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🚀 This Weeks Top Stories in AI
🤖 OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.1 with Smarter Conversation
OpenAI released two variants of the model: GPT-5.1 Instant (faster and warmer) and GPT-5.1 Thinking (better reasoning and clarity).
The update brings improved instruction-following, deeper reasoning for complex tasks and a more human-like conversational tone.
The launch also introduces personalization: users can choose from tone presets (Professional, Friendly, Quirky) and customize response style directly in chat.
🧑💻 Meta AI Pioneer Weighs Startup Exit
A leading AI researcher at Meta Platforms is reportedly considering departure to found a startup focused on next-gen AI innovation.
The move signals growing momentum of top talent leaving big tech for leaner ventures where control and vision may be sharper.
It also raises questions about how major firms retain cutting-edge research staff and compete with agile new entrants.
🚗 China’s Robotaxi Race Heats Up
Chinese players are moving quickly in regulatory, infrastructure and deployment readiness—raising the bar for foreign entrants.
The strategy underscores the broader competitive dynamic in self-driving: who moves first, scales fastest, and secures local partnerships wins.
📉 AI Hype Meets Reality as Industry Faces Commercial Headwinds
The Financial Times outlines how AI companies are encountering slower customer adoption, tighter budgets and more scrutiny than hype suggested.
The piece argues that while AI capabilities advance rapidly, turning them into scalable, profitable business models is proving tougher.
As a result, investors and execs are recalibrating expectations: the era of “spray-and-pray” AI funding is giving way to ROI discipline and incremental deployment.
🦄 Other Bits
Anyone else seeing a lot of media around World Models recently
More Bubble talk
Tinder is still a thing apparently
🔥Meme-while in AI
🏆Tool of the Week (not sponspored!!!)
All my European friends who want to try out Sora but CBA paying for a decent VPN, look no further! Artlist is your ticket to circumventing those crafty OAI geolocation restrictions!
Did you know? TThe first 1GB hard drive weighed 550 pounds and cost $40,000.
When IBM introduced the 3380 hard disk in 1980, it was considered a breakthrough—despite being the size of a refrigerator. Today, you can buy a microSD card with 1,000× more storage for under $20 that weighs less than a paperclip.
Till next time,
