Summary TL;DR
Pika’s “AI Self” clones your look, voice, posting style.
METR scores show how long AI stays reliable on tasks.
Gemini 3.1 Pro boosts reasoning; Grok adds debating agents.
Table of Contents
AI News
Pika lets you create an “AI Self” to speak and post like you 🧬
Pika is pitching “AI Selves”: digital versions of you (or any persona) built by uploading a selfie, cloning your voice, and answering a few personality questions.
The AI Self can learn over time from your guidance, then write, talk, and generate updates across different platforms (from workplace tools like Slack to social media) while staying consistent with your chosen style. Pika also flags safety, privacy, and impersonation questions in its FAQ.
AI Can Now Do What Takes Humans 15 Hours ⏱️
METR’s latest benchmarks show that Claude Opus 4.6 can complete software tasks that take an expert human nearly 15 hours, reaching 50% reliability on problems that once required a full workday.
Nonprofit METR published updated “task-completion time horizon” scores for public frontier language models, estimating how long a task (measured by expert human time) an AI agent can finish with 50% or 80% reliability.
New AI models: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Prompt to song and Grok 4.2
Gemini 3.1 Pro, Google’s latest flagship model, launches in preview with major reasoning upgrades, rolling out in the Gemini app for free. Google also released Lyria 3 is its most advanced AI music model yet, generating high-fidelity, professionally exportable tracks from text or image prompts in gemini with realistic vocals.
xAI’s Grok 4.20 launches in public beta with a native four-agent parallel architecture that debates and cross-checks outputs, cuts hallucinations by 65%, and outperformed OpenAI and Google models in live stock trading.
Prompt example for the week
Great prompt for ChatGPT - Fix What’s Stuck in Your Life
Act as a practical life strategist.
I feel stuck in this area of my life: [career / money / health / relationships / productivity / other].
In simple language:
Explain why I might feel stuck.
Identify the one main mistake I’m likely making.
Give me a 7-day reset plan with small daily actions.
Tell me what to stop doing immediately.
Give me one clear metric to track for the next 30 days.
Keep it direct, honest, and actionable.
AI tool of the week
NotebookLM video
This AI tool from Google makes an explanatory video from pdfs, webistes, text or youtube video.
Example: Go to notebooklm.google.com
After logging in, create a new notebook and drop the resources (pdf, word, etc) you want in the video.
On the right side in the studio section, select VIDEO OVERVIEW
That’s it for this week.
We hope you enjoyed this newsletter, we will start adding learning resources and feedback soon!
Learn more about AI Academy → Click Here
Enjoyed this newsletter? Share it with a friend and invite them to subscribe too!→ Click Here
Want to catch up on previous newsletters?→ Click Here
