Meta Snagged Four OpenAI Researchers

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Meta hires top AI mind from OpenAI to boost reasoning models; Cluely shakes up AI marketing norms; Google debuts Gemma 3n multimodal models for mobile and edge.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Trend Watch: Turn Portrait into Cyberpunk Coding Scene

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering Guide

• AI Video Tutorial

• F-R-E-E AI Course of the Day: Agent Communication Protocol

Hottest AI News

Meta

Meta Recruits Leading AI Researcher from OpenAI for Reasoning Models

Meta has strengthened its AI superintelligence push by hiring Trapit Bansal, a key researcher behind OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model. This move aligns with Zuckerberg’s broader strategy to rival top players in building advanced AI systems capable of complex problem-solving.

Details:

• Trapit Bansal, who left OpenAI in June, was a key contributor to its first reasoning model and reinforcement learning efforts with Ilya Sutskever—making him a strong hire for Meta’s AI ambitions

• Zuckerberg has also brought in former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and is pursuing figures like Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, along with recruits from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Sesame—offering up to $100 million in compensation

• While Sam Altman says “none of our best people” have joined, Meta’s aggressive hiring and failed attempts to buy labs like Safe Superintelligence show its urgency to build a rival reasoning model

Meta’s AI lab could become a key internal engine for products company-wide, much like DeepMind at Google, especially for its business agent project led by ex-Salesforce CEO Clara Shih.

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Cluely

Cluely’s Controversial Marketing Challenges Traditional AI Strategies

Cluely’s $15M Series A from a16z sparked backlash over its “cheat on everything” pitch and provocative marketing. But its attention-grabbing style is exactly what drew in a16z’s Bryan Kim—hinting at a different playbook for AI startups in a crowded market.

Details:

• Kim has changed his view on what drives AI startup success. He once believed standout products would win, but realized big players like OpenAI can quickly copy features. He sees “momentum as the moat”—prioritizing speed over perfection

• Cluely founder Roy Lee uses viral controversy to fuel growth, drawing from TikTok and Instagram trends. His launch video, showing AI deception on a date, drew attention—even with little product behind it

• Though critics question what Cluely actually offers, Lee says it gets “more views than every YC batch company.” For Kim, this confirms that early attention gives startups room to build

As Cluely nears its June 27 launch, it embodies a16z’s shift in strategy. Kim puts it simply: “Build the plane as it’s falling.” Cluely believes gaining attention will buy time to improve in the rapidly shifting AI space.

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• NativeMind: Connects to Ollama local LLMs, delivering latest AI capabilities directly in your browser with zero data sent to the cloud [F-R-E-E]

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Top AI & Tech News

• Google launched Gemma 3n, a latest family of open AI models (2B and 4B) with strong multimodal features for mobile and edge devices

• OpenAI DevDay on October 6, 2025, in San Francisco will be their largest event with 1500+ developers, a livestreamed keynote, and hands-on demo

• Denmark will amend its copyright law to give individuals rights over their digital likenesses to address AI-generated deepfakes

• AI images and misinformation are negatively impacting online houseplant communities by spreading fake plant photos and inaccurate care advice

AI Trend Watch

How to Transform a Portrait into a Cyberpunk Coding Scene 🤯

1. Open ChatGPT and start a chat

2. Upload a photo of your choice

3. Paste the prompt below and send

Transform the uploaded image (keeping facial details intact) into a digitally captured scene featuring a young, bearded software developer deeply engrossed in coding on a sleek, transparent laptop set against a cyberpunk backdrop. Neon blue and purple lights permeate the environment, accentuating his focused expression. The glowing holographic interface displays colorful Python code alongside an AI Assistant window, while floating code streams and a mechanical arm add to the futuristic ambiance.

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney V7

Prompt:

A cute cat sitting gracefully in a landscape inspired by van gogh's starry night painting with characteristic blue color and cloud structure. and the cat is not placed too close to the top or edges. The composition is highly detailed, --ar 9:16 --stylize 750 --v 7

Prompt of the Day

Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering Guide

This post highlights Anthropic’s detailed prompt engineering guide, covering reusable templates, prompt improvement, step-by-step reasoning, role assignment, and managing large contexts — a must-read for AI builders seeking clearer, effective results.

Top AI Video Tutorial

How to Run AI Offline for F-R-E-E in 2025

Complimentary AI Course of the Day

ACP: Agent Communication Protocol

Learn to build and deploy ACP-compliant agents for multi-agent systems. This course covers wrapping agents in ACP servers, launching them for client discovery, creating workflows, using router agents for task delegation, and managing agents via a registry for easy sharing and collaboration.