Apple is getting sued because of AI

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Thursday. And there’s more drama in the AI world!

Apple has been hit with a federal lawsuit claiming that the company's promotion of now-delayed Apple Intelligence features constituted false advertising and unfair competition.

Next, OpenAI’s o1-pro has arrived…and it’s the most expensive AI model yet.

How much is it?

OpenAI is charging $150 per million tokens (~750,000 words) fed into the model and $600 per million tokens generated by the model. That’s twice the price of OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 for input and 10x the price of regular o1.

Wow…what else?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t sounding the alarm over inexpensively trained models (e.g., DeepSeek R1), but he did touch on the subject at his keynote for GTC 2025:

"Last year, this is where almost the entire world got it wrong."

"The computation requirement, the scaling law of AI is more resilient and, in fact, hyperaccelerated. The amount of computation we need at this point as a result of agentic AI, as a result of reasoning, is easily a hundred times more than we thought we needed this time last year," he explained.

And lastly…Perplexity taking shots at Google? Check out their commercial below:

OK let’s keep going ↓

Here’s what you should know:

• Apple shakes up AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri

  Mike Rockwell, vice president in charge of the Vision Products Group, will now be in charge of the iPhone maker's Siri virtual assistant as CEO Tim Cook has lost confidence in AI head John Giannandrea's ability to execute on product development.

• Claude can now search the web

  With web search, Claude has access to the latest events and information, boosting its accuracy on tasks that benefit from the most recent data.

• Inside Goldman Sachs’ Big Bet on AI at Scale

  “For us, this year is a story of scale — scale of adoption, scale of use cases,” said Belinda Neal, Goldmans’ chief operating officer of core engineering, head of product management and head of engineering partnerships.

• OpenAI rolls out o1-pro API

  Look at the price!

  

• OpenAI: Introducing next-generation audio models in the API

  A new suite of audio models to power voice agents, now available to developers worldwide. (psst check out OpenAI.fm)

• Anthropic: Progress from our Frontier Red Team

  “Based in part on the research on biology discussed here, we believe that our models are getting closer to crossing the capabilities threshold that requires AI Safety Level 3 safeguards, prompting additional investment in ensuring these security measures that are ready in time.”

• Oracle Introduces AI Agent Studio

  New Oracle AI Agent Studio empowers Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications customers and partners to easily create, extend, deploy, and manage AI agents and agent teams across the enterprise

• AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported

  Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems.

• HuggingSnap: On-device Visual Assistant

  AI startup Hugging Face has released a new app for iOS that only does one thing: uses offline, local AI to describe what’s in view of your iPhone’s camera.

• Meet Your Newest Assistant: Meta AI

  Starting this week, Meta AI will begin rolling out across 41 European Countries, including those in the European Union, as well as 21 Overseas Territories.

• Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

  If the trend of the past 6 years continues to the end of this decade, frontier AI systems will be capable of autonomously carrying out month-long projects.

The numbers:

• Perplexity AI in talks to raise funds at $18 billion valuation

  The jump in valuation doubles the previous $9 billion figure, reported by Reuters in November.

• Proscia raises $50 million to advance AI-driven pathology and deliver the future of precision medicine

  They have raised $130M total so far. This investment follows Proscia’s record-breaking growth in 2024. Proscia now counts 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies among its users and is on track for 22,000+ patients to be diagnosed on its Concentriq® software platform each day.

• Prezent raises $20 million to build AI for slide decks

  Prezent’s latest investment — which values Prezent at “well over” $100 million, according to Mishra — was led by Greycroft with participation from Zoom Ventures, Emergent Ventures, and WestWave. New investors True Global Ventures (TGV), Manulife Ventures, and Alumni Ventures also joined the tranche.

Thought starters:

• Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.

• The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

• The AI leaders bringing the AGI debate down to Earth

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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