OpenAI just blinked. Here's what it means for you.
Welcome to the first-ever issue of the Taledy AI Newsletter—your essential weekly hit of what just shook up the world of artificial intelligence. This week was no April Fools’ prank. From OpenAI opening up (sort of), to Meta making movie-grade avatars, to China doubling down and robots running marathons—it’s a LOT. Let’s dive in.
🚨 Breaking AI News
🔓 OpenAI Unveils “Open Weights” Strategy OpenAI announced it’s stepping toward transparency with its models—kind of. Instead of true open source, the company will release model weights, allowing developers to fine-tune without access to source code or training data. Sam Altman admitted the idea had been brewing internally for a while, but competition from Meta’s Llama (over 1B downloads!) and DeepSeek’s open models forced their hand. Oh, and OpenAI is also finalizing a $40B funding round, led by SoftBank.
🧠 GPT-4o Now Natively Generates Images No more bouncing between tools—OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o can now generate, enhance, and interpret images directly inside ChatGPT. Bonus: it’s much better at rendering text in images and can create visuals with 10–20 distinct objects. But it came at a cost—literally. GPU overloads caused temporary server issues during its live demo.
🎭 Meta Drops “Mocha” for Full-Body Talking Avatars Meta’s new AI model Mocha generates full-body, talking characters from just audio and text input. Think cinematic avatars—expressive gestures, facial motion, and even camera angles. It’s built on diffusion-transformer tech, outpacing SadTalker and Halo in realism tests.
🇨🇳 The China AI Race: Alibaba vs DeepSeek DeepSeek shook the table with its efficient and powerful V3 model. Now, Alibaba is prepping to launch QWEN3 any day now. With QWEN 2.5 Max already released during Lunar New Year, it’s clear: China’s top players aren’t just competing—they’re battling for AI dominance.
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
📞 GenSpark’s SuperAgent Is… Super SuperAgent (aka G.A.I.A.) can do it all—trip planning, video generation, restaurant bookings (via real phone calls!), and more. It combines 8 LLMs, 80+ tools, and a curated dataset into one seamless experience. Real-time voice interaction sets it apart from Manus, its closest competitor.
🌐 Lindy Launches Agent Swarms Imagine 1,000 AI agents working in parallel. That’s the new Agent Swarms from Lindy. You can feed it a spreadsheet of 200 leads, and each agent researches, writes, or responds in real-time. Perfect for sales, meeting prep, or automation nerds. Starts free, $50/month after.
🎥 AI Tools Spotlight
🕺 ByteDance Dream Actor M1 Give it a single photo, get a full-body animated video. This new model from TikTok’s parent company outperforms AnimateAnyone and MimicMotion across every benchmark. It uses DIT (Diffusion Transformer) with advanced 3D tracking for smooth movement—even through dance steps.
💻 AppLLM by Abacus AI “Vibe-code” your website. Just describe your app idea and AppLLM builds it—no code required. Deploy with one click, roll back with version history, and use ChatLLM + CodeLLM for full-stack productivity. Beta access is just $10/month.
📈 Quick Hits
- Westwood’s Themis V2 robot runs at 10km/h, balances on uneven ground, and reacts 1,000 times/sec.
- One X’s Neo robot picks up leaves, loads dishwashers, and sets pillows—all autonomously.
- Lindy Swarms integrate with 5,000+ tools. Triggers include emails, Google Sheets, and even web popups.
- AppLLM lets you create and deploy up to 5 apps with 2 deployments/month—version control included.
🧨 AI Dev Drama of the Week
Roy vs. The System: AI Cheating, Big Tech Snitching, and a Columbia Expulsion
🎓 A 21-year-old AI developer named Roy just got kicked out of Columbia University… for building what might be the most illegal genius interview prep tool ever.
💻 His app? A stealthy AI that helps you ace technical interviews in real time by:
- Reading coding questions live via screenshot
- Using LLMs to generate solutions instantly
- Overlaying suggestions invisibly on your shared screen (Yes, it even moves the window so your eye movement seems legit.)
🚨 It’s undetectable. Roy used it to get offers from Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and Capital One.
But then he uploaded a video showing the entire hack — and the internet exploded:
- 💔 Offers were instantly rescinded
- 😡 Amazon tried to scrub the footage from the web
- 🐍 They also snitched to Columbia
- 📩 Roy posted the confidential expulsion letter on Twitter
- 📈 His app? Still on track to make $2M+ in revenue this year
🔥 Hot Take: This whole scandal exposes how broken tech interviews really are. Roy might’ve cheated — but the system isn’t exactly honest either.
And the irony? The same companies trying to automate dev jobs with AI are mad that an AI aced their interview process better than humans.
🤖 If AI can pass your test… maybe it should do the job? Just a thought.
🛠️ Tools Worth Trying
- Taledy.com→ Generate content for all platforms using your YouTube videos
- Scribly.cc → Get meeting summaries, transcripts, and action items courtesy of this Chrome extension.
- LoveStudy.ai → Turn books/PDFs into quizzes & flashcards
- Readdy.ai → Create and publish beautiful websites with AI.
- EaseUS ChatPDF → AI-powered PDF summarizer and chat assistant
- GibsonAI → Build databases using plain English
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See you soon 👋
