OpenAI is developing a social media platform like X

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👉 OpenAI wants to build a competitor for Elon Musk’s X

👉 xAI ships Grok Studio to compete with OpenAI’s canvas

👉 Google uses AI to suspend fraudulent ad accounts

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What’s going on: OpenAI is developing a social media platform to compete with X. The project, still in its early stages, centers on an internal prototype that integrates ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities with a social feed. It’s unclear whether OpenAI will launch this as a standalone app or incorporate it into the existing ChatGPT ecosystem.

What does it mean: CEO Sam Altman has been quietly seeking external feedback, indicating serious consideration, though no timeline for a public release has been confirmed. OpenAI’s intent to expand beyond AI model development into consumer-facing platforms is ambitious and will potentially escalate tensions with Elon Musk (X) and Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), both of whom operate established social networks.

More details:

• OpenAI has two main goals: enhancing user engagement and securing real-time user-generated data to train AI models.

• Platforms like X and Meta already leverage vast datasets to refine their AI systems, such as Grok and Llama.

• By creating its own network, OpenAI could access similar data streams, strengthening its multimodal models that process text and images.

• Read the original report published by The Verge.

What’s going on: xAI’s chatbot, Grok 3, has added a new feature called Grok Studio, enabling users to create and edit documents, code, reports, and basic apps in a canvas-like workspace. Grok Studio is available to both free and paying users on Grok website. The feature allows collaborative content creation through a split-screen interface, with Grok’s responses on the left and a separate window on the right for editing content.

What does it mean: ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude all have their own version of an interactive canvas. It was about time for xAI to add a similar feature to its next-generation chatbot, Grok 3, just to keep up with its rivals. Grok Studio supports previewing HTML snippets and running code in languages like Python, C++, and JavaScript, making it suitable for prototyping lightweight applications and drafting documents.

More details:

• A concurrent upgrade enhances Grok Studio’s utility which is integration with Google Drive. Users can now attach documents, spreadsheets, and slides from their Google Drive accounts to Grok prompts, allowing the AI to analyze or incorporate these files into its responses.

• This integration streamlines workflows by reducing the need to switch between tools, particularly for users handling data-driven tasks or collaborative projects.

• You can try this new feature in Grok 3 on X platform or its standalone website.

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💰 Hammerspace, a company that helps Nvidia, Meta, Tesla and other companies access data across various environments, raised $100 million, valuing the company at over $500 million.

🚫 Google has suspended 39.2 million fraudulent advertiser accounts by using AI and LLMs to detect and counteract scams, deepfakes, and policy violations.

💳 OpenAI has hired the co-founders of Context.ai, an AI model evaluation and analytics platform backed by GV, to enhance its model evaluation capabilities.

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