xAI Launches Grok 4 With Record Benchmarks

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Grok 4 officially launches, setting standards in AI; OpenAI explores building an AI-native browser; YouTube will penalize low-effort AI content creators.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Trend Watch: Recreate Any TV Show with AI

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Prompt to Reduce AI Hallucinations

• AI Video Tutorial

• F-R-E-E AI Course of the Day: Claude Code in Action

Hottest AI News

xAI

Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grok 4 Setting Higher Benchmarks for AI Intelligence

Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Grok 4, its latest flagship model, along with a $300/month SuperGrok Heavy plan. Positioned to rival ChatGPT and Gemini, the release comes as xAI deepens its X platform integration, with Musk touting groundbreaking capabilities.

Details:

• Grok 4 comes in two versions: standard and “Heavy.” The Heavy model uses multiple AI agents working together like a study group. xAI says it outperformed rivals on major benchmarks, including a top score on Humanity’s Last Exam with tools

• The launch follows a turbulent week for Musk’s companies—X’s CEO stepped down, and Grok’s account posted offensive content, leading xAI to delete posts and revise its system prompt. Musk and his team avoided the topic during the event

• xAI is rapidly expanding, with models for coding, multimodal tasks, and video generation planned in the coming months. Grok 4 is available via API, and the $300 SuperGrok Heavy plan offers early use of advanced features

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OpenAI

OpenAI Reportedly Developing AI-Powered Web Browser

OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch an AI-powered web browser in the coming weeks, marking its biggest move since ChatGPT. The browser could reshape how users interact with the web and AI, according to Reuters.

Details:

• The browser will reportedly include OpenAI’s "Operator" agent, which can handle tasks like bookings and form-filling on its own—highlighting a shift toward more autonomous AI tools

• A built-in ChatGPT interface will let users interact with the chatbot without visiting OpenAI’s site. The browser is based on Google’s Chromium engine, like Chrome and Edge

• The move heats up the AI browser race. Perplexity recently launched its own Chromium-based browser, and both companies have shown interest in acquiring Chrome if antitrust rulings force Google to sell

OpenAI has been developing this browser for a while, hiring key Chrome team members. It builds on last year’s ChatGPT search features, aiming to blend web browsing with advanced AI assistance.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Qolaba (Life-time Deal): Use top AI models to generate text, images, videos, and audio content and to build intelligent AI agents — all within a single unified platform

• Reweb 2.0: Create, modify, and explore designs on an infinite canvas, combining AI with precise visual editing control [F-R-E-E]

• Manus Slides: Manus recently added Themes to create polished slide decks with page count, color palette, auto-generated layouts, and visual covers [F-R-E-E]

• KREA AI: AI platform that simplifies creating and editing images or videos, letting users generate visuals from prompts or style selections [F-R-E-E]

• Trae: AI coding assistant with real-time help, deep code insights, task planning, and multimodal support—powered by latest AI models [F-R-E-E]

Top AI & Tech News

• Perplexity launched Comet, an AI browser with its search engine and an assistant that handles tasks like booking meetings, navigating sites, and integrating with user workflows

• OpenAI is expected to release its highly anticipated open-source model next week, rumored to be “similar to o3 mini” with reasoning abilities

• Microsoft CCO Judson Althoff said AI in call centers has saved the company over $500M in the past year, after last week’s 9,000 job cuts

• YouTube will crack down on mass-produced “AI slop” videos from July 15. Channels posting low-effort AI content risk losing monetization

AI Trend Watch

How You Can Recreate Any TV Show with AI 🤯

This post shows a simple way to recreate TV shows with AI tools. It explains how to keep characters consistent, use screenshots as references, and combine voice cloning with lipsync for realistic scenes.

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney V7

Prompt:

The surreal scene seen from the plane window, a blue whale leaping out of the fluffy white clouds from the air, in the vibrant blue Sky, the soft sunlight casts a hazy haze, and below are layers of sea of clouds. The wide-angle lens has a cinematic depth of field, and the sunlight refracts on the window frame, making it a realistic photograph --ar 9:16 --stylize 1000 --v 7

Prompt of the Day

Prompt for Reducing AI Hallucinations

This prompt tells the AI to cite sources in its answers and include an exact quote from the source, making it easier to verify information and prevent unsupported claims.

Top AI Video Tutorial

Revealing All the Secrets of Vibe Marketing (No Gatekeeping)

This video provides a comprehensive guide to using AI-powered "Vibe Marketing" to get the first customers for startups, especially those building with vibe coding tools and AI agents.

Complimentary AI Course of the Day

Claude Code in Action

This course covers Claude Code, a command-line AI assistant that uses language models to perform development tasks. You'll learn how Claude Code reads files, executes commands, and modifies code through its tool system, along with techniques for managing context, creating custom workflows, and integrating with external services.