OpenAI’s Sora 🎬

What we’ll cover today:

🏠 Google’s Gemini makes your home smarter (and cheaper)

🏗️ Anthropic hires a CTO to keep Claude from crashing

🎬 OpenAI’s Sora rockets to #3 on the App Store

✨ Tools to try: Dreamlit, Verdent, Everyday, Instruct

Google’s Gemini Smart Home 🏠🤖

• Google launched new Nest and Home devices powered by Gemini.

• Plan is the same as Android: Google makes flagships, partners make cheaper devices.

• Walmart is the first partner, rolling out low-cost cameras and doorbells.

• Big play is upgrading 800M existing devices so Gemini becomes the default at home.

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Anthropic’s New CTO 🏗️⚡

• Anthropic hired ex-Stripe CTO Rahul Patil to fix infrastructure.

• Claude is growing fast but servers are under heavy strain.

• Competitors like Meta and OpenAI are spending hundreds of billions on infra.

• Anthropic is moving from research mode to building enterprise-level reliability.

OpenAI’s Sora Surge 🎬🔥

• OpenAI’s new video app Sora hit #3 on the App Store in two days.

• 164K installs despite being invite-only and U.S./Canada only.

• It beat Claude and Copilot launches but was smaller than ChatGPT and Gemini.

• Proves there is strong demand for consumer AI video tools.

🛠️ TOOLS

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