Good morning from OWITH.ai, the podcast that gives you only what's important to hear in the AI and tech world.The latest issue of the Lore Brief highlights significant developments in the AI and tech sectors. A major initiative, referred to as America's AI Manhattan Project, has been launched by the White House. Known as the Genesis Mission, it aims to connect supercomputers, labs, and datasets through a national platform spearheaded by the Department of Energy. This initiative is set to tackle 20 key challenges in areas like biotech, fusion, and chip development, with a goal to demonstrate significant progress within nine months.Transitioning to business news, SF Compute has successfully raised $40 million in a Series A funding round. The funds are intended to expand its AI compute marketplace, which offers a flexible platform for renting high-end GPU capacity. This marketplace allows projects to optimize resource utilization by reselling unused capacity without requiring long-term commitments.Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.5, its most advanced model designed for coding and agent tasks. The model excels in benchmarks such as swe-bench, achieving an impressive score of 80.9%. Among its features are integration with Excel, Chrome browsing capabilities, and memory compression for limitless chats. Additionally, Factory has adopted Claude Opus 4.5 as its default AI model, enhancing reasoning and planning capabilities for complex tasks with a tunable effort parameter that effectively balances speed with depth. An Anthropic study highlights Claude's potential impact on productivity by reducing task times by 80%. This efficiency boost is predicted to double U.S. productivity growth over a decade, contributing an annual labor increase of 1.8%.Shifting focus to Google's innovation front, the Nano Banana Pro powered by Gemini 3 is gaining attention for its ability to generate viral content. The tool creates diverse outputs such as infographics, multilingual text, and 4K edits. Its versatility has captured over 70 million views across social media platforms.Reflecting on the future of AI research, Ilya Sutskever of SSI discusses the conclusion of the scaling era in AI. He anticipates that ongoing research will be pivotal for future breakthroughs and envisions the emergence of superhuman learners capable of nurturing sentient life within the next 5-20 years.OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT Shopping Research, a tool designed to enhance personalized shopping experiences. By asking clarifying questions and scanning prices and reviews, it adapts to user feedback, offering improved service availability through the holiday season across all plans. Looking ahead to future projections, OpenAI anticipates having 220 million paid ChatGPT users by 2030. This growth is expected due to broader adoption of Plus and Pro plans. Currently, out of 2.6 billion weekly users, only 35 million are subscribers.A leap forward in image creation comes from Black Forest Labs with Flux.2, which caters to professional image generation and editing needs. Featuring outputs up to 4MP, multi-reference blending, and prompt fidelity for ads and mockups, it offers advanced capabilities for creative professionals.In mathematical advancements, DeepSeek's Math V2 model garners top recognition as an open math model by excelling in competitions like IMO Gold. It employs generator-verifier loops to ensure proof rigor while self-correcting errors.These updates underscore the rapid advancements and strategic investments shaping the future landscape of AI and technology.

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