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AI Takes Over: Grok 4, AI Browsers, and AI Drugs 💥
Weekly top AI News


Summary TL;DR
Grok 4: Grok 4 dominates benchmarks with real-time tools.
Perplexity Comet: Comet browser uses AI for chat and controls your cursor.
Isomorphic Labs: AI-designed drugs entering human trials soon.

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AI News
New AI: Grok 4 Sets New Records in AI Benchmarks 📊

xAI has released Grok 4, its most advanced AI yet, featuring real-time internet search, native tool use (like code and image analysis), and best-in-class reasoning via reinforcement learning on 200,000 GPUs. The even stronger Grok 4 Heavy tier dominates academic benchmarks, beating all other models on Humanity’s Last Exam and competitive math tasks.
Now available via API and to SuperGrok and Premium+ users, Grok 4 also supports live camera input, voice mode, and multimodal understanding for real-world interaction.
Perplexity Launches Agentic AI-Powered Browser 🌐

Perplexity has unveiled Comet, a revolutionary AI browser designed to replace traditional tabs and search with conversational workflows. It transforms browsing into a fluid, intelligent dialogue, handling research, comparisons, purchases, and decisions in context.
Comet acts like a second brain, built on Perplexity’s foundation of accuracy and trust, and is now rolling out to Perplexity Max users via invite. Comet can also take action and control your browser if you decide.
Isomorphic Labs Prepares First Human Trials of AI-Designed Drugs 💊

Born from DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs is preparing to enter human clinical trials with its first AI-designed drugs. Backed by $600M in funding and partnerships with Novartis and Eli Lilly, the lab aims to revolutionize drug discovery, making it faster, cheaper, and more accurate.
With in-house programs in oncology and immunology, the company’s long-term ambition is bold: to one day "click a button" and instantly generate a cure using AI.
Prompt example for the week
Great prompt for ChatGPT - Build Better Financial Habits 💰
Design a customizable personal finance plan to help me enhance my budgeting skills and achieve my top goal: [insert your specific financial goal, e.g., saving $200 this month, cutting dining-out expenses by 50%, or building an emergency fund]. Make the plan flexible for a duration of [insert number of days or weeks, e.g., 7 days or 4 weeks], with clear daily or weekly objectives broken into actionable steps. Prioritize key tasks like expense tracking, budget categorization, and income optimization. Incorporate proven productivity techniques (e.g., the Pomodoro method for reviewing finances or habit-stacking with daily routines), strategies to overcome common distractions and temptations (e.g., app blockers for online shopping or accountability partners), and motivational tips like reward systems. Include brief end-of-period reflections for assessing progress, adjusting strategies, and maintaining long-term motivation, while suggesting free tools or apps to support the process.
If you need extra information, please ask me.
AI tool of the week
Julius AI
Julius AI is an AI-driven data analyst that analyzes, visualizes, forecasts data.
Example: Go to julius.ai, attach an excel file and see your data!

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