Gemini 3.0 About to Launch

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Gemini 3.0 nears launch as Google targets ChatGPT; Bezos returns to lead a $6.2B AI factory; Disney star debuts AI avatars that let families talk to lost loved ones.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Build Personalized Podcast with 11Labs

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: GPT-5.1 Prompting Guide by OpenAI

• AI Video Tutorial

• Course of the Day: Google Prompting Essentials

Hottest AI News

DeepMind

Google's Gemini 3.0 Drops Soon and Could Dethrone ChatGPT

Google's Gemini 3.0 is about to drop, and it could completely flip AI landscape. After 3 years of playing catch-up to ChatGPT’s dominance, Google's next big move is imminent—and insiders say it's "extremely impressive."

Details:

• Google employees are hinting at the release, and Sundar Pichai says it’s coming before year-end. Many thinking the model is already being tested. Expectations are high for major upgrades in coding and multimedia, including a better Nano Banana

• After ChatGPT’s 2022 launch pushed Google into catch-up mode, the company leaned on its full-stack advantage—building models, owning distribution, and running everything on its cloud. This keeps Google independent

• GPT-5’s weak release gave Google a chance to surge ahead. ChatGPT still leads with 800M weekly users vs Gemini’s 650M monthly, but Google is catching up. Younger users favor Gemini, and Google’s long-term plays on chips, cloud, and research are paying off

If Gemini 3.0 delivers as expected, this could be the moment Google reclaims AI leadership—assuming they don’t fumble their biggest shot yet.

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AI Leadership

Jeff Bezos Returns as Co-CEO of $6.2B AI Manufacturing Startup

Jeff Bezos is making his return to active business leadership, taking on the co-CEO role at Project Prometheus, an AI startup that's already making waves in the tech world with massive funding.

Details:

• Project Prometheus has secured $6.2 billion in funding with Bezos as both investor and co-leader, making it one of the world's best-funded early-stage startups. The company focuses on using AI to revolutionize manufacturing across computing, automotive, and aerospace industries

• Bezos will share CEO duties with co-founder Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who previously led teams at Google X's moonshot factory and Alphabet's health tech venture Verily. The startup has rapidly assembled nearly 100 employees

• This marks Bezos' first formal operational role since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021, coming at a time when his space company Blue Origin just achieved its first successful New Glenn booster landing last week

Backed by major funding, top AI talent, and Bezos’s execution record, Project Prometheus could redefine AI-driven manufacturing.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Yapper (Life-time Deal): Create viral content with Sora 2 and Veo 3 — text-to-video, trend-aware templates, voice cloning, deepfakes, image generation, and upscaling

• Kagi: Privacy-first search and browsing with no ads/trackers, plus Lenses, Privacy Pass, an LLM marketplace, and a private browser [F-R-E-E]

• MyLens: Turn any YouTube link into a tappable timeline—paste a URL to get jump-to timestamps and a breakdown of key moments [F-R-E-E]

• ImagineArt: Produces ultra-realistic images, capturing details like individual skin pores and subtle light reflections [F-R-E-E with Limits]

• Gemini Canvas: Turn a blank slide into a polished presentation by prompting Gemini to “create a presentation” and attaching your project notes [F-R-E-E]

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AI Tutorial

How to Build a Personalized Podcast with ElevenLabs

If you want to build a podcast that sounds polished without expensive gear, you’re in the right place. This guide walks you through selecting an AI voice, shaping it with SSML, and producing clean audio that’s ready to publish.

1. Define Concept

   Decide your theme, angle, and audience, then prepare a simple 2–5 minute script. Keep sentences clear so the AI voice reads naturally.

2. Sign Up and Explore Voices

   Create an account on ElevenLabs and browse the Voice Lab. Choose a built-in voice or upload a consented sample to clone your own.

   • Test at least 2 voice options

   • Save your best presets for future episodes

3. Convert Script to SSML

   Turn your script into SSML to control pace, emphasis, breaths, and tone.

   Example updated SSML snippet:

   <speak> <p><emphasis level="moderate">Welcome to our first session.</emphasis></p> <break time="450ms"/> <voice name="custom-voice"> Hi, I’m Altiam. In this session, we look at how AI improves storytelling. <break time="300ms"/> <prosody rate="0.93">Let’s begin.</prosody> </voice> </speak>

4. Test and Refine Delivery

   Generate short 10–20 second previews and adjust prosody, pitch, pauses, and punctuation until it sounds natural.

   • Slow down the rate if speech feels rushed

   • Increase emphasis if the tone feels flat

5. Generate Podcast Segments

   Paste your SSML or text into Studio and create each part separately:

   • Intro

   • Content blocks

   • Sponsor message

   • Outro

   This gives you flexibility to re-record parts and use voice variations for subtle emotion changes.

6. Edit and Add Final Touches

   Download the audio files and use Descript, Audacity, or any editor to trim silence, clean artifacts, balance volume, and add gentle background music or transitions. Keep edits minimal but polished.

7. Export and Publish

   Export as MP3 (or WAV for quality) and upload to Spotify for Podcasters, Buzzsprout, or Podbean. Add a short episode description and share your link across platforms.

Note: If a word is mispronounced, spell it phonetically in SSML or add a custom pronunciation rule in ElevenLabs.

Top AI & Tech News

• Disney Channel actor Calum Worthy launched 2wai, an AI platform that creates interactive avatars of deceased relatives to speak and engage across life events

• Microsoft CEO shared a post on the company’s “positive-sum” approach to AI, alongside a candid Dwarkesh Podcast appearance on AGI and the industry’s future

• Google rolled out holiday AI shopping upgrades: an agent that calls stores to check inventory, agentic checkout, product browsing in Gemini, and more

• ByteDance Seed launched Depth Anything 3, an AI model that infers spatially consistent geometry from images to produce accurate 3D depth maps

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

A conceptual dark studio portrait of a smiling young man (use uploaded face with short black hair) standing and looking directly at the camera. He wears a sharp red suit over a white turtleneck sweater and holds a plain, featureless red mask with both hands in front of his chest. The background is pitch white, filled with multiple faint, semi-transparent red masks floating and fading into the dark void. The image features a gritty film-grain texture with subtle dust and scratches, dramatic low-key lighting, ultra-photorealistic 8K quality, vertical composition.

Model: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)

Prompt of the Day

GPT-5.1 Prompting Guide

This is a practical guide for developers to maximize GPT-5.1 performance in agentic and coding workflows, covering migration tips, steerable personality and output formatting, user update cadences, persistence for complete solutions, parallel tool-calling, and the latest “none” reasoning mode for low-latency tasks.

Top AI Video Tutorial

Create Hyper-Realistic AI Human Scenes with Hailuo AI 2.3

AI Course of the Day

Google Prompting Essentials Specialization

This course teaches you how to craft clear, effective prompts in five steps and apply them to everyday work. You’ll learn techniques to streamline routine tasks, accelerate data analysis, and quickly build polished presentations. We’ll also design prompts that turn AI into role‑playing agents for realistic conversations, coaching, and expert feedback.