Alongside OpenAI, however, Anthropic dropped a new model of its own on the same day, seemingly replacing Claude Opus 4.0 with Claude Opus 4.1. As Anthropic shifts focus to deliver more consistent, incremental upgrades over blockbusters, Claude Opus 4.1 is an all-around upgrade over its predecessor, with improvements in agentic coding, reasoning, and creative writing. Early enterprise customers like Windsurf and Rakuten Group have already reported quicker and more accurate completions of coding tasks, with general user reviews backing up the sentiment.
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โGoogle DeepMind has released the next version of Genie, an AI "world" model that generates interactive 3D environments in real time. Unlike its predecessor, which supported only 10-20 seconds of play, Genie 3 allows users and AI agents to explore worlds for a "few" minutes, remembers spatial details for up to a minute, and renders at 720p at 24 FPS. The model also supports "promptable world events," which lets users, for example, change the weather or add new characters. However, it won't be available to everyone - Genie 3 is launching as a limited research preview for select academics and creators for the time being.
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Despite a strong and optimistic start, Tesla is giving up its move at developing in-house chips for driverless technology as it dismantles the team behind its Dojo supercomputer. This includes the exit of Dojo team lead Peter Bannon and 20 other employees to start their own AI startup called DensityAI. Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke about Dojo, albeit briefly, as recently as the company's second-quarter earnings call, so the move comes as a bit of a surprise strategic shift as it ends an initiative that has been in the works since 2019.
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In addition to GPT-5, OpenAI had also debuted its first open-source models since GPT-2 in 2019 earlier this week. The two models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run on as little as a single Nvidia GPU or a consumer laptop with 16 GB of memory while offering performance similar to o4-mini. However, the gpt-oss models fall short when it comes to hallucinations, with reports stating that the models are up to 3x as prone to them as o1 - OpenAI claims this is "expected" behavior despite not fully understanding why.
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With US lawmakers pushing Nvidia to add backdoors or kill switches to its chips, Nvidia's chief security officer, David Reber Jr., has publicly rejected the proposal in a recent blog post. In it, he states that Nvidia's chips "do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors" as they "violate the fundamental principles of cybersecurity." Meanwhile, Chinese officials claim that Nvidia has already implemented such measures, which Reber has also denied. The latter comes amid Beijing's investigation into Nvidia's H20 chips after it received approval from the US to continue sales in China.
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Owned by US President Donald Trump, Truth Social has launched a new beta AI search feature on the web app version called Truth Social AI. Powered by Perplexity, the AI search engine on Truth Social functions as it would on Perplexity's own app, but with a caveat that it heavily pushes conventionally conservative outlets as its sources, such as Fox News. In contrast, Perplexity's web app has proved to use a much wider range of publications for information, which has prompted some to question the integrity of the feature.
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Popular AI voice platform ElevenLabs enters the music industry with the release of Eleven Music, a commercial platform for generating royalty-free music, including vocals and lyrics. Users can use regular language prompts like "a smooth jazz song with a '60s vibe and powerful lyrics" to receive a finished track in minutes, which can then be fine-tuned and edited further. According to The Wall Street Journal, Eleven Music has been in private testing with 20 customers, from games to TV shows, and is looking to bring major record labels on board.
