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Gemini 2.5 Flash 'thinks' on a budget

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI reasoning revolution just got a lot more affordable — with Google launching its new Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview with performance rivaling top models at significantly lower costs. With a toggle to control when thinking kicks in and a “budget” for balancing quality, speed, and cost, could this be the model that finally scales reasoning to the masses? P.S. — our next workshop is TODAY at 4 PM EST.
OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini arrive

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, two new reasoning models that president Greg Brockman called a “GPT-4 level qualitative step into the future.”With o3 pushing SOTA across all benchmarks and supposedly capable of creating new scientific ideas, is this the leap that finally puts the AI world at AGI’s doorstep?
Ilya's SSI skyrockets to $32B

1 week ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever just reportedly raised another massive round for his AI startup, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), catapulting its valuation to $32B in mere months. But with no product in sight—just a bold vision for superintelligence and Sutskever's reputation—is this the most audacious bet yet in the AI funding frenzy, or a glimpse of Silicon Valley's new normal?
ChatGPT now remembers everything

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | TikTok Bytedance |Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a massive memory boost, enabling it to automatically remember and reference key information across all your conversations without being asked. Is this persistent memory the breakthrough that finally turns ChatGPT into the truly personalized AI assistant we've been waiting for?
OpenAI's dev-focused GPT-4.1

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI has “a lot of good stuff” lined up this week, according to Sam Altman—and its first release is a step back…in name only. A newly launched GPT-4.1 (?) family features million-token context windows, improved coding abilities, and significantly lower prices across the board — potentially laying a new foundation for the fast-approaching era of agentic AI development.
Google's massive AI day

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Google just turned its Cloud Next 2025 event into an AI showcase of epic proportions — revealing the company’s most powerful chip ever alongside upgrades across its entire ecosystem. With a new agentic coding platform, Gemini 2.5 Flash, an agent-to-agent framework, and upgrades to image, video, voice, and music platforms, the tech giant is becoming a one-stop shop for all things AI.
AI creates 1-minute cartoons

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. AI-generated video has always faced major limitations in length and consistency, but new research may have just unlocked a major leap in storytelling capabilities. With researchers using a new method and a dataset of Tom and Jerry cartoons to create minute-long, coherent generations, the days of short, disconnected AI video clips may finally be numbered.
OpenAI eyes Jony Ive's secretive startup

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Apple's legendary design wizard and OpenAI's visionary CEO have been quietly building the next generation of AI devices — and now, their creations might become an official part of the OpenAI family. With concepts like "phones without screens" in development and former Apple execs on the design front, could an OpenAI device be the 'iPhone moment' that AI hardware desperately needs?
Meta's powerful Llama 4 debut

2 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Meta’s hotly-anticipated Llama 4 family is here — with a surprise weekend release debuting new open-weights models with massive context windows and benchmark-beating performances. With a 2T “Behemoth” still in training and claims of outperforming GPT-4.5, is this release a true next-gen step forward? Or will user experience tell a different story?
AI's 'gold-standard' therapy skills

3 weeks ago | therundown.ai | Rowan Cheung

Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The future of mental health just arrived in your pocket — with the first clinical trial of an AI therapy chatbot showing results comparable to gold-standard human care. With depression symptoms slashed by over 50% and users forming genuine connections with their digital counselor, is AI about to become the therapist of choice for mental health care?