Meta Superintelligence Labs finally found its chief scientist: ex-OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao Zhao helped create OpenAI's GPT-4, o1, o3, 4.1, and mini models, and will set MSL’s research direction alongside chief AI officer Alexandr Wang
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China Releases AI Action Plan Emphasizing Openness Strategy
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AI NEWS: China just released an AI Action Plan, pushing openness over America’s 'exclusive' strategy. Plus, more news from Meta, Tencent, Runway, Alibaba, and Unitree. Here's everything you need to know:
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Estonia’s Soviet Tech Legacy: Strategic Industrial Concentration
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Not an accident. Estonia was where the Soviet Union concentrated its tech industry.
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Microsoft’s Gap: No Working PowerPoint Excel Agents Yet
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Why hasn't Microsoft trained an actually working PowerPoint and Excel agent? They have full software access, data, environments, compute – and importantly, unlike the SF tech companies, they realise how important PowerPoint and Excel actually are
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OpenAI vs Google: LMArena Rankings Competition Analysis
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As we get ready for GPT-5, it's useful to look back at how often labs featured in the Top 5 of @lmarena_ai over the last 1.5 years. The competition is primarily between OpenAI and Google. Average appearances overall and specifically in 2025:
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Perplexity Comet Features Google Should Have Built
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Agreed So much of what Perplexity Comet unlocks should’ve been built by Google already (another eg is managing your gmail)
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Critical perspectives on OpenAI’s direction and impact
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What channel are you guys watching? I’ve been critical of OpenAI quite a bit actually.
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Comparing ChatGPT Gemini and Claude AI Models
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Is this because I made one video sharing my favorite ChatGPT prompts? I’m probably more critical of OpenAI than I am any other company and been pretty vocal about my favorite models mostly being Gemini for most things and Claude for code. So you haven’t been following THAT
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Apple Launches Multilingual Foundation Models for On-Device AI
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10. Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Apple introduces two multilingual, multimodal foundation models: a 3B-parameter on-device model optimized for Apple silicon and a scalable server model using a novel PT-MoE transformer architecture.