Top stories in AI today: – xAI releases Grok 4 following 3’s crashout
– Perplexity’s Comet for AI-first web
– Turn messy image filenames into descriptive ones
– OpenAI poaches top engineers from rivals
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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GENERATIVE AI
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Grok 4 launches as OpenAI recruits top AI talent
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AI Intelligence Costs Decrease While Computational Demands Rise
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De hecho lo es. El costo de la inteligencia a la que accedíamos a determinado precio hace un año es (mucho) más barata ahora. Lo que no impide que los modelos también puedan volverse mucho más potentes con usos más intensivos de computación, y por tanto más caros 🙂
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Grok 4 Best Version Shows AGI Signs but Costs $300/Month
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Pourquoi ELon, pourquoi La meilleure version de grok 4 qui montre des signes d'AGI, coute 300$ par mois… Après open ai et gemini, on dirai que c'est devenu la norme dans l'industrie
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Tencent’s ArtifactsBench: Automated Evaluation for LLM Visual Artifacts
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Tencent's Hunyuan team introduced ArtifactsBench, an automated evaluation pipeline for LLM-generated visual artifacts It assesses models on 1,825 diverse tasks with MLLM-as-Judge evaluating visual artifacts, achieving 94.4% ranking consistency with human experts
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Ai2 Launches FlexOlmo: Decentralized Language Model Co-Development
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Ai2 dropped FlexOlmo, a new paradigm for the co-development of language models
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 10 juillet 2025
It allows each data owner to locally branch from a shared public model, add an expert trained on their data locally, and contribute this expert back to the shared modelpic.twitter.com/xiaaBKKOTSAi2 dropped FlexOlmo, a new paradigm for the co-development of language models It allows each data owner to locally branch from a shared public model, add an expert trained on their data locally, and contribute this expert back to the shared model
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Google Rolls Out Gemini AI to Wear OS 4 Smartwatches
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Google started rolling out Gemini to Wear OS 4+ watches, including those from Pixel, Samsung, OPPO, OnePlus, and more The company is also expanding its AI Mode and adding it to Circle to Search to help users explore complex topics on Android https://
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Grok 4 Benchmarks Outperform O3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Opus 4
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XAI GROK 4 BENCHMARKS: OpenAI O3 is smoked
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AI Image Inpainting Tools: Stable Diffusion, Leonardo, MidJourney Options
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Pour ça il te faut une IA capable de faire de l'inpainting d'image. Tu as plusieurs options. Si tu as une carte graphique NVIDIA tu peux utiliser Stable Diffusion gratuitement. Sinon il existe des services en ligne comme Leonardo ou MidJourney qui proposent cette fonction. Et
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Grok Premium: Elon’s New $300 AI Subscription Gamble
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In the last 2 months I’ve signed up for the most expensive plans for ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Canceled most after a month because something better always comes out. I guess it’s time to pay Elon $300 for Grok
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Grok 4 Analysis: Hidden CoT, Web Search Integration
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A few quick observations on Grok 4:
1) Hidden CoT with very little information in the reasoning trace
2) Uses web search a lot (not just searching X)
3) Have not seen it use code to run calculations or solve non-coding problems yet, generally less aggressive about tools than o3