📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from the fifth week of 2025.

▎DEEPSEEK VS OPENAI

🐳 How did Chinese DeepSeek blow up the AI industry? Here's our in-depth review of the week's biggest story.

💻 OpenAI has launched o3-mini, a powerful and fast model, delivering exceptional STEM capabilities—with particular strength in science, math, and coding.

🔴 OpenAI o3-mini is already available on @GPT4Telegrambot. Check the "ChatGPT + DALL-E 3" bundle.

▎BOT UPDATES

🎸 Suno V4: The latest version of the best text-to-audio AI model is now live on @GPT4Telegrambot

▎TO READ

🔄 "Humanity's Last Exam": The most challenging benchmark for AI. o3-mini scores 13%, DeepSeek-R1—9.4%.

☀️ We can't stop global warming: The new AI models predict our planet's future.

🎬 The "Brutalist" might not win an Oscar because of using AI to enhance the actors' playing.

🏴 Manchester City players will wear AI-designed kits.

🌍 "World Models": are Nvidia, Google, and others trying to give computers the ability to imagine?

🚘 Tesla is set to launch its first robotaxi service in June 2025 in Austin, Texas.

📱 LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman explains why AI is far more useful than dangerous.

📱 Apple wants to integrate Starlink satellite connectivity into iPhones.

💳 Swedish fintech Klarna replaces nearly 1,000 employees with AI.

🍌 Gaussian splats: A new technology for realistic 3D modeling.

▎INTERVIEW

📱 OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil: On robots, AI agents, and accelerating progress.

🖥 Historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari: Can AI actually create?

Enjoy your Sunday 👍

🤖 Figure AI's 100k Humanoid Robot Army

Figure AI, a U.S.-based robotics company, plans to build 100,000 advanced humanoid robots in four years. Backed by strategic partnerships with BMW and OpenAI, as well as investments from Microsoft, Figure AI is leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to become a global leader in robotics.

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⚡️ Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking — FREE on @GPT4Telegrambot

The powerful reasoning model from Google is now available to all users of our bot.

What's interesting about it?

➡️ Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is the leader in the Chatbot Arena rating, where users vote for the AI models.

➡️ The knowledge cutoff: up to August 2024 (for comparison, OpenAI o1 — up to October 2023).

➡️ Self-checking: before giving an answer, it analyzes intermediate results, reducing the errors.

How to use it?

🔴 Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
1️⃣ Send the command /model
2️⃣ Select Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

Have fun 👍

🖼️ Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot

Based on reports from MacRumors, Apple has unveiled a prototype of a lamp-like tabletop robot with lifelike movements, showcasing advanced interactive capabilities and hinting at the company's potential entry into the home robotics market by 2027.

The device incorporates a camera, projector, and speaker alongside its LED light, enabling it to serve as a multifaceted smart home assistant.

It can:
➡️ Move and act like it's alive
➡️ Follow your hand movements
➡️ Learn your habits
➡️ Show info on walls
➡️ Play and dance to music
➡️ Display weather
➡️ Act friendly and emotional

It's meant to feel more like a helpful friend than just another gadget.

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📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 6, 2025.

▎NEW RELEASES

👐 OpenAI has launched Deep Research, an advanced agent capable of conducting extensive online research autonomously.

♊️ Google's Gemini 2.0, the latest release in its AI model family, is now widely available. It features Flash and Pro models for diverse use cases.

🔴 Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, the top-ranked model on LMArena, is now free to use on @GPT4Telegrambot

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

🇨🇳 Discover the best AI models from China — innovative tools you don’t want to miss!

▎TO READ

🧠 AI usage may weaken critical thinking, researchers discovered.

💻 "Source Code: My Beginnings": Bill Gates has released the first volume of his memoirs.

💬 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shared strategies to compete with DeepSeek and outlined insights on the company's future.

🤩 Neko Health, a medical AI body-scanning startup, raised $260M at a valuation of $1.8B.

🤩 A Neuralink patient learned to control a robotic arm with the power of thought.

🤖 Figure AI aims to build 100,000 advanced humanoid robots within four years.

🖼️ Apple has unveiled a lamp-like tabletop robot prototype with lifelike movements.

🎞 Flawless AI: How filmmaker Scott Mann's startup is changing Hollywood post-production.

▎TO WATCH

📱 Lex Fridman's latest podcast discusses how DeepSeek entered the AI race, the US-China rivalry, and AGI's impact on the world.

Enjoy your Sunday 👍

💫 Scientists Discover the Largest Structure in the Universe

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal cosmic structure named "Quipu," stretching an incredible 1.3 billion light-years across—more than 13,000 times the size of our Milky Way! This massive formation holds the equivalent of 200 quadrillion suns in mass. Its discovery challenges what we know about the universe, offering fresh clues about galaxy formation, dark matter, and the evolution of large-scale cosmic architecture.

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🤔 Microsoft Study: AI May Harm Critical Thinking

A study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon found that heavy reliance on generative AI can reduce critical thinking among workers. Surveying 319 workers and analyzing 936 AI use cases, researchers observed that many accept AI outputs without proper evaluation, mistaking minor edits for critical thought.

Key insights:

➡️ High trust in AI lowers critical thinking effort.

➡️ Strong self-confidence improves critical thinking and evaluation of AI outputs.

The findings highlight the need to balance AI use with independent problem-solving skills.

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👐 OpenAI's GPT-5 Roadmap

According to recent statements from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ⤴️, the company plans to simplify its AI offerings with the upcoming release of GPT-5, aiming to provide users with a more streamlined and intuitive experience that eliminates the need for manual model selection.

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