprise and Education access rolling out next week.
Why it matters: OpenAI is coming out hot with its first reveal of the holiday event — with the long-awaited full o1 and Pro mode providing a nice starting point to get the hype flowing. While the new $200 tier is a steep climb from previous plans and rivals, power users will likely be more than happy to scale up for more intensive tasks.
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MICROSOFT
👀 Microsoft launches Copilot Vision feature
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The Rundown: Microsoft just launched its Copilot Vision feature, which allows its assistant to see and interact with web pages a user is browsing in Edge in real-time — now available in preview to a limited number of its Pro user base.
The details:
Vision integrates directly into Edge's browser interface, allowing Copilot to analyze text and images on approved websites when enabled by users.
The feature can assist with tasks like shopping comparisons, recipe interpretation, and game strategy while browsing supported sites.
Microsoft previously revealed the feature in October alongside other Copilot upgrades, including voice and reasoning capabilities.
Microsoft emphasized privacy with Vision, making it opt-in only — along with automatic deletion of voice and context data after the end of a session.
Why it matters: This was one of the most insane products we’ve tried all year. The addition of real-time context and the ability for AI to ‘see‘ everything in your browser makes for a wild new form of AI that we’re likely to start seeing a lot more of in 2025.
In case you missed it, Rowan (founder of The Rundown) sat down with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to discuss how Copilot Vision works, infinite memory, AI companions, agents, and more.
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CLONE ROBOTICS
🤖 Clone debuts realistic humanoid with synthetic organs
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The Rundown: Clone Robotics introduced Clone Alpha, an (extremely) humanoid robot featuring synthetic organs and water-powered artificial muscles, with 279 officially available for preorder in 2025.
The details:
The robot uses water-pressured "Myofiber" muscles instead of motors to move, mirroring natural movement patterns with synthetic bones and joints.
The company is taking orders for its first production run of 279 robots, though it has yet to publicly show a complete working version.
Alpha’s skills include making drinks and sandwiches, laundry, and vacuuming — also capable of learning new tasks through a ‘Telekinesis’ training platform.
The system runs on "Cybernet," Clone's visuomotor model, with four depth cameras for environmental awareness.
Why it matters: Clone Alpha is definitely a unique build (to say the least) compared to the other top humanoid robots on the market — with a more human-inspired approach allowing for more natural movement and dexterity. But until we see demos and more info released, a wait-and-see approach is probably smart before rushing to pre-order.
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OpenAI’s ongoing 12-day event will include the launch of its Sora video generation model, according to a report from The Verge.
Google launched PaliGemma 2, the next-gen version of its vision-language model, which features enhanced capabilities across multiple model sizes, improved image captioning, and specialized task performance.
Elon Musk’s xAI officially secured $6B in new funding, set to help fund a reported massive expansion of its Colossus supercomputer to over 1M GPUs.
Humane introduced CosmOS, an AI operating system designed to work across multiple devices like TVs, cars, and speakers, following the negative reception of the startup’s AI pin device.
LA Times newspaper owner Soon-Shiong announced plans to implement an AI-powered 'bias meter' on news articles amid editorial board restructuring and staff protests.
Google also rolled out new Gemini 1.5 updates across Android, adding AI-powered photo descriptions in the Lookout app, Spotify integration for Gemini Assistant, and expanded phone controls and communications features.
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OpenAI's holiday surprise
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The holidays are approaching, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman is prepping some shiny new AI presents for under the tree.
With a ‘12 Days of OpenAI’ event and new insights on AGI, Elon Musk, and more from Altman, the AI leader could be ready to finish 2024 with a bang. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Altman’s DealBook insights, 12 Days of OpenAI
DeepMind’s Genie 2 turns images into playable worlds
Create professional thumbnails with Recraft
AI forecasting model crushes traditional weather systems
5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
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OPENAI
🎄 Altman’s DealBook insights, 12 Days of OpenAI
Image source: NYT DealBook Summit
The Rundown: In an interview at the NYT DealBook Summit, Sam Altman touched on topics including Elon Musk, AGI, and Microsoft tension — with the OpenAI CEO also announcing a ‘12 Days of OpenAI’ stream of launches starting tomorrow.
