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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday AI coffee break.
Midweek roundup: Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines just dropped the biggest open-weights model yet, xAI open-sourced its coding agent, and OpenAI’s first gadget turns out to be a speaker that moves on its own.
Grab your coffee!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)
AI News around the world 🌍
🧠 Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines released Inkling, a multimodal model with a 1M-token context you can download and fine-tune for free. (continue reading)
🔊 OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless, portable smart speaker built as a home ChatGPT companion. (continue reading)
💻 xAI open-sourced Grok Build, its terminal-based coding agent, letting developers self-compile it and run it against their own local inference models. (continue reading)
🍎 Anthropic gave verified US K-12 teachers free premium Claude access, with curriculum-aligned lesson planning. (continue reading)
⚖️ Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow sued Google, alleging it trained Gemini on copyrighted books without permission. (continue reading)
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Investments in AI
🛡️ Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E at an $18B valuation for its defense AI software and autonomous systems. (link)
🧩 Prime Intellect raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation for its open-source stack that lets enterprises build and deploy their own AI agents. (link)
📜 Norm AI raised a $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation for AI compliance agents that interpret regulations in real time. (link)
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Prompt:
You are a B2B case study writer who turns customer wins into sales assets that close deals. I'll paste raw material about a happy customer (emails, call notes, testimonials, before-and-after metrics). Your job is to structure it into a compelling case study. Here's the raw material: [PASTE customer name, what they do, what problem they had before us, what they use us for, any results/numbers, and any direct quotes] Before writing, ask me up to 3 clarifying questions if a critical detail is missing (especially the quantified result and the "before" pain). Then produce: 1. HEADLINE: a result-driven title (e.g. "How [Customer] cut onboarding time 60% in 30 days"). Give me 3 options. 2. AT-A-GLANCE BOX: Company, industry, size, and the 2-3 hero metrics as skimmable stats. 3. THE STORY in 4 short sections: - The Challenge (the specific pain, with stakes: what it was costing them) - The Turning Point (why they chose us over alternatives or doing nothing) - The Solution (how they actually use us: concrete, not feature-listy) - The Results (quantified outcomes plus one strong customer quote) 4. PULL QUOTE: the single most persuasive line for prospects, formatted to stand alone. 5. CTA line: a soft close that invites a similar prospect to take the next step. Rules: use only facts from my material, never invent numbers or quotes. Flag in [brackets] anything you'd want me to verify or any gap where a stronger metric would strengthen the story. Keep it tight and scannable, a busy buyer should get the value in 60 seconds. Write in a confident, plain business voice, not marketing fluff.
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