Meta Want To Dominate Superintelligence. Grok's Flirty Anime Companion! NotebookLM Featured Notebook

AI News - July 14

Meta go all in on the race for superintelligence Freepik adds Veo 3's new 'Start Frame' feature into the mix NotebookLM adds featured notebooks and Grok gets two new companions here's today's AI news. Mark Zuckerberg has just unveiled the scale of Meta's effort to lead the world in superintelligence.

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He reports that Meta is on track to be the first lab to bring a 1 gigawatt supercluster online. They're calling it Prometheus and it's coming online in 2026, but they aren't stopping there, they're also building the Hyperion Data Centre, which will be able to scale up to 5 gigawatts over several years.

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In the video you can see the installation overlaid over Manhattan for scale. Did any of you doubt that you were in the middle of a worldwide race for AI superintelligence? The new Veo 3 'Start Frame' feature is now available in FreePik.

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This means that you can now start with a seed image and and generate a video that brings the image to life courtesy of the Veo 3 fast model. Google has added 'Featured Notebooks' to its NotebookLM tool. Now on the homepage you will see a new section of Featured Notebooks.

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These will include some of the very best notebooks from the community of users, including scientific exploration, practical guides and expert advice. And finally, xAI have developed a new AI assistant feature called Companions. This allows users to interact with 3D animated characters for when voice mode just isn't quite enough.

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There's Ani, the anime girl that's eager to please. And then there's Bad Rudy, the not so eager to please Red Panda that has some serious attitude. It looks like Grok4 might have been the opening of the floodgates on a whole range of new features that xAI had stored up.