DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 1 GOOGLE 🔥: - Gemini 4 Argon is with Fairwind trusted testers and the US government. 1M output tokens. Broader rollout ASAP. - Built for coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense. Google's chart: 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1, a new SOTA. - Artificial Analysis: 53 on the Intelligence Index, tying GPT-6 Astra. List $4/$20 per 1M, 50% promo to $2/$10, cache reads $0.10. - Skills are rolling out globally in Gemini. Gems migrate into Skills in November. Opal shuts down Nov 17. - Security review mode spotted in Google AI Studio, next to a Plan mode still in development. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude[.]dev is live: engineering deep dives, Claude Code and API guides, plus easter eggs. - Founder House is set for SF Tech Week Oct 6–8 and Stockholm Oct 14. - Skills attachment menu spotted on Claude mobile. SPACEX AI 🔥: - Grok Bot got new developer upgrades. Elon: try the latest. Team engineer bots in Slack can open Projects and hand coding to cloud agents. OPENAI 🔥: - Shareable profiles are live in ChatGPT, bundling Sites and plugins so others can find and reuse what you built. PERPLEXITY 🔥: - pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview is on Hugging Face. Leads ConTEB answer and evidence retrieval. 1 KB vectors vs Voyage's 8 KB. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

Your AI voice sounds human. So why can't it say your product's name? A great AI voice reads "Porsche Taycan" as TAY-can. Porsche says TIE-kahn. It guessed from the spelling, and nobody caught it, because nobody listens to line 1,200. Today we're launching Onepin: the production step after text-to-speech. It checks every line of voiceover before it ships using the voices you already work with. Onepin can: ➤ Check people's and product names against a 4-million-word pronunciation dictionary ➤ Spell out prices and dates before the voice speaks ➤ Score every line of audio for naturalness, clarity and word accuracy ➤ Fix the one wrong word in the same voice, without re-rendering the take Works with your voice subscription on @ElevenLabs, @OpenAI, @Google and 30+ more. No phonetic spellings to type. No re-rolls. No switching providers. Free to start, no credit card required. Hear the before and after in the thread ⬇️

Your AI voice sounds human. So why can't it say your product's name? A great AI voice reads "Porsche Taycan" as TAY-can. Porsche says TIE-kahn. It guessed from the spelling, and nobody caught it, because nobody listens to line 1,200. Today we're launching Onepin: the production step after text-to-speech. It checks every line of voiceover before it ships using the voices you already work with. Onepin can: ➤ Check people's and product names against a 4-million-word pronunciation dictionary ➤ Spell out prices and dates before the voice speaks ➤ Score every line of audio for naturalness, clarity and word accuracy ➤ Fix the one wrong word in the same voice, without re-rendering the take Works with your voice subscription on @ElevenLabs, @OpenAI, @Google and 30+ more. No phonetic spellings to type. No re-rolls. No switching providers. Free to start, no credit card required. Hear the before and after in the thread ⬇️

Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

Introducing 3 new models: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Accurate streaming transcription. Natural speech and less waiting between turns. Build voice agents that keep the conversation moving!

Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

Your AI voice sounds human. So why can't it say your product's name? A great AI voice reads "Porsche Taycan" as TAY-can. Porsche says TIE-kahn. It guessed from the spelling, and nobody caught it, because nobody listens to line 1,200. Today we're launching Onepin: the production step after text-to-speech. It checks every line of voiceover before it ships using the voices you already work with. Onepin can: ➤ Check people's and product names against a 4-million-word pronunciation dictionary ➤ Spell out prices and dates before the voice speaks ➤ Score every line of audio for naturalness, clarity and word accuracy ➤ Fix the one wrong word in the same voice, without re-rendering the take Works with your voice subscription on @ElevenLabs, @OpenAI, @Google and 30+ more. No phonetic spellings to type. No re-rolls. No switching providers. Free to start, no credit card required. Hear the before and after in the thread ⬇️

We’re excited to announce that @ultravox_dot_ai is now part of Inworld. Ultravox is the platform developers use to build real-time voice agents. We've worked with the team for a while through our TTS partnership, and today members of the team that built it are joining Inworld to keep developing it.

We’re excited to announce that @ultravox_dot_ai is now part of Inworld. Ultravox is the platform developers use to build real-time voice agents. We've worked with the team for a while through our TTS partnership, and today members of the team that built it are joining Inworld to keep developing it.

Create your own character. Call the shots. Live. Introducing A1 Playground + Agent: build a live AI character that talks, moves, and plays with you. Create yours: https://platform.vivix.ai/vivix-a1-model/ Their look. Their personality. Their voice. Your choice. Describe who you have in mind, upload a picture, and let our Agent bring them to life. And they do a lot more than talk. 💃 Full-body performance. From air guitar to victory dances. 🚶 Move around the scene. Walk and talk. Pace while making a point. 🛍️ Interact with objects. Pick up products, show them off, and pitch them. 🎮 Play web games together. Deal cards, keep score, and play along. Solve a mystery with Sherlock Holmes, then interrupt him for a dance break. Take a walk with Socrates. Hand him a protein shake and debate the meaning of gains. Give Snape a bottle of shampoo. Ask for the most enthusiastic sales pitch of his life. Who will you bring to life?

What's new in Grok Bot 0:19 Team bots - create bots shared with your team members 1:10 Finances - search and manage your finances with @plaid 1:32 Voice calls - @bot can search chats during calls and gracefully handles interruptions Like this for a special bot animation on @X!

Create your own character. Call the shots. Live. Introducing A1 Playground + Agent: build a live AI character that talks, moves, and plays with you. Create yours: https://platform.vivix.ai/vivix-a1-model/ Their look. Their personality. Their voice. Your choice. Describe who you have in mind, upload a picture, and let our Agent bring them to life. And they do a lot more than talk. 💃 Full-body performance. From air guitar to victory dances. 🚶 Move around the scene. Walk and talk. Pace while making a point. 🛍️ Interact with objects. Pick up products, show them off, and pitch them. 🎮 Play web games together. Deal cards, keep score, and play along. Solve a mystery with Sherlock Holmes, then interrupt him for a dance break. Take a walk with Socrates. Hand him a protein shake and debate the meaning of gains. Give Snape a bottle of shampoo. Ask for the most enthusiastic sales pitch of his life. Who will you bring to life?