OpenAI drops open weight models

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Apple just unveiled a groundbreaking $100 billion boost to its U.S. manufacturing strategy, elevating its total commitment to a whopping $600 billion over four years, all under the banner of its new American Manufacturing Program (AMP).

This isn't just financial muscle, it’s a strategic dance: Apple will produce all iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky, forge rare-earth magnet partnerships, and build a domestic silicon supply chain, all while sidestepping looming tariffs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook even presented Trump with a specially crafted glass-and-gold sculpture call it “corporate diplomacy” in exchange for tariff exemptions on U.S.-made chips.

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ OpenAI's G3 surprise, $1 govt deal, AWS logic AI, vibe work craze & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to turn your childhood photo into HD with just 1 tap?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: Alexa evolves - From voice assistant to AI companion

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🧠 OpenAI’s first open-weight models since GPT-2

OpenAI just made a bold move and the AI ecosystem will feel it.

After years of operating behind closed doors, OpenAI just released its first open-weight AI models since GPT-2.

The “G3” series, while not at the same scale as GPT-4, represents a pivotal shift not just in transparency but in ecosystem building.

Why It Matters?

▪️ Developers now get more control, fine-tuning, auditing, and inspecting models without black-box constraints.

▪️ Trust and explainability rise when weight-level access is allowed.

▪️ It's a nod to competition: Meta’s LLaMA models and Mistral have gained attention for openness. OpenAI had to respond.

🎯 These G3 models are tuned for cost-efficiency and task-specific performance. Think:

▪️ Customer support bots

▪️ Internal enterprise workflows

▪️ Low-latency edge applications

🧩 It also raises a bigger question:
Will this lead to a new wave of open-source enterprise tools powered by OpenAI tech?

In an era where model access = innovation, OpenAI is quietly setting the next foundation.

Transparency is the new moat.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to turn your childhood photo into HD with just 1 tap?

▪️ Go to 👉 remini.ai or download the Remini app (iOS/Android)

▪️ Sign up / log in

▪️ Upload a blurry or old photo

▪️ Select the Enhance option

▪️ Wait for processing, download the HD version

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🔐 Flowise AI: Build and host your own AI apps visually using LangChain components.

📧 Warmbox AI: Automatically warm up and increase your email domain’s deliverability.

📊 Lyro by Tidio: AI customer support chatbot that replies like a human and learns fast.

️⏯️ Grain: Record and transcribe your meetings, then easily highlight, share, and search key moments.

🔁 Relay: Automate your workflows with integrated generative AI - summarize, write, and move data across apps.

Tool Video of the Day!

EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

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🛤️ Trailblazing: OpenAI just extended its hand to U.S. federal agencies offering ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency for the next year. It’s not charity, it’s strategic, speeding up internal efficiency while planting AI firmly within the public sector.

🧭 Trustworthy: AWS has gone full steam ahead with neurosymbolic AI, making its Automated Reasoning Checks available on Bedrock. It’s like giving AI a logic compass, math-powered validation to cut hallucinations and prove responses are grounded in truth.

📉Reassuring: Google’s search boss is setting the record straight: AI-generated summaries aren’t cannibalizing clicks. In fact, according to internal data, overall click volume has stayed stable with AI summaries even encouraging visits to content that adds real value.

🌀 Revolutionary: Genspark just rewrote the AI playbook. By embracing “vibe working” an AI-native, autonomy-first approach, the startup tripled its ARR in mere weeks and rolled out new features almost weekly. Think of it as work powered by vibes and yes, it’s that fast.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

🗣️ Alexa gets a brain upgrade

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🎙️ Alexa is no longer just a voice assistant,  it’s a conversation partner.

Amazon just took a major leap with its AI-powered Alexa, blending generative AI with real-time conversational memory.

This isn't just about asking for the weather anymore.

📍 Key Highlights:

▪️ Alexa now remembers previous conversations, offering continuity and context (e.g., “Remind me of what I asked about Italy?”).

▪️ It’s multi-modal, understanding both spoken and visual inputs (on Echo Show).

▪️ Tone and personality are upgraded, it feels more natural, less robotic.

💡 Amazon isn’t trying to outsmart ChatGPT, it’s playing a different game:

Building daily habit loops around AI inside homes.

And it could win.

With 600M+ Alexa-enabled devices, the real battleground is attention and trust.

🎯 Imagine:

▪️ Alexa that helps plan your day based on your voice + calendar + habits

▪️ A companion that learns your preferences over time

▪️ An AI that feels like part of the family

This is Amazon’s AI flywheel in motion smart homes, smart retail, smart commerce.

2025 just made AI mainstream… again.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

🧮 Prompt for build a financial model from scratch

Prompt: Write a clear, step-by-step guide for building a complete financial model from scratch in Excel for a startup. The guide should include setting assumptions, revenue projections, expense forecasting, cash flow modeling, and creating key outputs like EBITDA, valuation, and dashboards. Make it beginner-friendly and practical.

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Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team

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