This Week in AI: Altman Rejects Musk...

Sam Altman Rejects Musk’s $97.4B OpenAI Bid

Elon Musk and a group of investors offered nearly $100 billion to take control of OpenAI, but CEO Sam Altman quickly rejected the bid. Instead of a formal response, Altman posted a sarcastic tweet suggesting OpenAI would buy Twitter for $9.74 billion instead.

AI Could Change Physics and Biology

Sam Altman predicts that AI with 100 times more computing power could bring completely new discoveries in science. He believes OpenAI’s upcoming Stargate project will take them from GPT-4.5 to GPT-5.5, leading to breakthroughs in physics and biology.

AI Beats Math Olympiad Champions

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry2 has made a huge leap in solving difficult geometry problems. It now performs better than average gold medalists at the International Math Olympiad, with an improved accuracy rate of 88%.

YC’s No-Nonsense Guide to AI Startups

As Y Combinator plans to invest $100M+ in AI startups this year, they believe the best AI startups don’t come from copying trendy ideas. They come from real industry experience and solving overlooked problems that actually matter.

Replit Agent Turns Ideas Into Games

Making a game used to take hours, but Replit Agent makes it quick and easy. With simple prompts, it builds games, improves animations, and adds effects in no time.

Make WebAR Game in No Time

In just 15 minutes, I built a WebAR Brick Breaker game using o3-mini. The AI model handled coding and logic smoothly, making the process easier than expected.

Interact with AI Characters in Real-Time

Pika Labs introduces "Additions," a new feature that lets you insert AI-generated characters and objects into real videos. This tool blends everything smoothly, keeping the original audio and quality intact.

Create a Hyperrealistic Scene With Any Images

Whether it’s merging two characters or making a full animation, Kling AI’s Elements feature turns multiple images into a seamless video. Just upload pictures and describe how you want them to connect.

ByteDance’s AI Brings Photos to Life

AI-powered human video generation is now more accessible than ever. ByteDance’s new model brings static images to life with movement and voice, making video creation faster and easier.

CMU and NVIDIA Train Agile Robots

Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA have created a system to improve humanoid robot movement. By training on real human motion data and fine-tuning, their robots can move more naturally.