- What's Up in AI
- Posts
- Google Supercharges Chrome with Gemini, OpenAI and Anthropic Pull In Tens of Billions and more...
Google Supercharges Chrome with Gemini, OpenAI and Anthropic Pull In Tens of Billions and more...
And everything else you need to catch up on that happened this week yet!
What's Up in AI
January 29, 2026
In partnership with
Welcome Back, AI Geeks!
It’s time to stay updated with What’s Up in AI.
Browsers are learning to act, and investors are betting big on who gets there first.
Between Gemini taking over Chrome and billions pouring into OpenAI and Anthropic, the AI power structure is hardening fast.
In today’s issue:
🤯 Google Supercharges Chrome With Gemini-Powered Agents
🧩 OpenAI and Anthropic Pull In Tens of Billions
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
📰 What Else Happened in AI
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
Read time: 6 mins
How can AI power your income?
Ready to transform artificial intelligence from a buzzword into your personal revenue generator
HubSpot’s groundbreaking guide "200+ AI-Powered Income Ideas" is your gateway to financial innovation in the digital age.
Inside you'll discover:
A curated collection of 200+ profitable opportunities spanning content creation, e-commerce, gaming, and emerging digital markets—each vetted for real-world potential
Step-by-step implementation guides designed for beginners, making AI accessible regardless of your technical background
Cutting-edge strategies aligned with current market trends, ensuring your ventures stay ahead of the curve
Download your guide today and unlock a future where artificial intelligence powers your success. Your next income stream is waiting.
#1 LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
source: The Decoder
What Happened (Jan 28th, 2026):
Google rolled out a major Chrome update that deeply integrates Gemini 3, turning the browser into an AI-powered assistant that can reason across tabs and complete tasks for you.
What You Need to Know:
A new Gemini side panel acts as a cross-tab assistant, understanding context across open pages, Google apps, and browsing sessions.
Auto Browse can navigate websites, log into accounts, and complete multi-step actions autonomously — pausing before purchases for safety.
The features are available to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, signaling Chrome’s shift from passive browser to active AI agent.
Why It Matters:
This mirrors the jump from static web pages to mobile apps — browsers are now becoming agents that do the work, not just display it.
#2 LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
What Happened (Jan 29th, 2026):
OpenAI and Anthropic are both locking in massive new funding rounds as investors double down on the leading AI labs shaping the future of intelligence.
What You Need to Know:
SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI, as part of a round that could value the company at ~$830B.
Anthropic closed a $10B oversubscribed round, with the total potentially reaching $20B if Microsoft and Nvidia finalize participation.
Anthropic has sharply raised revenue forecasts, now expecting $18B this year and $55B next year.
Why It Matters:
Capital is consolidating around a few AI giants — echoing the cloud era — and the winners here may define the economic and technological power structure of the next decade.
BRAIN BOOST 🧠
Creativity + Science = Ads that perform
Join award-winning strategist Babak Behrad and Neurons CEO Thomas Z. Ramsøy for a strategic, practical webinar on what actually drives high-impact advertising today. Learn how top campaigns capture attention, build memory, and create branding moments that stick. It’s all backed by neuroscience, and built for real-world creative teams.
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
🤖 Amie – Turn your meeting notes into automated workflows that summarize, assign actions, update calendars, and more with AI context awareness. Try now!
📷 Seedream 4.5 – Create cinematic, photorealistic images from text prompts up to 4K resolution with advanced AI visual generation. Try now!
🎬 Mulan – Turn an image or idea into complete visuals and videos instantly with AI. Try now!
📨 Reword – Rewrite messages instantly from your menu bar without leaving your workflow. Try now!
✨ AnyGen – Create content, presentations, and data analysis in a collaborative AI workspace. Try now!
4-AI JOB OPPORTUNITIES
IBM – Research AI Engineer Intern, AI & LLM Systems
Salesforce – Summer 2026 Intern, AI Research
Google DeepMind – Research Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer
xAI – Talent Engineer
Want us to search for tech related jobs in your country/city ? Post a request 🔍
3-THINGS IN TREND
These 7 ChatGPT prompts help you create amazing presentations in minutes
An engineer on X recreated TypeForm’s core product in just 35 minutes using AI.
The creator of Claude Code shared how he uses it.
2-USEFUL LINKS
AI reduced traffic to news publishers by roughly 50% since mid-2024.
60% of consumers now start their daily tasks with AI rather than traditional search engines.
Chinese researchers have created neuromorphic robotic skin that lets humanoids instantly sense harmful touch and react with human-like reflexes, without waiting for central processing — a big step toward safer robots in homes and hospitals.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🖼️ Gemini Gets Agentic Vision
Google added Agentic Vision to Gemini 3 Flash, letting it zoom, annotate, and edit images to answer questions — boosting visual task accuracy by 5–10%.
💻 Mistral Ships Vibe 2.0
Mistral upgraded its terminal coding agent with custom subagents and workflow skills, now available on its $15/month Pro and Team plans.
🧪 AI Could Replace Top Physicists
Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan said there’s a 50% chance AI will “mostly replace” the world’s leading theoretical physicists within 3 years.
🧠 China Cleared to Buy 400K Nvidia H200s
China reportedly approved ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase over 400,000 Nvidia H200 chips, easing a major AI compute bottleneck amid U.S. tensions.
Funding 💰️
Yelp Buys Hatch for $270M
GET AN AI-POWERED LAUGH 😁
Acquire new customers and drive revenue by partnering with us
What’s Up in AI is one of the most engaged & loved newsletter for professionals, AI enthusiasts & business owners with ~80,000+ working at the world’s leading startups and enterprises. Companies like Hubspot, Artisan, Guidde & Gamma etc. feature their products in What’s Up in AI. You can learn more about partnering with us here.
And that’s a wrap!
Do drop a comment to tell us👇️
We’ll be back soon with more spicy takes on What’s Happening in AI, so stay tuned & share our newsletter with a friend using this link!
Stay Tuned! 🤖
Team What’s Up in AI