🎁 OpenAI launches "Your Year with ChatGPT" recap 🎁
Spotify Wrapped comes to AI conversations

OpenAI is rolling out a personalized year-in-review feature similar to Spotify Wrapped, but for your AI chats. The recap analyzes your conversations and offers insights including stats, catchy graphics, awards, and even a custom image and poem based on your most-discussed topics. The feature is available for free, Plus, and Pro users who meet a minimum chat threshold and have Memory enabled.

🎤 Qwen3 TTS enables voice cloning & design 🎤
New model brings text-to-speech, voice conversion, and custom voice creation

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3 TTS, a comprehensive voice generation model that supports text-to-speech synthesis, voice cloning, voice conversion, and voice design from text prompts. The model allows users to create custom voices by describing characteristics like "warm and friendly female voice" or clone existing voices from short audio samples. Qwen3 TTS is open-source and available for commercial use, positioning it as a strong competitor to proprietary voice AI solutions.

💼 Satya Nadella pushes Microsoft's AI transformation 💼
CEO takes hands-on role amid sluggish Copilot adoption

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is taking an increasingly hands-on role in the company's AI transformation, reportedly pushing executives to fully commit to the "AI revolution" or leave. Nadella is pressuring teams to "work faster and leaner," consolidating power around AI leaders, and running weekly AI accelerator meetings. The urgency is partly driven by sluggish Copilot adoption across the enterprise.

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🧠 Yann LeCun launches AMI Labs 🧠

Meta's former VP and Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun officially announced his new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) on LinkedIn. LeCun will serve as executive Chairman, with Alex LeBrun as CEO. The startup will focus on world models and is reportedly trying to raise roughly $586 million at a $3.5 billion valuation before launching.

⚡ MiniMax M2.1 outpaces DeepSeek ⚡

MiniMax M2.1 has been released and is now available to all Kilo Code users, showing impressive performance gains over competing models. The model outperforms DeepSeek and Kimi on several benchmarks and is catching up to state-of-the-art models in certain areas. MiniMax M2.1 is notable for being super-fast and efficient, making it particularly attractive for production coding environments.