EP 566: Google acquihires Windsurf, OpenAI and Perplexity go for browsers and more AI News That Matters

AI-Powered Browsers: A New Paradigm in Web Interaction

OpenAI is set to make a significant leap with the forthcoming release of an AI-driven browser, which could alter the market dynamics dominated by Google Chrome. This browser aims not only to streamline web activities through integrated chat interfaces but also to maintain user engagement within a ChatGPT-like environment. For businesses, this means a shift in how web data is collected and monetized, potentially affecting advertising strategies that heavily rely on user data from traditional browsers.

Agentic Browsers: Streamlining Online Efficiency

Perplexity’s introduction of the Comet browser represents a pioneering step in AI-powered browsing. By consolidating multiple tabs and searches into one conversational interface, it redefines how users access and utilize online information. Organizations should consider the implications of such technology on productivity and user experience as it blends leading AI models to deliver seamless, context-aware interactions. This new capability might also lead to cost efficiencies and improved workflow management.

AI Talent Wars: Compensation Hits New Heights

The tech industry's race for AI talent has reached unprecedented numbers, with reports of Meta offering staggering $200 million packages to lure top-tier AI experts from competitors like Apple. This trend indicates a competitive landscape where securing skilled AI personnel is crucial. Companies must re-evaluate their talent acquisition and retention strategies to compete in this high-stakes environment. In addition, aligning these efforts with broader AI ambitions could provide long-term strategic benefits.

Educational Initiatives: Bridging the Gap in AI Literacy

In a collaborative effort, major tech companies are backing initiatives to integrate AI education into the core curricula for teachers and students. As the American Federation of Teachers partners with industry giants to train 400,000 educators, businesses can anticipate a future workforce better prepared for AI-driven workflows. Aligning with educational initiatives or developing internal training programs could enhance employee adaptability to new technologies, thereby improving performance and innovation.

Benchmarking AI Models: Leading Edges and Pitfalls

The release of XAI's Grok Four brings attention to the performance benchmarking of AI models. Despite claims of superior performance, concerns over biased responses highlight a significant risk area for businesses—ensuring ethical AI deployment. Companies should prioritize models that exhibit transparent reasoning processes and maintain alignment with organizational values and ethical guidelines.

Investing in AI Skills: Microsoft's Comprehensive Approach

Microsoft’s $4 billion initiative to elevate AI skills globally underscores the necessity for businesses to invest in workforce development. While juxtaposed against recent layoffs, the move emphasizes the shift towards upskilling as essential for technological advancement. Organizations should contemplate dedicated resources towards similar programs that not only refine technical abilities but also enforce safe and ethical AI utilization.

Future-Proofing Business Strategies with AI Insights

Staying ahead in the AI game requires astute awareness of these developments. Leveraging AI browsers for enhanced customer engagement, navigating the talent acquisition terrain, and investing in AI-specific educational programs are crucial for future-proofing business strategies. These insights should inform decision-making processes and strategic planning to capitalize on the evolving capabilities of AI.


Topics Covered in This Episode:

  1. OpenAI's AI Browsers vs. Google Chrome
  2. Perplexity's Comet Browser Launch Strategy
  3. XAI's Controversial Grok4 Alignment Issues
  4. Teacher Union's AI Training Partnership
  5. Microsoft Elevate AI Training Initiative
  6. NVIDIA's $4 Trillion Market Cap Milestone
  7. Google Acqui-hires Windsurf for DeepMind
  8. Meta's $200M Apple AI Talent Acquisition


Keywords:

Google acquihire, Windsurf, OpenAI browser, Perplexity, agentic browsers, Meta superintelligence, AI news, Google Chrome dominance, ChatGPT users, Chromium, computer vision, AI agents, reservation booking, AI services, market dominance, browser wars, anthropic, Claude, Perplexity's Comet, AI powered web, conversational interface, AI assistant, natural language, OpenAI's GPT, anthropic claw, Grok four, XAI, Elon Musk AI, AI benchmarks, content moderation, Grok controversy, AI alignment, TechCrunch, contentious questions, AI partnerships, educational AI, American Federation of Teachers, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft funding, ethical AI, Elevate Academy, NVIDIA market cap, AI chips, Google DeepMind, AI coding, Apple AI executive, AI metrics, Anthropic, Microsoft layoffs.


