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• 💼 OpenAI Wants a Share of Your AI Wins

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• 🎁 New AI Course Worth Considering

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AI INSIGHTS

💼 OpenAI Wants a Share of Your AI Wins. Not Just Subscription Fees

What happens when your AI model discovers something big, like a new drug, a new financial strategy or a new material? Well, OpenAI wants in.

They’re now exploring a profit-sharing model. Instead of a flat fee for using fine-tuned models, OpenAI would license the model in exchange for a share of your success. Modern GPTs aren’t just writing emails anymore. They’re:

• Running millions of hypothesis tests across research papers and lab datasets

• Stitching together data from simulations, experiments, and real-world evidence

• Suggesting new directions in biotech, energy, materials science, and finance

• Actually proposing experiments that work

At some point, that starts looking like an AI researcher that never sleeps. Sarah Friar (OpenAI’s COO) pitched this as a “licensing model.”

There are questions, of course. Who owns what? How is “value” tracked? What if multiple tools contribute to a single discovery?

But the direction is clear, OpenAI sees itself as more than a model provider, it wants to be a stakeholder in your breakthroughs.

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NEW AI COURSE WORTH CONSIDERING

🤖 Google’s Official 6-Hour Course Simplified Into 10 Minutes

I just finished Google’s full-length prompt engineering course, and honestly, it’s the best structured AI training I’ve taken so far. But six hours is a lot.

So I boiled it down to the 5 key principles Google uses across all advanced prompt design. You can apply them instantly, and you’ll think more like the model does.

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AI HIGHLIGHTS

📚 OpenAI just dropped 300+ free prompt templates for Sales, HR, Product,… each role gets 20–30 examples. Save it in a project here so you can call at any time.

📱 If you're using Claude Code like us, use this full list of 23+ role-based skills to turn Claude Code into your full-stack marketer. Some of these are pretty slick. Link there.

🩺 A new study shows Google AI Overviews cites YouTube more than real medical sites for health info. Even Mayo Clinic ranked lower. Full story + data inside.

🎯 DeepMind’s CEO called out OpenAI for rushing ads into ChatGPT. He questioned how ads align with a trusted AI assistant. He’s not wrong… Here’s the full interview.

🧾 GPT-5.2 started pulling from Musk’s controversial Grokipedia!? It reportedly referenced it 9 times across multiple queries, with weird takes on AIDS and slavery.

💰 Big AI Acquisition: Yelp is buying AI startup Hatch for $270M to boost its platform with tools that help service businesses auto-reply to customers & save time.

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AI BREAKTHROUGH

🌀 The “GPT-2 Moment” for World Models Happened

If you want to step into a photo, or generate an interactive, physics-aware video simulation just by typing a sentence, there’re now 2 new APIs making that possible.

1/ Odyssey-2 Pro: Real-Time Simulated Video from Prompts. Odyssey’s new model lets you generate interactive, streaming video simulations in real time. What it can do:

• Type “a laughing baby” → a continuous, evolving scene plays instantly

• The model predicts the next frame like a physics engine

• You can interact with the simulation while it runs, like directing a game

• It currently runs for minutes… but longer runtimes (hours+) are coming

2/ World Labs: Build Walkable 3D Worlds from a Single Image. Just a few days earlier, World Labs dropped the World API, powered by their Marble model. Here’s how it works:

• Upload a photo, video, or just describe a scene

• In ~5 minutes, it returns a navigable 3D world with layout, lighting, depth

• The result runs in your browser or exports as Gaussian splats + 3D meshes

Odyssey called this a “GPT-2 moment” for world models and they’re right. When GPT-2 launched in 2019, it wasn’t the best model but it was the first you could build with. That’s when the ecosystem took off.

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