Why This Billionaire Berkeley Professor Won’t Leave The Classroom via @forbes
GENERATIVE AI
-
Sam Altman Addresses GPT-5 Rollout and User AI Attachment
By
–
Le PDG d'Open Ai réapparait après 2 jours de silence radio et… admet un erreur. Update de GPT-5 : Sam Altman : "Si vous avez suivi le déploiement de GPT-5, vous avez peut-être remarqué à quel point certaines personnes développent un attachement fort à des modèles d’IA
-
HealthVaani AI Assistant Brings Health Knowledge to India’s Frontline Workers
By
–
For India's frontline workers, critical health knowledge is often in manuals, not at their fingertips. Our AI assistant, #HealthVaani, makes it accessible on-demand via voice or text. We're sharing learnings from our 650-worker pilot across 6 states
-
Elon Musk Makes Grok 4 Free for All Users in Response to ChatGPT-5
By
–
En réponse à ChatGPT-5, Elon Musk rend Grok 4 gratuit pour tous les utilisateurs, avec un certain nombre de requêtes par jour. À noter qu’il ne s’agit pas de Grok 4 Heavy : ne vous attendez pas à des miracles, mais c’est tout de même une excellente nouvelle pour tout le monde !
-

Running Qwen Image Model on Mac with 60GB RAM
By
–
Ivan's qwen-image-mps Python script is excellent – if you have 60GB of RAM to spare (somehow my 64GB M2 just managed to run it) you can generate images using Qwen's Qwen-Image model running on a Mac – my notes here: https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/qw
en-image-mps/
… -
Claude 5-mini Performance Limitations High Reasoning Tradeoffs
By
–
5-mini can't manage it at all, unless you go to high reasoning, at which point it's really slow.
-

ByteDance Seed LiveInterp 2.0 Real-Time Voice Translation Model
By
–
Bytedance released Seed LiveInterp 2.0, a real-time voice translation model
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 11 août 2025
It translates speech 3x faster than before, with >70% correctness and just 3s lag
A big development in real-time cross-lingual communicationpic.twitter.com/mTI0SYH66lBytedance released Seed LiveInterp 2.0, a real-time voice translation model It translates speech 3x faster than before, with >70% correctness and just 3s lag A big development in real-time cross-lingual communication
-

OpenAI o3 Wins Google Kaggle Chess Tournament Gold Medal
By
–
Google just concluded its Kaggle Game Arena's Chess tournament with OpenAI's o3 emerging as the gold medalist Grok 4 bagged a silver, while Gemini 2.5 Pro won a bronze in the competition involving matchups of eight frontier models
-

xAI releases Grok 4 free with usage limits, paid upgrade required
By
–
xAI made its all-new Grok 4 AI model free for all, with usage limits
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 11 août 2025
Once users hit the rate limit, they will be required to get a subscription or go back to Grok 3
Grok 4 Heavy, meanwhile, remains limited to SuperGrok subscriberspic.twitter.com/sp0tfJXFf1xAI made its all-new Grok 4 AI model free for all, with usage limits Once users hit the rate limit, they will be required to get a subscription or go back to Grok 3 Grok 4 Heavy, meanwhile, remains limited to SuperGrok subscribers
-
Microsoft Copilot 3D Converts 2D Images into 3D Models
By
–
Microsoft launched Copilot 3D, an experimental tool that converts 2D images into GLB-format 3D models
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 11 août 2025
Available globally to Copilot Labs users, with potential applications in game development, application development, 3D printing, and morepic.twitter.com/ZQfHEGEYTYMicrosoft launched Copilot 3D, an experimental tool that converts 2D images into GLB-format 3D models Available globally to Copilot Labs users, with potential applications in game development, application development, 3D printing, and more