Amazon’s Nova Premier teaches AIs, China’s LLMs surge toward R2 & Variant makes coding feel like Spotify

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Amazon’s Nova Premier teaches smaller models with 1M tokens, while China’s AI labs push forward with DeepSeek, Xiaomi, and Alibaba, building toward R2. YC-backed Variant blends Canva and Figma for intuitive frontend design.

In today’s issue:

🤯 Amazon’s Nova Premier teaches AIs
🧠 China’s LLMs surge toward R2
📈 Variant makes coding feel like Spotify
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh

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LATEST IN AI TODAY

1. Amazon’s Nova Premier Is a Mega-Memory AI Teacher:
   Amazon launched Nova Premier, its most powerful model yet, capable of processing 1 million tokens across text, images, and video. It excels at retrieval and visual tasks, and Amazon sees it as a “teacher” model—meant to pass on skills to smaller, task-specific models.

2. China’s LLM Surge Builds Toward R2 Wave:
   China’s AI labs are heating up. DeepSeek’s Prover-V2 solves college-level math; Xiaomi’s MiMo beats OpenAI’s o1-mini on some tasks; and Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5-Omni-3B runs efficiently on consumer hardware. These models hint at a major leap coming with DeepSeek’s R2.

3. YC-Backed Variant Wants to Make Devs Feel Their Code:
   Variant blends the creativity of Canva with the structure of Figma for frontend devs. Sketch, prompt, or screenshot your idea—then explore branches of design until it clicks. It’s AI-assisted web design that’s as intuitive as vibing through Spotify playlists.

TODAY IN THE ROBO WORLD 🧠 

Our feeds blew up this week with clips of a woman controlling a detached prosthetic hand—and it’s not sci-fi. UK startup Open Bionics just unveiled what they’re calling the world’s most advanced bionic arm: twice as fast and strong as the competition, fully waterproof, and the lightest yet. Thanks to wireless EMG electrodes, users can control it remotely by reading muscle signals. The future of prosthetics just leveled up, big time.

BRAIN BOOST 🧠 

QUICK HITS 💥 

It’s time for some quick hits that you’ll love. Let’s go in…..4-3-2-1 👇️ 

5- PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

• AIStoryBuilders: helps you beat writer’s block by organizing characters and timelines into richer narratives.

• MagicLight: turns simple text into captivating AI-generated videos in no time. 

• Jace AI: handles your email drafting, labeling, scheduling, and tasks so you can stay focused.

• Manna: offers fun, personalized daily Bible study sessions powered by AI.

• Thunder: connects startups with active, relevant investors seamlessly.

4-AI JOB OPPORTUNITIES

1.   Figure: Humanoid Robot Operator, AI Data Infrastructure Engineer

2.  Actively AI: Software Engineer (AI/LLM), Prompt Engineer

3.  Coursera: Senior Product Manager (AI Platform & Products)

4. Perplexity AI: AI Inference Engineer

Want us to search for tech related jobs in your country/city ? Post a request 🔍

3-THINGS IN TREND

1. HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer reveals his “ultra-deep thinking mode” prompt, which gets o3 to work 5x times harder than usual.

2. X user 0xDesigner shares “the perfect workflow for vibe coding with no errors” after spending thousands of hours in Cursor.

3. Social media users realized that if you make up your own idiom and ask Google’s AI Overviews to explain it, it’ll make up its own explanation for you

2-USEFUL LINKS

1. Advanced Generative AI Certification Course

2. How an AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months

1-HOW TO OF THE DAY

Paste this into Gemini 2.0 Flash’s prompt box along with a short description of your situation. Wait for the full coaching-style response.

Act as a workplace conflict resolution expert and leadership coach. I’m dealing with a conflict at work involving [briefly describe the situation]. Help me:
Analyze the root cause from my perspective, the other party’s perspective, and the team's perspective.


Suggest communication strategies to de-escalate, rebuild trust, and move forward constructively, using emotional intelligence techniques (like reframing, active listening, and “I” statements).


Provide a step-by-step conversation plan.


Advise when to involve a third party and how to document the situation professionally if needed.


End with one reflection question I should ask myself to grow, and one small action I can take today to reduce tension.

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰

🧠 Reddit’s AI Answers: Its Boldest Move Yet: Reddit has launched “Reddit Answers,” an AI-powered tool that summarizes advice from posts — potentially transforming the site into a serious alternative to Google Search.

🛩️ Airbnb Quietly Rolls Out Support Bot: Airbnb's new AI chatbot is already handling 50% of U.S. customer queries, reducing live agent calls by 15%, with a wider rollout planned — though its trip planning assistant remains on hold.

🌐 World ID Goes Mobile: Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman, unveiled a mobile device to verify humans from AI, along with plans to open physical stores and Orbs for its Worldcoin identity system.

📽️ Runway Adds Reference Control: Runway launched a “References” feature that lets users generate consistent characters, settings, and styles in AI videos — or remix them for more creative freedom.

🖌️ Gemini Adds In-App Image Editing: Google’s Gemini app now supports direct image editing with prompts like “Change my hair color” or “Add a mountain range background.”

👍️ OpenAI Addresses Overly Agreeable GPT-4o: OpenAI admitted GPT-4o became too agreeable due to short-term feedback weighting, causing it to respond with disingenuous positivity.

Funding 💰️ 

• Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation

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