TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just said AI can end all disease!

Plus, more news from Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, Play AI, and TextArena.

Here's everything you need to know: Demis Hassabis appeared on 60 Minutes, sharing new insights into AI:

—AGI in 5-10 years, with conscious AI likely in the future
—AI fast-tracking drug discovery, potentially eradicating all disease within the next decade
—AI ensuring radical abundance

TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, its smartest models yet

Plus, more news from Google, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, Kling AI, and more.

Here's everything you need to know: OpenAI dropped the new o3 and o4-mini reasoner models

o3 pushes SOTA performance across coding, math, science, and multimodality, while o4-mini offers fast, cost-efficient performance

Both have agentic access to ChatGPT tools and can "think with images"

TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just dropped three GPT-4.1 models for devs—API-only and packing a jaw-dropping 1M-token context window.

Plus, more news from Google, Hugging Face, ByteDance, SSI, and LM Arena.

Here's everything you need to know: OpenAI released GPT-4.1, 4.1 Mini, and the ultra-fast 4.1 Nano—all designed for devs

— Each model beats GPT-4o and 4o mini on dev tasks
— 1M token context windows
— GPT-4.1 scored 55% on SWE-Bench Verified
— Starting at $0.10/0.40 per million I/O tokens

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Amazon just dropped a new voice model that beats OpenAI

Plus, more news from Google, Nvidia, Deep Cogito, Stanford, and more.

Here's everything you need to know: Amazon launched Nova Sonic speech-to-speech AI for human-like interactions

—Outperforms OpenAI's voice models with ~ 80% less cost
—4.2% word error rate across languages
— 46.7% better accuracy than GPT-4o for noisy environments
—On Amazon Bedrock

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google's just started rolling out 'Project Astra' capabilities in Gemini Live

Plus, more news from Google Search, Runway, ElevenLabs, UC Berkeley, Krea AI, and more.

Here's everything you need to know: Google started rolling out 'Project Astra' in Gemini Live

The move brings real-time visual AI, allowing multilingual conversations about anything seen and heard via a phone's camera or screen sharing

Coming to Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices!

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Meta AI just dropped Llama 4 AI with a 10M token context window

Plus, more news from Midjourney, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and Kawasaki

Here's everything you need to know: Meta announced three MoE-based Llama 4 models: 109B param Scout, 400B param Maverick, and 2T param Behemoth (in training)

Scout features a 10M context window and beats Gemma 3 & Mistral 3

Maverick, with a 1M window, outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google just dropped Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most intelligent AI model to date.

Plus, more news from OpenAI, Figure, ByteDance, Otter, and Perplexity.

Here's everything you need to know: Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, the first model in its Gemini 2.5 family

—#1 on the LMArena
—SOTA capabilities across benchmarks for coding, math, science, and more
—Visual reasoning
—1M token context window (2M coming soon!)

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Researchers just developed an AI that detects certain cancers with 99% accuracy!

Plus, more news from Tencent, Anthropic, Perplexity, Zapier, and more.

Here's everything you need to know: A new game-changing AI, ECgMLP, identifies endometrial cancer with 99.26% accuracy

It uses microscopic tissue images and
outperforms humans and other automated methods

Also works across colorectal, breast, and oral cancers with 97%+ accuracy!

https://x.com/Tolat743/status/1902476884413444579

It's been 4 days of NVIDIA GTC 2025, and the announcements have been incredible.

The 10 most important reveals so far:

1. Blue: A Star Wars-inspired robot powered by a new physics engine with real-time intelligence and movement
2. Newton: An open-source physics engine to simulate robotic movements in the real world — developed jointly by Nvidia, DeepMind, and Disney Research.

(This is the physics engine that powers the Blue robot!)

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Roblox just made 3D content creation as simple as a text command!

Plus, more news from Mistral, xAI, Zoom, Tencent, Perplexity, Baidu, and more.

Here's everything you need to know: Roblox announced Cube 3D, an open-source AI for generating 3D objects and scenes from text prompts

Trained on native 3D data, Cube uses 3D tokenization to create functional 3D outputs in seconds

Support for image inputs is also on the way!

I think China's second DeepSeek moment is here.

This AI agent called 'Manus' is going crazy viral in China right now.

Probably only a matter of time until it hits the US.

It's like Deep Research + Operator + Claude Computer combined, and it's REALLY good. We noticed Manus gaining some traction @TheRundownAI and wrote about it in the newsletter this morning

Shortly after publishing, one of the cofounders reached out with an invitation code. Thanks @peakji!

