AI Pulse 🚨
A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news.
🤔 Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic) stressess the urgent need for democratic leadership in AI and highlights risks and economic impacts at the Paris AI Action Summit.
💪 French President Emmanuel Macron declared France is “back in the AI race” and unveiled a 109-billion-euro AI investment in attempt to keep up with the U.S.
💰 Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google parent Alphabet are expecting to spend a cumulative $325 billion in capital expenditures and investments in 2025 — a 46% increase from 2024.
🚀 Elon Musk announced Grok 3 will launch in one to two weeks, claiming it is “scary smart” and outperforms other AI models.
🔍 Perplexity has launched Sonar, a new model optimized for faster and more accurate answers
🔍 Perplexity launches Deep Research for in-depth research and analysis.
🎯 Sam Altman shared that OpenAI’s Deep Research feature will be available with limited uses per month - 10 uses for ChatGPT Plus subscribers and 2 uses for free tier users.
❄️ Snowflake launches Cortex Agents for AI-driven data retrieval and insights.
🔥 Sam Altman hinted that they will ship ChatGPT-4.5 and ChatGPT 5.0 in "weeks/months" and that “the free tier of ChatGPT will get unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the standard intelligence setting (!!)”
🔥 Anthropic’s next major AI model could arrive within weeks
❄️ Snowflake partners with Anthropic to add Claude 3.5 Sonnet to its Cortex Agents platform
🧠 Gemini Deep Research feature now available on the iPhone app for advanced subscribers.
🔧 OpenAI set to finalize first custom chip design this year to reduce Nvidia dependency.
🎬 Adobe launches Firefly for AI-powered video creation with IP protection.
👥 Workday launches HR platform to manage AI agents, tracking their roles and performance.
🤖 Glean announced Glean Agents, a platform enabling businesses to create AI agents.
📰 BBC study shows AI is far from great at summarizing news (yet).
📝 NotebookLM updates with new interface, premium tier, and podcast interaction feature
💼 Sam Altman said that OpenAI is not for sale after $97 billion bid led by Elon Musk.
🎥 Luma AI introduces “Image to Video” feature in Dream Machine
⚡ Cursor AI updates AI Agent with custom tools, improved search, and error fixing.
✨ Lovable launches “Visual Edits” for more precise AI prototyping
📊 Anthropic launches “Economic Index” to track which roles and tasks will be replaced by AI first