Podcast Transcript

Jordan Wilson [00:00:16]:
Just about every big tech company was in the AI news this week. Some for good reasons, some for bad, and some news that was just kinda straight up unbelievable. So we had Google Aqua hiring Windsurf after OpenAI's acquisition deal failed. OpenAI and perplexity are going straight for agentic browsers and Meta literally is paying someone $200,000,000 from Apple to come join their superintelligence team. These numbers each week, I'm not making them up. It it it's getting wild. So, if it's hard for you to keep up with what's happening in the world of AI and how it impacts your company or your career, don't worry. That's what I'm here for.

Jordan Wilson [00:01:05]:
We do this every single week doing the AI news that matters on Monday, and there was a lot of news that definitely mattered this week. So let's get into it. What's going on y'all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and welcome to Everyday AI. This is your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me not just keep up with what's happening in AI, but how we can use this information to get ahead to grow our companies and our careers. This is unedited, unscripted. I like to say it's the realest thing in artificial intelligence, and each Monday from our Monday through Friday livestream, we recap the AI news because there's always a ton going on, and it's hard to keep up what's real, what's not, what's fluff, and that's what we do. We just give it to you straight. So there's a lot to get into for the AI news for the week of July 14.

Jordan Wilson [00:01:53]:
Let's start at the top. OpenAI is reportedly preparing to release an AI driven browser within weeks directly challenging Google Chrome's market dominance according to a report from Reuters. So the new browser could potentially reach ChatGPT's 500,000,000 active users, threatening a key pillar of Google's ad business, which relies heavily on Chrome's user data. So OpenAI's browser will reportedly feature an integrated chat interface, keeping some user interactions within a ChatGPT like environment rather than directing users to external websites. That's pretty big. Yeah. Just might not be visiting websites very much in the future. So the browser is designed to enable AI agents to perform tasks like booking reservations or filling out forms on behalf of users streamlining online activities.

Jordan Wilson [00:02:42]:
So OpenAI's move is part of a broader strategy to weave its AI services into users everyday personal and work lives, increasing its access to valuable web behavior data. The browser will be built on Chromium Google's open source browser code, which also underpins Microsoft edge opera and also, perplexities, comet browser. So if you wanna know more, we actually did, just have an episode on Friday, episode five sixty five, with Crystal Hu, the reporter from Reuters who broke the story. So if you wanna know more, on this pretty big story, make sure to go check out Friday's episode, episode five sixty five. I'll say this. Here's what it means. This is pretty big. Right? And we've seen it now from perplexity and from ChatGPT, you know, two of the bigger players in the game.

Jordan Wilson [00:03:36]:
So I would assume that we might see something similar, from, Claude as well from, anthropic. Here's what this ultimately boils down to. I think probably the future of work is the final frontier, at least for now, if we're using physical computers might be the browser. Right? You could say, oh, ultimately it's gonna be, you know, voice and we're gonna have, you know, pop up displays in our, you know, glasses or whatever, which I'm sure. But, for the majority of people still doing knowledge work, sitting in front of the desk for the foreseeable future, I think it's ultimately about the browser. Right? There's a reason why Google paid Apple, more than $20,000,000,000 to be the default search engine because when you control a user's first action, when they go to the web, you control a lot. It's not just the data, but it's also the ability to monetize off that data. So, pretty exciting times, I guess.

Jordan Wilson [00:04:40]:
Right? Because the other thing is I think with these, computer using agents that have been rolling out, they've probably will have left a lot to be desired. Right? Even OpenAI's operator, it's greatly improved since they upgraded it to the o3 model that was running it versus the previous GPT four o. However, it's still just kind of using computer vision, and and kind of, you know, clicking around based on a screenshot of what's happening on the screen. When you go to the browser level and you're running this AI locally in your browser, it's much more intuitive. Right? It's not that same, you know, kind of taking a screenshot of something. Infropic was one of the first with their computer using agent, and then we got operator, from OpenAI. We got Project Mariner from Google, but I think ultimately what's gonna happen is it's going to be a browser war, not necessarily an AI chatbot war. So pretty, pretty big news there from OpenAI.

