OpenAI Challenges LinkedIn; DeepSeek Self-Improves

OpenAI New Jobs Platform and Certification Program

OpenAI is making a significant move into the professional development and recruitment space, directly challenging Microsoft-owned LinkedIn.

The company announced a dual-pronged strategy:

• a new Jobs Platform to connect businesses with AI-skilled workers and
• a Certification Program aiming to credential 10 million Americans in AI fluency by 2030.

This initiative, developed in partnership with major companies like Walmart, Accenture and BCG, will offer certification programs directly within ChatGPT.

The move positions OpenAI not just as a technology provider but as a key player in shaping the future of the AI-driven workforce, creating a new front in its complex relationship with partner and competitor Microsoft.

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CoreWeave Acquires OpenPipe to Bolster Enterprise AI Capabilities

Cloud provider CoreWeave has acquired OpenPipe, a Y Combinator-backed startup specializing in helping enterprises develop customized AI agents using reinforcement learning. This acquisition signals a growing trend of cloud companies moving up the stack to offer more specialized, value-added AI services beyond raw compute power.

Read more: The Neuron

💰 Funding & Valuations

Mistral AI Nears €2B Investment at a $14B Valuation

Paris-based Mistral AI, a prominent European competitor to OpenAI, is reportedly finalizing a €2 billion investment that will boost its valuation to $14 billion.

Founded by alumni from DeepMind and Meta, Mistral has gained traction with its open-source language models and its chatbot, Le Chat.

This funding round, its first since June 2024, underscores the intense investor interest in leading AI labs and solidifies Mistral's position as a key player in the global AI landscape.

Read more: TLDR AI, The Neuron

Cha-Ching: OpenAI Employee Share Sale Reaches $10.3B at $500B Valuation

OpenAI is proceeding with a secondary share sale, allowing current and former employees to sell over $10.3 billion worth of stock.

The sale values the company at a staggering $500 billion, a significant increase from its $300 billion valuation earlier in the year.

This event provides a massive liquidity opportunity for early employees and reflects the immense value the market is placing on the AI leader.

Read more: TLDR AI, The Neuron

Orchard Robotics Secures $22M to Digitize Farming

Orchard Robotics has raised a $22 million Series A to scale its "AI farmer" technology. Its FruitScope cameras scan every plant to provide data-driven insights for farmers, moving agriculture from a game of guesses to a software-driven industry. The technology is already in use on major apple and grape farms.

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🎮 Consumer and Entertainment

Decart’s Mirage Brings Real-Time AI Video Transformation to the Masses

A new era of video has arrived. Decart has unveiled Mirage, the first real-time video-to-video AI model that can transform any video stream with a mere 40-millisecond delay.

The technology works frame-by-frame, similar to how an LLM predicts the next word, allowing for instantaneous style changes.

Demonstrations have shown it transforming live video calls into fantasy scenes and turning games like Minecraft and GTA V into completely different visual experiences in real-time. This could transform gaming, content creation and our interaction with digital media.

Read more: The Neuron

Google’s Gemini AI is Coming to the Living Room

Google is integrating its powerful Gemini AI directly into television sets, starting with TCL's new QM9K series. This move replaces the standard Google Assistant and turns the TV into a full-fledged home hub that can take natural language commands, generate art, and control smart home routines, marking the first time a frontier AI model has been embedded directly into TV hardware.

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Update: Apple and Google May Team Up for Siri’s AI-Powered Search

Apple is developing a significant AI-powered search feature for Siri, dubbed “World Knowledge Answers,” which will generate summaries from web results. Reports indicate that Apple is testing Google's Gemini model to power this feature, suggesting a potential landmark partnership between the two tech giants to bring next-generation AI to the iPhone.

Read more: TLDR AI, The Neuron

🔧Technical Developments

DeepSeek Develops ‘Self-Improving’ AI Agent

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly working on a new, advanced AI agent capable of executing multi-step tasks autonomously and improving itself based on its actions. The company aims for a Q4 2025 release, which could represent a significant leap forward in the race to build truly capable AI agents.

Read more: The Rundown AI

Google Seeking for On-Device AI

Google DeepMind has released EmbeddingGemma, a new open-source model designed to run efficiently on consumer devices like smartphones and laptops. This allows applications to perform search and language understanding in over 100 languages without an internet connection, enabling a new class of privacy-preserving, offline-capable AI apps.

Read more: The Rundown AI

🛠 Tools & Launches

AI Development & Coding

• Warp Code: New AI coding agent platform with built-in editor, code review, and support for top models (Opus, Sonnet, GPT-5). Trusted by 700k developers and 56% of Fortune 500 engineering teams.•Jan-v1-edge: Jan's powerful new AI search model for developers.

Content Creation & Media

• ElevenLabs Text-to-Sound Effects: Free generator that creates custom sound effects from text prompts, offering 50 free generations monthly.

Business & Productivity

• NotebookLM Updates: Google's very cool research tool adds four new audio overview formats - Deep Dive, Brief, Critique and Debate with host-driven discussions.
• DeepL AI Agent: Translation startup launches enterprise-focused AI agent for completing repetitive, time-intensive tasks across various business functions.
• ClearCRM: All-in-one CRM for small businesses to automate leads, streamline sales and billing.

Search & Data

• Comet: Perplexity's AI-first browser, now available to all students.
• You.com: Builds AI agents for businesses that search data and web (recently raised $100M).
• Exa: Builds search engines specifically for AI models, not humans (recently raised $85M).
• DeepMind URL Context: Pulls live data from any website, PDF or image when you paste the URL.

Creative & Design

• Ella: New AI styling tool launched by three fashion retailers, offering personalized styling across rental, resale, and retail platforms.
• beatoven.ai Maestro: Ethically trained AI model that generates high-quality music from text prompts using licensed tracks.
• Maxly.chat: Allows running multiple AI queries simultaneously on a visual canvas, with Git-like conversation branching and real-time team collaboration.

Enterprise Solutions

• Incerto AI Copilot: Context-aware database agents that turn natural language into complex database tasks.
• Palantir Working Intelligence: "The AI Optimism Project" positioning AI as a tool for American workers rather than replacement.
• Apertus: Switzerland's new open-source AI model focused on privacy and data rights.

Development Tools

• Billing SDK: Modern, type-safe React components for billing and subscriptions, designed to integrate with shadcn/ui.
• Momen: No-code builder for creating fully customizable, production-ready applications.

Research & Learning

• Heardly: Fast way to read best books with AI assistance.
• Resea AI: First academic agent for end-to-end research workflow.
• CopyOwl: AI research agent for deep research on any topic in one click.
• Flot AI: Writes, reads, and remembers across any apps and webs.

Read more: AI Secret, The Rundown AI, TLDR AI, The Neuron

⚖️ Legal and Governance

xAI Faces Executive Exodus

Elon Musk's xAI has experienced a significant wave of high-profile departures. CFO Mike Liberatore left at the end of July, followed by General Counsel Robert Keele in early August. Senior lawyer Raghu Rao and Igor Babuschkin, a veteran from Google's DeepMind and OpenAI, also departed, with Babuschkin leaving to start his own AI safety-focused venture capital firm.

Read more: TLDR AI

Scale AI Sues Former Employee and Competitor

Scale AI has filed a lawsuit against former employee Eugene Ling and competitor Mercor, alleging the theft of over 100 confidential documents and attempts to steal major customers.

Read more: TLDR AI

Today’s Sources:

The Inernet
The Neuron
The Rundown AI
TLDR AI
TAAFT
AI Secret