🌎 ‘America First’ argument on AI at AI Summit

🦾Plus: 💰️ Musk's $97B offer for OpenAI

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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

  • 💰️ Musk's $97.4B offer for OpenAI

  • 🤳 Goku models from ByteDance can generate realistic product videos

  • 💨 Perplexity drops blazing new Sonar model

  • 🔥 OpenAI's In-house AI Chip Is Coming?

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:Add anything and anyone to any video with 'Pikadditions'

  • 🤯 6 new AI Tools

  • 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

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Sam Altman rejects a $97.4 billion takeover offer from Elon Musk for OpenAI. 

Key Points:

  • Elon Musk's consortium offered $97.4 billion for OpenAI, but Altman firmly stated the company isn't for sale.

  • OpenAI has a unique structure, partnering nonprofit and for-profit entities, focusing on beneficial Artificial General Intelligence.

  • OpenAI is collaborating on a huge $500 billion AI infrastructure project, called The Stargate Project.

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The AI Action Summit in Paris concluded on Tuesday, raising global tensions as the U.S. and UK refused to sign a multinational declaration and European leaders announced ambitious investment plans to compete with American dominance.

The details:

  • U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance warned against AI overregulation, saying that the U.S. would dominate AI development by controlling chips, software, and rules.

  • The UK and the U.S. declined to sign a declaration for open, ethical AI, citing national security concerns and disagreements over governance.

  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the summit a ‘missed opportunity,’ highlighting concerns over accelerating AI progress and security risks.

  • EC President von der Leyen announced a €200B AI investment initiative, positioning Europe as an open-source alternative to U.S. AI development.

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, has revealed Goku. This is an AI model that creates videos showing people interacting with various products. Goku uses text descriptions as a guide and it works with a huge dataset of millions of image-text and video-text pairs

Perplexity just launched a new version of its in-house AI model Sonar, built on Llama 3.3 70B and delivering responses at 1,200 tokens per second while still matching or exceeding top models in accuracy at a fraction of the price.

Sonar achieves 10x faster responses than competitors like Gemini 2.0 Flash, with Cerebras inference infrastructure enabling near-instant answer generation.

 OpenAI is designing its first AI chip to cut reliance on Nvidia. TSMC will manufacture it using 3nm tech. If successful, mass production starts in 2026.

AI Tutorial

Add anything and anyone to any video with 'Pikadditions'

Pika Labs recently launched the "Pikadditions" tool, allowing users to seamlessly insert objects into existing videos. Here’s how to use it:

  1. Go to Pika labs and sign in

  2. Select “Get started with Pikaddition”

  3. Upload your video: It must be 5 seconds long; longer ones will be clipped. The size limit is 25 MB.

  4. Upload an image of the character or object you want to add to your video.

  5. Type your prompt: Describe what you want to insert into the video.

  6. Click on the icon to start generating your video.

🔥AI Tools to supercharge your productivity

  1. Cococlip.AI - All-in-One AI Video Tool for everything you need for video creation in one place

  2. ClipNow easily convert your favorite videos into captivating TikToks, Reels and Shorts with just one click.

  3. Repixify – An AI based text and content generation website that provides AI tools for creating compelling content

  4. BlogFox is an AI-powered blogging tool that simplifies the creation of high-quality, SEO-optimized content.

  5. ProJourney allows you to use Midjourney without having to go through Discord.

  6. Moemate is an AI Studio which lets anyone create and chat with AI characters

⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🍏 Apple teams up with Alibaba to bring AI features for iPhones in China, The Information reports.

🦟 MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs.

📰 AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds.

📖 Google’s upgraded NotebookLM is now included in its One AI Premium plan.

🚗 BYD rolls out driver assistance tech across its EV models — with DeepSeek’s AI help.

🤖Prompt Engineering

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Craft an email marketing campaign for <business> that nurtures <persona> through the buyer's journey, highlighting our <USP> and offering solutions to their <challenges>.

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