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Perplexity Can Take Over Your Email, Alibaba drops it’s Biggest Model & Chrome + Gemini = Life Made Easy
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What's Up in AI
September 24, 2025
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Perplexity launched a privacy-first email assistant for Gmail + Outlook that drafts, books, and organizes like a PA. Alibaba dropped six new Qwen3 models, headlined by trillion-parameter Qwen-Max for coding, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. Google packed Chrome with 10 AI amazingg upgrades !
In today’s issue:
🤯Perplexity Can Take Over Your Email
🧠 Alibaba drops it’s Biggest Model
⚡️ Chrome + Gemini = Life Made Easy
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
New AI assistant for Gmail + Outlook, exclusive to Max subscribers.
Drafts replies, organizes messages, books meetings, and adapts to your tone.
Privacy-first: SOC 2 + GDPR compliant, no training on your data.
Just cc [email protected] to coordinate emails like a PA.
Saves hours by handling inbox busywork so you can focus on bigger stuff.
Six new models across text, vision, audio, and safety — all at once.
Qwen-Max shows near-frontier strength in coding, reasoning, and agent tasks.
Omni goes multimodal: text, images, audio, video, plus speech in 19 languages.
VL beats top closed vision models on benchmarks.
Also launched LiveTranslate-Flash (real-time interpretation), Guard (safety), and new Coder upgrades.
Gemini now lives inside Chrome, summarizing pages, explaining tabs, and soon booking stuff for you.
Memory recall: ask “Where did I see that walnut desk?” and Chrome finds it.
AI Mode in the omnibox handles full sentences, not just keywords.
Side-panel overviews give instant context + tighter Calendar, YouTube, Maps integration.
Gemini Nano boosts security by blocking scams, filtering spam, and auto-managing permissions.
BRAIN BOOST 🧠
📩 If Perplexity’s new AI can manage your inbox just by being cc’d, what’s the bigger impact? |
QUICK HITS 💥
It’s time for some quick hits that you’ll love. Let’s go in…..5-4-3-2-1 👇️
5- TOP AI TOOLS OF THE DAY
🤖 FastBots
Create chatbots trained on your docs, sites, and videos to handle customer questions 24/7 with precision
🏆 Contra
Join 1.3M+ creatives comparing AI models, voting on outputs, and shaping the future of creative intelligence
🛋️ Decory
Transform room photos into styled interiors, explore unique layouts, and get personalized decor inspiration
🏡 RenderAI
Generate photorealistic 4K renders and animations from sketches or concepts to explore design ideas faster
🎨 Packaging Design AI
Create professional, print-ready packaging designs from just your logo and brand name in seconds
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3-THINGS IN TREND
A Reddit user created a game to spot the difference between real and AI-generated images. Can you guess the real from the generated?
A user shared a LinkedIn bio prompt to trick recruiters who were using LLMs to reach him.
This prompt is built to solve that problem by guiding the AI to respond in a clear and direct way
2-USEFUL LINKS
1-TOP ROBO NEWS
The UK has deployed bomb disposal robots that can climb stairs, fit in a standard truck, and offer near-human dexterity for defusing explosives safely. With 50 units entering service under a $43M program, these robots could transform how explosive threats are handled while keeping both military personnel and civilians out of harm’s way.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🏗️ Stargate Expands Across U.S.
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced five new data center sites across Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and the Midwest, moving toward a 10GW target.
🎵 Suno v5 Hits SOTA
Suno released v5 of its music generation model with improved creative control and significant audio upgrades.
❄️ Microsoft’s Cooling Breakthrough
Microsoft etched tiny liquid channels in AI chips, achieving 3x better heat removal and tackling the “melting GPU” issue.
🧩 Google Labs Launches Mixboard
Mixboard helps users visualize and refine ideas using text prompts and images, powered by the Nano Banana editing model.
🏛️ Abu Dhabi Aims AI-Native
The UAE plans to become the world’s first fully AI-native government by 2027, deploying 200+ AI solutions across sectors.
Funding 💰️
Distyl AI Raises $175M Series B At $1.8B Valuation, Up 9x From Last Funding
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