You can now ask the app to remove sunglasses in photos or fix a smile, but it can also respond to names you have tagged in your pictures, such as «make Engel smile.»
«Help me edit»
You can use the «Help me edit»-button in the editor and simply describe the style you want your pics to be in, from a Renaissance portrait to a picture from a children’s story book.
OpenAI are uncharacteristically not posting any benchmarks on their launch page, simply describing both models as «more capable and useful,» and «more intelligent.»
Both models are also supposed to be «warmer and more emphatic.»
People want friendly bots
— We heard clearly from users that great AI should not only be smart, but also enjoyable to talk to, OpenAI writes.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches GPT-5.1 in Instant and Thinking modes”
Before OpenAI’s reorganization, Microsoft could not pursue its own frontier models — relying instead on other people’s tech.
This is now gone, and Suleyman wants to build a «world-class, frontier-grade research capability in-house,» Business Insider writes.
He says Microsoft is making major investments in compute, expanding its chip development and is optimizing its infrastructure for AI:
— It’s the number one priority for us to make sure this is the most performant infrastructure in the world, he said in an earlier meeting.
Read the full story at Business Insider.
Most of Google’s AI features are handled on-device, but they are seeing the need for more computing power to move «from completing simple requests to AI that can anticipate your needs with tailored suggestions or handle tasks for you at just the right moment.»
The connections between the device and servers are encrypted, and the data transmitted is not available to anyone’s prying eyes — not even Google’s.
The new tech is not getting a wide rollout, and most AI queries will still be on-device. The only feature to use it is the Magic Cue in Android, and the Recorder app, that will be able to summarize transcripts in «a wide range of languages.»
This is foundational technology for Google, and they will be rolling out features across their services in short order, saying «This is just the beginning.»
Read more: Google’s launch page, writeups on The Verge and 9to5Google.
For McConaughey the goal was simply to make his popular podcast «Lyrics of Livin’» available in Spanish — without having to speak a word of the language.
Michael Caine, on the other hand, is properly cloning his voice and making it available for creators who want a famous bard for their projects, saying that «technology is just the medium. This is humanity — amplified.»
McConaughey has also invested an undisclosed sum in Elevenlabs, having worked with them since 2022.
The «ElevenLabs Iconic Marketplace» seems not for everyone; there is the ability to use lots of celeb voices, from Alan Turing to John Wayne, but not for a fixed price off the shelf.
Read more: Variety was first with the news, writeup on Mashable, and check out the marketplace.
The departure seems amicable, with Intel thanking him for his contributions and wishing him good luck ahead — while noting that their AI efforts will now be led by CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
Intel have struggled with developing proper AI infrastructure products to rival the likes of Nvidia, and while they do produce chips for Copilot PCs, they are not making inroads in data centers.
The main focus for Katti at OpenAI will be «designing and building our compute infrastructure» to power their AGI research, writes Greg Brockman on x.com.
Read more: Twitter announcement, Reuters, Communications Today
— Generative AI tools may be able to synthesize or summarize existing knowledge, but they cannot engage in the process of discussion, debate, and consensus that Wikipedia’s volunteer editors undertake every day, they say.
AI comes with some challenges, with TechCrunch reporting that AI scraping of the site is way up, and human traffic is down by 8%.
To counter this, Wikimedia is asking for two things; citations for authors, and paid AI scraping with the Wikimedia Enterprise platform.
Citations are important for humans and «maintains a virtuous cycle that continues those human contributions that create the training data that these new technologies rely on.»
Read more: Wikimedia’s blog post, summary by TechCrunch.
It works out by putting a price of $1.30 per video from GPU costs, multiplying it to an estimated 4.5 million users and then presuming that about 25% on average generate ten videos per day.
$15 million per day works out to a cool $5.4 billion annual bill.
That’s a lot of money, and Bill Peebles, head of Sora, recently said that «eventually we will need to bring the free gens down to accommodate growth (we won’t have enough gpus to do it otherwise!), but we’ll be transparent as it happens.»
Read the full story on Forbes
There’s talk about Google deprecating models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and its whole family by the end of November to make way for the upcoming Gemini 3.0, said by CEO Sundar Pichai to arrive this year. Many say a preview is launching soon.
There is even a purported leak of Nano Bana 2, the next generation of Gemini’s image generator, and a lot of people are blown out of the water by it.
Some people are also claiming to have spotted GPT-5.1 in OpenAI source code, which could mean we are getting closer to release of that model, too.
Then rumor has it that the new Kimi 2 model from China, said to have been developed for a paltry 4.6 million dollars, is going head to head with GPT-5 in a benchmark collection. It’s made by a company called Moonshot that is backed by Alibaba.
None of this is confirmed news, though, and I’ll be closely watching for anything official, which might be coming sooner than we think.
The target is to produce millions of drones in the next three years, and to build «robust supply lines» to be able to increase production «to as however much we need.»
There is a bill going through Congress for a megacenter in Texas to produce a million drones, but Driscoll doesn’t want to rely on a single company.
— We want to partner with other drone manufacturers who are using them for Amazon deliveries and all the different use cases, he says.
Meanwhile, the Replicator initiative and Valkyrie fighter drones have spent years in limbo waiting for Congressional approval.
Read more: this is from a Reuters exclusive. See also Defense News.
They are building out data centers because «it’s the right strategy to aggressively front-load capacity so we’re prepared for the most optimistic cases,» according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta saw an 83% drop in its operating income the last quarter, and plans for capital expenditures of $70 billion just this year, but will have increase it threefold to reach their target by 2028.
Read more: Reuters, The Register and Business Insider.
Gemini is launching to orbit
Google’s latest moonshot might almost be literal. They are preparing for sending their TPU processors into low-earth orbit, and maybe then build a proper AI data center in space — where there is ample sunlight to provide it with energy. They have already tested a TPU in orbit conditions in a particle accelerator and it survived, and the next step is the launch of two prototype satellites in early 2027. They call it Project Suncatcher, and say that «in the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute.»
More at: Sundar Pichai’s tweet, Google’s announcement blog
Google close to Apple deal for AI Siri
Apparently, Apple has chosen Gemini for its upcoming AI version of the Siri assistant. They will use what is likely a custom version of the model with 1.2 trillion parameters, running on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers. Apple supposedly also tested options from OpenAI and Anthropic, but Anthropic’s fees were too high and Apple already partners with Google for search results. The deal will cost Apple $1 billion a year, far less than the $20 billion Google pays Apple to be their search provider.
More at: Bloomberg, MacRumors, TechCrunch.
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— GPT-5 is the first moment where you see a glimmer of AI doing new science. It’s very tiny things, but here and there someone’s posting like, “Oh, it figured this thing out,” or “Oh, it came up with this new idea,” or “Oh, it was a useful collaborator on this paper,” Altman said.
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The policy wasn’t new, nor a change, but a consolidation of several different ones, and led to some confusion, it would seem.
OpenAI’s head of health, Karan Singhal, denies any changes entirely, saying ChatGPT will «continue to be a great resource for health information:»
Continue reading “OpenAI says policy on health not changed, ChatGPT still answering”
The new seven-year agreement doesn’t put a gigawatt number on the compute OpenAI is buying, but it costs roughly $40B to build out a 1 GW data center.
Continue reading “OpenAI partners with AWS for $38 billion of compute power”