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Exclusive: Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B — the first-ever open-sourced frontier AI model, beating top closed models like GPT-4o across several benchmarks. I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg, diving into why this marks a major moment in AI history. Timestamps:. 00:00 Intro
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AI NEWS: Google is finally rolling out Veo 3 globally!. Plus, more news from HeyGen, Perplexity, Replit, Genspark, Fundamental, and Sakana. Here's everything you need to know:.
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Sakana AI debuted AB-MCTS, an algorithm that lets different AI models work together, using their strengths and mistakes, to solve complex problems. It used ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek to solve 30% of ARC-AGI-2 puzzles vs just 23% for top solo models
We’re excited to introduce AB-MCTS!. Our new inference-time scaling algorithm enables collective intelligence for AI by allowing multiple frontier models (like Gemini 2.5 Pro, o4-mini, DeepSeek-R1-0528) to cooperate. Blog: Paper:
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Fundamental dropped Shortcut, a "superhuman" spreadsheet agent, in early preview. It one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel, also scoring >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in about 10 min. That's 10x faster than humans.
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Genspark continues to expand its agentic productivity suite — this time with AI Docs. Just like AI Slides and Sheets, the Docs offering creates full documents for the user using nothing but simple text instructions. Also supports rich text and markdown.
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Replit Agent now includes Dynamic Intelligence with extended thinking, high-power models, and web search. It enables the agent to think deeper, reason better, and surf the web to solve challenging, open-ended problems like app performance optimizations, and more.
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Perplexity just launched a new "Max" subscription, priced at $200/mo. It offers:. —Unlimited access to its Labs tools.—Early access to new products like the Comet browser.—Early access to advanced models. —Priority support
Introducing Perplexity Max. Our most valuable subscription tier yet. Built for those who demand more, Max gets you unlimited Labs queries,.access to a broader suite of frontier models, and early access to products like Comet.
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HeyGen just dropped a Video Agent that automates the entire video production pipeline. Using just a doc, some footage, or even a sentence, it finds a story, writes the script, selects shots/generates new footage, and edits everything for final release.
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Google just announced it is rolling out Veo 3 to all Gemini users worldwide — in 159 countries. The viral AI video model will be available to those with Google's AI Pro subscription, with 3 daily generations.
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AI NEWS: Google is finally rolling out Veo 3 globally!. Plus, more news from HeyGen, Perplexity, Replit, Genspark, Fundamental, and Sakana. Here's everything you need to know:.
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AI NEWS: Sam Altman just sent a fiery Slack message to OpenAI researchers, dismissing Meta's recruiting spree as "distasteful.". Plus, more news from Amazon, Cloudflare, Microsoft, X, and Superhuman. Here's everything you need to know:.
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AI email platform Superhuman just announced it is being acquired by Grammarly. The deal will enhance Grammarly's AI productivity suite, providing users with "multiple AI agents" in their inbox to reply faster with more context.
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X is launching a pilot program that will allow users to build AI chatbots capable of creating Community Notes. Initially, these bots will write notes only on posts where users have requested a note, and they will appear based on user ratings.
Introducing AI Note Writer API 🤖 AI helping humans. Humans still in charge. Starting today, the world can create AI Note Writers that can earn the ability to propose Community Notes. Their notes will show on X if found helpful by people from different perspectives — just like
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Microsoft just announced a Copilot partnership with the English Premier League. The company will integrate the AI assistant with the league's platforms, allowing fans to have more personalized and engaging interactions across channels.
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Web infra company Cloudflare announced a pay-per-crawl AI marketplace. It will allow publishers to set prices for AI crawlers, choosing whether bots pay for training data, search results, or other uses. Other bots will automatically get blocked.
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Amazon announced DeepFleet, an AI that routes warehouse bots 10% faster to trim costs and shorten delivery times. Andy Jassy likened it to "an intelligent traffic management system" that coordinates robots’ movements to find optimal paths.
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Sam Altman called Meta’s poaching “distasteful” in a Slack to his team. —Claimed Meta missed top targets, went “far down their list”.—Warned of “cultural problems” from poaching.—Said salaries are being evaluated, and OAI stock has “much, much more upside”.
SCOOP: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent poaching spree. "Missionaries will beat mercenaries," Altman wrote in an internal memo to OpenAI researchers. WIRED has obtained it:
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AI NEWS: Sam Altman just sent a fiery Slack message to OpenAI researchers, dismissing Meta's recruiting spree as "distasteful.". Plus, more news from Amazon, Cloudflare, Microsoft, X, and Superhuman. Here's everything you need to know:.
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AI NEWS: Microsoft just took a major step towards "medical superintelligence". Plus, more news from Baidu, Chai Discovery, Cursor, and Meta. Here's everything you need to know:.
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