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🚀 SpaceXAI Drops Grok 4.5
⌨️ OpenAI Just Built Its First AI Coding Hardware
🎥 Snap Is Betting Big on AI Video
🛍️ Pinterest Thinks AI Should Do Your Shopping
👥 Character AI Is Turning Creators Into Businesses
📊 Google Wants AI Running Your Ad Campaigns
✂️ Claude Can Now Edit Videos Without Leaving the Chat
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SPACEX
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Elon Musk’s AI company has launched Grok 4.5, its most advanced model yet, built alongside Cursor and aimed squarely at developers and enterprise users rather than casual chat
The Details:
Grok 4.5 is the first model released after SpaceXAI’s acquisition of Cursor, making it the companies’ first major joint product.
The model is optimized for coding, software engineering, finance, legal work, and long-running agent tasks.
Musk describes Grok 4.5 as “Opus-class but faster,” positioning it against OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude lineup.
Grok 4.5 runs at 80 tokens per second and uses significantly fewer output tokens on coding tasks, lowering costs for developers.
SpaceXAI says the model was trained using tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs on the Colossus supercomputer.
Pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, undercutting many flagship competitors.
Grok 4.5 is available immediately through Cursor, Grok Build, APIs, web, mobile, and CLI tools.
Why it matters:
The AI race is shifting from chatbots to digital workers. Grok 4.5 isn’t trying to be your conversation partner — it’s trying to become your engineer, analyst, and operator at a fraction of the cost of frontier rivals.
OPENAI
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OpenAI is no longer building just AI models.
It’s now building hardware for developers too.
The company has unveiled the Codex Macro Pad, a dedicated keyboard designed to make coding with AI faster than ever.
Here’s what makes it interesting:
• Dedicated programmable keys for your most-used Codex actions.
• Built with mechanical keyboard company Work Louder for developers who spend hours inside their editor.
• This is OpenAI’s first developer-focused hardware product, with more details expected on July 15.
Why this matters:
This isn’t about selling keyboards.
It’s another sign that OpenAI wants AI to become part of how developers work every minute of the day, not just another browser tab.
If this catches on, AI-native hardware could become as common as mechanical keyboards are today.
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Perplexity introduced persistent memory for AI agents, allowing them to learn from previous tasks, improve future performance, and refine workflows over time without repeated instructions.
Pinterest introduced Ask Pinterest, an experimental AI shopping app that uses conversational recommendations to help users discover products tailored to their style and preferences.
Snap moved its AI video technology into a new startup called Dotmo, allowing the team to grow independently after rising development costs made operating inside Snap less practical.
Character AI released Creator Bundle, giving creators new tools to build, customize, and monetize AI characters and interactive virtual experiences on its platform.
Google introduced Ask Ad Manager, an AI assistant that helps publishers analyze ad revenue, troubleshoot issues, and optimize advertising operations through natural-language conversations.
Palmier launched an open-source AI video editor for Claude, enabling creators to edit, search, and generate videos directly from the timeline using natural language.
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