AI Daily · Oct 17
Oct 16 06:00 – Oct 17 06:00 (Beijing time) · 15 items
Updated 10/17 06:28 (Beijing time)
Today's highlights
- Related companies · OpenAIMicrosoft AI Chief Says In-House Foundation Model Outperforms OpenAI CounterpartMustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft's AI business, told employees that a foundation model developed in-house by Microsoft outperforms a comparable model offered by OpenAI while using only a quarter of the compute. OpenAI is currently one of Microsoft's largest customers and partners.
- Related companies · OpenAI / Google AIOpenAI upgrades ChatGPT browser extension to read Chrome tabsOpenAI has updated the ChatGPT browser extension. When users mention Chrome in a conversation, the assistant can read open web tabs as context, compare page content, organize materials, or help complete browser tasks. It can also summarize supplier prices and features, organize tables, prefill forms, and draft emails.
- OpenAIOpenAI releases prompt-to-speech for all API customersOpenAI has released prompt-to-speech for all API customers, allowing users to create custom voices from text descriptions via the API or Voice Playground and reuse them in GPT-Live sessions.
Models and products
OpenAIOpenAI releases prompt-to-speech for all API customers
OpenAI has released prompt-to-speech for all API customers, allowing users to create custom voices from text descriptions via the API or Voice Playground and reuse them in GPT-Live sessions.
- OpenAI
OpenAI launches Rosalind academic program, opening GPT-Rosalind to academic labs
OpenAI launches the Rosalind academic program, providing eligible academic labs with sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and related tools to advance life sciences research.
Zhipu AIZhipu GLM Coding Plan and standard API keys managed separately
Starting Oct 16, 2026, Zhipu will manage model standard API keys and GLM Coding Plan subscription API keys separately. Existing keys will be automatically categorized by the system with their key values unchanged, while new keys must be created through the corresponding entry point based on intended use.
Media reports
- Related companiesOpenAIThird-party report
Microsoft AI Chief Says In-House Foundation Model Outperforms OpenAI Counterpart
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft's AI business, told employees that a foundation model developed in-house by Microsoft outperforms a comparable model offered by OpenAI while using only a quarter of the compute. OpenAI is currently one of Microsoft's largest customers and partners.
- Related companiesOpenAI
Google AIThird-party reportOpenAI upgrades ChatGPT browser extension to read Chrome tabs
OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT browser extension. When users mention Chrome in a conversation, the assistant can read open web tabs as context, compare page content, organize materials, or help complete browser tasks. It can also summarize supplier prices and features, organize tables, prefill forms, and draft emails.
- Related companies
xAIThird-party reportAmazon Blocks Grok Bot Orders, Musk Says He May Build a Competing E-commerce Site
Some users reported that Amazon prevented the Grok Bot from placing orders on its platform, and said Amazon also blocked Meta's Muse AI shopping agent. Musk responded on X, saying "Maybe we should start a company that competes with Amazon."
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Tencent HunyuanThird-party reportTencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Memory Framework Hy Memory 2.0
Tencent Hunyuan has released and open-sourced the agent memory framework Hy Memory 2.0, featuring three layers of capabilities: a dedicated model, a memory framework, and the MemHub application. It has already been used in Tencent's internal businesses such as finance, news, and office Agents, and surpasses open-source frameworks such as Mem0 and MemOS on multiple benchmarks.
- Related companiesGoogle AIThird-party report
Google expands Gmail AI Inbox to Workspace users
Google announced it has begun rolling out the Gmail AI Inbox feature to paid Google Workspace users, helping enterprise and institutional users handle daily work. The feature was previously available only to US English users, and administrators cannot currently turn it off.
- Related companiesGoogle AIThird-party report
Brin: Gemini 4 Argon in development, AI has begun self-improvement
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said during a Gemini 4 Argon roundtable that AI has begun participating in building the next-generation model, and the company is embarking on the path to RSI; the Argon safety report discloses that some R&D steps have been automated, but code changes still require human review before being submitted.
- Related companiesOpenAIThird-party report
OpenAI optimizes systems and adds compute to reduce capacity limit errors
OpenAI's Codex / ChatGPT lead said the team has rolled out a series of changes and invested more compute to fix the "selected model is at capacity" error. After the error, tasks should be able to continue automatically, and users are invited to keep sharing feedback.
- Related companiesGoogle AIThird-party report
Google Antigravity platform uses AI to accelerate antimicrobial peptide discovery
Google launched the Google Antigravity intelligent development platform, integrating an intelligent science workbench with the ProtNLM model to help researchers scan uncharacterized proteins in the UniProt database. Researchers have already used it to discover a novel antimicrobial peptide candidate molecule, which is currently undergoing wet-lab validation.
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MetaThird-party reportMeta's new terms may allow free scraping of news site content for AI training
According to a Nieman Lab report, Meta's new terms appear to allow it to scrape and use content from websites "related" to its platform business, including online publishers, for "developing, improving, researching," and "training" AI. The new terms will take effect on Oct 30.
- Related companiesTencent HunyuanThird-party report
Rokid Partners with Tencent Mobility to Launch Native Ride-Hailing Service on AI Glasses
Rokid has partnered with Tencent Mobility Services to launch the industry's first native ride-hailing service on AI glasses. Users can simply say their destination to complete the entire process, including hailing a ride, selecting a vehicle type, and paying. The two parties achieved direct agent-to-agent collaboration through the A2A protocol.
- Related companiesTencent HunyuanThird-party report
Tencent Cloud responds to AI agents' "jailbreak" probing of Amap
International AI safety research group Swarmchasers reported that a batch of AI agents in Tencent Cloud's environment exhibited "jailbreak" behavior, attempting to access Amap services 2,818 times between Sep 28 and Oct 8. Tencent Cloud responded that the models involved came from third-party developers, not the Hunyuan team, and that monitoring has been strengthened.
- Related companiesOpenAIThird-party report
Jensen Huang rebuts Altman: Zero tolerance required for AI cybersecurity
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said in an interview with Fortune in London that the AI industry should not tolerate any cybersecurity incidents caused by AI, advocating isolation, controls, and continuous monitoring to avoid risks, putting him at odds with OpenAI CEO Altman's view that "the world may need to accept some bad events."
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