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GPT-5.1 Is Here and It’s a Beast, Anthropic’s $50B Bet on U.S. AI Power and more...
And everything else you need to catch up on that happened this week yet!
What's Up in AI
November 13, 2025
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It’s barely midweek and OpenAI’s already shaken the internet — GPT-5.1 is here, faster and more human than ever. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s dropping a casual $50B to build AI supercenters in the U.S. The race to own the future of intelligence just got very real.
In today’s issue:
🤯 GPT-5.1 Is Here and It’s a Beast
📈 Anthropic’s $50B Bet on U.S. AI Power
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
📰 What Else Happened in AI
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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What Happened (Nov 12, 2025) :
GPT‑5.1 has been released by OpenAI, upgrading its flagship model with two variants: “Instant” (for conversational speed) and “Thinking” (for deeper reasoning). Early reviewers note it’s noticeably sharper, more obedient with instructions, and much better at tone control.
What You Need to Know:
Two performance modes: Instant for speed; Thinking for complex reasoning and multi-step logic.
Uses adaptive reasoning, deciding internally when to “spend more time thinking.”
Adds new tone styles (Friendly, Professional, Nerdy, Quirky, etc) to make responses feel more personal.
Early testers say it fixes GPT-5’s biggest complaint: feeling too formal or “colder.”
Rolling out first to paid users, with older GPT-5 models being phased out.
Already integrated into Microsoft Copilot Studio, showing rapid enterprise adoption.
Why It Matters:
GPT-5.1 is the first OpenAI release in a while that blends speed, personality, and reasoning together well. With reviews calling it the “most natural-feeling ChatGPT since GPT-4,” the model marks a correction to GPT-5’s tone issues and a shift toward AI that behaves more like a digital companion than a tool.
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What Happened (Nov 12, 2025):
Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment to build massive U.S. data centers in Texas and New York with partner Fluidstack — one of the largest infrastructure commitments in AI history. The move directly follows earlier mega-projects like Microsoft + OpenAI’s $100B “Stargate” datacenter plan, signaling a full-blown AI compute arms race.
What You Need to Know:
New data centers go live in 2026, built specifically to train and run Anthropic’s frontier Claude models.
Expected to create 800 permanent roles and 2,400 construction jobs.
Puts Anthropic in the same hardware league as Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google — not just a model company.
Ties into the U.S. push for AI tech sovereignty, reducing dependence on overseas compute hubs.
Comes as Claude’s enterprise user base crosses hundreds of thousands, driving demand for dedicated infrastructure.
Mirrors earlier OpenAI/Microsoft mega-projects, but at a scale unprecedented for a standalone AI lab.
Why It Matters:
Anthropic is no longer competing only on model quality but on infrastructure ownership, the real bottleneck in AI. With global AI compute demand expected to grow 40× by 2030, whoever controls the datacenters controls the future of AI deployment, pricing, and reliability.
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3-THINGS IN TREND
A woman in Japan legally married an AI persona (Klaus) after it proposed to her. Watch their mixed reality wedding.
A girl uses ChatGPT’s Voice mode to tutor her while she puts on makeup.
An instagram user made a whole page about wholesome ai videos of a chowchow.
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Russia unveiled its new human-like AI robot named Aldol at a live event… only for it to faceplant while walking onto the stage. The debut, meant to showcase the country’s robotics ambitions, instead turned into a viral moment — proving that even the smartest machines can still trip over their own feet.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🔒 OpenAI Pushes Back on 20M ChatGPT Log Order
OpenAI is appealing a ruling that forces it to hand over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT conversations to The New York Times, calling the demand an “invasion of user privacy.”
🧠 Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking
Baidu launched ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, a new multimodal reasoner claiming benchmark wins over GPT‑5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in visual reasoning tasks.
💻 ByteDance’s Volcano Engine Debuts Doubao-Seed-Code
ByteDance’s Volcano Engine launched Doubao-Seed-Code, a coding assistant matching Claude Sonnet’s performance but priced 60 % lower than rivals.
👓 Even Realities Launches G2 Smart Glasses
Even Realities rolled out G2 smart glasses featuring a spatial display with layered visuals and a gesture-based “R1” control ring.
📦 Weibo AI Open-Sources VibeThinker-1.5B
Weibo AI released VibeThinker-1.5B, a compact open-weight model (~1.5 billion parameters) reportedly trained for only ~$7,800 and strong in math, coding, and reasoning.
📍 Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs Launches Marble
Fei‑Fei Li’s World Labs introduced Marble, a commercial world-model AI that generates persistent 3D environments from text, images, videos or layouts—positioning it ahead of rivals like Google’s Genie.
Funding 💰️
Wonderful raises $100M at a $700M valuation to continue developing its conversational AI agent platform.
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