Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is finally breaking free from X's walled garden — moving beyond social media and into the AI big leagues. | With a new standalone app and Grok 3 on the horizon, could xAI be preparing for a major move up the AI power ladder in 2025? | Friendly 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: | xAI breaks Grok free from X with standalone app Google tests AI-powered 'Daily Listen' podcasts Turn research papers into learning sessions AI model decodes gene activity in human cells 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
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| | | | XAI | |  | Image source: xAI |
| The Rundown: xAI just launched a new beta standalone app for its Grok AI assistant, marking the first shift away from its X (Twitter) integration and positioning the chatbot as a more direct competitor to rivals like ChatGPT and Gemini. | The details: | The new iOS app gives users access to Grok 2, xAI's latest AI model, without requiring an X account or subscription. Users can access the app through various login options including Apple, Google, X accounts, or email, with both free and premium tiers available. The app includes features like image generation, text summarization, and real-time information access through web and X data. In addition, Grok appears to have improved its search feature, now gaining the ability to reference older posts from any user across X.
| Why it matters: Despite xAI's later start to the race, Grok's development has moved at a breakneck pace — but living solely within X has likely limited users seeing it as a true competitor to ChatGPT. With a new standalone platform and a potential Grok 3 release around the corner, xAI may be positioning for a serious move up the AI ladder in 2025. |
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| | GOOGLE | |  | Image source: Google |
| The Rundown: Google just rolled out 'Daily Listen', a new experimental AI feature in Search Labs that transforms users' search interests and browsing data into personalized five-minute podcasts. | The details: | The feature generates 5-minute AI-voiced podcasts based on users' Google Search history and Discover feed preferences. Daily Listen appears in the Google mobile app's homepage, featuring real-time transcripts and related story links for deeper exploration. The experiment is currently limited to U.S. users who opt into Search Labs, with content currently only available in English. The feature is a similar format to Google's NotebookLM Audio Overviews, focusing on news and updates rather than document summaries.
| Why it matters: Google stumbled onto lightning in a bottle with NotebookLM, and now its bringing the style to other formats as well. As attention spans get shorter and shorter, quick, engaging podcast summaries like these may become a standard way for how many users (particularly auditory learners) prefer to consume information. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: NotebookLM's new "Join In" feature can turn complex research papers into engaging audio discussions where you can participate and deepen your understanding. | Step-by-step: | Upload your research paper to NotebookLM. Configure your discussion parameters in Audio Overview by selecting "Customize". Join the interactive conversation by selecting "Interactive mode". Play the podcast and click "Join" to ask for specific questions or provide feedback.
| Pro tip: You can also create study materials using NotebookLM's built-in tools, such as Briefing Doc, Study Guide, or FAQ. |
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| | AI RESEARCH | |  | Image source: Columbia University |
| The Rundown: Columbia University researchers just developed General Expression Transformer (GET), an AI model which accurately predicts gene expression in any human cell — potentially revolutionizing the study of biological processes and diseases. | The details: | GET is trained on a dataset of over 1.3M cells from normal human tissues and can understand gene behavior in cell types it hasn't seen before. In tests, GET's predictions matched real lab results with remarkable accuracy, correctly forecasting gene activity patterns 94% of the time. Researchers tested GET's capabilities by using it to uncover mechanisms driving a form of pediatric leukemia, showing potential for disease research. GET can also detect relationships between distant genes that are over a million DNA letters apart, revealing important long-range genetic interactions.
| Why it matters: Our bodies contain thousands of different cell types, each using the same DNA blueprint in unique ways. GET's ability to accurately predict this process across any cell type could speed up research into genetic diseases and cancer, and in turn spur a revolution of AI-guided medicine and drug development. |
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| | | | | OpenAI began rolling out a new Custom Instructions interface for ChatGPT, including new fields to provide more information to the assistant and 'traits' to further personalize responses. | Microsoft published a new rStar-Math technique, enabling small language models to achieve 90% accuracy on advanced mathematics benchmarks despite their size. | Alibaba unveiled a new web interface for its Qwen language models, featuring its Qwen2.5-Plus flagship model alongside specialized versions for vision, reasoning, and coding tasks. | Cohere launched North, a new enterprise AI platform built on the company's Command R model featuring custom assistants, search capabilities, content generation and more. | Hailuo AI debuted its S2V-01 video model, which can maintain consistent character appearance across video sequences with just a single reference image. | ByteDance introduced STAR, an video upscaling tool that uses text-to-video AI to achieve state-of-the-art clarity in outputs. |
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