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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro for advanced logic and coding; OpenAI nears historic $100B raise as World Labs secures $200M from Autodesk.
Inside This Edition: 💎
Hottest AI News
Top AI & SaaS Tools
AI Tutorial: Fix Photo Lighting in Minutes
Top AI & Tech News
AI Art Spotlight
Prompt of the Day: OpenClaw Soul Prompt
Featured AI Video
Course of the Day: How to AI (Almost) Anything by MIT
Hottest AI News
DeepMind
Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro to Tackle Advanced Logic and Coding
Google unveiled Gemini 3.1 Pro, its first-ever “.1” update, built for advanced problem-solving. It integrates upgrades from Gemini 3 Deep Think and targets complex science, research, and engineering tasks.
Details:
The model made a major leap in reasoning, scoring 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark—more than doubling Gemini 3 Pro’s performance on unseen logic tasks
This intelligence powers creative and practical uses, from animated SVGs and live ISS dashboards to interactive 3D murmurations and a modern website inspired by Wuthering Heights
Launching in preview to refine agentic workflows, it’s available via the Gemini API across Google AI tools, with Pro and Ultra users getting dedicated NotebookLM features and higher app limits
This unprecedented leap in benchmark performance and rapid release schedule demonstrate Google’s unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve.
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OpenAI
OpenAI Reportedly Nears Historic $100 Billion Raise at $850 Billion Valuation
OpenAI is reportedly closing the largest private funding round ever, raising over $100 billion. The deal could value the company at $850 billion, putting it among the world’s most valuable corporations.
Details:
The financing establishes a post-money valuation of more than $850 billion, stepping up from a pre-money value of $730 billion and shattering all previous venture capital records
Strategic heavyweights Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft are expected to lead the round, effectively forming a massive alliance that unifies the primary providers of cloud, capital, and compute
Proceeds are specifically earmarked for an industrial-scale infrastructure build-out, funding the data centers and custom silicon chips required to support trillions of dollars in future AI development
This move signals a decisive shift in the AI arms race, transforming the push for AGI from a software challenge into a massive capital and infrastructure project.
Top AI & SaaS Tools
VoiceDash (Life-time Deal): Turns your speech into polished, grammar-fixed text in real time across Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android
Phoenix-4: Real-time model that generates continuous, context-aware facial behavior (micro-expressions, head pose, eye gaze, blinks) and emotion control
Interpreter: An offline desktop agent that works with any model, fills PDFs, edits Excel and Word files, and learns additional skills [F-R-E-E]
Recraft V4: Advanced image model with strong visual taste, precise prompts, and high-quality results for editorial, fashion, product, and typographic posters [F-R-E-E]
NotebookLM: NotebookLM added two slide features — the ability to modify slides by describing changes in plain text, and PPTX export [F-R-E-E]
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AI Tutorial
How to Fix Photo Lighting in Minutes
If your image looks flat, harsh, or just “off,” Relight can fix it quickly. This tutorial walks through every control that matters: choosing a starting direction from the grid, refining the angle with the direction pad, and selecting Soft or Hard light depending on the vibe.
Visit Higgsfield’s Relight
Launch Higgsfield’s Relight tool and upload the photo you want to relight.
Choose preset light direction
Use the Quick Select Grid to pick a starting direction:
Top, Front, Right, Left, Back, or Bottom
Use direction pad
Tap, hold, and drag in the interactive Light Direction Pad (with the light cone icon) to rotate the light direction until the highlights and shadows look right.
Pick light style
Soft Mode for smoother, gentler shadows.
Hard Mode for sharper, higher-contrast shadows.
Adjust brightness and light color
Brightness slider ranges from 0–100% (default 50%).
Color defaults to neutral white (#FFFFFF), and you can choose a color or enter a hex code.
Make small refinement pass
Do a quick check and change what’s needed:
If the light feels slightly off, nudge the direction a little in the pad.
If it’s too strong or too weak, adjust brightness.
If you want a different mood, change the light color (including hex).
Generate final image
Tap the yellow Generate button to render the relit result with your chosen settings.
Note: If the image looks unnatural, switch between Soft and Hard before touching color. Light quality often fixes issues quicker than color.
Top AI & Tech News
World Labs raised part of a $1 billion funding round with a $200 million investment from Autodesk, plus participation from AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Nvidia and others
Google DeepMind’s Lyria 3, a generative music model, is rolling out in beta through the Gemini app
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly kept their hands apart during a unity gesture, underscoring their escalating rivalry as both expand operations in India
OpenAI hired Meta’s longtime celebrity partnerships chief Charles Porch as VP of global creative partnerships to help bridge trust with the entertainment industry
AI Art Spotlight
Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:
Product photo in a 3:4 aspect ratio. Capsule with the top half in [COLOR] (with a printed logo on it [LOGO] and a transparent lower half. Inside the capsule, place (more or less) [PRODUCT]. Studio photo of the product with hyper-realistic textures, soft studio lighting, centered composition, high detail, modern and stylish, high contrast.Model: Nano Banana Pro
Prompt of the Day
Give Your OpenClaw a Soul Prompt
This prompt converts OpenClaw’s SOUL(.)md into a concise, unapologetic instruction set that gives the assistant clear personality rules: take strong stances, cut corporate hedging, prioritize brevity, welcome natural humor and well-timed swearing, call out obvious mistakes, and always answer directly.
Featured AI Video
Google Gemini Released a Hidden Superpower
AI Course of the Day
How to AI (Almost) Anything by MIT
A practical, project-focused introduction to modern AI that emphasizes deep learning and foundation models across multiple data types. Students learn core concepts—representation learning, training and evaluation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and tool and use-case design—and apply them to real-world modalities beyond text.