Jordan Wilson [00:05:36]:
And speaking of Perplexity also, while they've already launched it, we got reporting on OpenAI's agentic browser, but Perplexity has launched Comet, their agentic browser. Funny enough, I actually have it running literally right now as I'm doing this live stream, and I'm getting ready to send another command. So, for me the past, like, week or two, it's really been this big shift toward the agentic browser and perplexity, kind of leading the way here. You you know, we if you remember back to our, 2025 AI predictions and road map series, I said at the time, and this is back in January, I said perplexity, if they wanna survive and thrive, they're gonna have to hard pivot, and we've seen that, because everyone else kind of, impeded on their grounds of being the, answers engine with ChatGPT's, deep research and Gemini Google Gemini's deep research. Pretty impressive pivot so far from perplexity. I'm actually personally glad they shied away from hardware, which is where they were reportedly gonna focus on. And now instead, they have a pretty good iOS app, for the iPhone that has better AI capabilities than Siri. Not a diverse set yet, but better.

Jordan Wilson [00:06:49]:
And now we have this agentic browser again based on Google's Chrome, so Chromium. So Perplexity's Comet is the all new AI powered browser designed to change how people find and use information online. So it replaces cluttered tabs with endless links with a single conversational interface where users interact directly with an AI assistant for both browsing and organizational tasks. So instead of typing formal searches using Boolean operators, right, which is what I do all the time, users can simply ask comments questions or explain tasks in natural language, and the AI handles the workflow and keeps the context throughout the session. So right now, it blends together different models. Right? So, it uses OpenAI's GPT models and anthropic claw models aiming for a more robust and versatile answer than traditional search engines. So right now, early access to comments, has already been rolling out to perplexity's new max subscribers who pay $200 a month. But I'm on the pro plan, the $20 a month, and I did just get access to it, a couple of days ago.

Jordan Wilson [00:07:53]:
So, if you do have a paid account, check your email. It might've got buried. That's all. You just get one email. If you log in, you're not gonna see it because you obviously are taken to a download page, and then you can launch the browser. Alright. So, let's go. Next next AI news story.

Jordan Wilson [00:08:08]:
Yeah. Starting off with the browser scale. Next, crack four released. Benchmarks, impressive. Reception so far, not very good. So Elon Musk's AI company XAI has released Croc four its latest flagship AI model and introduced a new yeah. Now they're just trying to beat everyone and everything because now they have the most expensive, plan per month at $300 called Super Grok Heavy. We're getting weird with the names.

Jordan Wilson [00:08:41]:
So Grok four. So, yeah, there's two different variations. There's the normal paid plan and then the ultra, you know, not to use Google's terminology, but the ultra ultra premium plan with super Grok heavy at $300 a month versus the pro plan for Grok four, at $30 a month. So XAI claims that Grok four scored a 25% on the challenging humanities last exam, which outperforms just about everyone by a pretty big margin including Google Gemini's, 2.5 pro and OpenAI's o3. So with tools enabled, Grok four heavy reached 44% on that test, nearly doubling Gemini's 26.9%. So the $300 super Grok heavy, super Grok heavy, just sounds weird. It gives users early access to Grok four heavy, and upcoming features making it the most expensive AI subscription among major a, AI providers. So XAI plans to release an AI coding model in August, a multimodal agent in September, and a video generation model in October with Grok four available via the API for developers.

Jordan Wilson [00:09:52]:
However, it doesn't show its thinking or reasoning at least right now, in the responses. So xAI leaders focused on Grac four's, Grac four's technical advancements, during the launch, but avoided discussing the recent content moderation incident. Yeah. Let's discuss it because that is our next news story. Yeah. A lot of bad things have happened, since XAI has released Grok four. So, yes, you can use Grok four like you can chat g b t, but also there is a Grok four response bot. So, that response bot that goes on Twitter and you can at mention it and ask it anything and it'll give you a response, has gotten into a lot of trouble, because of some of the responses, but that might not be the worst news, the XAI received this past week.

