OpenAI got the contract. Anthropic got the public. Only one of them came out on top.
PLUS: Claude Sonnet 4.6 drops with major upgrades, Grok 4.2 beta launches with rapid learning and OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI
PLUS: Perplexity introduces Model Council, a multi-model answer engine
PLUS: Google Genie 3 creates playable 3D worlds, viral AI assistant forced to rebrand & AI discovers 800+ cosmic anomalies in Hubble archive
PLUS: Data centers to consume 70% of memory chips, KREA AI launches Realtime Edit & OpenAI rolls out age prediction
PLUS: Meta cuts Reality Labs, DeepSeek V4 launches & Higgsfield hits unicorn status
From Claude building products in days, to Gemini powering Siri and syncing your apps, while Grok moves toward Pentagon networks.
What’s new, how it works, and who gets access until Jan 15
More hits this week - smarter humanoids, Rubin’s six-chip AI platform, AMD’s Helios challenge, and SleepFM predicting disease from one night of sleep.
