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Amandeep Singh
March 06, 2025
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🤖 OpenAI’s PhD-level AI assistants with luxury price tags.
🔮 Crunchbase AI predicts IPOs and acquisitions with shocking accuracy.
🎬 OpenAI brings video generator Sora to ChatGPT.
🤖 QwQ-32B outperforms larger, pricier models.
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OpenAI
Big moves in AI: OpenAI is launching premium AI agents—and they’re priced like senior employees.
The cost? Between $2,000 and $20,000 a month for agents specializing in business, coding, and PhD-level research.
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The details:
🔹 Business AI: $2K/month – Tailored for professionals.
🔹 Dev AI: $10K/month – Advanced software engineering support.
🔹 Research AI: $20K/month – PhD-level knowledge work.
💰 SoftBank is already betting big, reportedly committing $3 billion to these AI agents for 2025.
📈 OpenAI expects these offerings to make up 25% of its long-term revenue as AI shifts from chatbot to workforce.
📢 CEO Sam Altman predicted that 2025 will be the year AI agents “materially change” company outputs.
Why does it matter?
With pricing on par with high-level human salaries, OpenAI is testing how far companies will go to automate expertise. This could reshape enterprise AI pricing and set new standards for AI in the workplace.
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Alibaba
Big brains, small size, and a price tag that slashes competition. Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped QwQ-32B, an AI powerhouse that rivals much larger models—at a fraction of the cost.
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The details:
✅ Supercharged Reasoning – QwQ-32B scales reinforcement learning, excelling in math, coding, and logic tasks.
✅ 20x Smaller, Just as Powerful – Despite its compact size, it matches or outperforms models like DeepSeek-R1.
✅ Game-Changing Pricing – Just $0.20 per million tokens, slashing costs by 90% compared to R1 and o1-mini.
✅ Fully Open-Source – Released under Apache 2.0, available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Why does this matter?
China’s AI race is heating up. Qwen’s latest launch proves that efficient training beats raw size, bringing near-frontier intelligence on-device at unbelievably low costs. As labs push the limits of AI, the future of affordable AGI just got a little closer.
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Roli Piano M airwave is a system connected to the piano that uses Poli vision technology to track hand movements and provide real-time responses for the user. The intention is to improve the speed and technique of the user. It tracks hand movements to the keyboards which lights up when you play, providing the user with options for learning and musical patterns.
Scale AI has secured a multi-million-dollar deal with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for “Thunderforge,” an initiative integrating AI into military operations. The program, involving partners like Microsoft and Anduril, aims to automate workflows, conduct warfare simulations, and enhance decision-making using advanced AI models.
Crunchbase, the leading database for startup information, is now leveraging AI to forecast future IPOs, funding rounds, and acquisitions. The platform’s new prediction engine analyzes 17 years of data to generate highly accurate forecasts. Internal tests have shown the AI’s predictions to be 95% reliable, offering valuable insights for investors and entrepreneurs alike, according to The Wall Street Journal.
OpenAI announced plans to integrate its AI video generator, Sora, into ChatGPT during a recent Discord office hours session. OpenAI's product lead for Sora, Rohan Sahai explained that the integration aims to expand Sora’s reach, even though the ChatGPT version may offer less editing control than its standalone web app, but expected to attract more users by enabling video generation directly within the chatbot.
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