Another Apple AI Chief Joins Meta

Claude Haiku 4.5 Rivals GPT-5

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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Meta poaches another Apple AI leader; Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers GPT-5-level performance for less; Microsoft plans conversational “AI PCs.”

Inside This Edition: 💎

  • Hottest AI News

  • Top AI & SaaS Tools

  • AI Tutorial: Claim Google AI Pro Without Charge

  • Top AI & Tech News

  • AI Art Spotlight

  • Prompt of the Day: Prompt to Humanize ChatGPT Text

  • AI Video Tutorial

  • Weekly Creator Playbooks to Grow on Social

Hottest AI News

Apple

Apple Loses Another Key AI Executive to Meta in Ongoing Talent Exodus

Apple's AI ambitions hit another roadblock as the tech giant loses yet another key executive to Meta, highlighting the ongoing talent exodus that's undermining the company's efforts to catch up in the artificial intelligence race.

Details:

  • Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-like AI search, Ke Yang, is leaving for Meta just weeks after being appointed to lead Apple’s AKI team. The group is developing ChatGPT-style web search features for Siri, a core part of Apple’s major Siri revamp planned for March. Yang was a key leader in the project

  • Apple has faced several major AI departures this year. Around a dozen members of its Foundation Models team have left, including founder Ruoming Pang and senior researcher Chong Wang. Many have joined Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, suggesting coordinated talent poaching

  • Yang’s exit disrupts Apple’s March timeline to compete with OpenAI, Perplexity, and Google Gemini in AI search. His Answers feature was central to Siri’s ability to handle complex, data-driven requests. The team currently reports to Benoit Dupin

The talent drain highlights Apple’s growing struggle to retain key AI experts, threatening its ambitious plans as rivals like Meta aggressively recruit its top talent.

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Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5 Matches GPT-5 Performance While Cutting Costs by 67%

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Haiku 4.5, the latest iteration of its lightweight AI model, which promises enterprise-grade performance at a fraction of the cost and significantly quicker than its predecessors.

Details:

  • The model matches Sonnet 4’s performance at one-third the cost and over twice the efficiency. It scores 73% on SWE-Bench verified and 41% on Terminal-Bench, rivaling GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 in reasoning and tool use. It’s a cost-effective, high-performance option

  • Haiku 4.5 is available to all complimentary Anthropic users, ideal for reducing server demands while maintaining strength. Its lightweight design supports multiple agents running simultaneously or alongside larger models

  • Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger says the model supports hybrid setups where Sonnet handles planning and Haiku agents execute tasks swiftly—“a complete agent toolbox.” It’s set to influence tools like Claude Code, with early adopters calling it “a wave of expanded possibilities”

The release follows Sonnet 4.5 by two weeks and Opus 4.1 by two months, keeping Anthropic at the forefront of practical, production-ready AI.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

  • Heffl (Life-time Deal): AI-powered CRM that automates tasks, logs activities, updates records, suggests next actions, integrates with popular tools, and includes iOS and Android apps

  • Sorce App: AI-driven job-matching app that works like Tinder — candidates swipe right to apply and left to skip [F-R-E-E]

  • Kimi OK Computer: Agent-mode AI (K2) that acts like a full product & engineering team, building websites, designs, slides, and dashboards while using native tools [F-R-E-E]

  • GLM-4.6: Improved GLM-4.5 with 200K context, stronger coding and reasoning, better tool and agent integration, and more human-aligned writing [F-R-E-E]

  • Reducto: Converts PDFs, spreadsheets, and scanned documents into structured data with automatic extraction of invoice fields, tables, and form values [F-R-E-E]

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AI Tutorial

How to Claim Google AI Pro F-R-E-E for One Year (Student Offer)

Google is rolling out an academic package for students — a full year of Google AI Pro at no charge. This plan unlocks powerful tools like unlimited chats, image uploads, quiz generation, and availability of the 2.5 Pro model, plus 2 TB of storage.

  1. Visit official page

    Go to Google One Plans and select “Verify eligibility” to begin. You’ll be prompted to provide your school email address or institution details.

  2. Provide student credentials

    Enter your university or college email (edu mail). Some users may be asked to upload a document such as a student ID or enrollment letter.

  3. Wait for verification

    Once your details are submitted, Google will verify status. This usually takes a few minutes. When successful, you’ll see a message that says:

    You’ve been verified.”

  4. Claim student perk

    After verification, Tap on “Get Google AI Pro” and then select “Get student offer.”

  5. Confirm payment details

    Even though there’s no charge, Google may ask you to add or confirm a payment method for verification or renewal purposes. You won’t be charged during your first year.

  6. Activate plan

    Press “Subscribe” to finalize the process and activate your 1-year F-R-E-E plan of Google AI Pro.

Note: The campaign ends on December 9, 2025. It’s available in the U.S. and many other countries for users aged 18 or older. Check your eligibility before you start.

Top AI & Tech News

  • Microsoft is preparing to transform Windows around AI, aiming to make PCs conversational “AI PCs” controlled by Copilot

  • OpenAI and partners Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco, and SoftBank are building AI datacenters in Abu Dhabi, with foundations in place for up to 16 GW and the first 200 MW underway

  • Runway launched Apps, streamlined video tools for element removal, product reshoots, dialogue addition, and more

  • Anthropic projects rapid revenue growth, targeting a $9B annualized run rate by end-2025 and $20–$26B in 2026, driven mainly by enterprise customers

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

Ultra-realistic black and white fashion editorial portrait of the uploaded person (preserve face 100%). Reclined dramatically on a chair, one arm resting over backrest, legs wide apart, exuding bold confidence. Wearing a tailored deep dark suit with casual knit shirt, polished boots. Expression relaxed but magnetic, playful high-fashion energy. Studio background clean white. Avant-garde GQ editorial style.

Model: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)

Prompt of the Day

Prompt to Humanize ChatGPT Text

This prompt asks ChatGPT to rewrite text in a warm, conversational voice that sounds like a real person by varying sentence length, using simple language, adding brief pauses or anecdotes, and keeping short, airy paragraphs while avoiding robotic or overly formal phrasing for a more natural, engaging read.

Top AI Video Tutorial

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