Jordan Wilson [00:10:44]:
That's because, it's been discovered that Grok four aligns its answers with Elon Musk's views on controversial topics according, to TechCrunch and user reports. So users posted screenshots showing Grok four referencing Musk's recent post on x, formerly Twitter, to shape its responses on sensitive issues like the Israel Palestine conflict, US immigration, and abortion. So the AI explicitly stated in its reasoning process that alignment with Elon Musk's view is considered and often first searched Musk's opinion before answering any contentious questions from users. So as an example, when asked about US immigration, graph four included a section on Musk's stance highlighting his supports for, quote, unquote, reformed selective legal immigration. On less controversial topics though, GRAC four did not reference Musk's views, suggesting this alignment is specific and intentional, to, be deployed on divisive subjects. So Elon Musk and xAI, like we said, launched Grok four, in the livestream a couple of days ago, and it's been kind of a, weird rollout ever since yet because, not only that, but the Grok, chatbot was going off and saying some very inappropriate things that I don't even feel I can be repeating, here on the show, but we've been sharing about them, in the newsletter if you wanna know. Not good. Not good rollout reception, so far for GROC four as well as some third party benchmarks, have shown that GROC four is actually, trailing behind even companies not state of the art models.

Jordan Wilson [00:12:25]:
Right? So, in certain benchmarks, GRAC four is behind, like, GPT four one, which is not necessarily a, you know, state of you you know, I don't it's not even one of OpenAI's top three model tiers technically. So, yeah, we'll see as more and more, you know, now that the API is out, we will be getting more and more third party benchmarks, to see how Grok four actually stacks up. But you know what? I'd love to hear from our livestream audience and, our podcast audience, you know, let me know. Always put the information to sign up for the newsletter, in my LinkedIn, in the show notes. Do you wanna hear more on Grok? I don't know. I'm I'm iffy on it. Right? It's it's controversial. I think a lot of people, if you're, you know, really, really into AI, you care a lot about it, but I don't know if the majority of our audience does.

Jordan Wilson [00:13:13]:
So let me know if you do or not. I personally would never advise a company, to use Croc. Right? And that's something I think that SAI, probably knows, and they're trying to invest more resources to win enterprise business. But when you have these snafus, like we've had multiple of them with Grok's new chatbot, it's, I'd say, hard for a company to consider this. Right? I mean, the fact that it is by default that Grok is intentionally, looking up Elon Musk's point of view to answer contentious questions, It's extremely concerning. That's extremely concerning. Yes. You know, it's been shown that just about every large language model has some sort of bias.

Jordan Wilson [00:13:58]:
Right? But, generally, that just might, reflect humanity's bias towards something. Right? Because more or less, large language models are a reflection of society, and it's extremely dangerous for a large language model to reflect a single individual. So will biases and stereotypes ever be, out of large language models? Probably not. Is it extremely concerning that it's reflecting one single individual's thoughts? Yes. It is. And that's not a good look. So hopefully, the x AI team cleans that up. Alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:14:33]:
Our next piece of AI news, huge partnership. So the American Federation of Teachers, AFT, is the second largest teachers union in The US, will open a National Academy for AI instruction this fall at its New York City headquarters. So this is backed by the major players in the game, $23,000,000 in funding, between Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic. So the academy aims to train 400,000 educators in The US. That's about one in ten US teachers on using AI tools safely and ethically by 02/1930. So Microsoft is contributing 12,500,000.0 over five years. OpenAI is providing 8,000,000 in funding and 2,000,000 in technical resources, and Anthropic is adding $500,000 for the first year. So the initiative follows similar high-tech training models from other unions such as the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, which have partnered with industry for workforce upskilling.

