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Educating about AI, Cybersecurity and Technology | Professor | PhD in Computer Science & Engineering | 👨‍🏫@therundownai
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Feb 4 8 tweets 2 min read
OpenAI’s Deep Research is a major shift.

It’s like having a PhD-level assistant that can perform deep web analysis and generate reports in minutes.

But it’s limited to Pro Users…

Here are 6 free open source alternatives 🧵: 1. Open Deep Research
Feb 1 13 tweets 4 min read
ChatGPT released a new beast model.

o3-mini is a fast reasoning model that can search the web, and is particularly good at science, math, and coding.

10 wild examples: Image 1. New AidanBench records

AidanBench rewards Creativity, Reliability, Contextual attention, and Instruction following of LLMs.
Jan 31 12 tweets 4 min read
What a crazy week in AI 🤯

- o3 models
- Krea AI Chat
- Mistral Small 3
- Pika 2.1 AI Video
- Kimi Reasoning model
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-Max
- Perplexity Deekseek R1
- DeepSeek new Multimodal
- Google AI Weather Forecast

Here’s everything you need to know: 1. OpenAI just released o3-mini and it comes in two flavors.: o3-mini and o3-mini-high.

They are particularly strong in science, math, and coding. and they are currently rolling out.

Free users can also try it out by selecting the Reason button.
Jan 26 15 tweets 5 min read
Everything you need to know to master Windsurf AI.

A full guide 🧵 Image 1. Windsurf AI Overview

Windsurf AI is a code editor with advanced AI capabilities, increasing developer productivity by integrating AI assistance into your coding workflow.

It can both collaborate with you like a Copilot and tackle complex tasks independently like an Agent. Image
Jan 23 11 tweets 4 min read
What a crazy week in AI 🤯

- OpenAI Agents
- Stargate Project
- Claude Citations
- Freepik Imagen 3
- DeepSeek-R1 model
- Perplexity AI Assistant
- Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
- Tendent 3D Asset Creation
- ByteDance Reasoning Agent

Here’s everything you need to know: 1. OpenAI just announced Operator.

Operator is an AI agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you. It can shop for airline tickets, making restaurant reservations, and more.

It’s now available to Pro users.
Jan 21 7 tweets 3 min read
What a huge moment for open source.

DeepSeek has released a model rivaling OpenAI’s o1 model.

Not only that, they fine-tuned smaller models like Llama 8B, achieving a similar or even better performance than GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet!

And you can run them locally now 🧵: Image
This means that you can now run a really powerful AI model offline, allowing more privacy and accessibility at all times, for free.

To run it locally, one of the easiest ways is to download LM Studio Image
Jan 19 10 tweets 3 min read
Windsurf just announced Wave 2.

It takes AI coding to a whole new level with so many incredible features.

8 wild examples: Image 1. Web Search

The AI assistant (Cascade) can now search the web so you can pull in the latest API docs or the changelog of your favorite open source project.

You can also use @ URL to specify any website.
Jan 17 12 tweets 4 min read
What a crazy week in AI 🤯

- Luma Ray2
- ChatGPT Tasks
- Runway Frames
- Sky-T1 matches o1
- MiniMax-O1 models
- Microsoft MatterGen
- MiniMax Text to Audio
- Mistral’s new Codestral
- Krea 3D Object Creation

Here’s everything you need to know: 1. Luma has released Ray2, a large-scale video generation model that produces highly realistic visuals with smooth, natural motion.

The model demonstrates a strong ability to comprehend text instructions and can also work with both image and video inputs.
Jan 15 13 tweets 4 min read
ChatGPT’s new Tasks feature has unlocked so many incredible use cases.

It allows you to set up recurring actions and tasks, essentially giving you an AI agent that works for you in the background.

10 powerful ideas: Image 1. Start your day with a curated global news summary at 8 AM. Image
Jan 8 15 tweets 4 min read
The world’s most influential tech event is taking place this week.

It’s insane what’s being showcased at CES 2025.

