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🤖 Elon Musk Offers To Buy OpenAI

🤖 Elon Musk Offers To Buy OpenAI

PLUS: Adobe’s Sora-rivaling AI video generator is now available for everyone

Cliff Worley
February 17, 2025

Happy Monday!

What a wild week in the world of AI! Elon Musk decided he wanted to add OpenAI to his shopping cart, but Sam hit him with a big, fat "nope." In response, Elon called Sam a "Swindler," which sounds like a villain from a 1920s silent film. Meanwhile, Meta's cooking up some physical robots, so now I can look forward to a robot nagging me to post on Instagram every day. Thanks, Meta! And Adobe finally unleashed their video model to the masses. I'm itching to give it a whirl—just as soon as I figure out how to make myself look like a movie star.

Enjoy!

In Today’s Edition:

🤯 Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
🛠️ 7 new AI tools that will speed up your workflow
💡 Is AI making us dumb?
🖥️ AI body double for Zoom calls.

Read time: 4 minutes

🎨 AI ART

Happy Valentine’s Day

📰 AI INDUSTRY NEWS

Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
AI-driven ads take the field during the 2025 Super Bowl
Is AI making us dumb?
Adobe’s Sora-rivaling AI video generator is now available for everyone
Meta is working on ‘humanoid’ robots, too
OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5
Introducing Perplexity Deep Research
Airbnb CEO says it’s still too early for AI trip planning
Introducing the Intelligence Age
The Anthropic Economic Index

🛠 NEW AI TOOLS

🎥 Adobe Firefly: AI-powered tool for generating images and videos.

💻 Lovable.dev: AI builds full-stack apps from descriptions.

🤖 Pickle: AI body double for Zoom calls.

🌐 Stunning: AI-powered website builder for agencies.

📰 Letterpal: AI-powered tool for creating high-quality newsletters.

🎵 Beatoven: AI-generated royalty-free music for content creators.

📹 Vidyard: AI-powered video platform for sales and marketing.

🎨View our database of marketing tools mentioned all past newsletters:

P.S. Have a tool you want to submit? Submit it here.

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📹 TIKTOK OF THE WEEK

Elon Offered $97B To Buy OpenAI 🤯

@nate.b.jones
If I had $97B I would buy an island or something lol #ai #chatgpt #elonmusk #openai #sama

🆇 POSTS OF THE WEEK

2021: Growth at all cost
2025: Growth at no cost
— Brian Halligan (@bhalligan)
8:38 PM • Feb 14, 2025

Perplexity now offers file and image uploads with an expanded context window of 1 million tokens.
Free for all signed in users in “Auto” mode.
— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai)
4:11 PM • Feb 7, 2025

how i sleep knowing ai will never be able to do *my* job because *my* job alone requires that divine spark, that ethereal flame, that living ember that is what it means to be human and that a machine could never comprehend
— Gustavs Zilgalvis (@GZilgalvis)
5:15 AM • Feb 11, 2025

OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:
We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings.
We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten.
We hate… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Sam Altman (@sama)
7:17 PM • Feb 12, 2025

☕️ THE EXTRAS

One year ago today, I wrote Google retires Bard and unveils Gemini!
The most clicked link in last week’s newsletter: ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you

Have a burning AI question?

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That’s it for this time! See you next week.

— Cliff Worley