AI NEWS: Microsoft is offering free access to OpenAI's Sora AI video generator

Plus, more news from Captions, Cohere, PlayAI, Character AI, and Topaz Labs.

Here's everything you need to know: Microsoft just added Bing Video Creator to its Bing mobile app on Android and iOS

The feature uses OpenAI's Sora video generator to let users produce 5s vertical videos from text prompts —entirely for free

Also dropping on Desktop soon

AI NEWS: Google just dropped an Edge AI Gallery to bring open-source AI models to smartphones

Plus, more news from ElevenLabs, Resemble AI, DeepSeek, Sakana AI, Hume, and Tencent.

Here's everything you need to know: Google quietly launched Edge AI Gallery, a library of open AI models to access on smartphones

Currently on Android, the gallery lets users pick models for their task and run using the available device hardware, entirely locally

iOS version coming soon!

AI NEWS: Anthropic is finally joining the voice movement — giving Claude the ability to talk!

Plus, more news from Mistral, Google, SpAItial, Tencent, and Salesforce.

Here's everything you need to know: Anthropic is adding a voice mode to Claude mobile, providing English-speaking users with:

—Five voice personalities to interact with Claude Sonnet 4
—Real-time transcription of chats
—20-30 voice messages for free users
—Higher usage for paid users

Demis Hassabis is CEO of Google DeepMind, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and a former chess prodigy.

I sat down with him to talk about:

-How AI could cure all diseases
-The future of human-AI relationships
-Vibe coding and the moat for startups

Here's what he said:
Curing all diseases with AI:

Demis Hassabis believes AI could cure all diseases by coming up with hundreds of new drugs.

He clarifies that FDA approvals and regulations could slow things down, but that doesn’t mean the potential cures won’t exist.

AI NEWS: OpenAI’s ‘iPhone moment’ in AI might be closer than ever — the company just acquired Jony Ive’s startup in a major deal. (Yes, the same Jony Ive who designed the iPhone.)

Plus, more news from Mistral, Microsoft, xAI, ByteDance, Shopify, and LMArena.

Here's everything you need to know: OpenAI acquired io, the AI device startup co-founded by Jony Ive, in a $6.5B all-stock deal. Key details:

—50+ io engineers and designers to join OpenAI
—They will create OAI's next-gen AI devices, going beyond screens
—First device to debut in 2026

It's only been 1 day of Google I/O 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible.

The 11 most impressive reveals of I/O 2025 so far:

1. Revamped project Astra with native audio dialogue, UI control, content retrieval, calling, and shopping
2. Agent Mode: Gemini will create a plan and take actions (like finding apartments) on the web using Project Mariner and MCP

Coming soon to subscribers

Microsoft just made a ton of new AI announcements across GitHub, Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows, and more.

Here’s everything important announced live from Microsoft Build 2025: 1. GitHub Copilot is going from an in-editor assistant to a fully autonomous coding agent!

It works asynchronously to add features, fix bugs, extend tests, refactor code, and improve documentation

Plus, Microsoft is open-sourcing Copilot Chat in VS Code

AI NEWS: Mistral just launched a new multimodal AI promising SOTA performance at much lower cost

Plus, more news from Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Figma, and Netflix.

Here's everything you need to know: Mistral just made two big reveals:

—Medium 3, a multimodal AI matching or surpassing 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Llama 4 Maverick across benchmarks with 8x lower costs

—Le Chat Enterprise with corporate tools like Google Drive, agent building, and more

AI NEWS: Google just released a new version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, taking coding and web development to the next level

Plus, more news from HeyGen, Lighttricks, Windsurf, FutureHouse, Ace Studio, and Recraft.

Here's everything you need to know: Google released an early preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition, delivering:

—Enhanced performance for frontend and UI dev, code editing, and agentic workflows
—Top score on LM Arena and WebDev Arena, beating Claude 3.7 Sonnet
—Video understanding features

AI NEWS: China's Baidu just dropped ultra-affordable "Turbo" models, taking on OpenAI and DeepSeek

Plus, more news from OpenAI, Liquid AI, xAI, and Moonshot AI!

Here's everything you need to know: Baidu dropped faster and cheaper ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo models

4.5 Turbo, with upgraded multimodality, costs 11c and 44c per million I/O tokens (0.2% of GPT-4.5).

X1 Turbo comes at 14c/55c per million I/O tokens, topping DeepSeek R1 and V3

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: