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Elevate Igor Babuschkin, the co‑founder and engineering maestro behind Elon Musk’s xAI, has tapped the brakes on his rocket ride officially exiting xAI on August 13, 2025 to pioneer Babuschkin Ventures, a new investment firm laser‑focused on AI safety and the bold quest to build “Agentic systems that advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe.”

In his farewell post, he reflected on lessons learned from Musk: dive fearlessly into technical challenges yourself, and move with “maniacal urgency.” He fondly recalled late‑night breakthroughs, one in particular when Musk flew to the data center to resolve a training crisis and celebrated their win at 4:20 am, adrenaline coursing through the team.

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ OpenAI brings back model picker, Gemini gets personal, NVIDIA’s Agentic push, RBI’s AI banking boost & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Playground AI to create digital art?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: When Superintelligence redefines what it means to be human

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

The model picker is back and so is the confusion

Complexity: OpenAI promised that GPT‑5 would simplify ChatGPT by ditching the old model picker and introducing a smart router that auto‑chooses between “Auto,” “Fast,” or “Thinking” modes. Sounds sleek, right? Except... it didn’t go smoothly. The router malfunctioned at launch, making GPT‑5 feel dumber than its predecessor. Users cried out, lamenting the loss of GPT‑4o’s familiar “warmth” and distinct personality. In response, OpenAI reintroduced 4o as an opt‑in option for paying users and committed to giving advance notice before retiring any model in the future.

Here’s the startup lesson: great ideas can fumble in execution. Innovation isn’t just about building “better”, it’s about navigating the messy rollout, reading user attachment, and pivoting fast. OpenAI shipped new features early, embraced feedback, and brought back the “friend” users missed. That’s resilience.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Playground AI to create digital art?

▪️ Go to 👉 playgroundai.com

▪️ Choose style (photo, anime, 3D, painting)

▪️ Enter your text prompt

▪️ AI generates editable images

▪️ Download or share

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🗣️ Revoicer: Create realistic AI voiceovers with expressive tones and emotions.

🏠 Autoenhance.ai: Instantly edit and enhance real estate photos using AI automation.

🖼️ AI Picasso: Generate stunning digital artwork from simple text prompts with AI.

🗿 Poly: Produce 3D assets and textures from text or image descriptions.

🖌️ Figma AI: Speed up design workflows with AI-powered tools inside Figma.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🧠 Recall: Gemini just leveled up with a brand‑new Personal Context feature "on by default" that quietly learns from your past chatter and tailors future responses to your preferences. Need privacy? Toggle it off anytime or fire up a Temporary Chat, a sort of “incognito mode” that deletes itself after 72 hours and won’t train the model on what you say.

🤖 Momentum: NVIDIA just unveiled next‑gen agentic AI models designed to bring intelligence into the physical world think robots that see, reason, and act all powered by their latest Blackwell GPUs, Cosmos world models, and Omniverse toolkits. It’s a bold push toward making AI as physical and proactive as it is digital.

🗺️ Dimension: Enter MolmoAct, the Allen Institute’s open‑source “Action Reasoning Model” that literally thinks in 3D. It maps visual inputs into spatial plans, translating observations into step‑by‑step robot actions outperforming competitors in benchmarks while offering transparency and adaptability.

🏦 RBI’s AI Play: Generative AI is poised to transform India’s banking landscape potentially boosting operational efficiency by up to 46%, according to a fresh RBI report. This surge promises smarter automation, sharper fraud detection, and smoother compliance processes all while enabling more inclusive customer service and cutting costs. AI isn’t just a tech upgrade, it’s a strategic shift toward modernizing financial services.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

When Superintelligence makes us feel human again

Identity: Imagine waking up to a world where your pocket contains a mind smarter, faster, and more creative than your own. That’s the promise and the emotional shock of superintelligent AI. It won’t just transform our capabilities; it might knock us off balance, challenging our sense of identity, our “why.” Even if AI remains benign and helpful, the existential question looms: Are we still the stars of our own story when our tools outthink us?

Startups, take note: innovation isn’t always about technical breakthroughs, it’s about emotional transformation. As founders, it’s our role to guide users not just into new tech, but through new realities where comfort, meaning, and human agency still matter. Superintelligence may one day reshape everything but empathy and existential clarity will keep us grounded.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

Prompt for writing a mission statement for a brand targeting Gen Z

Prompt: Write a clear and compelling mission statement for a brand targeting Gen Z. Focus on values like authenticity, sustainability, inclusivity, and social impact, using language that resonates with Gen Z’s mindset and culture.

Helpful? Check out our best AI prompts!

Thanks for reading.

Until Sunday!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team