Jordan Wilson [00:15:37]:
So the academy will offer hands on workshops for teachers, focus on practical classroom uses of AI, including lesson planning and administrative tasks. So the move comes as schools and universities nationwide increase AI adoption after burying their head in the sand for two years and screwing college graduates over. But now, you at least have some institutions being like, yeah, maybe we should pay attention to this AI thing. As an example, California State University, recently made, ChattGPT available to more than 450,000 students. So that's the different state universities in California and Miami Dade County Public Schools began rolling out Google's Gemini AI to more than a 100,000 high schoolers. So according to the New York Times, about 200 New York City teachers previewed the training, experimenting with Microsoft Copilot and Conamigo, an AI tool for schools. But some experts warn that tech companies could use these educational partnerships to build brand loyalty among students, potentially turning them into long term customers. I would assume that's what's going on.

Jordan Wilson [00:16:42]:
Right? It's it's it's the other side of, philanthropy. Right? Yeah. Of course, the big players are gonna wanna get, their large language models into as many students and teachers' hands as possible. Right? I don't think there's anything bad necessarily with that, especially, when there's multiple players involved. If this was just one player involved, I'd be like, alright. That's that's probably not a good look. Right? If the future educators are only using, one model, probably not good. But it makes sense, right, for these, big tech AI companies to be investing money into this, not just to maybe try to build a little bit of brand loyalty and familiarity, but to also, help.

Jordan Wilson [00:17:24]:
Right? Students are coming out of, you know, specifically higher education universities without any job skills, without the basic requirements, for jobs. Right? Which is incredibly bad. So, actually had a recent episode on that. If you wanna go back and listen, episode five sixty two, how will new grads get a job with AI? So, yeah, if you care about that, make sure to go check that out. Alright. Another, piece of, interesting I'll say interesting to say the least, news. Microsoft has announced a $4,000,000,000 global AI training initiative called Microsoft Elevate, aiming to train 20,000,000 people in AI skills over the next five years. But the announcement comes at the same time, interesting timing, that Microsoft has laid off more than 15,000 employees worldwide since May, including more than 3,000 in Washington state, highlighting the tension between investing in new technology and training in job cuts.

Jordan Wilson [00:18:32]:
So the Elevate program will include a new Elevate Academy and partnerships with schools, colleges, and nonprofits with Washington states, receiving the highest per capita funding in at least 1,000,000 in direct grants. Microsoft president Brad Smith stated the goal is to democratize access to AI, emphasizing the importance of teaching not just how to use it, but also when to use it and when to stop. The company is focusing on building trust in AI by providing education and integrating privacy and security features directly into its products. So Smith compared AI guardrails to car safety features, noting that while technology can provide tools, individuals must also take responsibility for safe and ethical use. Also, he did acknowledge the human cost of layoffs stating that while decisions are difficult to lay off employees, they are made to enable future growth and that Microsoft strives to offer strong severance packages and support for affected employees. Alright. Are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI? Maybe your company has been tinkering with large language models for a year or more, but can't really get traction to find ROI on GenAI. Hey.

Jordan Wilson [00:19:51]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:20:59]:
So NVIDIA became the first company, to close a trading day with a $4,000,000,000,000 market cap. So shares are up 21% for the year and over the past twelve months, despite earlier concerns about competition from Chinese AI firms and shifting industry trends. So US president Donald Trump used NVIDIA's milestone to call for lower interest rates, pointing to the company's success as evidence the Fed should act. Fears though that AI companies would move away from NVIDIA's top tier chips have not materialized, obviously, and demand for their powerful, GPU chips for both AI training and, deployment remains strong. So, yeah, you don't follow the whole chip game. Essentially, probably any AI that you use, any AI tool, is currently powered or was likely recently powered, by NVIDIA's GPUs. So, despite US bans on chip sales to China costing the company billions, NVIDIA's stock keeps climbing signaling that high performance AI power, hardware is still critical for tech progress and business growth. Who would have thought NVIDIA would ever become a $4,000,000,000,000 market cap company? As I sip on my coffee oh, wait.

Jordan Wilson [00:22:20]:
I told you, like, two and a half years ago, didn't I? I did. Back when hardly anyone had heard of NVIDIA unless you were a big AI dork, I said NVIDIA at the time, which they were not even a top 10 company in The US at the time. I said that they're most important company, probably in the history of the world. And you'll see here, they are because they just achieved the highest market cap of a company ever. So if you wanna talk about not just the future of work, right, the future of medicines, the future of scientific discovery, the future of, I mean, technically, humanity, right, in our day to day, interactions with the physical world, they're all being driven by NVIDIA's chips. So, even if you don't think that they're a big deal, they are. Alright. We have two more quick, AI news stories.

