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OpenAI has just unveiled a trailblazing entry point for Indian users, ChatGPT Go, a budget subscription launched on August 19, 2025, priced at an accessible ₹399/month (~$4.60). This state-of-the-art tier unlocks access to GPT‑5, slashes limits on messages, image generations, and file uploads to 10× higher than the free tier, and doubles memory capacity all while supporting local UPI payments for seamless checkout. Poised as India’s most affordable AI plan yet, ChatGPT Go could ignite a surge in adoption so, could this be OpenAI’s “Reliance Jio moment”?

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ DeepSeek V3.1, Oracle’s GPT-5 leap, AI Agents as employees, Meta’s AI reorg & more

▪️ Tutorial: How can I use Perplexity for research with verified sources?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: NASA & Google’s AI doctor for space missions

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

DeepSeek V3.1 - A game-changer in Open AI

Hold onto your hats, tech leaders, DeepSeek V3.1 has quietly dropped, and it’s nothing short of transformational. This 685-billion-parameter model is now accessible on Hugging Face, challenging the status quo by matching or exceeding proprietary giants like OpenAI and Anthropic in performance yet offering the rarest commodity in AI: true open-source access.

What makes it a potential watershed moment?

▪️ Unmatched scale & efficiency: DeepSeek V3.1 handles a mammoth 128,000-token context window, think parsing an entire novel while supporting multiple precision formats like BF16, FP8, and F32 for tailored performance.

▪️ Hybrid architecture: It weaves together chat, coding, and reasoning into a unified model. Early tests show it outperforms Claude Opus 4 on coding tasks while being 68 times more cost-effective.

For enterprises, academia, or AI ambition-seekers, the message is clear: powerful, versatile, and affordable AI is no longer confined to Silicon Valley's high-budget labs. Could DeepSeek ignite a wave of democratized AI innovation? The industry might just find itself at a pivotal inflection point.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How can I use Perplexity for research with verified sources?

▪️ Go to 👉 perplexity.ai

▪️ Type your question.

▪️ Get concise answers with cited sources.

▪️ Save threads or follow-up for deeper research.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🎨 Flux AI: Focuses on AI-assisted PCB design and electronics prototyping.

💡 Lumio AI: Business-focused platform offering “Custom AI Workers” for workflow automation

🎮 Genie 3: Create interactive 3D worlds with memory from single text prompts.

📈 Topaz Video AI: AI-powered video upscaler and editor enhancing clarity and detail.

💡 Jamie (AI notetaker): An AI assistant that captures actionable notes during calls.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🤖 Fusion: Oracle has integrated OpenAI’s GPT‑5 across its core business tools, from Fusion Cloud and NetSuite to Oracle Health and database platforms. This bold leap embeds sophisticated coding, debugging, and reasoning AI right into familiar enterprise workflows, promising faster automation, sharper insights, and smoother operations. It’s a high‑stakes move that may transform how the corporate tech backbone thinks and acts.

🤝 Frontier: Firecrawl has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding to fuel its vision of hiring “AI agents” as employees. In a twist fit for sci‑fi, the startup is now on the hunt for an AI Chief of Staff to manage these AI candidates highlighting a quirky yet bold step into the future of workforce automation.

🤔 Mirage: New research warns that large language models (LLMs), especially when reasoning beyond their training data, can produce "fluent nonsense", plausible-sounding but logically inconsistent answers. It’s a cautionary tale: just because it sounds smart doesn’t mean it is. Relying blindly on what seems skillful reasoning can be dangerously misleading.

💡 Ecosystem: Signs are emerging that Apple’s Xcode 26 may soon support ChatGPT alternatives, think Anthropic’s Claude and Opus popping up alongside OpenAI options. If true, developers could soon have a richer AI toolkit right in their IDE, sparking a new era of choice and creative coding.

🔄 Reinvention: Meta is shaking things up restructuring its AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, into four new teams focused on research, products, infrastructure, and superintelligence. It’s the fourth major reorg in just six months, signaling a high‑stakes scramble to regain momentum, streamline development, and beat back internal tensions.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

NASA & Google’s CMO-DA AI to the rescue in space

Imagine needing a doctor and there isn’t one on board. That’s the reality NASA and Google are tackling with their newest frontier: the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO‑DA). Designed as a proof‑of‑concept Clinical Decision Support System, this AI-powered assistant leverages natural language processing, multi-modal input (text, voice, images), and spaceflight literature to diagnose and treat ailments when immediate Earth-based help is unavailable.

Why it matters?

▪️ Autonomous healthcare: With communication delays during deep-space missions, astronauts need real-time medical guidance. CMO‑DA fills that gap, aiming to safely bridge health risks when contacting Earth isn’t feasible.

▪️ Promising accuracy in early trials: Simulated tests show diagnostic success ranging from 74% to 88% using familiar medical training frameworks.

▪️ Beyond the stars: While built for astronauts heading to the Moon and Mars, this innovation holds real promise for delivering care to Earth’s most remote or underserved areas.

It’s a compelling reminder that when human life ventures into the unknown, AI can be the stabilizing hand that keeps us safe. The future of healthcare may not just be digital, it may be interstellar.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

Prompt for writing a welcome email sequence for new subscribers

Prompt: Create a 3-part welcome email sequence for new subscribers to my newsletter. The tone should be warm, engaging, and informative. The sequence should:

1. Introduce who I am and what they can expect

2. Share my most valuable free resources

3. Invite them to engage or explore my premium offerings.

Make sure each email ends with a strong CTA and builds trust step-by-step.

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Thanks for reading.

Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team