Here are 14 mind-blowing reveals:

1. XPeng Aero HT presents the Land Aircraft Carrier, a modular “flying car”
2. Portalgraph: A 3D projector that projects VR space into the real world
Jan 6 6 tweets 2 min read
You can now create realistic AI characters that narrate your script in seconds.

It’s completely free to even create a custom avatar of yourself.

Here’s how: STEP 1.

Head over to:

In the main dashboard, you’ll see tons of AI avatars to choose from. humva.ai
Jan 4 10 tweets 4 min read
Gemini’s Stream Realtime has unlocked so many incredible use cases.

You now have an AI assistant that can see your screen and chat with you in real-time to learn, work, and research faster.

7 powerful ideas: Image 1. Research Assistant

- Highlight a dense paragraph from a white paper and ask for a non-technical summary.
- Hover over a tricky term, formula, diagram and ask for a simple explanation.
- Open multiple tabs on a research topic and ask to synthesize the key points side by side.
Dec 15, 2024 12 tweets 3 min read
Google raised the bar with Realtime AI.

It enables AI to see your screen and chat with you in real-time, and users are discovering incredible use cases.

10 wild examples: Image 1. Helping understand research papers
Dec 12, 2024 10 tweets 4 min read
What an insane week on AI 🤯

Sora AI Video
ChatGPT Vision
Google Gemini 2.0
Lindy Phone Agents
Meta Llama 3.3 70B
Grok Image Generator
Midjourney worldbuilding
Devin AI software engineer

Here’s everything you need to know: 1. OpenAI has finally released Sora, its AI video generation model.

With its own website, it comes with features like Remix for quick edits, Blend for smooth transitions, and Storyboard for precise control.

It’s available to Plus and Pro users, with some exceptions like the EU.
Dec 10, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
Base LLMs are wild.

You can now see how AI responds before being fine-tuned for politeness or helpfulness.

Here’s how: Image STEP 1.

Create a free account and head over to: app.hyperbolic.xyz/?utm_source=x&…
Dec 7, 2024 12 tweets 3 min read
OpenAI o1 and o1-Pro models released 2 days ago.

People are already sharing many successful tests and crazy use cases with it.

10 wild examples: Image 1. Coding a Coinbase clone with just one prompt
Dec 5, 2024 13 tweets 5 min read
What an insane week on AI 🤯

ChatGPT Pro & o1
Runway Keyframes
Luma Photon models
AI weather forecasting
Amazon launches Nova
Genie 2 Image-to-Game
Tencent’s Hunyuan Video
ElevenLabs Conversational AI
Google AI video generator Veo

Here’s everything you need to know: 1. OpenAI has started its first day of 12 livestreams by releasing the full o1 model.

Plus users will get access today, replacing o1-preview.

They are also adding ChatGPT Pro, a new plan that includes access to a Pro-only version of o1 that thinks longer for better answers.
Nov 30, 2024 13 tweets 4 min read
AI agents will bring a major shift.

Runner H has just been announced, and it looks incredibly good.

10 wild examples (Plus how to sign up): Image 1. Find bus stops in Alanson, MI using Google Maps.
Nov 27, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
Windsurf is one of the best AI coding tools I’ve ever used.

I just asked it to create a Perplexity clone, and it got me a fully functional web app in less than 10 min, able to search the Internet for the latest info.

Here’s the full workflow: To get access, you can just head over to: wind.surf
Nov 21, 2024 12 tweets 4 min read
What a crazy week on AI 🤯

• FLUX.1 Tools
• Mistral’s le Chat
• Runner H AI Agent
• v0 runs full-stack apps
• Google Gemini Memory
• HeyGen new phone app
• Anthropic & Google Doc
• GPT-4o creativity update
• DeepSeek’s powerful model

Here’s everything you need to know: 1. Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.1 Tools, a suite of models to add control to the base text-to-image model FLUX.1.

These models allow inpainting, outpainting, structural guidance based on a depth map
or on canny edges, and mix and recreation of input images.
Nov 17, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
The new Anthropic prompt improver is incredible.

You just need to write your prompt and Claude will generate an optimized prompt instantly.

Here’s how to use it: STEP 1.

Head over to Anthropic’s Console and sign up/log in: console.anthropic.comImage