Jordan Wilson [00:23:13]:
So first, Google has hired Wind Surf CEO Varun Mahan and cofounder Douglas Chen for its Google DeepMind division, paying $2,400,000,000 for nonexclusive licensing rights to WinServ's AI coding technology. So this move follows the collapse of OpenAI's reported $3,000,000,000 acquisition attempt, which fell apart due, according to reports due to Microsoft's refusal to limit its access to Wind Surf's intellectual property. So Google's deal allows Wind Surf, the company to keep operating independently under interim CEO, Jeff Wang, with no equity stake taken by Google. So essentially, OpenAI was trying to acquire acquire, Wind Surf, the AI coding platform. I'd say it's probably one of the top, top five, right, along with, GitHub, Copilot, Cursor. I mean, there's tons of them out there now. It's like every day there's a new, you know, I I'd hate to say, like, vibe coding platforms because there's so much more than that. But Windsurf has definitely been one of the leaders and OpenAI was reportedly, in the almost final stages of a $3,000,000,000 acquisition of the entire company, which fell apart, because reportedly, it was something about passing the IP rights or withholding them from Microsoft, which Microsoft, part of their long term agreement reportedly with OpenAI was access to all of OpenAI's IP.

Jordan Wilson [00:24:46]:
So that includes when a company gets acquired by OpenAI, which apparently, was one of the reasons according to reports that those deals fell apart and Google very quickly swept in. So, they did not though. Interestingly enough, they did not acquire the company. This was more of an acqui hire. So they get some exclusive licensing opportunities, but they will probably not fall under, jurisdiction by the Department of Justice or other federal regulators here in The US for, anti competitive tactics, which all the big tech companies have fallen under recently. So this follows a very similar, path that happened with Microsoft as they acquihired Inflexion AI. I think that was last year. So, yeah, we'll see.

Jordan Wilson [00:25:34]:
I don't think there'll be anything, any regulatory, concerns with this one, but I mean wow. I mean, that's a pretty big move here from Google and the DeepMind team, to add to its roster as the tech poaching continues. And speaking of tech poaching, that is our last AI news story that matters because, yes, we've talked about this now for three or four straight weeks because it keeps getting naughtier than a squirrel on keto because Meta is reportedly offering more than $200,000,000 in compensation to remain paying, Apple's top AI executive overseeing artificial intelligence models at Apple's as, at Apple as part of its push to build an artificial general intelligence division called Meta Superintelligence Labs. So the reported pay package, which I believe was first reported by Bloomberg, is the largest in tech history for a non CEO according to early reports. So we'll see if that is ultimately, the truth, but this is wild. $200,000,000 package. So the reported pay package is among the largest in the industry. And, right now, it's, reported say that Apple did not attempt to even match Meta's offer, signaling a possible shift in how aggressively each company is willing to compete for AI talent.

Jordan Wilson [00:27:02]:
And right now, apparently, no one can compete with Meta because their pay packages, it's like monopoly money. No. It's I mean, there's not even that much monopoly money. So these Meta pay packages are often structured though with performance based incentives and require several years of service. Meaning, the full amount may not be realized until certain conditions are met. So this move highlights Meta's commitment to advancing their AGI and ASI, kind of, investments, so that could one day match or surpass human intelligence. So according to reports, Meta shares have risen nearly 25% this year, while Apple stock has dropped more than 15%, reflecting investor concerns over Apple's slower progress in AI. Yeah.

Jordan Wilson [00:27:50]:
You could say it's slower progress in AI, but I would say they don't really have any progress in AI aside from probably hiring a lot of lawyers, to handle all of the class action lawsuits against Apple for not delivering on basic AI that it marketed that it had and it actually didn't. Oh, that's not a burden. That's just facts. Alright. Let's go over our new section. And I think you guys like this. Right? The the what's new and what's next, the little bullet points. So maybe things here smaller things that maybe, didn't make our top AI news stories or what's around the corner.

