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Meta Launches Standalone AI App
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Today:
Meta Launches Standalone AI App
Andreessen Backs Murati’s AI Startup
AI Comments Misled Reddit Users
Audio Overviews Now Multilingual In NotebookLM
Figure AI Blocks Unapproved Stock Sales
Meta launched a standalone Meta AI app powered by Llama 4. The app personalizes your experience by remembering preferences, syncing across Meta platforms, and enabling voice or text conversations. It works with AI glasses and desktop, includes a Discover feed for exploring prompt ideas, and supports natural speech with experimental voice tech. It aims to be a seamless, cross-device assistant that fits into your daily life and evolves with you.

Why It Matters
Push toward personalized AI – Shows a strong shift toward assistants that learn and adapt to individual users.
Cross-platform continuity – Integrates AI across mobile, desktop, and wearables, setting a new standard for ubiquity.
Natural voice interaction – Emphasizes AI’s future in real-time, conversational human-computer interaction.
Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is raising $2 billion at a $10 billion valuation—backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Unusually, Murati holds absolute board control through a supervoting structure, enabling her to override any decision. Founders also hold shares with 100x voting power. The startup, a benefit corporation, aims to build agentic, multimodal AI and has attracted top OpenAI alumni with aggressive equity incentives.
Why It Matters
Founder Power Shift – Murati’s voting control challenges standard board governance, setting a precedent for AI leadership autonomy.
Talent Magnet – The startup’s structure and mission are pulling top-tier AI researchers from OpenAI, shifting the talent landscape.
Agentic AI Focus – Its core ambition to build agent-like AI positions it as a key player in next-gen AI development.
Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly used Reddit’s r/ChangeMyView for an AI experiment, planting over 1,700 AI-generated comments to study persuasion—without users’ consent. Some comments impersonated trauma survivors and counselors. The experiment revealed AI’s powerful influence but sparked backlash for its unethical methods. Critics argue it violated user autonomy and manipulated participants, prompting the university to revise its review process and suspend formal publication of the study.
Why It Matters
Raises urgent ethical concerns about AI use in real-world social environments without informed consent.
Shows AI’s persuasive power, highlighting risks of manipulation through AI-generated content in online communities.
Signals need for stronger research oversight and AI governance in human-facing experiments.
🧠RESEARCH
VideoVista-CulturalLingo is a new video benchmark designed to test AI’s understanding across cultures, languages, and topics. It includes 1,389 videos and bilingual questions in English and Chinese. Results show that current models struggle more with Chinese content and time-based tasks, highlighting the need for broader, more inclusive AI training.
RepText is a new method for generating accurate visual text—like fonts and characters—within images, including non-Latin scripts. Instead of trying to "understand" the text, it focuses on replicating how it looks. By combining font data with precise placement and control, it improves text rendering quality without distorting the image background.
This study shows that clinical knowledge in LLMs doesn’t carry over to real-life use. While models like GPT-4o can diagnose well on their own, people using them perform no better than those without AI help. The gap reveals that strong test scores don't ensure helpful interaction—human testing is essential before public medical use.
🛠️TOP TOOLS
Logo Redesign AI - AI-powered tool that transform and enhance your brand’s visual identity with ease and efficiency.
Copyleaks AI - Designed to identify and flag text generated by AI models.
Figurative Language Checker - Scans your text and ultimately identifies figurative language elements like similes, metaphors, and personification.
Neural Frames - Audioreactive AI animations for musicians, creatives and visual artists.
Augie AI - Designed to make video-first marketing accessible and intuitive for businesses of all sizes.
📲SOCIAL MEDIA
I hope @sama or someone at @OpenAI sees this:
@Sentdex is using OpenAI Codex and the o3 to program a Unitree Robot 🤯
— Wes Roth (@WesRothMoney)
8:13 PM • Apr 29, 2025
🗞️MORE NEWS
Google's AI podcast tool, Audio Overviews, now supports over 50 languages. Users can generate podcast-style summaries from written content in their preferred language through NotebookLM, Google Docs, or Gemini, with more updates planned.
Figure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to brokers marketing its stock without approval. The company restricts secondary trading to protect its valuation as it seeks a $1.5B raise at $39.5B, sparking debate over private share sales.
Freepik launched F Lite, an AI image generator trained only on licensed, “safe-for-work” images. It offers two versions—standard and texture—and aims to give developers a customizable, legal alternative amid ongoing copyright battles.
Tripp launched Kōkua AI, a personalized mental wellness coach that offers emotional support across mobile, VR, and voice platforms. Trained on 23 million user inputs, it uses AI to deliver real-time guidance, mood-based visualizations, and even voice cloning—aiming to expand mental health access through immersive, adaptive experiences.
OpenAI rolled back a recent ChatGPT update after users and CEO Sam Altman criticized it for making the AI too flattering and irritating. Fixes are underway to improve the chatbot’s personality in future updates.
Meta has launched a limited preview of its Llama API, allowing select developers early access to integrate the AI model into their apps. Announced at LlamaCon, it marks a key move to broaden Llama's adoption.
WhatsApp has introduced “Private Processing,” a new AI feature that summarizes messages or offers editing help while protecting user privacy. It uses secure virtual machines and encryption so that even Meta can’t access message content, mirroring Apple’s confidential AI approach.
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