OpenAI’s “Super Assistant” Plan for ChatGPT

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OpenAI advances ChatGPT as essential life companion; Anthropic hits $3B revenue amid AI surge; ElevenLabs upgrades voice AI with multilingual, multimodal, and multi-persona features.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Trend Watch: Turn Photos Into Cute Line Art

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Claude 4 Prompting Guide

• AI Video Tutorial

• F-R-E-E AI Course of the Day: DeepMind x UCL | Deep Learning

Hottest AI News

OpenAI

OpenAI Pushes ChatGPT To Become Essential Life Companion

A leaked OpenAI strategy document reveals plans to turn ChatGPT into an “AI super assistant” by early 2025—one that deeply understands users and can handle nearly any task a smart, emotionally intelligent person with a computer could do.

Details:

• OpenAI believes its models can reliably handle “agentic tasks.” With multimodal abilities and computer-level control, ChatGPT could manage everything from planning trips to writing code and sending emails

• Hardware is central to OpenAI’s vision. The goal is to make ChatGPT available everywhere—helping with recipes, finding places, taking notes, or offering company on a walk. Sam Altman calls it a “life advisor”

• Challenges persist. OpenAI faces infrastructure limits, strong competition from tech giants, and regulatory pressure. It’s pushing for rules that let users choose ChatGPT as their default assistant

As OpenAI pursues its vision, it cites its rapid growth, strong brand, and bold culture as key strengths—but admits growth and revenue won’t always align.

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Anthropic

Anthropic Reaches $3 Billion Annual Revenue as Business AI Demand Surges

Anthropic has reached $3 billion in annualized revenue, highlighting its rapid growth and accelerating enterprise adoption of AI, particularly in areas like code generation and automation.

Details:

• Anthropic’s revenue tripled from $1 billion in December to $3 billion by May, marking unprecedented SaaS growth, says Meritech’s Alex Clayton

• Code generation drives much of this growth. Backed by Alphabet and Amazon, Anthropic’s AI models excel in programming, with strong recent adoption

• OpenAI leads consumers with ChatGPT, while Anthropic focuses on enterprise. OpenAI projects $12 billion revenue by 2025; Anthropic’s valuation is $61.4 billion versus OpenAI’s $300 billion

Anthropic’s rapid growth shows enterprise AI adoption is moving beyond experiments, especially in code generation, marking the early shift in the AI business landscape.

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Top AI & Tech News

• ElevenLabs' Conversational AI 2.0 adds natural turn-taking, multilingual support, RAG, multimodality, multiple personas, and batch calling for more lifelike enterprise voice assistants

• Alibaba Group released QwenLong-L1, a framework that lets large language models handle much longer inputs than the typical 4,000-token limit

• NAACP has urged Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s Colossus data center in South Memphis due to environmental and health concerns

• Google launched an experimental app, AI Edge Gallery, letting users run AI models locally on Android (iOS coming soon) without needing internet

AI Trend Watch

Turn Photos Into Cute Line Art 🎨

This post shares a JSON prompt for creating "Cute Line Illustrations" using GPT-4o, transforming images into playful, 3D cartoon-style artwork with soft pastels and bold linework.

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney V7

Prompt:

Perfectly symmetrical rear view of a white Lamborghini Countach 5000, centered composition, parked in a field of white daisies, pastel sky background, soft clouds, dreamy cinematic lighting, photorealistic, ultra-detailed, depth of field, bokeh flowers, surreal luxury meets nature, "pistol6" in cursive on rear, "visionclear" on right of rear, 8k resolution --stylize 750 --v 7

Prompt of the Day

Claude 4 Prompt Engineering Guide

With the launch of Claude 4, Anthropic also published its recommended best practices for prompt engineering when interacting with its models. These guidelines help users craft more effective prompts, ensuring clearer communication and better results.

Top AI Video Tutorial

Create Seamless AI Films from One Image (Consistent Characters & Backgrounds)

Complimentary AI Course of the Day

DeepMind x UCL | Deep Learning (YouTube)

This course, created by DeepMind and UCL, covers the core concepts and algorithms of reinforcement learning. Learn through lectures and practical exercises, from foundational principles to advanced topics, guided by leading experts in the field.