🌀 Zoom's AI goes fully autonomous
Gaming gets its own specialized AI assistant
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Hey there, AI enthusiasts. Zoom is changing the game. The time of AI assistants just following commands is over. Now, Zoom brings real agentic abilities to its platform.
When your meeting assistant can manage calendars, make video clips, and handle tough tasks on its own, we're stepping into an age of AI that serves you, not just partners with you.
In Today’s AI Daily:
- Mistral AI launches powerful Small 3.1 model for consumer hardware
- Roblox democratizes 3D creation with Cube generative system
- Zoom unveils fully autonomous AI Companion with independent capabilities
- xAI acquires video foundation model startup Hotshot
- Microsoft partners on brain-inspired AI model
MISTRAL AI
🌪️ Mistral launches Small 3.1 multimodal AI model
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What’s up: French AI company Mistral released Small 3.1, an advanced multimodal model that outperforms competitors like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini while delivering impressive 150 tokens-per-second inference speeds.
Keynotes:
- The 24B model has better text processing and image understanding. It also offers a larger 128k token context window.
- Small 3.1 can run on devices like the RTX 4090 or a Mac with 32GB RAM. This means it’s perfect for direct use on your hardware.
- The model delivers strong performance across text benchmarks, multimodal tasks, and multilingual capabilities.
- Mistral has launched the model under an Apache 2.0 license. You can find both base and instruct-tuned versions.
- The model can now be accessed on Hugging Face, Mistral's platform, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Why it matters: People want AI that’s fast and can do lots of things, and Small 3.1 delivers. It's free and outperforms expensive models. This might inspire fresh ideas in many areas, like games and school projects. It’s making top-notch AI something anyone can use, not big companies with big bucks!
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ROBLOX
🧊 Roblox launches "Cube" generative 3D AI system
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What’s up: Gaming platform giant Roblox has unveiled Cube, its new AI system that makes 3D and even 4D content. This is what they promised last fall—to build a big 3D model and share it with everyone.
Keynotes:
- Cube 3D uses AI to craft awesome 3D objects and scenes from scratch.
- Roblox is letting everyone use a version of it for free (open-source), not just their own developers.
- Starting this week, creators can try out the beta version of Cube 3D in Roblox Studio to create 3D meshes.
- Developers can also add it to their games using a special Lua API tool.
Why it matters: Creating 3D content is now easier and more accessible. Over 70 million people log into Roblox daily. They can build amazing virtual worlds without tech hurdles. By sharing Cube, Roblox is teaming up with everyone. This boosts 3D creation for all kinds of projects!
ZOOM
🤖 Zoom unveils an agentic AI Companion with autonomous skills across the platform
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What’s up: Zoom revealed a big upgrade to its AI Companion. It’s not just a helpful assistant anymore. Now, it’s a super-smart AI. It can take on tasks, make decisions, and handle complex jobs in the Zoom app.
Keynotes:
- The AI Companion can think and remember information. It helps make decisions, fix problems, and complete tasks on its own, step by step.
- It offers new skills, such as organizing your calendar, making video clips, and helping with writing, as well as over 45 cool AI updates across Zoom.
- A special add-on costs $12 per user each month. It allows companies to customize features. They can set up unique meetings, create special word lists, and have personal AI coaches.
- Zoom releases a special version for doctors, teachers, frontline workers, and more. They will use both small AI models and those from other companies.
Why it matters: AI is changing from following orders to taking charge of stuff. Zoom is leading the way in making work more manageable with these updates. This shift means the AI isn’t listening and answering anymore—it’s doing the heavy lifting on big tasks. That could save people time, but it also makes one wonder how humans and AI will team up at work in the future.
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🗞️ What Matters in AI Right Now?
xAI acquired Hotshot, a video foundation model startup that developed three models including Hotshot-XL and Hotshot Act One, strengthening xAI's capabilities in video generation technology.
Microsoft teamed up with an AI startup to develop an AI model. This model mimics the thinking of mammalian brains. It learns from real-world experiences instead of relying on old data patterns.
Tencent announced a major update to its open-source 3D generation model. The update features two new versions: 3D 2.0 MV (Multi-View Generation) and 3D 2.0 mini.
Google plans to partner with MediaTek for its next Tensor Processing Units. It will also continue working with Broadcom, partly to save costs.
Perplexity has partnered with SoftBank to launch Enterprise Pro for businesses in Japan. SoftBank's sales team, with 7,000 members, will be the first authorized reseller.
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