Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Meta’s hotly-anticipated Llama 4 family is here — with a surprise weekend release debuting new open-weights models with massive context windows and benchmark-beating performances.

With a 2T “Behemoth” still in training and claims of outperforming GPT-4.5, is this release a true next-gen step forward? Or will user experience tell a different story?

In today’s AI rundown:

• Meta launches Llama 4 model family

• Copilot’s new personalization upgrades

• Unlock the power of AI across your apps

• ‘AI 2027’ forecasts existential risks of ASI

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

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META

🦙 Meta launches Llama 4 model family

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The Rundown: Meta just announced its Llama 4 family with multimodal capabilities and industry-leading context length—introducing new open-weights Scout and Maverick models and previewing a 2T parameter Behemoth model still in training.

The details:

• The 109B parameter Scout features a 10M token context window and can run on a single H100 GPU, surpassing Gemma 3 and Mistral 3 on benchmarks.

• The 400B Maverick brings a 1M token context window and beats both GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash on key benchmarks while being more cost-efficient.

• Meta also previewed Llama 4 Behemoth, a 2T-parameter teacher model still in training that reportedly outperforms GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro.

• All models use a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, where specific experts activate for each token, reducing computation needs and inference costs.

• Scout and Maverick are available for immediate download and can also be accessed via Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.

Why it matters: After DeepSeek R1 disrupted the open-source market earlier this year, Meta needed a strong response. Llama 4 represents a step up in efficiency, massive context handling, and multimodal capabilities — but questions remain on whether the models truly feel next-level despite the strong benchmarks.

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MICROSOFT

🤖 Copilot’s new personalization upgrades

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The Rundown: Microsoft rolled out a major upgrade to Copilot, with new memory capabilities, web browsing actions, vision features, and a host of new tools designed to integrate more deeply into users' digital lives.

The details:

• Copilot can now remember conversations and personal details, creating individual profiles that learn preferences, routines, and important info.

• “Actions” enable Copilot to perform web tasks like booking reservations and purchasing tickets through partnerships with major retailers and services.

• Copilot Vision brings real-time camera integration to mobile devices, while a native Windows app can also now analyze on-screen content across apps.

• Other new productivity features include Pages for organizing research and content, an AI podcast creator, and Deep Research for complex research tasks.

Why it matters: Microsoft is taking Copilot in a similar direction to other competing assistants, pushing for a more proactive and personalized platform. But much of the updates have a consumer focus — and it’s not clear that users will flock to Microsoft over Google, OpenAI, Meta, and others for those types of non-work experiences.

AI TRAINING

💻 Implement the latest coding solutions with Claude

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Claude's new web search feature to find current coding solutions, library documentation, and best practices to solve programming problems with the most up-to-date information.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to Claude and make sure web search is activated in your settings.

2. Describe your coding challenge clearly, including any specific requirements (e.g., "I need to implement secure password hashing in Python that meets 2025 standards").

3. Ask Claude to analyze and compare the different solutions found with pros and cons for your use case.

4. Request implementation help with code examples based on the most current best practices discovered during the search.

Pro tip: When working with open-source libraries, you can also ask Claude to search for any known security vulnerabilities or deprecation notices before implementing the solution in your production code.

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AI RESEARCH

🔮 ‘AI 2027’ forecasts existential risks of ASI

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The Rundown: Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project published “AI 2027,” predicting advancement to superhuman AI within two years, potentially triggering an intelligence explosion with consequences for humanity.

The details:

• The report outlines a timeline starting with increasingly capable AI agents in 2025, evolving into superhuman coding systems and then full AGI by 2027.

• The paper details two scenarios: one where nations push ahead despite safety concerns, and another where a slowdown enables better safety measures.

• The authors project that superintelligence will achieve years of technological progress each week, leading to domination of the global economy by 2029.

• The scenarios highlight issues like geopolitical risks, AI’s deployment into military systems, and the need for understanding internal reasoning.

• Kokotajlo left OpenAI in 2024 and led the ‘Right to Warn’ open letter, speaking out against the AI labs’ lack of safety concerns and whistleblower protections.

Why it matters: While many dismiss AGI and ASI predictions, this forecast comes from researchers with direct, insider experience at leading AI labs. These scenarios suggest we may have only a brief window to ensure AI remains controllable before it surpasses our abilities — making current safety and policy decisions critically important.

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📰 Everything else in AI today

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Microsoft showcased its game-generating Muse AI model’s capabilities with a playable (but highly limited) browser-based Quake II demo.

Anthropic Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said in a new interview that Claude 4 will launch in the “next six months or so.”

A federal judge rejected OpenAI's motion to dismiss The NYT lawsuit, ruling the latter couldn't have known about ChatGPT infringement before the product's release.

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