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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🌍 Google’s Genie 3 interactive world model
🤖 Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1
🎶ElevenLabs launches AI music generator
🤖OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic approved for federal agencies use
💡 AI Tutorial:How to automate repetitive tasks with Comet Shortcuts
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OpenAI unveiled gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its long-awaited open-weight reasoning LLMs that match or exceed o4-mini and o3-mini in performance and are available for local deployment under an Apache 2.0 license. Available under Apache 2.0, the gpt-oss family, OpenAI’s first open LLMs since GPT-2 in 2019, instantly became #1 among 2M models on Hugging Face.
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Google DeepMind just announced Genie 3, a new general-purpose world model that can generate interactive environments in real-time from a single text prompt, complete with surrounding and character consistency. With Genie 3, users can generate unique, 720p environments with real-world physics and explore them in real-time, with new visuals emerging at 24fps.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1, an incremental upgrade for Opus 4, improving performance across real-world coding, in-depth research, and data analysis tasks — particularly those requiring attention to detail and agentic actions. Opus 4.1 brings a notable coding upgrade over its predecessor, boosting performance on SWE-bench Verified from 72.5% to 74.5%.

ElevenLabs introduced Eleven Music, its multilingual music generation model with control over genre, style, and structure, and the option to edit both sounds and lyrics.
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The U.S. government has added Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic to a list of approved vendors that can offer artificial intelligence services to civilian federal agencies, Bloomberg reports. The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which would let government agencies access AI tool vendors with pre-negotiated contracts, rather than negotiating with vendors individually.
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Give it a clear and descriptive name, and then click Save.
Open Comet assistant while browsing and type /shortcut-name (e.g., /Unbiased Review Finder), and press Enter.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
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