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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.
OpenAI’s secret economy-boosting model emerges; ARC AGI 3 reveals intelligence gaps while Google unveils TurboQuant to shrink AI memory without tradeoffs.
Inside This Edition: 💎
Hottest AI News
Top AI & SaaS Tools
AI Tutorial: Generate E-Commerce Product Shoot
Top AI & Tech News
AI Art Spotlight
Prompt of the Day: AI Presentation Prompts
Featured AI Video
Course of the Day: AI Agents by HF
Hottest AI News
OpenAI
Internal OpenAI Memo Reveals Secret Model Built to Accelerate the Economy
A leaked memo says OpenAI has finished pretraining its latest model, “Spud.” Sam Altman told staff it may launch within weeks, could boost the economy, and is already reshaping the company’s roadmap.
Details:
OpenAI is shutting down Sora to unlock more computing power for Spud and other key projects. It is also renaming Fidji Simo’s product group to “AGI Deployment” as part of a broader internal shift
Spud is expected to become the core model behind OpenAI’s planned desktop superapp. That would bring together ChatGPT, Codex, and an upcoming browser called Atlas into one experience
These moves suggest OpenAI is under pressure to narrow gap with Anthropic. Claude Code and Anthropic’s agent tools have won strong business interest, while Codex and Frontier are working to keep pace
As the race toward artificial general intelligence continues to accelerate, these decisive internal pivots indicate that OpenAI is preparing for a major enterprise offensive.
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ARC Prize
ARC AGI 3 Exposes Massive AI Intelligence Gap
ARC Prize Foundation has launched ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark that tests AI in interactive, turn-based games. Unlike earlier tests, it removes many usual advantages and forces agents to explore, infer goals, and solve tasks without hints.
Details:
According to report, humans solved all 135 environments with no prior knowledge, but every frontier model scored under 1%. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview reached 0.37%, GPT 5.4 got 0.26%, Opus 4.6 scored 0.25%, and Grok-4.20 got 0.00%
The benchmark uses a metric called Relative Human Action Efficiency, or RHAE. It compares how many useful actions an AI takes versus a human and penalizes brute-force guessing rather than slow internal reasoning
With ARC-1 and ARC-2 largely saturated, ARC-AGI-3 is built to test the next gap: agentic intelligence. It shows that doing well on familiar tasks does not prove a model can handle unfamiliar environments on its own
This massive disparity shows exactly how far current AI systems remain from genuine human-like adaptability.
Top AI & SaaS Tools
BannerBoo (Life-time Deal): Create, animate, and publish HTML5, GIF, and MP4 ads quickly with templates, auto-resize, and branded previews
Moda: Design platform offering a fully editable, on-brand canvas for creation of slides, social posts, PDFs, and other visual assets [F-R-E-E]
Littlebird: AI assistant that observes your screen, transcribes meetings, and builds a private memory of your work to give context-aware answers [F-R-E-E]
Agentplace: Create, customize, and deploy AI agents for workflows like lead routing, research, document analysis, scheduling, and support [F-R-E-E]
Playcode: AI website builder developed over 10 years that acts like a senior designer to plan, build and redesign sites automatically
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AI Tutorial
How to Generate Full E-Commerce Product Shoot with Grok
If your AI product images look good alone but don’t feel connected, this workflow helps. You’ll learn how to use Grok’s Aurora model to turn one strong image into a cohesive e‑commerce product shoot.
Launch Grok
Go to Grok and upload a clean photo of your product to use as the starting reference.
Create base studio shot
Write a prompt that clearly defines the studio setup, lighting, and camera style.
Example prompt:
“Studio product photo of [your product] on a dark textured surface, soft key light from the upper left, subtle shadow on the right, shot on an 85mm lens, f/2.8, shallow depth of field, premium commercial product photography”Lock in visual style
Keep the main visual details consistent so every next image matches the first one:
surface or background style
lighting direction and softness
lens and depth of field
Generate second angle
Use the first result as the base and ask for a fresh angle without changing the overall setup.
Example prompt:
“Use the same product, same dark textured surface, same soft upper-left lighting, same commercial studio setup, but show it from a 3/4 angle”Create variation shots
Expand the set by changing the framing or composition:
a tighter close-up
a top-down version
a clean white background version
Add one lifestyle image
Create a real-world usage shot so the set feels more complete. Describe how the product is being used and where it appears.
Include:
who is using it or how it is placed
the environment
the lighting and mood
Example prompt:
“Lifestyle photo of [your product] being used in a modern indoor setting, natural soft lighting, realistic atmosphere, premium brand look, keep the product design accurate and visually consistent with the studio images”
Note: Place the generated images side by side and check whether they feel like they came from the same shoot.
Top AI & Tech News
Google Research announced TurboQuant, an AI memory-compression method that uses vector quantization to reduce the KV cache without performance loss
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock launched Hark, an AI startup building a different interface to AGI through personalized AI paired with dedicated hardware
President Trump named Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Jensen Huang to a freshly formed tech advisory panel that will help shape AI regulation
Melania Trump presented a Figure AI humanoid robot at a White House event, highlighting a future of personalized robot tutors for children
Figma opened its design canvas to coding agents, allowing tools like Claude Code to create and edit designs directly using a team’s existing components and brand standards
AI Art Spotlight
Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:
[BRAND NAME] luxury leather duffle bag, high-end editorial studio photograph. The duffle bag, designed with a unique, unconventional color palette and unexpected patterns or graphics relevant to [BRAND NAME], is suspended against a seamless, soft pastel studio background with gentle, diffused lighting. The premium pebbled leather texture is prominent, with [BRAND NAME] logos and signature motifs integrated into the design. Polished metal hardware and a small leather luggage tag are visible. The scene is lit with professional softbox lighting, creating soft shadows and highlights. Shot with a shallow depth of field, the bag is in sharp focus. At the bottom, small, minimalist typography reads "[BRAND NAME] LEATHER DUFFLE".Model: Nano Banana 2
Prompt of the Day
7 AI Presentation Prompts That Actually Work
Most people type “Make a presentation for me” and then wonder why the slides look boring or random. This post fixes that. You’ll get simple, copy-paste prompts that tell AI exactly what kind of presentation you want—whether it’s a deep research deck with data and case studies, a beginner-friendly explainer, an investor pitch, a corporate-style report, or a full slide deck with a speaker script. (Log in to X to see the prompts)
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AI Course of the Day
AI Agents Course by Hugging Face
Hands-on AI agents course covering fundamentals through building and deploying agents with smolagents, LlamaIndex, and LangGraph. Learn via concise theory, ready-to-use Hugging Face Spaces, real-world assignments, and a final leaderboard project, with optional extras on fine-tuning, observability, and agent games.