So I dropped my work for the morning (emails can wait) and tested it out:

TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI is reportedly planning a $20,000 subscription for specialized AI agents

Plus, more news from Google, Alibaba, Scale AI, Codeium, Luma Labs, and Turing.

Here's everything you need to know: OpenAI is reportedly planning specialized AI agents for tasks like Ph.D.-level research

Three agent tiers expected:

—Business professionals ($2k/mo)
—Advanced devs ($10k/mo)
—PhD-level researchers ($20k/mo)

OAI charges $200/mo for its Operator agent:

TODAY'S AI NEWS: T-Mobile's parent is developing an 'AI phone' with Perplexity

Plus, more news from Anthropic, Microsoft, xAI, Google, and TSMC.

Here's everything you need to know: T-Mobile's parent, Deutsche Telekom, announced an AI phone with Perplexity

Set to launch later this year under $1K, the AI device will tap Perplexity Assistant to eliminate usual app-based navigation

It will also have AI tools from Google, ElevenLabs, and PicsArt

https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1896560542556533217/video/1

Breaking: OpenAI just released GPT-4.5, the startup's largest AI model to date.

Available now to Pro ($200/mo tier) users and developers on paid tiers via API.

Everything else you need to know about the highly-anticipated launch: 1/ GPT-4.5 is a leap forward in scaling unsupervised learning.

Reasoning models (like o1 + o3-mini) are great for STEM/logic.

Unsupervised learning increases world model accuracy and intuition — leading to better EQ and a broader knowledge base (and less hallucinations):

TODAY'S AI NEWS: China's Alibaba just open-sourced a new suite of AI video models.

Plus, more news from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, DeepSeek and Convergence.

Here's everything you need to know: Alibaba's Tongyi Lab dropped Wan2.1, a suite of advanced AI models for video

—Beats SOTA models, generates at 2.5x speed
—Excels in complex motion, real-world physics, Chinese & English text
—Includes editing tools, video-to-audio, and a 1.3B version

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google debuted an AI co-scientist system—and it's already making drug discoveries.

Plus, more from Microsoft, Arc Institute, Clone Robotics, Apple, Convergence, and Sakana AI.

Here's what you need to know: Google just launched an AI co-scientist to accelerate scientific discoveries!

—Gemini 2.0-based multi-agent system to handle tasks
— 80%+ accuracy on benchmarks (beating AI & humans)
— Identified new drug applications and gene transfer mechanisms in days

NEW: Microsoft just unveiled Muse!

It's an AI model that can generate minutes of cohesive gameplay from a single second of frames and controller actions.

The implications for gaming are absolutely massive: Muse is the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM), and the scale of training is mind-blowing:

— Trained on 1B+ gameplay images
— Used 7+ YEARS of continuous gameplay data
— Learned from real Xbox multiplayer matches

AI NEWS: OpenAI's former CTO Mira Murati just announced her secretive new venture to take on top AI labs in the world

Plus, more news from OpenAI, Perplexity, and AI Pin company Humane, Meta, Stanford, Fiverr, and xAI.

Here's what you need to know: Mira Murati unveiled her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab

The startup will focus on making AI more customizable, open, and accessible (where OpenAI has struggled)

It has hired researchers from top AI labs, including OpenAI, Mistral, and DeepMind

https://x.com/miramurati/status/1891918876029616494

NEWS: DeepSeek just dropped ANOTHER open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.

It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks.

This comes on top of all the R1 hype. The 🐋 is cookin' Link: huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/Ja…

I got early access to ChatGPT Operator.

It's OpenAI's new AI agent that autonomously takes action across the web on your behalf.

The 9 most impressive use cases I’ve tried (videos sped up):

1. Ordering dinner ingredients based on a picture and a recipe 2. Planning a weekend trip based on hidden gems off Reddit, my budget and interests

Notice how at 0:06, ChatGPT Operator was blocked from Reddit but then decided to just do a Bing search with "Reddit" at the end

Very impressive decision-making

That's a wrap for day 2 of the world's largest consumer tech event, CES 2025.

The top 10 tech and gadget reveals from day 2:

1. A stretchable Micro LED display that turns 2D into 3D by Samsung 2. A multitasking household robot that does everything from vacuuming, organization, air purification, monitoring pets, and even delivering you food while you sit on the couch by SwitchBot