Microsoft Cutting Ties with OpenAI? 👀

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Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI is not looking good as they shift from collaborators to competitors.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: The Top Uses of AI in Digital Twins

• Microsoft Ramps Up AI Efforts to Compete With OpenAI

• Free Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

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Chart of the week

The Top Uses of AI in Digital Twins

• As businesses seek better ways to simulate real-world operations, AI is revolutionizing digital twin technology.

• A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical system, asset, or environment that mirrors real-world conditions in real time. When enhanced with AI, they unlock powerful capabilities, delivering actionable insights, predicting outcomes, and optimizing operations.

• This graphic uses data from a Hexagon survey of 660 C-level executives from 11 countries.

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AI News

MICROSOFT

Microsoft Ramps Up AI Efforts to Compete With OpenAI

Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator. The initiative to reduce reliance on OpenAI is led by Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft's AI division.

Details:

• According to reports from The Information, Microsoft is working on its own AI “reasoning” model, which would be comparable to OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini.

• During the development of this model, OpenAI is said to have refused Microsoft’s requests for technical details about how o1 works, leading to increased tensions between the firms.

• The tech giant has also been testing models from xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek to replace OpenAI technology in Copilot.

The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is no longer as strong as it once was. Microsoft has invested around $14 billion in OpenAI to date, but perhaps CEO Satya Nadella overestimated how much control it would have over the company as its biggest investor.

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Resources

⚡ How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown

💡 AI doesn’t really ‘learn’ – and knowing why will help you use it more responsibly

🔮 How AI search is shaping the future of education and research

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🧠 An AI-powered Headband that hacks your brain for better sleep

AI Tools to check out

📝 Sincero: Make feedback easy using AI.

⭐ Indigo: Build custom AI tools and workflows to supercharge your team's productivity.

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Video of the week

The most useful thing AI has ever done

This video dives deep into DeepMind's AlphaFold, an AI system that has revolutionized biology by accurately predicting protein structures. It explains how this AI tackles the complex challenge of protein folding, achieving breakthroughs with deep learning and impacting fields from drug discovery to materials science.

If you want to see how AI is pushing the boundaries of what's possible, this video is a must-watch.

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