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ChatGPT Wants to Be Your Study Buddy

Plus: Agent for Professional Developers arrived

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Poonam Soni
July 11, 2025

Hey there, and welcome to AI Toast!

Today’s menu:

  • ChatGPT’s new “study together” feature

  • Elon Musk’s Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy

  • Agent for Professional Developers is here

  • Superhero AI tools.

  • Quick AI Toasts — what happened in AI

Estimated read time: 4 minutes. Let’s dive in.

ChatGPT is testing a “study together” tool.

Think of it as having a Socratic tutor in your pocket.

  • Instead of just spitting out answers, this feature nudges you with questions, guiding you to the answer step by step — like a friendly teacher who won’t just hand you the homework key.

  • It’s modeled after the Socratic method, which is basically the art of answering a question with another question. Annoying in a philosophy class, but surprisingly helpful when you’re stuck on algebra.

  • Screenshots show the bot walking users through math problems and new concepts, making it less of a cheat sheet and more of a learning sidekick.

  • With “study together,” OpenAI seems to be nudging folks toward actually learning, not just copying answers. Maybe it’s AI’s way of saying, “I’m here to help, not do your homework for you.”

Personal take: This is the future of education — where learning isn’t about memorizing answers, but about unlocking the way you think. Instead of just feeding you solutions, tools like this turn every question into a conversation.

  • Elon Musk’s xAI dropped Grok 4 and its big sibling, Grok 4 Heavy. The claim? Grok 4 is “better than a PhD level in every subject, no exceptions.” That’s a flex.

  • In a 2,500-question AI test, Grok 4 scored 25.4%, outpacing OpenAI’s o3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro. But the real showstopper: Grok 4 Heavy, a multi-agent system, hit 44.4%—nearly double its rivals.

  • Here’s the catch: Grok 4 Heavy costs $300 a month. That’s more than a gym membership, a streaming bundle, and probably your daily caffeine habit combined.

  • Subscribers get access to the latest features and what Musk calls “high quality outputs.” Whether that’s worth $300 a month? Let’s just say, Grok’s not for bargain hunters.

Personal take: Grok-4 feels like a real step up in AI. It’s sharp, super responsive, and can even help build games or analyze research. Visual skills aren’t perfect yet, but it’s already outpacing the competition.

Superhero Tools: AI Models

  • ChatGPT: The friendly all-rounder — writes, codes, and cracks jokes on demand.

  • Claude: Your thoughtful assistant — reads long docs and gives you the gist.

  • Grok: The maverick — answers with personality, sometimes with a wink.

  • Gemini: The multitasker — juggles text, images, and more, all at once.

  • Perplexity AI: The search whiz — fetches answers from across the web, fast.

  • Meta: The social butterfly — Acts as a virtual assistant, capable of answering questions, generating content, and helping users with various tasks.

In Partnership with Augment Code

Imagine you’re knee-deep in a codebase the size of a small country. You’re not here to “vibecode”, you’re here to ship. Fast.

Here’s the gist: Augment Code isn’t trying to be your digital buddy. It’s the tool for folks who’d rather solve real problems than argue with dropdowns or chase the latest AI model.

  • No more picking which “model” is best. Augment handles that. You handle the code.

  • Augment remembers your code, your tools, your style. It learns as you work, so you don’t have to repeat yourself.

  • Massive codebase? No sweat. Augment’s search is built for 100 million lines and up. It’s like having a librarian who knows every book, every page, every typo.

  • Pricing? It does have a free plan and a 14 day free trial for the $50/month Developer Plan.

They also recently released Augment Agent, which is an AI programmer that learns your codebase as you work. It handles big projects and remembers your style. It works inside your IDE (VS Code, JetBrains), understands your codebase deeply, learns as you code, and helps with complex, context-heavy tasks. It’s interactive, context-aware, and can automate workflows, run terminal commands, and integrate with tools like GitHub, Jira, and Notion.

And Remote Agent, a cloud-based helper designed to clear your backlog. It runs tasks remotely, think fixing flaky tests, updating docs, refactoring, or bulk migrations — so you can assign small, well-scoped jobs and review the results later. It’s like spinning up a fleet of “eager interns” to handle the boring stuff in parallel.

  1. Install the extension in your IDE (VS Code, JetBrains, Vim — take your pick).

  2. Sign in and sync your repo. Augment gets to work, no heavy lifting for you.

  3. Start coding. Chat, Next Edit, Completions — they’re right there, like a Swiss Army knife for devs.

Want to Ship Faster? Try Augment

Quick AI News Bites

  • Moonvalley just introduced Marey, the world’s first fully licensed AI video model for pro filmmakers. It offers creative controls for complex VFX and full authority over every frame. This tool aims to change how movies are made, giving creators more power than ever.

  • Perplexity launched Comet, a web browser designed to be as fast and fluid as your thoughts. It blends browsing, searching, and workflow execution into one seamless, AI-powered experience. Comet is rolling out to Max subscribers with invite-only access this summer.

  • Meta has hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, to join its new AI superintelligence unit. Pang led Apple’s foundation model efforts but will now bring his expertise in small, on-device AI to Meta. This is part of Meta’s ongoing talent spree from top tech rivals.

  • Meta acquired nearly a 3% stake in EssilorLuxottica, the company behind Ray-Ban glasses. The move signals Meta’s big bet on smartglasses and wearable AI tech. Shares in EssilorLuxottica jumped 5.4% on the news, with further investments possibly ahead.

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That’s a Wrap

Thanks for making it to the end. Got a story, a tool, or a weird AI dream to share? Hit reply or find me online.

Until next time — keep creating, keep questioning, and don’t forget to stretch.

— Poonam Soni