⚙️ Nvidia launches Nemotron 3

Good Morning! Nvidia just released Nemotron 3 Super, a massive 120B parameter open model designed specifically to power complex AI agents. Plus, you will discover how to create high-quality AI videos without spending a single dollar.

Plus, in today’s AI newsletter:

• Nvidia Boosts Open Models with Nemotron 3 Super

• Perplexity announces Personal Computer

• Anthropic Launches Think Tank Amid Pentagon Fight

• How to Transfer Your Memory From Any AI Provider to Claude

• 4 new AI tools worth trying

AI TOOLS

⚙️ Nvidia Boosts Open Models with Nemotron 3 Super

Nvidia continues to step up its open-source game. The company debuted Nemotron 3 Super, a 120 billion parameter open model built to be faster, more efficient, and more accurate at complex agentic reasoning than its predecessor.

• Features a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and a massive 1 million token context window

• Outranked several models from OpenAI, Amazon, and Google on benchmarks, running up to 2.2x faster than GPT-OSS in reasoning workloads

• Goes beyond just "open weights" by open-sourcing the entire methodology: pre- and post-training datasets, training environments, and evaluation recipes

• Early access partner CrowdStrike found the model performed 3x more accurately than their previous production model for threat hunting

• Nvidia reportedly plans to invest $26 billion into building open models over the next five years

As the ultimate hardware provider, creating the most open, flexible models aligns perfectly with Nvidia's long-term business goals. By giving developers the actual "recipes" to customize and deploy agentic systems, Nvidia is democratizing access to frontier-level AI, ensuring the open-source ecosystem keeps expanding, and ultimately keeps needing Nvidia's chips to run it.

AI AGENTS

💼 Perplexity announces Personal Computer

Perplexity’s multi-model AI agent, "Computer," is officially available for enterprise customers. After a massive viral consumer launch, the $20 billion startup is positioning its orchestration engine as the ultimate middleware threat to the traditional corporate software stack.

• Acts as an orchestration engine coordinating ~20 different AI models (including Claude Opus, Gemini, and GPT-5.2) within isolated, secure virtual machines

• Allows non-technical workers to query complex databases like Snowflake and Salesforce in plain English directly from Slack

• Features usage-based billing and business-grade connectors, offering a flexible alternative to single-vendor ecosystems like Microsoft Copilot

• Takes direct aim at open-source frameworks like OpenClaw, marketing itself as a fully managed, highly secure service for Fortune 500 teams

• Capable of collapsing multi-step workflows, like researching event attendees and drafting briefing documents, into a single prompt

Perplexity is betting that the future of enterprise software isn't a new dashboard, it's an AI agent that does the work for you across all your existing tools. By routing tasks to the best available models and integrating seamlessly into Slack, Perplexity is positioning itself to sit on top of the entire corporate workflow, potentially turning legacy software platforms into mere data pipes.

AI NEWS

🏛️ Anthropic Launches Think Tank Amid Pentagon Fight

Amid its escalating legal war with the Department of Defense, Anthropic has announced the "Anthropic Institute." Led by co-founder Jack Clark, the new internal think tank will focus on researching the large-scale societal, economic, and safety implications of powerful AI.

• Jack Clark is stepping down as head of public policy to lead the Institute as Anthropic's new "head of public benefit".

• The think tank launches with about 30 people, combining Anthropic’s societal impacts, frontier red team, and economic research units.

• Research will cover AI's impact on jobs, the legal system, and even large-scale social science studies on human emotional dependence on AI.

• The launch comes just days after Anthropic sued the U.S. government over a "supply-chain risk" blacklist that threatens hundreds of millions in company revenue.

• Clark noted the urgency of the new Institute, stating his belief that powerful AI (AGI) could arrive by the end of 2026 or early 2027.

As Anthropic faces massive financial pressure and a potential IPO this year, doubling down on safety and societal research is a bold move. It signals that the company views public trust and transparent safety research not as a cost center, but as a core competitive advantage, even if it means losing out on lucrative military contracts in the short term.

HOW TO AI

🗂️ The Best Free AI Video Generators

In this tutorial, you will discover how to create high-quality AI videos without spending a single dollar. We are skipping the glorified free trials that lock your downloads behind paywalls and focusing exclusively on fully free, highly capable generators.

🧰 Who is This For

• Researchers helping small business owners integrate AI to improve efficiency and profits without adding software overhead

• Content creators wanting to scale their brand's presence with highly visual, dynamic posts

• AI enthusiasts who love testing detailed prompts for synthetic media

• Anyone tired of hitting a paywall the second they try to export an AI video

1. Vheer (Best for Camera Control)

Vheer is a hidden gem that doesn't even require you to log in. To use it, head to the platform and select the text-to-image tool to build your starting frame. Be sure to pick the standard "quality" model, avoiding the Pro or Max tags to ensure your generation stays completely free, and select your preferred aspect ratio.

Once your image generates, download it and switch over to the image-to-video tab. Here is where Vheer outshines even paid tools: it separates your instructions. Write a basic action prompt for the scene, and then write a distinct camera prompt, like a dolly shot or a slow zoom. By splitting these up, the AI doesn't get confused, resulting in exceptionally smooth camera movements that uplift the entire video.

2. Grok (Best for Endless Variations)

Grok is a major player that offers solid image and video generation without sneaking in a paid trial. Once you create a free account, navigate to the Imagine tab. You can either browse the community library to remix existing images using fun or spicy presets, or use the prompt box to generate your own custom starting image.

As you scroll, Grok continuously generates new variations of your prompt automatically. Once you pick an image you love, you can easily tweak it, like asking the AI to add a sweatsuit to a character, before clicking to animate. To get the best results here, play to the tool's limitations by prompting for stylized aesthetics like VHS vintage or Studio Ghibli, where perfect realism isn't strictly necessary to look good.

3. Meta AI (The Top Pick for Quality)

If you want the best overall free option, Meta AI is the one to use. Inside the Meta AI chatbot, click over to the Create tab and select your aspect ratio. Before you prompt, open the Aesthetics panel to access features missing in most free tools: sliders for Variety, Weirdness, and Stylization.

Cranking up the Stylization and Variety sliders helps remove that generic, 3D-drawn AI look from your images. Once you generate an image you are happy with, simply hit the Animate button and provide a specific instruction, like "a boat flowing away from the camera." While it can still struggle to make human faces perfectly natural, the overall sharpness and lack of paywalls make it the most reliable tool in the free tier.

xAI's AI agent project Macrohard has stalled as Tesla ramps up its own AI agent project Digital Optimus; Elon Musk says it is a joint xAI-Tesla project.

Microsoft says the next Xbox, Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip, and it will begin sending out “alpha versions” of Project Helix to developers in 2027.

Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake.

Meta says it worked with global law enforcement agencies to disrupt criminal scam centers in Southeast Asia and disabled 150K+ accounts tied to scam centers.

🤝 Copilot Cowork: Microsoft's agentic AI assistant powered by Claude

🔒 Codex Security: OpenAI Codex security agent that scans code and fixes bugs

🧠 Gemini Embedding 2: Google’s AI for searching text, images, video, and audio

🎥 Replit Animation: Turn text prompts into animated videos

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

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