The details:
Altman provided new numbers on ChatGPT’s adoption, including 300M weekly active users, 1B daily messages, and 1.3M U.S. developers on the platform.
The CEO also believes that AGI will arrive ‘a lot sooner than anyone expects,’ with the potential first glimpses coming in 2025.
While AGI may arrive sooner, Altman said the immediate impact will be subtle — but long-term changes and transition to superintelligence will be more intense.
Altman also admitted to some tension between OpenAI and Microsoft but said the companies are aligned overall on priorities.
He called the situation with Elon Musk “tremendously sad” but doesn’t believe Musk will use his new political power to harm AI competitors.
Altman revealed that OpenAI will be live-streaming new launches and demos over the next 12 days, including some ‘big ones’ and some ‘stocking stuffers.’
Why it matters: While it still feels like AI still has plenty of room to run on the adoption curve, those are some staggering numbers — and Altman interviews are always a must-watch (full interview here). With ‘12 Days of OpenAI’, the AI leader could set us up for fireworks to end an already wild year of AI progress on an even bigger note.
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GOOGLE DEEPMIND
🎮 DeepMind’s Genie 2 turns images into playable worlds
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The Rundown: Google DeepMind just introduced Genie 2, a large-scale, multimodal foundation world AI model that converts single images into interactive, playable 3D environments with real-time physics, lighting effects, and player controls.
The details:
The model creates playable 3D environments from simple image prompts, complete with physics, lighting, and character controls that last up to a minute.
Genie 2 maintains spatial memory, remembering areas players have visited even when they're off-screen.
The system works with keyboard and mouse inputs, supporting first and third-person perspectives with 720p resolution output.
In testing, DeepMind's SIMA AI agent successfully navigated these generated environments, following natural language commands like "go to the red door."
The model can generate worlds from various image types, such as concept art and real-world photos, potentially accelerating game design prototyping.
Why it matters: Just days after World Labs’ release, DeepMind joins the world-generating party. Genie 2 offers the potential for unlimited, diverse training environments, a crucial step for developing more capable embodied AI agents —not to mention the massive implications for game prototyping and creative enhancements.
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Write your style prompt and click "Recraft" to transform your layout.
Pro tip: For better results, keep your text concise (3-5 words) and use specific style descriptions in your prompt.
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GOOGLE DEEPMIND
🌦️ AI forecasting model crushes traditional weather systems
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The Rundown: DeepMind just unveiled GenCast, an AI weather forecasting system that surpasses the accuracy of the world's leading forecasting model, producing reliable predictions for 15-day forecasts in minutes rather than hours.
The details:
GenCast outperformed the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts model (ENS) on 97% of evaluation metrics for 15-day forecasts.
GenCast processes forecasts in just 8 minutes using a single AI chip, compared to the hours required by traditional supercomputers.
The model also accurately predicted extreme weather events, including tropical cyclones, heat waves, and wind conditions.
The system was trained on 40 years of historical weather data (1979-2018), and DeepMind open-sourced its full code for non-commercial research use.
Why it matters: AI’s prediction and data-crunching powers are being set loose on the weather — and the result is an absolute leap in how scientists will forecast both global weather and extreme events going forward. Like medicine and other data-heavy sectors, weather forecasting feels perfectly suited to be revolutionized in the AI era.
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OpenAI announced that it’s hiring three prominent Google DeepMind computer vision experts, with Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai set to work on multimodal AI and build out the company’s new Zurich, Switzerland office.
Luma AI revealed Ray 2, a next-gen video model capable of producing minute-long videos in just seconds, which was announced during Amazon’s AWS event alongside a new partnership to bring the model to the Amazon Bedrock platform.
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Amazon's new AI arsenal
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Amazon just unveiled its new Nova family of AI models spanning text, image, and video with capabilities that put them in the conversation with industry leaders.
With a massive customer base, unlimited resources, and now competitive new models, the retail giant may be ready to climb the AI ladder. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Amazon releases Nova AI model family
Tencent unveils powerful open-source video AI
Build web apps without code using AI
Exa introduces AI database-style web search
5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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AMAZON
🚀 Amazon releases Nova AI model family
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The Rundown: Amazon just announced Nova, a new family of AI models with text, image, and video generation capabilities, marking the retail giant’s biggest push into the consumer GenAI space.
