OpenAI Declares Code Red

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

OpenAI hits ‘Code Red’ in the AI race; Mistral takes models to laptops and drones; AWS simplifies enterprise AI agents.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Find Best Deals on BF/CM with ChatGPT

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Prompt That Shows What to Leave Behind in 2025

• AI Video Tutorial

Hottest AI News

OpenAI

OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Catches Up in AI Race

The AI race is shifting rapidly. Just a few years after Google scrambled to answer ChatGPT, the momentum is swinging back. With rivals closing in and its early advantage fading, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly issued a “code red” to protect the company’s lead.

Details:

• Google is gaining ground rapidly with tools like the Nano Banana image model and Gemini 3, which is outperforming rivals on key benchmarks. That surge is creating real pressure for OpenAI as it spends heavily and searches for a clear path to profitability

• Altman said in a memo that OpenAI will pause several upcoming launches, including ads, shopping tools, health agents, and its personal assistant, Pulse

• The company is shifting its full focus to strengthening ChatGPT’s core features like speed, reliability, and personalization, with Altman adding daily progress calls and encouraging temporary team transfers to accelerate development

This urgency illustrates a major inflection point for OpenAI, proving that the pressure is getting to the market leader as rivals like Google and Anthropic successfully catch up.

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Mistral

Mistral Unveils Mistral 3 Family to Run AI on Laptops, Drones, and Edge Devices

French AI startup Mistral is taking on Silicon Valley with its Mistral 3 open-weight models, aiming to prove that efficiency and customization matter more than raw size. Despite raising far less than OpenAI or Anthropic, the company backs practical, flexible, customizable AI over massive closed systems.

Details:

• Mistral Large 3 is a multimodal, multilingual model built to rival GPT-4o and Llama 3. Its granular Mixture of Experts design uses 41B active parameters and supports a 256k context window for complex tasks

• To counter the industry’s size obsession, Mistral also released nine smaller “Ministral 3” models that run on a single GPU. The company says they can match or beat costly closed models when fine-tuned

• This efficiency focus is powering a shift toward physical AI and offline use, enabling these models to run locally on robots, drones, and laptops. The goal is to give clients privacy, independence, and resilience

By powering strong AI on low-cost hardware and edge devices, Mistral is pushing its mission to democratize the technology and keep advanced AI in the hands of many, not a few big labs.

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AI Tutorial

How to Use ChatGPT Shopping Research to Find the Best Deals on Black Friday/Cyber Monday

If you’re tired of opening ten tabs just to compare prices, this tutorial shows you how to use ChatGPT’s Shopping Research to handle everything in one place—from product discovery to final checkout links.

1. Enable Shopping Research

   Launch ChatGPT, tap the plus button beside the message box, and choose Shopping Research. This activates the tool and allows ChatGPT to pull real-time product listings, prices, and availability.

2. Clearly Describe What You Want

   Explain your need in natural language, such as:

   "Find me affordable noise-cancelling headphones with strong battery life for travel."

3. Provide Helpful Filters

   Strengthen the search by adding simple constraints like:

   • Budget range

   • Preferred specs (e.g., screen size, storage, material, feature-level)

   • Whether new, refurbished, or both are acceptable

4. Review Curated Suggestions

   ChatGPT will return a structured shortlist that typically includes:

   • Top recommended products with brief summaries

   • Price comparisons across several retailers

   • Pros, cons, and key feature trade-offs

   • Any strong alternatives you may not have considered

5. Compare Options in More Detail

   If you want deeper clarity, ask ChatGPT to compare items side-by-side. For example:

   "Compare these three backpack options and tell me which one is best for daily commuting."

6. Explore Additional Recommendations

   If none of the first suggestions feel right, ask ChatGPT to expand the search. You can adjust filters such as color preferences, weight/portability, or warranty requirements without restarting the process.

7. Choose and Purchase

   Once you’ve decided, press the retailer links provided in the results. They will take you directly to the correct product page where you can complete your purchase securely.

Note: Ask ChatGPT for real-world use cases or user scenarios to understand how a product performs beyond specs.

Top AI & Tech News

• AWS announced several features for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform to make building and monitoring AI agents easier for enterprises

• Nvidia introduced Alpamayo-R1, an open vision-language reasoning model for autonomous driving, at NeurIPS 2025

• Apple’s AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down, to be replaced by Microsoft executive and former Google Gemini Assistant engineering lead Amar Subramanya

• UN Development Programme warns that artificial intelligence may widen the gap between rich and poor countries, reversing decades of economic convergence

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

Ultra-realistic black and white studio portrait, vertical 9:16. (Use the uploaded picture as a reference for the face.) He is sitting on a simple folding chair, wearing an oversized black blazer, black t-shirt, flared jeans, and chunky sneakers. The pose is relaxed, with legs slightly stretched forward and one hand resting casually on the chair. He is wearing sunglasses with a confident expression. The background is a plain white studio with soft studio lighting, and subtle shadows falling to the right on the floor. Surrounding the subject are black, white, and orange doodle graffiti illustrations: lightning, zigzag lines, swirls, arrows, and motivational words: "PURPOSE", "CREATE YOUR PATH", "FAITH", "BEAT", "UNIQUE". High-contrast design. The subject is cleanly monochrome with bright doodle highlights.

Model: Nano Banana Pro

Prompt of the Day

This Prompt Shows You What to Finally Leave Behind in 2025

This prompt is a guided excavation of what you are unconsciously defending that no longer deserves a place in your next chapter. It walks you through noticing someone you admire, feeling the contrast between how lightly they move and what you still carry, then asking you to name the one thing you are fiercely protecting.

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