Happy Wednesday.
The current thing in tech and business is OpenAI’s new image model ChatGPT Images 2.0.
Today’s lineupAdobe President of Customer Experience Orchestration Business Anil Chakravarthy at 11:30 AM
Extra Co-Founder & CEO Naveen Gavini at 11:45 AM
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli & Carry Founder Ankur Nagpal at 11:55 AM
Zanskar Co-Founder & CTO Joel Edwards at 12:05 PM
VAST Data Co-Founder & CEO Renen Hallak at 12:15 PM
Gradient Managing Partner Darian Shirazi at 12:30 PM
SpaceX partners with Cursor to “create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.” The deal gets Cursor, whose agentic coding model Composer 2 basically operates at frontier-level performance, access to compute from SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus supercomputer. SpaceX gets the right to buy Cursor for $60B later this year (or pay a $10B breakup fee). The announcement comes a week after reporting that xAI was planning on supplying Cursor with compute.
OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0. So far the visuals people are making on the timeline are almost shockingly high quality. Arena.ai, which measures and ranks frontier AI, now puts GPT Images 2.0 in the #1 spot on all their image leaderboards by very large margin: “No model has dominated Image Arena with margins this wide,” they wrote.
“Draw me a highly detailed where’s Waldo image, but of Berkeley AI safety researchers at Lighthaven. Make sure it search to make it funny with in-crowd jokes” — from Jeffrey LadishA group of unauthorized people have been using Claude Mythos since the day it was released. Big scoop from Bloomberg’s Rachel Metz: a private Discord used access one of them has a 3rd-party Anthropic contractor to play around with Mythos. The group says they’re just having fun with it. When Anthropic released Mythos two weeks ago, it did so only for a relative few partners, and ran a frankly alarming press cycle that played up how dangerous they say the model is.
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