OpenAI goes nuclear

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI has been making loads of moves with the U.S. government, but it surely might’ve just been handed its most sensitive project yet — helping protect the nation’s nuclear arsenal.

With the corporate’s models now deployed across National Labs for nuclear science, physics, and disease research, AI is quickly becoming a national security cornerstone.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI teams up with National Labs on nuclear security

• Google’s latest AI handles phone calls

• Create AI visuals containing legible text

• Riffusion launches free AI music platform

• 4 latest AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

☢️ OpenAI teams up with National Labs on nuclear security

The Rundown: OpenAI just announced a brand new partnership with U.S. National Laboratories, giving hundreds of presidency scientists access to its most advanced AI models for critical research, including nuclear weapons security.

The main points:

• 15k scientists will gain access to o1 models, with OpenAI supporting research including cybersecurity, power grid protection, disease treatment, and physics.

• The corporate will even deploy an AI model on Los Alamos’ Venado supercomputer in partnership with Microsoft.

• OpenAI researchers with security clearances will seek the advice of on nuclear security projects focused on weapons safety and nuclear war risk reduction.

• The partnership follows OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT Gov, a specialized platform for presidency use across federal agencies.

Why it matters: AI systems are being integrated into the U.S.’s most sensitive national security infrastructure, and OpenAI continues to position itself as a vital a part of the country’s tech development. But when AI’s scientific capabilities reach even a fraction of the extent many expect, it’ll grow to be a world government necessity, not only a priority.

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GOOGLE

📞 Google’s latest AI handles phone calls

The Rundown: Google just released two latest Search Labs experimental features that handle phone calls on a user’s behalf, including ‘Ask for Me’ for inquiring about local services and ‘Discuss with a Live Representative’ for customer support calls.

The main points:

• ‘Ask for Me’ can contact local businesses to collect pricing and availability information for services like auto repairs and nail salons.

• Users enter requirements through a search interface, with Google’s AI handling the phone call and providing a summary via text or email inside half-hour.

• A separate ‘Discuss with a Live Representative’ feature waits on hold with customer support lines and alerts users when a representative is out there.

• Each features utilize Google’s advanced Duplex AI technology for natural-sounding voice interactions.

Why it matters: With much of the younger generation hating phone interactions, these latest Google features could have major mass appeal. With much of customer support also transitioning to artificial intelligence, the longer term is (for higher or worse) likely looking like a wave of AIs calling other AIs.

AI TRAINING

🖼️ Create AI visuals containing legible text

The Rundown: Ideogram turns text into eye-catching images without cost, with a special ability to include legible text into the generated visuals.

Step-by-step:

1. Enroll for a free account at Ideogram (you may get free each day generations).

2. Click “What do you must create?” on the dashboard and craft an in depth prompt.

3. Adjust settings like aspect ratio and magic prompts and hit “Generate” to get 4 unique images.

Pro tip: After generating your images, use “Remix” for subtle tweaks, “Retry” for brand new variations, or “Upscale” for higher resolution.

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RIFFUSION

🎵 Riffusion launches free AI music platform

The Rundown: San Francisco startup Riffusion just launched Fuzz, a brand new free generative AI music platform that enables users to create full-length songs and may adapt to a user’s preferences and tastes over time.

The main points:

• The platform allows users to create full-length original music through easy text prompts, audio snippets, or image inputs.

• Fuzz also features an adaptive learning element, allowing the model to learn a user’s musical preferences through their generations and profiles.

• The corporate raised $4M in 2023, with electronic music group The Chainsmokers acting as advisors and testers for the platform.

Why it matters: This has been a giant week without cost AI music, with the open-source YuE and now Fuzz hitting the scene. With increasing capabilities and lower costs, it’s clear there may be an AI music revolution coming — and it’s likely that many songs within the wild are already leveraging the tech in some capability without listeners even realizing it.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🎥 Upscale to 4K – Luma Labs’ latest feature to dramatically increase the resolution of a generated video

• 🧠 Think Deeper – Latest reasoning capabilities available to all Copilot users

• 📝 Stella – Automate tasks like meeting invites, emails, and note-taking with AI

• 📣 Kiva – AI-powered search engine optimisation agent for agencies, SMEs & startups

💼 AI Job Opportunities

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• 🧠 OpenAI – Research Engineer/Scientist, Model Fusion

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• 💼 Kumo – Account Executive (Latest York)

📰 All the pieces else in AI today

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to lift as much as $40B at a staggering $340B valuation, potentially greater than doubling its price from late 2024.

Google is rolling out Gemini 2.0 Flash across its mobile and web apps, featuring faster responses, improved image generation through Imagen 3, and enhanced performance.

Krea AI teased Krea Chat, an upcoming tool powered by DeepSeek that gives a text interface for generating and editing images and videos on the platform.

Mistral released Small 3, a 24B-parameter open-source model that matches the performance of 70B models at 3x the speed and is deployable on consumer hardware.

Sakana AI unveiled TinySwallow-1.5B, a brand new tiny Japanese language model that may run offline on smartphones and achieves top performance amongst similar-sized models.

ElevenLabs officially announced a $180M Series C funding round, bringing the AI speech startup’s valuation to over $3B.

AI2 introduced Tülu 3 405B, the Seattle-based non-profit’s largest open-source model yet that surpasses DeepSeek V3 and GPT-4o on certain benchmarks.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team