28 Oct 2025

Grokipedia Borrows More Than Name; AI Video Comes Alive; Legail Assistant

Grokipedia Launches AI-Native Encyclopedia

xAI released Grokipedia, intended as an AI-first alternative to Wikipedia. The initial version looks and reads strikingly similar to Wikipedia, with many entries adapted directly and editing largely disabled.

“Fact-checking” leans on Grok rather than human editors, and the site labels itself v0.1. Despite the copycat debut, it is the first live attempt at an encyclopedia that could eventually verify and update itself with model-driven checks and continuous learning.

Grok relies heavily on Wiki, as The Verge reported

If xAI moves beyond replication, Grokipedia could shift from static, community-edited knowledge to a self-evolving AI reference layer that learns from live content streams on X.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA) - A permissive license that allows reuse and remixing of content with attribution and share-alike requirements.

OpenAI Says GPT-5 Now Handles Mental Health Crises Better

OpenAI disclosed that over a million users each week discuss suicidal ideation with ChatGPT and announced GPT-5 improvements to recognize escalation, respond with protocol-compliant language, and avoid reinforcement of delusional beliefs.

OpenAI cites consultations with 170+ clinicians across many countries and reports substantially higher compliance compared to earlier models.

The magnitude underscores how much counseling-adjacent traffic large assistants now handle and the policy, liability and product design stakes for safety-critical interactions.

🧩 Jargon Buster: De-escalation prompts - Structured responses that acknowledge distress, encourage professional help, and avoid making clinical claims.

Anthropic Brings Claude Directly Into Excel

Anthropic launched Claude for Excel (beta) plus finance-centric connectors and Agent Skills.

Claude can now read, explain and modify spreadsheets, repair formulas, and populate models. New connectors tie into sources like LSEG market data, Aiera transcripts, and Moody’s ratings, while Skills templates accelerate recurring tasks like cash flow models and coverage reports.

Compared with agent plugins elsewhere, native Excel access plus curated finance integrations aim at reliability for workflows where small errors are costly.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Agent Skill - A packaged set of instructions, tools, and references that an AI agent can load to perform a specific workflow.

Read more: The Rundown AI, AI Secret

Odyssey-2 Turns AI Video Into Real-Time Interaction

Odyssey-2 streams AI-generated video at ~20 fps and lets users steer scenes as they play via natural language prompts.

Instead of pre-rendering short clips, it emits frames continuously and updates dynamics on the fly, enabling exploratory, game-like experiences.

Visual fidelity may lag top offline models, but real-time control hints at new formats for interactive media, prototyping, education, and simulation.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Streaming generation - Producing outputs incrementally so users see and influence results in real time instead of waiting for a full render.

MiniMax-M2 Tops Open Open-Weight Leaderboards

MiniMax-M2 is reported as the strongest open-weight model on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index, with standout results for tool use and STEM tasks.

It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design with ~230B total parameters but activates ~10B per inference, trading raw size for efficiency. If benchmarks hold up across real workloads, teams get a cost-performance lever for agentic systems without proprietary lock-in.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Mixture of Experts (MoE) - A model architecture that routes each input to a small subset of specialized parameter “experts” to increase efficiency.

LexisNexis Debuts Protégé For Courtroom-Grade Drafting

Protégé is an agentic, multi-model legal assistant trained over a proprietary corpus of verified case law and secondary sources. It routes tasks across leading models, grounds citations, and includes human attorney review before outputs are finalized.

Be careful tho as it does not eliminate hallucinations; it turns them into managed risk with auditable provenance, a critical step for filings and regulatory submissions.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Grounding - Linking model outputs to verifiable sources so claims and citations can be checked.

Mistral Launches AI Studio For Production Workloads

Mistral AI Studio upgrades the company from model supplier to full-stack platform with observability, orchestration, built-in RAG workflows, and a model registry.

It supports on-prem, hybrid or self-hosted deployments, positioning as a sovereignty-friendly alternative to US hyperscaler stacks and offering European enterprises compliance levers without giving up modern tooling.

🧩 Jargon Buster: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) - A pattern where the model retrieves relevant documents from your knowledge base before generating an answer.

Read more: AI Secret, The Rundown AI

Tools & Launches

Vercel v0 for iOS - Brings v0’s AI design assistant to iOS so teams can sketch and scale app UI on the go. Handy for product reviews and quick iterations. More

Alai (AI Presentations) - Suggests alternative slide layouts via an element system for fast edits without pixel pushing. Useful for non-designers. More

Lindy AI CMO - No-code agents to run end-to-end marketing campaigns across channels, compatible with Sora 2 and other model outputs. More

Metorial Starbase - Browser playground for testing any remote MCP server with a built-in LLM chat console. Helpful for ops and agent developers. More

KaraVideo - Aggregates Veo, Runway, Pika and more into one workspace to compare, remix, and keep character/style continuity. Great for creative ops. More

Pokee - Turns natural language requests into automated multi-app workflows without wiring Zapier flows by hand. Early users report strong ROI on repetitive ops. More

Heardly - “Fast way to read best book” by summarizing and extracting key takeaways. Handy pre-read companion, not a replacement for deep reading. More

Momen AI - Moves from vibe coding to deployable apps, powering Lovable-style build flows with more guardrails for production. More

CopyOwl - Research-first agent that compiles evidence and generates drafts with citations. Good for first-pass briefs and PRDs. More

Incogni - Privacy tool that removes your personal data from brokers and keeps monitoring. Useful as AI-driven social engineering rises. More

Today’s Sources: The Internet, AI Secret, There’s An AI For That, The Rundown AI