Meta poaches 4 OpenAI researchers

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Meta’s recruiting blitz just scored a serious haul, with 4 OpenAI researchers jumping ship to Zuck’s latest superintelligence team.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shown confidence in retaining staff despite $100M offers, but Meta’s deep pockets are clearly talking — and its latest unit is beginning to take shape in an enormous way.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• Meta poaches 4 OpenAI researchers

• Google’s Gemma 3n brings powerful AI to devices

• Convert lecture videos into detailed study materials

• Anthropic studies Claude’s emotional support

• 4 latest AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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OPENAI & META

🥊 Meta poaches 4 OpenAI researchers

The Rundown: Meta has reportedly successfully recruited 4 OpenAI researchers for its latest superintelligence unit, including three from OAI’s Zurich office and one key contributor to the AI leader’s o1 reasoning model.

The small print:

• Zuckerberg personally recruited Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, the trio that established OpenAI’s Zurich operations last 12 months.

• Meta also landed Trapit Bansal, a foundational contributor to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model who worked alongside co-founder Ilya Sutskever.

• Sam Altman said last week that Meta had offered $100M bonuses in poaching attempts, but “none of OpenAI’s best people” had taken the offer.

• Beyer confirmed on X that the Zurich trio was joining Meta, but denied the reports of $100M signing bonuses, calling them “fake news”.

• Meta’s hiring spree comes after its $15B investment in Scale AI and poaching of its CEO Alexandr Wang to steer the brand new division.

Why it matters: Meta’s latest superintelligence team is taking shape — and despite Altman’s commentary last week, at the least 4 of his researchers are willing to make the move. With an influx of latest talent from top labs and a transparent willingness to spend in any respect costs, Meta’s first release from the brand new unit shall be a captivating one to look at.

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GOOGLE

🚀 Google’s Gemma 3n brings powerful AI to devices

The Rundown: Google launched the total version of Gemma 3n, its latest family of open AI models (2B and 4B options) designed to bring powerful multimodal capabilities to mobile and consumer edge devices.

The small print:

• The brand new models natively understand images, audio, video, and text, while being efficient enough to run on hardware with as little as 2GB of RAM.

• Built-in vision capabilities analyze video at 60 fps on Pixel phones, enabling real-time object recognition and scene understanding.

• Gemma’s audio features translate across 35 languages and convert speech to text for accessibility applications and voice assistants.

• Gemma’s larger E4B version becomes the primary model under 10B parameters to surpass a 1300 rating on the competitive LMArena benchmark.

Why it matters: The total Gemma release is one other extremely impressive launch from Google, with models continuing to get more powerful despite shrinking in size for consumer hardware. The small, open model opens up limitless intelligent on-device use cases.

AI TRAINING

🎓 Convert lecture videos into detailed study materials

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn the way to use the brand new video input feature of Google’s Gemini to remodel lecture videos into detailed notes and interactive quiz sessions to enhance your study experience.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to Google’s Gemini app and upload your lecture video.

2. Use this prompt: “Analyze this lecture video and supply: detailed outline, comprehensive notes, formulas/examples, and timestamps for every topic”

3. Follow up by requesting it to create a comprehensive quiz, plus answer keys with explanations

4. Ask it to code an interactive quiz based on this lecture content, and to incorporate a touch button for when help is required

Pro tip: Save all materials in a single document and repeat this process for multiple lectures to construct your complete course study library.

PRESENTED BY IBM

🚀 Lockheed Martin partners with IBM for AI

The Rundown: Lockheed Martin’s AI takeoff began with data cleanup — cutting its tools by 50% and replacing them with a single unified system that runs on IBM’s watsonx.data to drive faster, smarter engineering.

Learn the way Lockheed Martin leveraged watsonx to:

• Help 10,00 engineers construct scalable AI products in its AI Factory

• Reply to worker questions using AI, boosting accuracy by 20%

• Overcome data silos to create a single accessible, connected data environment

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ANTHROPIC

🫂 Anthropic studies Claude’s emotional support

The Rundown: Anthropic published latest research on how Claude is used for emotional support and affective conversations, finding its use is much less common than reported, with companionship and roleplay accounting for under 0.5% of interactions.

The small print:

• Researchers analyzed 4.5M Claude conversations using Clio, a tool that aggregates usage patterns while anonymizing individual chats.

• The info found that only 2.9% involved emotional support, with most focused on practical concerns like profession transitions and relationship advice.

• Despite media narratives, the study showed that conversations searching for companionship or engaging in roleplay made up lower than 0.5% of total use.

• Researchers also noted that users’ expressed sentiment often grew more positive over the course of a chat, suggesting AI didn’t amplify negative spirals.

Why it matters: Recent media revealed some extreme cases of AI romance and dependency, but the information shows those are still few and much between (at the least via Claude). Nevertheless, Anthropic is dev-focused and fewer mainstream than ChatGPT or platforms like Character AI — so the numbers likely look so much different elsewhere in AI.

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• 🗣️ Voice Design V3 – Create any voice you may imagine with a prompt

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📰 All the things else in AI today

Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], an open-weight, SOTA image editing model that may efficiently run on consumer hardware.

DeepSeek’s R2 model has faced issues as a result of export controls creating Nvidia chip shortages, with CEO Liang Wenfeng not joyful with the model’s performance.

OpenAI released a series of updates, including Deep Research via API, Web Search in o3 and o4-mini, and its next DevDay event, slated for Oct. 6 in San Francisco.

HeyGen introduced HeyGen Agent, a “Creative Operating System” that creates video content with scripts, actors, edits, and more from an easy text, image, or video.

Google launched Doppl, a brand new experiment on its Labs platform, allowing users to create AI-generated try-on videos from a photograph and a product.

Meta became the newest AI company to earn a positive “fair use” ruling in court, winning a lawsuit brought by authors over copyright infringement.

Suno announced the acquisition of WavTool, bringing the startup’s browser-based digital audio workstation to the platform for more advanced music creation.

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