unconfirmed news, but

Huawei Central reports: DeepSeek R2 will likely launch this month

> r2 will run on the Ascend 910B cluster
> 82% processor use
> 512 PetaFLOPS FP16
> ~91% A100 efficiency

this seems likely, as last month saw many China LLM/updates releases while DeepSeek stayed silent

Perplexity Rolls Out Max Assistant to All Max Subscribers

Perplexity has announced the full rollout of Max Assistant to all Perplexity Max subscribers.

The new assistant leverages advanced reasoning models designed to make Comet queries significantly more powerful, accurate, and reliable.

According to the company, the upgrade will deliver:

Smarter, context-aware responses

Enhanced accuracy in answers

Improved reliability of Comet query results

This move marks another step in Perplexity’s efforts to push AI-assisted search toward higher reasoning capabilities.

🤖 AI Robots Will Take Over Humanity…

Meanwhile, real-life robots:

🚪 (struggling to open a door)

🪫low battery after walking 3 steps

🤕falls over trying to pick up a box

Humans: "Yeah… we’re safe for now." 😅

🚨 Elon Musk: Grok Can Read Your X-Rays & MRIs!

Elon Musk revealed that users can now upload X-ray or MRI scans to Grok, and the AI will provide a medical diagnosis.

Musk even claimed that in some cases, Grok’s analysis was more accurate than doctors’ conclusions 🤯

🚨 Meta Reshuffles AI Team — Again!

Meta has turned its AI division into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) with 4 new teams:
🔹 TBD Lab – led by Alexandr Wang, building foundation models (like Llama)
🔹 FAIR – research group for long-term AI science
🔹 Applied AI – Nat Friedman leading AI features for products
🔹 Infrastructure – Aparna Ramani handling datacenters & hardware

💡 This is the 4th big AI reorg in 6 months — Zuckerberg himself is steering the shake-up to catch up with OpenAI, Anthropic & DeepMind.

👉 Meta is betting big on talent + infra to win the AI race.

🚀 Google Drive gets a new video editing shortcut!

Now, when you preview a video in Drive, you’ll see an “Open” button in the top-right. Tap it, and the clip opens directly in Google Vids — where you can trim, add text, music, and more. No downloads, no extra steps. 🎬✨

📌 Key details:

Available for Google Workspace (paid) users only

Rollout started Aug 21, 2025 (up to 2 weeks to reach everyone)

Supports videos up to 4 GB / 35 min (MP4, QuickTime, OGG, WebM)

Shortcut is enabled by default, admins can turn it off

Another step in making Drive more than just storage now it’s an editing hub too. 🔗

Google just made Veo 3 completely free — no subscription, no hidden catch.
👉 What it does:

Generate cinematic AI videos instantly

Comes with synced audio support

Perfect for storytelling, ads, short films, or just experimenting

💸 Price before: ₹1,999/month

💥 Price now: Free for all users (for a limited time)
If you’ve been curious about AI video but didn’t want to pay the subscription, now’s your chance to try it out.
⚡ Try it before it’s gone!

🚀 Google NotebookLM Gets Smarter!

✨ Video Overviews now support 80 languages 🌍
🎧 Audio Overviews: longer, deeper summaries (not just highlights)
🌐 Rolling out worldwide this week

🚨 Big AI Update 🚨

Anthropic just launched Claude for Chrome your AI co-pilot that lives inside the browser! 🌐🤖
👉 It can click buttons, fill forms, manage emails, even schedule tasks while you surf.
⚡️ Limited pilot: only 1,000 Claude Max users get access first (with a waitlist).
🛡️ Comes with built-in safety checks like site permissions & confirmations.

📌 More features & wider rollout coming soon!

🚀 AI Revenues Are Skyrocketing!

OpenAI, Anthropic, and 16 other AI-native startups are now generating a combined $18.5B in annualized revenue.

📊 Key Highlights:

🏆 OpenAI + Anthropic = 88% of the total

💰 Revenue surged massively in the past year (Aug ‘23 → Jul ‘25)

🌐 Other rising players: Midjourney, Perplexity, Replit, Synthesia, ElevenLabs, Runway, Jasper, Cohere & more

👉 AI is no longer “future tech” it’s one of the biggest business engines of today.

🚀 Since GPT-4 (Mar ‘23), AI has gone 🔥

📈 GPQA performance: +176% (2.76x better!)

💸 Cost per token: –93% cheaper!

⚡ On low-cost frontier: +119% GPQA, –99.7% cost

🚨 AI & Jobs Update
Ex-OpenAI researcher Miles Brundage says that with AI-driven growth, a $10,000/month UBI could be possible in the future. 💸🤯

👉 Right now, $1K/month looks realistic, but AI could make much bigger payouts sustainable.

⚡ His point: as AI reshapes the job market, UBI may become a necessity, not just an experiment.

Introducing v2 of our SFX model.
Generate any sound effect directly from a prompt, via UI or API.

• Higher SFX quality
• New: seamlessly looping sound effects
• Maximum duration extended from 22s to 30s
• Sample rate increased from 44.1kHz to 48kHz
• Refreshed SFX Library

🚨Rolling out NEW audio overview formats:

(Default) Deep Dive: a thorough examination of your sources
Brief: 1-2 minute, bite-sized overviews
Critique: an expert review, offering constructive feedback on your material
Debate: a thoughtful debate between two hosts

📢 New 𝕏 App Update! 🚀

Now you can instantly convert any image → video 🎥🖼️
Right from the compose post screen – no extra apps needed! ⚡

Perfect for creators, meme makers & anyone who wants to stand out. ✨

👉 Update your 𝕏 app today and try it out!

🚀 Navigate PDFs Effortlessly with Grok!

📄 Highlight any section and tap "Explain" to instantly understand it.
💬 Or click "Quote" to ask specific questions about the text.

Make reading PDFs smarter and faster with Grok! 🔍✨

📰 Amazon Music introduces AI-powered “Weekly Vibe” playlists

Amazon Music has launched a new feature called Weekly Vibe, an AI-generated playlist that updates every Monday.

🔹 The playlist is tailored to each user’s mood, listening history, and evolving taste.
🔹 It combines familiar tracks with new music discoveries.
🔹 Available under Library → Made for You.
🔹 Rolling out in the U.S. on iOS and Android for all subscribers.

🚨 Big AI Shake-Up

Microsoft is cutting back reliance on OpenAI 👀
👉 The company will start using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
👉 Tests showed Claude beats GPT in some tasks (Excel automation, sleek PowerPoint slides).
👉 Access will come via AWS, since Amazon holds a big stake in Anthropic.

Microsoft says the OpenAI partnership stays, but it’s clearly moving to a multi-AI strategy.

AI Showdown: Imagen-4 vs SeeDream-4 vs Createimg

From holographic vibes to realistic collectibles. which Goku figure looks best to you?

🚨 OpenAI Upgrades Codex!

💻 Meet GPT-5-Codex – the new AI coding powerhouse!
⚡ Smarter, faster, and can spend seconds to hours thinking depending on task complexity.
🛠 Build projects, add features, debug, and review code like a pro.
🌐 Available now on terminal, IDEs, GitHub & ChatGPT for Plus/Pro/Business users!

🚀 YouTube adds Generative AI tools for Shorts creators!

✨ What’s new:
• Veo 3 Fast — text-to-video with sound + faster rendering
• Animate still images with motion from other clips
• Fresh styles (pop art, origami & more)
• Edit with AI — auto-highlights, transitions, music & voice-over
• Speech-to-Song — turn spoken lines into songs 🎶

🌍 Rolling out in US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ — more soon.