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Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. The race for AI superintelligence just got personal — literally.
Mark Zuckerberg's recruitment drive has been summer's biggest AI story, but the Meta CEO just shared his endgame: bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone through an AI future that empowers people's dreams, not just business operations.
In today’s AI rundown:
Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ vision
'Netflix of AI' launches with Amazon backing
Create professional marketing videos using AI agents
Google’s AI ‘virtual satellite’ for planet mapping
4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
META
🧠 Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ vision
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The Rundown: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s new AI vision is to “bring personal superintelligence to everyone,” revealing “glimpses” of AI improving itself while hinting that Meta may not open its advanced models due to safety risks.
The details:
Zuckerberg said Meta plans to develop AI assistants that “empower individual goals” rather than focusing on automating all work like industry rivals.
He positioned “personal devices like glasses” as primary computing devices of the future, which offer a multimodal context to provide deep AI experiences.
The letter also notes that Meta may be “careful” about what it opens due to superintelligence safety concerns, a change from its previous strategy.
The open-source commentary comes amid reports that Meta paused work on its open “Behemoth” model to focus resources on closed models.
Why it matters: Zuck’s superintelligence lab with all-out poaching has been the headline of the summer, but this is the most info we’ve gotten yet on a “personal” vision that fits well into Meta’s smart glasses success. The closed-source shift will be an interesting one, especially as China pushes forward with near-frontier open models.
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FABLE & AMAZON
🎬 'Netflix of AI’ launches with Amazon backing
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The Rundown: Amazon just invested an undisclosed amount in Fable's “Netflix of AI” Showrunner platform, which just went live in Alpha and enables users to generate personalized, playable animated TV episodes through text prompts.
The details:
Showrunner launches publicly this week with two original show offerings where users can steer narratives and create episodes within established worlds.
Users can also upload themselves as characters, with Fable saying the future of animation is “remixable, multiplayer, personalized, and interactive” content.
The platform will be free, with an eventual monthly fee for generation credits — with plans to enable revenue sharing for creators when their content is remixed.
Showrunner initially went viral in 2023 after releasing an experiment of personalized (but unauthorized) South Park episodes.
Why it matters: Showrunner is launching at a prickly time for AI in the entertainment industry, but may be a first mover in creating a new style of two-way, personalized content experiences. If it takes off, traditional IPs will need to decide between fighting user-generated content or monetizing the new remix culture.
AI TRAINING
🎬 Create professional marketing videos using AI agents
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Claude Code to automatically build complete video projects using frameworks like Remotion, turning simple prompts into marketing videos with animations and professional effects.
Step-by-step:
Type in your terminal: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
Navigate to your project folder and type claude to activate the AI agent
Prompt: “Create a premium marketing video for [your company] using Remotion”
Refine with follow-ups and run npm run start to preview your video locally
Pro Tip: Add your own images, logos, and UI screenshots to the project folder before prompting, and the AI will incorporate them into professional video sequences.
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AI RESEARCH
🌎 Google’s AI ‘virtual satellite’ for planet mapping
Image source: Google DeepMind
The Rundown: Google DeepMind just introduced AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model that acts like a "virtual satellite" by integrating massive amounts of Earth observation data to create detailed maps of the planet’s changing landscape.
The details:
AlphaEarth uses data from public sources like optical images, radar, 3D laser mapping, and more to create on-demand maps of land and coastal waters.
The model outperforms similar AI systems in accuracy, speed, and efficiency, helping track events like deforestation or ecosystem changes in near real-time.
Google tested the dataset with over 50 organizations and now provides yearly updates through Earth Engine for tracking long-term environmental changes.
Why it matters: Satellites have been capturing tons of data for years, but connecting different sources and translating them into useful insights has been a time-consuming process. AI bridges that gap, transforming scattered satellite feeds, radar scans, and climate readings into unified maps that reveal patterns we couldn’t spot before.
QUICK HITS
🛠️ Trending AI Tools
📸 Character - Ideogram’s model for placing specific characters into scenes
📚 Study Mode - ChatGPT’s new feature for guided learning
🤖 Action Agent - Writer's enterprise autonomous AI that works on your behalf
📓 NotebookLM - New video overviews generate narrated slides on any topic
📰 Everything else in AI today
Anthropic is reportedly set to raise $5B in a new funding round led by Iconiq Capital at a $170B valuation — nearly tripling its previous valuation from March.
OpenAI announced Stargate Norway, its first data center initiative in Europe, set to be developed through a joint partnership between Aker and Nscale.
YouTube is rolling out new AI content moderation tools that will estimate a user’s age based on their viewing history and other factors, aiming to help ID and protect minors.
Neo AI debuted NEO, an “Agentic Machine Learning Engineer” powered by 11 agents that it says sets SOTA marks on ML-Bench and Kaggle competition tests.
Amazon is reportedly paying between $20-25M a year to license content from the New York Times for AI training and use within its AI platforms.
A new study from The Associated Press found that the highest usage of AI is for searching for information, with young adults also using the tool for brainstorming.
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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team
