Claude (finally) searches the net

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Claude’s days of being stuck previously are officially over — with Anthropic finally giving its powerful AI assistant the flexibility to go looking and cite real-time web information.

With web search now in one among the market’s strongest models, will this late but crucial addition be the upgrade that puts the corporate ahead within the AI assistant race?

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In today’s AI rundown:

• Claude gets real-time web search

• OpenAI’s voice AI with personality boost

• Bring old photos to life with color

• Apple shuffles AI leadership amid Siri crisis

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ANTHROPIC

🔍 Claude gets real-time web search

The Rundown: Anthropic just added web search capabilities to Claude, giving its AI assistant access to real-time information and shutting a serious feature gap with competitors like ChatGPT and Gemini.

The main points:

• Web search integrates directly with Claude 3.7 Sonnet and robotically determines when to surf the web for more current or accurate information.

• Claude provides direct citations for web-sourced information, allowing users to confirm sources and fact-check responses easily.

• The feature is now available to all paid Claude users within the U.S., with international and free-tier expansion planned for the near future.

• Users also can access the feature by toggling on the ‘Web Search’ tool within the profile settings of the platform.

Why it matters: It’s hard to consider it took this long for Claude to achieve access to the net, given how way back its rivals debuted the feature. But Anthropic’s models are amongst essentially the most capable in the marketplace — and getting real-time information gives a lift that might completely undercut more search-specific options like Perplexity.

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OPENAI

🎙️ OpenAI’s voice AI with personality boost

The Rundown: OpenAI launched its next-gen API-based audio models for text-to-speech and speech-to-text, giving developers the flexibility to customize AI speaking styles via text and delivering improved speech recognition across multiple languages.

The main points:

• The brand new gpt-4o-mini-tts model adapts its speaking style based on easy text prompts — like “speak like a pirate” or “use a bedtime story voice.”

• The GPT-4o-transcribe speech-to-text models reach SOTA performance across accuracy and reliability tests, outperforming existing Whisper models.

• OpenAI also released openai.fm, a public demo platform allowing users to check different voice styles and experience the brand new models firsthand.

• The models can be found through OpenAI’s API, with integration support through the Agents SDK for developers constructing voice-enabled AI assistants.

Why it matters: AI voice agents are about to be integrated with all forms of applications and platforms — and having the ability to customize outputs with text commands is a large unlock for more diverse, natural AI interactions. But these OpenAI demos don’t seem as human as voice rivals like Sesame and ElevenLabs, at the very least for now.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Bring old photos to life with color

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn tips on how to use the brand new native image generation feature in Gemini 2.0 Flash to immediately colorize black and white photos and make creative edits with easy text prompts.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Google AI Studio and choose “Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental” from the “Models” dropdown.

2. Upload your black-and-white image by clicking the message field’s “+” button.

3. Type “Colorize this image” and hit Run to rework your photo.

4. Make creative edits with additional prompts like “Add snow on the trees” or “Change the lighting to golden hour” and download your brand recent image!

Pro tip: You have to be very specific with color preferences in your prompts to get more personalized results. Try “colorize with warm, summer tones” as a substitute of just “add color” for higher outcomes.

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APPLE

 🍏 Apple shuffles AI leadership amid Siri crisis

The Rundown: Apple is making major changes to its AI leadership, in line with Bloomberg insider Mark Gurman — with Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell taking up Siri development to speed up its delayed AI features and catch as much as competitors.

The main points:

• Siri’s most vital AI upgrades, including personalization features teased with iPhone 16 marketing, have faced delays with no release timeline in sight.

• Rockwell will now report on to software chief Craig Federighi, completely removing Siri from current AI leader John Giannandrea’s oversight.

• A recent internal assessment found significant issues with Siri’s development, with team leads revealing missed deadlines and implementation hurdles.

• The changes follow discussions at Apple’s exclusive annual leadership summit, where AI strategy emerged as a critical priority.

Why it matters: Apple’s AI era has been a disaster — with Apple Intelligence, which was once regarded as a serious driver of mass adoption, turning out right into a series of overpromises that don’t even come near matching capabilities seen elsewhere across the industry. A shakeup is clearly needed, but it surely’s a giant ship to show around.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🧠 Llama Nemotron – Nvidia’s recent family of open-source reasoning models

• 🤖 EXAONE Deep – LG’s newly released reasoning model series

• 🌌 grok-2-image-1212 – xAI’s image generation model, now available via API

• 🗣️ Epiphany – Turn voice notes into quick actions in your favorite tools

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 📊 OpenAI – Product Manager, Financial Engineering

• 🧠 AE Studio – Alignment Data Scientist

• 📝 Palantir Technologies – Legal Counsel

• 📣 DeepL – Marketing Operations Director

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OpenAI released its o1-pro model via API, charging developers a whopping $150 and $600 per million input and output tokens — 10x the value of normal o1.

Perplexity is set to boost nearly $1B at an $18B valuation, potentially doubling its value, because the AI search startup approaches $100M in annual recurring revenue.

Google’s NotebookLM added a brand new Interactive Mind Map feature, allowing users to show their notes or source material into visual representations.

Meta is rolling out its AI assistant across 41 European countries — via Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger — after a year-long regulatory battle.

Hugging Face published a response to the White House’s AI Motion Plan, advocating for open-source AI systems to drive innovation over industrial models.

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