Sam Altman drops GPT-5 hints in Tokyo

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• 💰 Altman rejects Musk's $97B OpenAI bid

• ⚡ AI summit sparks global power struggle — US vs EU showdown

• 🍎 Apple chooses Alibaba for Chinese AI.

• 🤖 Altman drops GPT-5 hints in Tokyo

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🔥 Perplexity Unleashes Blazing-Fast Sonar AI

Perplexity just cranked up the heat with its latest Sonar model—now delivering 1,200 tokens per second while keeping pace with top AI models at a fraction of the cost.

The Breakdown:

🚀 10x Faster than Gemini 2.0 Flash, thanks to Cerebras’ powerhouse inference tech.
🎯 Outperforms GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet in factual accuracy, user satisfaction, and world knowledge.
🔑 Now Default for Perplexity Pro Users—API access coming soon.
🎙️ Voice Mode Incoming—CEO Aravind Srinivas teases real-time, free voice answers.

Why It Matters:

Perplexity isn’t slowing down—this update drops just 3 weeks after Sonar’s initial reveal. With ultra-fast, high-accuracy performance, they’re making a bold move to claim more ground in the AI wars

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🧠 Sam Altman Drops AI Bombshells at Tokyo University

AI is evolving at an insane pace—and OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, just gave us a glimpse of what’s coming next.

Speaking at the University of Tokyo, Altman and CPO Kevin Weil tackled everything from GPT-5 to OpenAI’s secretive $500B Stargate Project. And the future? It’s more mind-blowing than you think.

🔍 The Details:

🚀 The Stargate Project—a $500 billion AI initiative—aims to help AI models generate brand-new scientific knowledge.
💻 OpenAI’s internal AI ranks as the 50th-best programmer in the world. By year’s end? It could be No. 1.
🔓 Altman hinted at OpenAI moving toward open source, saying society is ready to accept the risks.
📈 He compared AI’s rapid progress to “trying to outrun the calculator”, predicting AI will surpass humans in every general domain.

Why it matters:

Altman is a master at making jaw-dropping AI predictions—and this talk was no exception. If he’s right, we could be on the verge of AI-driven scientific breakthroughs that shake up everything we know.

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• Rux is a smart assistance desk size robot that engages in conversations and interactive entertainment has the capability of learning and to do multiple task at one time. It is able to move around and will tell you the time and other things that you can program it to do.

• UC Berkeley researchers unveiled DeepScaleR, a new open-source model that surpasses OpenAI's o1-Preview in mathematical reasoning despite its tiny 1.5B parameter size.

• Apple has partnered with the Chinese tech giant, Alibaba, to bring its Apple Intelligence features to iPhones in China, choosing to work with a Chinese firm rather than launch the AI features independently, to speed up China’s strict regulatory approval processes, after previously exploring deals with DeepSeek, Baidu, and ByteDance.

• The AI Action Summit in Paris concluded, raising global tensions as the U.S. and UK refused to sign a multinational declaration and European leaders announced ambitious investment plans to compete with American dominance.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has firmly rejected a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by Elon Musk, stating that the company is "not for sale." Speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris, Altman emphasized OpenAI’s mission of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity.

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