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The AI Week That Broke the Internet
Something big happened this week. And i mean BIG.
While you were scrolling TikTok and complaining about the weather, the AI world just had its iPhone moment. Multiple iPhone moments, actually.
OpenAI Just Made Every Other AI Look Like a Calculator
Remember when ChatGPT could only chat? Those days are over.
On July 17th, OpenAI dropped something called "ChatGPT Agent." This isn't your grandmother's chatbot. This thing can actually DO stuff. Not just talk about doing stuff. Actually do it.
It can buy things online. Make presentations. Book your vacation. All while you're asleep.
The scary part? It scored 41.6% on something called "Humanity's Last Exam." That name should worry you. And it probably should.
But here's what's really wild - this isn't even their best model yet. They're already working on GPT-6 while most of us are still figuring out GPT-4.
Elon's AI Just Became the Smartest Thing on the Planet
Grok 4 launched this week. And holy shit.
It's the first AI to crack 40% on that "Humanity's Last Exam" thing. For context, that's like an AI getting into Harvard while the rest are still in community college.
But wait, there's more. Tesla owners can now talk to Grok in their cars. Your car is literally smarter than most people now. Let that sink in.
The catch? The super-smart version costs $300 a month. Because of course it does.
The Pentagon Just Picked Its AI Favorites
The U.S. military isn't messing around. They handed out $200 million contracts to four companies: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI.
Translation: These companies are about to get really, really good at things that might keep you up at night.
Anthropic gets to play with classified data. Google gets to make military-grade AI. OpenAI gets to... well, we don't know what OpenAI gets to do, and that's probably the point.
Your tax dollars at work, folks.
Meta Wants to Spend "Hundreds of Billions" on Robot Brains
Mark Zuckerberg looked at his bank account and decided he needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI.
Not millions. Not tens of billions. HUNDREDS of billions.
They're building data centers so big they need their own power grids. Projects with names like "Prometheus" and "Hyperion." Because nothing says "we're definitely not building Skynet" like naming your projects after Greek gods.
Meta also created something called "Superintelligence Labs." The name literally has "superintelligence" in it. They're not even trying to be subtle anymore.
A Former OpenAI Executive Just Raised $2 Billion in Pocket Change
Mira Murati left OpenAI and started her own company. In less than a year, she raised $2 billion.
Two. Billion. Dollars.
Her company is worth $12 billion and hasn't even shipped a product yet. This is either the smartest investment in history or the biggest bubble since housing in 2008.
My money's on both.
Perplexity Wants to Kill Google Chrome
You know that search engine that's actually pretty good? Perplexity? They just made a web browser.
It's called Comet. And it can buy stuff for you while you browse. Because apparently we need our browsers to have credit cards now.
The really wild part? It costs $200 a month. For a browser. That you could get for free from Google.
But hey, at least it won't spy on you. Probably.
Amazon Decided It Wants to Rule AI Too
AWS wasn't content letting everyone else have fun. They launched something called "Bedrock AgentCore" - basically AI agents for businesses.
They also threw another $100 million at AI development. Because why not?
The scary part isn't that Amazon is doing this. The scary part is that they're late to the party and still have enough money to buy everyone else.
Apple Might Buy Europe's AI Champion
Rumors are swirling that Apple wants to buy Mistral AI - Europe's biggest AI company.
The Europeans are not happy about this. They spent years building their own AI champion, and now the Americans want to buy it with their lunch money.
This is like watching your neighbor's kid build a really cool treehouse, then your rich uncle offering to buy it for his pool house.
Your Government and OpenAI Are Now Best Friends
The UK and OpenAI just became BFFs. Strategic partnership. Joint research. The whole nine yards.
This either means the UK is about to become an AI superpower, or they just sold their digital soul to Silicon Valley.
Probably both.
Scientists Built an AI That Never Sleeps
Researchers at North Carolina State built a lab that runs itself. 24/7. No humans required.
It discovers new materials 10 times faster than humans. And it never needs coffee breaks.
This is how it starts, people. First, they replace the lab techs. Then the scientists. Then... well, you've seen the movies.
The Math Olympiad Has a New Champion (It's Not Human)
An AI just won gold at the International Math Olympiad. Solved 5 out of 6 problems that make rocket science look like finger painting.
We're at the point where our computers are better at math than our best mathematicians.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Week That Changed Everything
Look, i'm not saying the robots are taking over.
But if they were, this is exactly what the first week would look like.
We've got AI agents that can act independently. Military contracts worth hundreds of millions. Tech giants spending money like it's going out of style. And computers that are smarter than humans at pretty much everything that matters.
The future isn't coming. It's here. And it's moving faster than anyone expected.
The only question now is: are you ready for it?
Because ready or not, it's happening.
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