Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI’s future may stretch beyond frontier models…to a social network riding ChatGPT’s wave of success.

The move could unlock much-needed real-time data for Sam Altman’s AI ambitions, but the question is: could OpenAI match the scale, engagement, stickiness, and broader cultural pull of X or Meta’s platforms?

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI reportedly building social network

• Kling AI drops new video and image models

• Build a personal data analyst with n8n automation

• AI models play detective in Ace Attorney

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

📱 OpenAI reportedly building social network

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The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly working on a social network that could leverage ChatGPT's massive user base to take on social media platforms like X and Meta—while giving Sam Altman and team with valuable real-time data for model training.

The details:

• According to sources cited by The Verge, OpenAI has created an internal prototype for a social feed that prominently features ChatGPT's image generation capabilities.

• While the project is still in early stages, CEO Altman has been privately seeking feedback from outsiders on the potential of the service.

• It's still unclear whether the social product will be a standalone app, a ChatGPT integration, or if it will launch at all.

• Previously, Altman joked in response to Meta building an app for its assistant, saying, “ok fine, maybe we’ll do a social app.”

Why it matters: While OpenAI hasn't confirmed these plans, a social network would be a strategic move that provides a continuous stream of user-generated, real-time data for training better AI models. If the recent viral Studio Ghibli-style image trend is any indication, OpenAI could attract an enormous user base almost overnight.

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KLING AI

🎥 Kling AI drops new video and image models

Image source: Kling AI

The Rundown: Chinese AI startup Kling AI just released a massive upgrades to its creative suite, launching KLING 2.0 Master for video and KOLORS 2.0 for images— with enhanced prompt adherence, more realistic outputs, and editing capabilities.

The details:

• KLING 2.0 Master now handles prompts with sequential actions and expressions, delivering cinematic videos with natural speed and fluid motions.

• KOLORS 2.0 generates images in 60+ styles, adhering to elements, colors, and subject positions for realistic images with improved depths and tonalities.

• The image model also comes with new editing features, including inpainting to edit/add elements and a restyle option to give a different look to content.

• Separately, Kling’s recent 1.6 video model is also being updated with a multi-elements editor, allowing users to easily add/swap/delete video from text inputs.

Why it matters: With ByteDance's Seaweed model yesterday and now KLING 2.0, Chinese AI startups continue their rapid advance in AI video generation. While formal comparisons to Western models like Veo and Sora needs more testing, early reactions suggest that KLING 2.0 is quickly narrowing the quality gap.

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AI RESEARCH

🕵️ AI models play detective in Ace Attorney

Image source: Hao AI Lab

The Rundown: Researchers at UC San Diego's Hao AI Lab just tested leading AI models on their ability to play Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, a popular video game where players must investigate crime scenes and solve cases.

The details:

• The team tasked top models, including GPT-4.1, to play as Phoenix, who has to identify gaps in the case by matching witness statements and evidence.

• When tested, both OpenAI’s o1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro performed best with 26 and 20 correct evidences, reaching level 4, though neither fully solved the case.

• All other models struggled, failing to present even 10 correct pieces of evidence to the judge.

• Surprisingly, the new GPT-4.1 underperformed, matching the months-old Claude 3.5 Sonnet with only 6 correct evidence identifications.

Why it matters: Games like Ace Attorney test a range of AI capabilities, from visual understanding (identifying evidence) to long-context reasoning (cross-referencing) and decision-making (choosing when to present). It will be fascinating to see how models evolve to address more complex challenges in interactive decision-making.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🔎 Claude Research - Anthropic’s new DeepSearch-like feature for Claude

• 🎥 Seaweed - ByteDance’s 7B-parameter video generation model

• 🧠 GPT-4.1 - OpenAI’s new API-only model with 1M-token context window

• 📧 Notion Mail - Notion’s GPT-4.1-powered email client for Gmail

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 🎥 Cresta - Video Lead

• 📚 Grammarly - Staff Product Manager

• 🤝 Perplexity AI - Recruiting Coordinator

• 📈 DeepL - Senior Growth Marketing Manager

📰 Everything else in AI today

OpenAI updated its Preparedness Framework, noting it may adjust safety requirements if rivals drop high-risk AI without similar guardrails amid a landscape shift.

OpenAI also added a new library tab in ChatGPT, allowing users (on both free and paid tiers) to access all their image creations from one single place.

xAI dropped a ChatGPT Canvas-like Grok Studio, allowing both free and paying users to collaborate with the AI on documents, code, reports, and games in a new window.

Cohere released Embed 4, a SOTA multimodal embedding model with 128K context length, support for 100+ languages, and up to 83% savings on storage costs.

Google released Veo 2, its state-of-the-art video generation model, in the Gemini app for Advanced plan users, as well as in Whisk and AI Studio.

Nvidia said in a filing that it expects to take a $5.5 billion hit from U.S. export license requirements for shipping its H20 AI chips to China.

Microsoft announced it is adding computer use capabilities to Copilot Studio, enabling users to create agents capable of UI action across desktop and web apps.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, Jason, and Shubham —The Rundown’s editorial team