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OpenAI is assembling a team to create a new web browser. The company has hired some of the original creators of Google Chrome and plans to bring ChatGPT powered search to the forefront. Meanwhile, regulators are asking Google to sell Chrome. Let’s unpack...

Today’s Summary:

• 👨‍💻 OpenAI hires Chrome creators

• 🤖 DeepSeek R1 rivals OpenAI o1

• 🎓 OpenAI releases ChatGPT student guide

• 🗣️ ChatGPT Website gets voice mode

• 🧠 Google Gemini adds memory

• 🌄 FLUX launches new image tools

• 🥇 Gemini Exp 1121 takes top spot again

• 2 new tools

TOP STORY

OpenAI hires Chrome creators to build a web browser

The Summary: OpenAI reportedly began work on a web browser integrated with ChatGPT. The company hired key engineers behind Google Chrome and is exploring partnerships to enhance AI search features across various websites. Though still in its early stages, the project reflects OpenAI's ambition to change how we use the internet.

Key details:

• Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, instrumental in developing Chrome, have joined OpenAI

• OpenAI is in talks with Conde Nast, Eventbrite, Redfin, and Priceline to integrate AI-powered search features

• Discussions are underway to bring AI-powered features to Samsung Galaxy smartphones

• U.S. regulators requested that Google sell off Chrome to address antitrust concerns

Why it matters: OpenAI's browser initiative targets the core of web search and navigation - how we find and interact with information online. This sets up a three-way battle between OpenAI, Google, and Apple for control of the AI-powered internet.

NEW MODELS

DeepSeek R1 matches OpenAI o1 in math reasoning race

The Summary: DeepSeek's new R1-Lite-Preview model matches OpenAI's o1 performance on advanced math benchmarks AIME and MATH. Developed by a Chinese AI lab, this model brings transparent reasoning to complex problem-solving. Users can watch the model's thought process in real-time as it works through problems. The preview version runs on just 16B parameters, hinting at significant untapped potential in the full release.

Key details:

• Built on a lean 16B MoE architecture with only 2.4B active parameters

• Achieves 92% accuracy on relationship logic tests, trailing only OpenAI o1

• Shows direct correlation between longer thinking time and accuracy

• Backed by 10,000 Nvidia A100 GPU cluster worth $138 million

Why it matters: The rise of competitive open-source reasoning models challenges the idea that only tech giants can build advanced AI. DeepSeek's success with a smaller, efficient model suggests we're just scratching the surface of efficient AI architectures.

AI IN EDUCATION

OpenAI launches ChatGPT guides for students and teachers

The Summary: OpenAI has released detailed guides to help students and teachers make the most of ChatGPT. The student guide offers strategies to enhance writing and critical thinking, while the teacher guide provides training on integrating AI into the classroom. Some educators welcomed these resources, but others expressed concerns about ethics and data privacy.

Key details:

• The student guide includes 12 ways to improve writing with ChatGPT, such as using Socratic dialogue to test ideas

• The teacher course, created with Common Sense Media, is a free, one-hour program covering AI basics and classroom applications

• OpenAI's reports that 98% of pilot participants found the course valuable, though only 18% of K-12 teachers currently use AI in classrooms

• UNESCO has called for AI regulations in education, but little progress has been made, leaving educators wary of adoption

Why it matters: These ressources mark an attempt to standardize AI’s role in education, a field traditionally resistant to technological change. By addressing practical needs like citation formatting and lesson planning, OpenAI is quietly positioning itself as an infrastructural layer in modern classrooms.

Student Guide | Teacher Guide

QUICK NEWS

Quick news

• ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode is now accessible on the web

• Google Gemini introduces memory features

• FLUX image AI adds new free tools: inpainting, outpainting, structural conditioning, image variation and restyling

• Gemini Exp 1121 reclaims the top benchmark spot, after Gemini Exp 1114 was briefly overtaken by GPT-4o

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