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Sora 2 is here and it’s scary 😱
Comet, the AI browser is now free for everyone 🔥
Make Flowcharts in Seconds with ChatGPT
Superhero Tools for Video Generation 📽️
Quick AI Toasts: OpenAI is the most valuable private company on the planet.
Total read time: About 5 minutes, perfect for a quick coffee break.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 redefines AI video creation. This model generates remarkably realistic, physically coherent, and creatively flexible video/audio, taking videos into a new era of generative storytelling and digital expression.
Breakthrough Realism: Sora 2 simulates physics and world dynamics, producing videos where objects interact, fail, and rebound true to real life, unlike past models that faked results.
Seamless Control: Multishot prompts and nuanced cinematic, anime, or realistic styles are now possible, offering creators intricate control and continuity.
Audio-Visual Synthesis: Sora 2 generates not just visuals but also synchronizes speech and effects, blurring the line between generated and real content.
Personal Cameos: Upload a short video to insert yourself or friends into AI-generated scenes, with strong privacy and granular controls.
Wellbeing-First Social App: The new Sora app encourages creation over endless consumption, leveraging natural language-driven recommendations and robust teen protections.
Safety and Consent: Strict tools manage likeness use, consent, and teen safety with easy cameo controls and parental overrides built-in.
The launch includes Sora iOS app for creating, remixing, and sharing content in a swipeable feed, initially available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. Try here: openai.com/sora
Personal Take: Watching Sora's evolution, the future looks a bit shaky. Generative video, anchored in human control and ethics, could soon be a new canvas for stories and identities. With video being the final proof of everything that humans have done to date, this is a new leap that puts everything into question.
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Comet browser is officially available for everyone, marking a milestone in how we interact and discover online. With a focus on curiosity, AI, and a cleaner web experience, Comet aims to transform daily internet use.
Comet moves from limited release to worldwide availability to free for all.
The browser’s waitlist exploded, reflecting high demand and excitement.
Comet encourages asking questions over chasing checkout clicks, reviving the web’s spirit of discovery.
Users ask 6-18X more questions, showing curiosity thrives when given space.
Comet Assistant enhances research, productivity, and online tasks, staying by your side through every tab.
Breaking chatbot norms: Email Assistant and new Background Assistants boost productivity by handling tasks asynchronously.
The upcoming mobile app promises seamless AI help on-the-go, stripping away ad clutter and maximizing voice-driven actions.
Comet Plus aligns with real journalism, supporting trusted publishers and reinforcing quality content online.
Comet signals a future of truly useful, user-centered internet without any barriers.
Personal Take: The future feels hopeful, with less noise, more genuine knowledge, and AI that works for us, not over us.
Comet could reset how we learn, connect, and create online. And in the iconic words of Aravind, “o hey hi google chrome”
Make Flowcharts in Seconds with ChatGPT
Show the steps of applying for a job in a flowchart.
You don’t need to spend hours drawing diagrams anymore. ChatGPT can do it for you in minutes.
Here’s how:
Open ChatGPT and go to the GPT Store.
Search for Whimsical Diagrams and click Start Chat.
Type a simple prompt like: “Create a flowchart showing the steps of applying for a job from making a resume to getting an offer.”
Whimsical will instantly create the flowchart.
You can then edit, share, or download it.
Try here: ChatGPT Whimsical Diagrams
Superhero Tools (Video Generation)
Sora: Instantly turns your text prompts or images into realistic, high-quality videos with OpenAI’s state-of-the-art AI.
Kling: Generates lifelike videos from text or images, empowering you to produce professional content with advanced AI motion and effects.
Heygen: Lets you quickly create videos using AI avatars, voices, and easy templates, no editing experience needed.
Pika: Transforms creative ideas, text, or images into fun and stunning videos in just a few clicks.
Veo 3: Google’s advanced platform to generate professional-grade videos from simple prompts, now with flexible aspect ratios.
Quick AI News Bites
Anthropic hired Rahul Patil, Stripe's former CTO, as their new chief technical officer to help scale their AI infrastructure. The company is struggling to keep up with massive demand for their Claude AI assistant. Patil brings experience from handling millions of daily transactions at Stripe, which Anthropic desperately needs as they face infrastructure strain and have had to limit usage for heavy users.
OpenAI completed a deal that values the company at $500 billion, making it the world's most valuable private company. This massive valuation surpasses even SpaceX and shows how much investors believe in AI's future potential.
Google launched a completely new smart home experience powered by Gemini AI for the home, making devices more conversational and intelligent. The update includes new Nest cameras, a Google Home speaker, and a redesigned app that works as a unified control center.
Replit finally broke through after nine tough years, growing from $2.8 million to 150 million in annual revenue in less than a year by pivoting away from professional developers. The company now focuses on helping regular office workers create software using AI agents, after nearly dying and cutting half their staff in 2024.
OpenAI’s new social app Sora lets users create realistic deepfake videos, flooding feeds with wild Sam Altman clips. Sam Altman’s cameo is open to everyone, so the app is full of bizarre, realistic AI scenes questioning ethics and safety.
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