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From robots that can handle your groceries to quantum chips that bend physics, today's AI world is on fire! We've got breakthrough announcements from Figure AI, Microsoft, and NVIDIA that are pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

In today’s issue:

🤖 Figure AI makes it’s Robotics Debut
🚀 Microsoft's Quantum Chip breakthrough
🤝 Here’s how we make seamless SOPs for our team using Guidde
💼 Google released Career Dreamer to help job seekers
🧬 NVIDIA just launched Evo 2, an AI Model of Genomic Research
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📰 More AI News you need to know

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HOTTEST AI NEWS

Microsoft's Majorana 1: The Quantum Chip That's Breaking Physics (And Your Mind)

What Happened: Microsoft just unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip so revolutionary it's literally playing with a new state of matter. We're not talking about your regular solid, liquid, or gas here - this palm-sized powerhouse uses mysterious Majorana particles to make quantum computing actually practical. After 17 years of research (talk about patience!), Microsoft's finally showing us what the future looks like.

What You Need to Know:

• Packs in eight topological qubits (and trust me, the end game is wild).

• Ditches boring old electrons for Majorana particles.

• Here’s the endgame preview: Built to scale up to one million qubits on a single chip.

• Could crack problems so complex they’d take longer than the age of the universe— all from a chip that fits in your palm.

• DARPA's already on board (they know a game-changer when they see one)

• Though Google, IBM, and Microsoft aren’t backing down in the quantum race, Microsoft is aiming to leave them in the dust with a casual million qubits.

Why You Should Care: A Microsoft executive vice president said that, when the legitimate quantum computers arrive, we’ll be able to “invent some new molecule, invent some new drug.” So yes, we’re talking about a future where quantum computers could revolutionize medicine, materials, and even the way we understand chemistry itself.

Figure AI debuts with their Robotics Breakthrough

What Happened: The biggest AI breakthrough & Open AI is out of it!
Figure has unveiled Helix, a groundbreaking AI model that enables humanoid robots to understand voice commands and interact with unfamiliar objects. The announcement marks a significant advancement in making household robots more practical and adaptable.

What You Need to Know:

• The system uses two AI models: one for understanding and another for movement, running efficiently on basic hardware.

• Helix combines two AI models: a 7B-parameter model for comprehension and an 80M-parameter model for movement control

• The system can operate on basic GPU hardware and requires only 500 hours of training data

• Figure demonstrated its capability by having two robots collaborate to put away never-before-seen groceries based on voice instructions

• The company revealed this breakthrough shortly after ending its partnership with OpenAI

• They are also in talks to raise $1.5 Billion in funding at a valuation of $39.5 Billion

• This news comes after they end their partnership with Open AI and strive towards relying more on their in-house technology.

Why You Should Care: This development could revolutionize home automation and assistance. While robots have proven successful in controlled industrial environments, Helix's ability to handle diverse, unfamiliar objects and understand natural language commands brings us closer to having capable robotic helpers in our homes.

NVIDIA unveiled Evo 2, an AI model for Genomic Research

What Happened: Hold onto your lab coats! NVIDIA, Arc Institute, and Stanford University just dropped Evo 2, the largest biological research AI ever built. We're talking about a system that can read and write the code of life across every branch of the evolutionary tree. Trained on a mind-boggling 9 trillion genetic data points from 128,000 species, this AI is basically the Rosetta Stone of genetics.

Well, you think Microsoft would have let Nvidia have it’s moment ? It released BioEmu-1, a new AI system that can predict how proteins change shape and move. Read more about it here.

What You Need to Know:

• Crazy numbers:

  • Crunches up to 1M nucleotides at once

  • Trained on 2,048 NVIDIA H100 GPUs 

  • 40B parameters (matching top language models)

  • 90% accuracy in spotting cancer-causing mutations

• Works across ALL life forms (bacteria, plants, humans - you name it)

• Creates synthetic genetic sequences from scratch and processes entire human chromosomes in one go

• Free access through NVIDIA's BioNeMo platform

Why You Should Care: It's a biological revolution in a box. While other AI models are mastering single tasks like protein folding, Evo 2 is out here understanding the entire language of life. From designing new medicines to engineering crops that could survive climate change, this tool could rewrite the future of biology as we know it.

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MORE AI NEWS

🤖 Figure debuts new system for Household Robots:

🛑 Humane’s AI Pin Shuts Down: HP acquires Humane’s assets for $116M, but the AI Pin, criticized for poor functionality, will be discontinued.

🌏 South Korea’s AI Data Center: Fir Hills is building the world’s largest AI data center, expected to generate $3.5B annually.

🖥️ ChatGPT Adds Screen Sharing: OpenAI introduces a screen-sharing feature, making AI interactions more collaborative.

🔬 Google’s AI Co-Scientist: Built on Gemini 2.0, this AI helps researchers generate hypotheses and accelerate scientific discoveries.

⚠️ AI’s Impact on Critical Thinking: A study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon warns that overusing AI at work may weaken problem-solving skills.

🆓 Perplexity’s Uncensored AI Model: Perplexity open-sources a model that performs like DeepSeek R1 but without content restrictions.

🎮 Microsoft’s Muse AI for Gaming: Also known as WHAM, Muse generates real-time video game sequences, revolutionizing game development.

🤖 Figure’s Helix AI Model: A new Vision-Language-Action AI that enables humanoid robots to understand voice commands and handle unseen objects.

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