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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday AI coffee break.
OpenAI just dropped two new compact models that punch way above their weight, an open-source challenger called Mamba-3 is making Transformers sweat, and U.S. senators are coming after ByteDance’s AI video tool for generating clips of real actors without permission.
Grab your coffee!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)
🎓 Free Workshop?: Claude Code for Beginners
Claude Code is one of the most powerful AI tools out there right now, but most people don’t know where to start.
We’re thinking about hosting a free live workshop covering the basics: what it is, how to set it up, and how to start using it to get real work done.
Would you show up? Should we do it? Let us know 👇
AI News around the world 🌍
⚡ OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, delivering near-flagship performance in smaller, faster models built for coding and high-volume API tasks. (continue reading)
🧠 Open-source Mamba-3 outperforms Transformers by 4% on language benchmarks while running up to 7x faster on long sequences. (continue reading)
🚨 U.S. senators demand ByteDance shut down Seedance 2.0 after it generated videos using real actors and licensed characters without permission. (continue reading)
🔍 Google expands Gemini personalization features to free users across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Chrome. (continue reading)
🔸 Mistral launches Small 4, combining reasoning, multimodal vision, and agentic coding capabilities into a single configurable open model. (continue reading)
Trending AI Tools 🛠
🎨 Stitch: Google’s AI-powered design tool that turns prompts, sketches, or screenshots into full UI designs and production-ready code in minutes.
📎 Paperclip: Open-source platform to build and run autonomous companies with AI agents. Set goals, hire bots, assign budgets, and let your business run itself.
💡 QuiverAI: Generate, edit, and animate production-ready SVGs from text prompts or reference images, with a16z backing.
🌍 DittoDub: Translates and dubs videos into 36+ languages using AI voice cloning that preserves the creator’s original tone and emotion.
Tutorials 📝
Career & Capital 💼
AI Job Board
🤖 Anthropic: Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Infrastructure & Runtime (Horizons) – $300,000 to $405,000 (view job)
🧪 OpenAI: Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Post-Training – $295,000 to $555,000 (view job)
🎬 Netflix: Machine Learning Scientist – $300,000 to $537,000 (view job)
Investments in AI
💰 IBM completed its $11 billion acquisition of Confluent, the Apache Kafka platform used by 40% of the Fortune 500, to power real-time data for enterprise AI agents. (link)
🚀 Nexthop AI raised $500M Series B at $4.2B valuation for AI-optimized networking switches, led by Lightspeed with a16z and Altimeter. (link)
🧊 Frore Systems raised $143M Series D at $1.64B valuation for liquid cooling tech for AI chips, hitting unicorn status. (link)
Prompt of the Week 🧠
Vendor Evaluation → Score any proposal or contract in 5 minutes flat.
Every founder and ops lead has a stack of vendor proposals sitting in their inbox. Instead of spending an hour parsing legalese and comparing apples to oranges, drop the document into any AI chat and get a structured risk-and-value breakdown instantly.
Prompt:
You are a senior procurement analyst. I'm going to paste a vendor proposal or contract below. Analyze it and return: **1. Deal Summary (3 bullets max)** - What they're offering, the price, and the commitment length. **2. Red Flags** - List any auto-renewal clauses, hidden fees, vague deliverables, one-sided termination terms, or liability gaps. Quote the exact language that concerns you. **3. Missing Items** - What's NOT in this proposal that should be? (e.g., SLAs, data ownership, exit clauses, performance benchmarks, IP rights) **4. Negotiation Leverage** - Give me 3 specific counter-points I can bring to the negotiation table, based on what you found. **5. Verdict** - Score this deal 1-10 on value-for-money and 1-10 on risk. One sentence recommendation: sign, negotiate, or walk away. Here's the document: [PASTE PROPOSAL OR CONTRACT TEXT]
Where to use it: Perfect for founders evaluating SaaS contracts, agency proposals, or freelancer SOWs. Also useful for ops managers reviewing vendor renewals before they auto-renew. Use with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
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That’s a wrap for today’s AI Break 🙌
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