Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. A half-trillion-dollar bombshell just dropped on the AI world — with OpenAI and tech giants uniting for one of America's biggest technology initiatives ever. | With a huge infusion of infrastructure spending and loosening regulations, the U.S. just made a defining move in the AI race — and the acceleration may be just getting started. | Reminder: Our newsletter is still slowly moving to a new email address. Add news@daily.therundown.ai to your contacts to ensure you keep receiving our emails. | | In today's AI rundown: | OpenAI unveils $500B U.S. AI infrastructure initiative Tencent unveils advanced 3D generation AI Supercharge your code editor with AI assistance Perplexity launches Sonar API for real-time search 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
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| | | | OPENAI | |  | Image source: C-SPAN |
| The Rundown: OpenAI just announced "The Stargate Project," a new company set to invest $500B in U.S. AI infrastructure alongside SoftBank, Oracle, and other tech giants — coming alongside the repealing of Biden-era AI safety order during President Donald Trump's first days back in office. | The details: | The venture will immediately deploy an initial $100B, starting with massive data centers in Texas before expanding nationwide. The project aims to create "hundreds of thousands" of American jobs while securing U.S. leadership in advanced AI development. Key technology partners include Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm, building on existing collaborations in AI chip development and cloud infrastructure. The initiative was unveiled following Trump's repeal of Biden's AI EO, which required labs to share safety testing results and created the AI Safety Institute.
| Why it matters: Stargate's sheer $500B scale, along with unprecedented collaboration between tech giants, could completely reshape the entire AI landscape. The move marks a defining moment in the global AI and AGI race for the U.S., and the timing also signals a clear prioritization of speed over safety — for better or worse. |
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| | TENCENT | |  | Image source: Tencent |
| The Rundown: Tencent just released Hunyuan3D 2.0, a new open-source system for creating and animating high-quality 3D assets — combining advanced shape generation with sophisticated texture synthesis capabilities. | The details: | The system works in two stages - first, creating the 3D shape using Hunyuan3D-DiT, then adding realistic textures with Hunyuan3D-Paint. The shape generator captures intricate details like fabric folds, facial features, and surface patterns that previous models often miss or oversimplify. The platform also includes Hunyuan3D-Studio, an interface that supports features like sketch-to-3D, low-polygon stylization, and character animation. The system outperformed all alternative models across key metrics, including geometry detail, texture quality, and input image alignment in tests.
| Why it matters: The days of creating 3D objects being a labor-intensive, lengthy process are long gone. With Tencent open-sourcing this powerful new system, the creation opportunities are about to be limitless for everyone. Workflows in areas like game development and film are about to get a serious speed upgrade. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: Mistral's new Codestral model can be integrated directly into your code editor for free, helping you write, debug, and understand code better. | Step-by-step: | Install the "Continue" extension in VS Code from the marketplace. Click "Add Chat Model" and select Mistral as the provider. Copy your free API key from Mistral.ai into the VS code extension. Start coding smarter with AI assistance using Command+L.
| Pro tip: Use the '@' symbol to reference specific files in your questions for more accurate assistance. |
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| | PRESENTED BY ASSEMBLY AI | | | The Rundown: AssemblyAI's advanced speech-to-text API converts calls and voice notes into accurate, easy-to-read transcripts — helping you improve customer retention, reduce customer service tickets, and unlock actionable insights from every conversation. | With AssemblyAI, you'll: | Minimize customer complaints caused by inaccurate transcripts Boost customer satisfaction with intelligent models like PII Redaction and Summarization Provide formatted, clear conversations with Speaker Labels and Automatic Language Detection
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| | PERPLEXITY | |  | Image source: Perplexity |
| The Rundown: Perplexity just launched Sonar and Sonar Pro, two API options that make the company's powerful search tech available to developers to bring real-time, citation-backed search capabilities to third-party applications. | The details: | The standard Sonar API focuses on speed and affordability, offering citation-backed search results with flat pricing at $1/M input and output tokens. Pro handles more complex queries, with double the citations and larger context windows — with pricing at $3/M input tokens and $15/M output tokens. The APIs outperform competitors in factuality benchmarks, with Sonar Pro outperforming rivals like Gemini, GPT-4o, and Claude on SimpleQA.
| Why it matters: The difference between AI that hallucinates and AI that delivers reliable results can make or break user trust. With Sonar's real-time search and impressive accuracy benchmarks, Sonar is addressing a critical gap in the market and could position it as the go-to for companies looking to add AI search to their products. |
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| | | | | 🤖 Kimi - New multimodal model with joint reasoning over text and vision 🌊 Windsurf Wave 2 - Codeium's latest update to its AI development platform 🗣️ JoggAI 2.0 - Create lifelike, personalized AI avatars from text prompts 🪡 Needle - Enable AI search across all your data in seconds
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| | | | | Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati secured the first hires for her unnamed AI startup, adding OpenAI's ex-head of special projects, Jonathan Lachman, alongside ten other key hires from leading AI firms. | CEO Dario Amodei said during an interview at Davos that Anthropic is working on a two-way voice mode for Claude and smarter models set for release in the coming months — over 1M chips are expected to power its AI by 2026. | Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch revealed that the startup is currently exploring an IPO, denying acquisition rumors for the French AI leader, already valued at nearly $6B. | The X Games is adding a Google Cloud-powered AI judging system during its 2025 competition in Aspen, which will analyze and grade snowboarding superpipe performances alongside human judges. | The UK government unveiled Parlex, an AI system that analyzes parliamentary data to predict how members of parliament will react to potential policies, as part of its broader Humphrey suite of administrative AI tools. | Goldman Sachs introduced GS AI Assistant, an in-house tool designed to assist over 10,000 employees with tasks ranging from email drafting to code translation. |
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