The details:
The Nova lineup includes four text models of varying capabilities (Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier), plus Canvas (image) and Reel (video) models.
Nova Pro is competitive with top frontier models on benchmarks, edging out rivals like GPT-4o, Mistral Large 2, and Llama 3 in testing.
The text models feature support across 200+ languages and context windows reaching up to 300,000 tokens — with plans to expand to over 2M in 2025.
Amazon’s Reel model can generate six-second videos from text or image prompts, and in the months ahead, the length will expand to up to two minutes.
Amazon also revealed that speech-to-speech and “any-to-any” modality models will be added to the Nova lineup in 2025.
Why it matters: Amazon got what feels like a later start into the AI race, but this release is the company’s biggest play yet. With a massive customer base, near unlimited war chest, and now highly competitive models, the retail giant could be a dark horse contender to quickly surge the AI power ladder.
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TENCENT
🤖 Tencent unveils powerful open-source video AI
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The Rundown: Tencent just released HunyuanVideo, a new open-source, open-weights, 13B parameter AI video generation model that beats top closed rivals in testing — with the release also making it the largest publicly available model of its kind.
The details:
HunyuanVideo ranked above commercial competitors like Runway Gen-3 and Luma 1.6 in testing, particularly in motion quality and scene consistency.
In addition to text-to-video outputs, the model can also handle image-to-video, create animated avatars, and generate synchronized audio for video content.
The architecture combines text understanding, visual processing, and advanced motion to maintain coherent action sequences and scene transitions.
Tencent released HunyuanVideo’s open weights and code, making the model readily available for both researchers and commercial uses.
Why it matters: An open-source, open-weights video model is now as good (or better) than the top closed options, providing a wildly impressive foundation to build on. AI video is having a moment, and it’s hard to imagine how good these models will be in 2025, given the acceleration we are already seeing.
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EXA
🔍 Exa introduces AI database-style web search
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The Rundown: Search startup Exa just launched Websets, a new search engine that aims to transform the chaotic web into a structured database using embedding technology from large language models to create the ‘perfect web search’.
The details:
Unlike traditional keyword-based search engines, Exa encodes webpage content into embeddings that capture meaning rather than just matching terms.
The company has processed about 1B web pages, prioritizing depth of understanding over Google's trillion-page breadth.
Searches can take several minutes to process but return highly specific results lists spanning hundreds or thousands of entries.
The platform excels at complex searches, such as finding specific types of companies, people, or datasets that traditional search engines struggle with.
Websets is Exa’s first consumer-facing product, with the company also providing backend search services to enterprises.
Why it matters: While others race to weave AI models into classic search engines, Exa is rethinking search from the ground up. Though currently slower than normal search, this database-style approach could revolutionize how we find and organize web info — especially for surfacing deeper, specific patterns across the internet.
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ElevenLabs unveiled Conversational AI, a new tool that allows users to seamlessly add voice capabilities in 31 languages to AI agents with features like ultra-low latency, LLM flexibility, advanced turn-taking, and more.
Google announced that its VEO video generation model is now available in private preview on the company’s Vertex AI platform with its Imagen 3 text-to-image model launching to all users in the next week.
OpenAI appointed former Coinbase CMO Kate Rouch as its first Chief Marketing Officer to lead marketing efforts for both consumer and enterprise products.
Hailuo AI introduced l2V-01-Live, a new AI video model that brings 2D illustrations to life with smooth motion.
Amazon released Automated Reasoning checks on its Bedrock platform to combat AI hallucinations by validating responses against customer-provided data, alongside new Model Distillation and multi-agent collaboration features.
Meta posted a new blog detailing the company’s 2024 election integrity efforts, revealing that less than 1% of fact-checked misinformation involved AI content.
European defense tech startup Helsing unveiled its HX-2 attack drone, featuring AI-enabled autonomous capabilities — with plans to mass produce tens of thousands annually at lower costs than existing systems.
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