Meta hires 4 top OpenAI researchers

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Thursday.

The Information reported that Meta hired four researchers from OpenAI, including the team behind vision transformers and a lead on OpenAI’s early reasoning model.

Zuck is also reportedly in talks to acquire PlayAI to strengthen Meta’s voice tech.

Things are definitely heating up in the AI talent wars.

Will we ever see $1B+ lifetime contracts for proprietary AI agent teams and their operating systems?

Switching gears:

This is the best AI-generated action montage you’ll see.

It’s a stress test, designed to see how AI handles impact, motion, and timing.

Of course it's not perfect...these are some of the hardest prompts.

Watch it here. Posted on LinkedIn.

OK let’s keep going ↓

Here’s what you should know:

• Google launches Doppl, an AI app for virtual outfit try-ons

  Google Labs has released Doppl, an experimental app that lets users visualize outfits on animated versions of themselves using AI-generated videos and photos.

• Canva becomes first design platform embedded in ChatGPT

  Canva now lets users search, summarize, and soon edit designs directly inside ChatGPT, marking a major step in AI-powered creative workflows.

• Pearson and Google announce partnership

  Pearson and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership to develop personalized, AI-driven learning tools for students and data-powered insights for educators, leveraging Google's Gemini and LearnLM models.

• Palantir is partnering with a nuclear deployment company

  Palantir and Nuclear Company will jointly create the nuclear operating system (NOS), which will simplify construction, allowing the firm to build plants faster and at lower cost.

• YouTube rolls out two new AI features

  YouTube is adding an AI-powered search carousel to help users explore topics like travel or shopping through curated clips, and expanding its conversational AI tool to more US users to make learning and discovery even easier. Premium members get early access.

• AI does 50% of work at Salesforce, says CEO

  Marc Benioff told Bloomberg that AI is performing 30% to 50% of Salesforce’s work, calling it a “digital labor revolution” with 93% accuracy across key systems.

• Suno acquires WavTool to supercharge browser-based music production

  Suno officially acquired WavTool, bringing advanced AI-powered DAW technology and its core team in-house to deepen its capabilities for professional songwriters and producers.

The numbers:

• Biren Technology raises $207M to scale its China-based AI GPU chips ahead of Hong Kong IPO.

• Xona picks up $92M to launch its Pulsar satellite network for AI-grade precision navigation.

• Centific lands $60M Series A to expand its “AI data foundry” for full-model lifecycle tools.

• DataBahn.ai secures $17M Series A to build secure, observability-first data pipelines for enterprise AI.

• Climatiq raises $11.6M Series A to scale its AI-powered carbon emissions data platform for enterprise clients like Siemens and Celonis.

• Klutch raises $8M seed to deploy AI “coworkers” automating construction site workflows

• BackOps AI grabs $6M seed to streamline SaaS back-office ops with AI automation.

Thought starters:

• AI can measure our cultural history. But is it accurate?

• Menlo Ventures’ 2025 Consumer AI Report

• Cryogenic chip clears path to million-qubit quantum processors

• I’ve Spent My Life Measuring Risk. AI Rings Every One of My Alarm Bells — Paul Tudor Jones

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Eddie

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