ChatGPT gets new memory feature and upgraded 4.1 model
Plus Safe Superintelligence raises $2Bn
Today’s Highlights:
📰 News: ChatGPT gets new memory feature and upgraded 4.1 model
💰 Funding: Safe Superintelligence raises $2Bn
⚡️ Top News Stories:
1. OpenAI is rolling out a new memory feature to ChatGPT Pro and Plus users that allows the chatbot to remember past conversations and personalize responses across text, voice, and image prompts, while offering privacy controls such as opt-outs and temporary chat modes.
2. OpenAI has launched GPT-4.1 — a faster, cheaper, and smarter successor to GPT-4o with a 1-million-token context window, major upgrades in reasoning and coding, and three size variants to meet a wide range of developer needs.
3. Canva has launched Visual Suite 2.0, a major upgrade to its collaborative design platform that integrates AI-powered tools, enterprise-ready templates, and productivity workflows to streamline creativity and communication across teams.
4. xAI has officially launched an API for its flagship Grok 3 model, including both Grok 3 and a smaller “Mini” version, both with reasoning capabilities
5. Writer has launched AI HQ, a comprehensive enterprise AI platform combining a no-code agent builder, over 100 pre-integrated agents, and observability tools to let business and IT teams collaboratively create and manage AI agents across departments like support, HR, and sales.
6. Nvidia has committed to producing $500Bn worth of AI infrastructure entirely in the U.S., launching mass production of its Blackwell chips in Arizona and building AI supercomputer plants in Texas with Foxconn and Wistron.
7. Microsoft Research has launched Debug Gym, an open-source environment to help AI models learn to debug code more like human programmers by solving interactive, feedback-driven debugging challenges.
8. OpenAI released BrowseComp, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well AI agents can retrieve hard-to-find, fact-based information online. Unlike benchmarks that test simple fact retrieval, BrowseComp focuses on deeply entangled, obscure information that demands multi-step research.
9. Hundreds of top publishers, led by the News/Media Alliance, have launched a major U.S. ad campaign calling on lawmakers to stop Big Tech from using their copyrighted content to train AI models without compensation, demanding fair attribution and legal protections.
10. YouTube has publicly endorsed the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to prevent the unauthorized use of a person’s image or voice via AI, offering a legal mechanism for individuals to request takedowns of deepfakes.
11. In a major policy shift led by Craig Federighi, Apple is now allowing Siri engineers to build features using third-party large language models for the first time, abandoning its previous reliance solely on underperforming in-house models.
💰 Top Funding News:
1. Safe Superintelligence, which aims to build safe and superhuman-level AI systems, raised a $2B round, led by Greenoaks with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.