Relatively quiet week in AI with OpenAI's Dev Day being the highlight and folks dissecting all the announcements made during that day. Grok Imagine's big upgrade from 0.1 to 0.9 also sets the stage for big expectations from xAI during Q4 for its other models
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xAI Upgrades Grok Imagine from Beta 0.1 to 0.9. though I don't know if this is rolling out on Android or if this is iOS only for now
https://x.com/i/trending/1975056291682017751
1 | A summary of OpenAI Dev Day Announcements ChatGPT now supports apps inside conversations via a new Apps SDK—users and devs can invoke apps contextually mid-chat. Launch partners include Booking , Canva, Coursera, Figma, Spotify, Zillow. More coming (DoorDash, Uber, etc.). AgentKit released: a unified toolkit for designing, versioning, embedding, and evaluating AI agents. New API/model updates: GPT-5 Pro, a real-time/voice model, and enhancements to video model “Sora.” Infrastructure move: OpenAI & AMD announce partnership to deploy 6 GW of AMD GPUs. Ecosystem scale: ~800M weekly ChatGPT users, millions of devs, billions of tokens per minute usage cited. |
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