Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 14

What’s New & Trending

• Figma Preps for IPO – Designers, Assemble: After Adobe’s acquisition fell through, Figma’s independent leap toward IPO is a bold step for creative tech. The design tool that changed creative workflows may now change Wall Street.

• Runway Act Two: Next‑Gen AI Motion Capture: From webcam to wonderland Runway’s Act-Two now animates characters using just a driving video. Indie animators, motion designers, this is your Iron Man suit.

• Higgsfield Minimax Just Killed Prompting: Welcome to the Click-to-Video era. Higgsfield’s Minimax model now offers unlimited free generations, 70+ tuned presets, and no prompts needed.

• Perplexity’s COMET Is a Full AI Browser Agent: This new AI browser agent outperforms Arc, Rabbit, even Devin. It completes tasks for you, connects with apps, and handles workflows solo.

• OpenAI & Google Crush IMO 2025: Both teams achieved gold-level AI scores at the International Math Olympiad benchmark. The math minds have officially arrived.

• Runway’s New Model Transforms Videos Mid-Flight: You can now edit and stylize entire videos on the fly with Runway’s latest video model. 100% creator-ready.

• ChatGPT Launches Study Mode: New feature helps students think instead of just getting answers. Upload PDFs, ask questions, take quizzes. It adapts to you like a real tutor. Available for all users.

• Microsoft GitHub Spark Is Pure Magic: Describe your app in plain English—Spark builds the full-stack code for you. One of the most intuitive dev tools we’ve seen.

• Meta’s AI Neuromotor Interface = Thought-to-Machine Bridge: Meta Reality Labs revealed a prototype AI that can interpret neural signals and enable movement, devices, or game control via brain activity.

• OpenAI’s $90B Oracle Deal for Power: OpenAI inked a massive $30B/year, 3-year deal with Oracle for 4.5 GW of compute power. That’s nearly 4 nuclear reactors worth of energy.

•  Alibaba Drops Open Qwen Models: China’s Alibaba just open-sourced a suite of Qwen models—supercharging development of Chinese-language LLMs.

• China’s $5.9K Robot Does Cartwheels: Unitree unveiled its new humanoid robot priced at just $5,900—with acrobatic ability built in.

• Google’s Opal Simplifies AI App Creation: New Opal toolkit lets developers build mini-AI apps lightning fast—no LLM expertise needed.

• AI-Powered Drug Discovery Lab is 99% Autonomous: Stanford + Chan Zuckerberg launch a lab run by AI agents that generated COVID-19 nanobodies in days—with only 1% human involvement. Full transparency, full speed.

• Audrey Types & Draws Using Just Her Thoughts: Paralyzed for 20 years, Audrey Crews typed her name using Neuralink’s N1 brain implant. She now takes drawing requests—no hands, just brain signals.

• Adobe Firefly Drops ‘The Unfinished Film’: Created by Sam Finn in Firefly, this AI film is open-source for you to finish. Remix, reimagine, or build the ending. It’s a global storytelling challenge.

Neural Nexus — Tools We Tried This Week

Adi’s Persuasive Pen:

A Voice of the Quiet – Neurodiversity x AI Storytelling

We crafted our first animated short using Midjourney and AI narration—based on the vivid imagination of 13-year-old Vedant, a neurodiverse child with limited speech.

Visuals met voice, tech met tenderness.

This project wasn’t about virality—it was about visibility. AI helped express what words couldn’t.

Swati’s Tea☕️

1. Apple GPT Rumors – Apple’s secret “Ajax” project may replace Siri with a smarter AI chatbot.

2. Hollywood Fights Back – SAG-AFTRA finalizes strict rules on AI likeness use to protect performers.

3. Overthinking Claude? – More compute doesn’t always mean smarter AI—Claude stumbles with long reasoning chains.

4. 2.5B Prompts a Day – ChatGPT now handles 20% of Google Search volume—prompting is the new searching.

5. Deepfake Alerts – Video deepfakes are everywhere—pause and verify before reacting.

6. ChatGPT Share Leak – OpenAI’s Share feature exposed user chats on Google; public links now hidden by default.

7.  xAI Colossus 2 Is Go – Musk’s xAI raises $12B to chase AGI with Colossus 2 and 100K+ H100s.

8. Floating Data Centers Are Real – Japan & Turkey deploy ocean-based AI data centers powered by wind, LNG, and seawater cooling.

9. NVIDIA Chips Smuggled into China—at Scale: Despite U.S. bans, NVIDIA GPUs are still reaching Chinese shores—via grey markets. Supply chain drama incoming.

Anav’s Tip of the Week

Top 5 Courses to Master AI Agents: Power up your agent game — from prompt engineering to building RAG-powered assistants.

1. Agentic AI (Vanderbilt) – A strategic primer on agents & GPTs.

2. Multi-Agent Systems (UC Davis) – Learn how AIs talk to each other.

3. Prompt Engineering (IBM) – Chain-of-thought logic & prompting hacks.

4. LangChain + RAG (IBM) – Long memory + smart retrieval agents.

5. AI Agent Developer Specialization – Six-course beast for Python devs.

Cahn’s Story This Week 🚀

Overwhelmed with joy and purpose as we brought Vedant’s imaginative world to life through Voice to the Quiet — our first AI-powered film for neurodiverse kids. This project is a small step toward a bigger belief: AI can be a bridge to empathy, not just efficiency. 💡

Feel like AI can shift minds and shape society for good? Join our creative community. We’re always open to conversations — write to us at [email protected].

Also, what a grind this week at Seattle’s AI Tech Week! Grateful to AI Incubators for hosting such an explorative mission. We’ve got ideas buzzing, builds in motion, and breakthroughs waiting to be shared. ⚙️🧠

Next week, we celebrate Gokul, a breakout creator from our AI webinars — stay tuned for his inspiring journey. 🌟

AI isn’t just artificial intelligence — it’s amplified imagination.

Quick Recap

• AI Infra Wars: Musk, OpenAI & Floating Data Centers: The race for AGI is now powered by megawatts—Musk’s xAI, OpenAI, and nations like Japan are building massive compute infrastructure to dominate AI’s future.

• China’s AI Leap Is a Civilizational Shift: China isn’t chasing prompts—it’s integrating AI into factories, cities, and healthcare, making it part of national infrastructure while Silicon Valley debates AGI.

• Prompting Is Dead—Click-to-Create Is Here: Higgsfield’s Minimax and Runway’s new model let creators generate videos with no prompts, no code—just clicks—marking a true shift in how we make media.

• AI Gets Physical: Robots, Design IPOs & Study Mode:From Tesla’s humanoid robot waiters to Figma’s IPO and ChatGPT’s Study Mode, AI is now stepping into real-world roles across business, education, and daily life.

• AI Hype, Privacy Leaks & Prompt Overload: With 2.5B prompts daily, deepfakes rising, and OpenAI’s Share feature causing a privacy scare, AI’s mass adoption is showing both growing pains and breakthroughs.

 Stay creative, stay bold.

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