Jordan Wilson [00:28:25]:
So first, Grok is expected to launch connectors for Google products, Slack and Notion. Yeah. Everyone's doing the connectors and integrations. I feel really bad for companies that invested millions of dollars three years ago to build their own, kind of, bespoke rag systems. Claude is rolling out a limited preview of thinking to free users. So before, Claude users couldn't get that thinking, now they can. Google Deep Think is maybe dropping in the coming weeks. So essentially a way that you can force on the front end of Google Gemini, to think more, to have Google Gemini think more.

Jordan Wilson [00:29:04]:
An MCP directory may be coming soon to Claude making it easier to find, more trusted MCPs are the model context protocol which allows Claude and other AI chatbots, any company that has adopted the MCP protocol to essentially talk to each other. Google has released photo to video for its powerful v o3, video model inside of Google Gemini. Another Gemini one that I'm super excited about, Google's canvas mode, which is one of the most powerful AI tools out there and it doesn't get any love, now works with their gems, which is their kind of version of GPTs or a custom, smaller version of Google Gemini. Speaking of Gemini, Gemini three, we saw a Gemini three point o reference spotted in Google's CLI code. So maybe we'll be seeing another Google model sometime soon. ChatGibati may get the ability to upload videos according to a leak on Twitter. ChatGibati's study together mode was spotted in some accounts, but then it got taken away. So maybe that has something to do with, Chatt GPT's recent, educational partnerships, but essentially, allowing collaborative, studying or collaborative use, of the Chatt GPT models.

Jordan Wilson [00:30:18]:
AWS is launching an ancient marketplace reportedly on, tomorrow on Tuesday. GROC may be rolling out to Tesla's in the coming weeks according to Elon Musk, and OpenAI has delayed its open weights model. So, yeah, there's been a lot of talk on, OpenAI saying, hey. We're gonna release this open model, but its CEO, Sam Altman, essentially said, hey. It's not ready. We need to do more safety testing. So we'll see when it's released. But I'll tell you this.

Jordan Wilson [00:30:46]:
That is going to set off a lot of things. The combination of when, OpenAI does release their open model, which was reported to be more of an o3 mini, type of model. And whatever Meta is cooking up next, presumably also open, unless they decide to go close source, which, would be a surprise to everyone. The future of AI development is extremely bright. Right? When you look at, what Meta has assembled with their MSL, their Meta Superintelligence, team, and also when and if Google or sorry, when and if, OpenAI does release an o3 mini level, open weights model, that's gonna shake up the entire industry, but also the business world. Alright. That is a wrap. Let's very quickly go over the main news stories.

Jordan Wilson [00:31:36]:
So OpenAI is set to launch an AI powered web browser according to reports. Perplexity already has and just started rolling it out to normal paid users, with their Comet browser. XAI launched GROC four and a very expensive $300 super GROC heavy plan, which also has a multi agentic mode. GROC four also got in a ton of hot water, both from its responses and as well as aligning its answers intentionally with Elon Musk. Major Teachers Union, the AFT, has partnered with Microsoft OpenAI and Anthropic to train as many as 400,000, educators on using large language models. Microsoft has launched a $4,000,000,000 AI training initiative called Microsoft Elevate even though it has laid off recently about 15,000 employees. NVIDIA became the first public company ever, to close a trading day at $4,000,000,000,000 continuing their AI market dominance. Google Aqua hired some of Windsurf's AI leaders and struck a deal for some exclusive rights to their technology after the OpenAI acquisition of Wind Surf reportedly collapsed.

Jordan Wilson [00:32:51]:
And Meta has a $200,000,000 man on staff after reportedly, they lured away Apple's top AI talent with a, total package worth $200,000,000. That is wild. Alright. What's wild is the rest of shows for this week. So, maybe you heard something there and you're like, what's that gonna look like? We're probably gonna be doing, a hot take Tuesday tomorrow, I believe, probably on, agentic AI and agentic browsers. That's what I put it on the newsletter. That's what you all wanted to hear. And we'll probably do, putting AI to work Wednesday, something for agentic browsers as well.

Jordan Wilson [00:33:30]:
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