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In today's Techpresso:

💥 OpenAI launches o3-pro, slashes o3 price by 80%

🚕 Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin 'tentatively' set to begin June 22

🎮 Nintendo Switch 2 sold 3.5 million units in four days

🫠 Meta's AI staff flee to rivals despite $2M salaries

👓 Snap will start selling AR glasses next year

🌍 Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars

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💥 OpenAI launches o3-pro, slashes o3 price by 80% LINK
  • OpenAI unveiled its new AI model, o3-pro, which replaces o1-pro and is now available to ChatGPT Pro, Team users, and via the developer API.
  • The company also announced an 80% price cut for its o3 model, slashing rates to $2/$8 per million input/output tokens from $10/$40.
  • OpenAI says its o3-pro surpasses competitors on key benchmarks, excelling in math, science, and coding, setting a new standard for AI performance.
🚕 Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin 'tentatively' set to begin June 22 LINK
  • Tesla's robotaxi service, using a new "unsupervised" Full Self-Driving system, is tentatively set for a June 22 debut in Austin, Texas, according to Elon Musk.
  • The Austin service will initially use 10 to 20 Model Y vehicles, not the CyberCab, confined to a "geofenced" area and monitored remotely by employees.
  • Elon Musk cautioned the June 22 robotaxi launch is tentative due to safety paranoia, with a first driverless customer trip planned for June 28.
🎮 Nintendo Switch 2 sold 3.5 million units in four days LINK
  • Nintendo's recently released Switch 2 console achieved global sales exceeding 3.5 million units within the initial four days it was available to buyers worldwide.
  • This sales performance marks a new company record, representing the “highest global sales level” for any Nintendo device within its first four days of release.
  • Following this strong launch, Nintendo believes it is in good shape to meet its goal of selling 15 million Switch 2 devices by next March.
🫠 Meta's AI staff flee to rivals despite $2M salaries LINK
  • Meta is reportedly losing AI talent, with one VC noting three departures for rivals this week alone, even with over $2 million annual pay packages.
  • Anthropic draws these AI professionals not just with competitive salaries but with a distinct culture that encourages researcher autonomy, flexible work, and intellectual discourse.
  • Former Meta staffers now represent 4.3% of new hires at AI labs, part of a larger trend where experienced people leave big tech for these startups.
👓 Snap will start selling AR glasses next year LINK
  • Snap will begin selling its AR glasses, newly named Specs, to the public next year, allowing developers time to polish their AR experiences.
  • Next year's consumer Specs are said to be noticeably thinner and lighter with a wider field of view, improving on the previous developer-only hardware.
  • These new Specs will integrate AI from OpenAI and Google for lenses, with Snap relying on its large developer community to build distinct AR experiences.
🌍 Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars LINK
  • Meta launched V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI 'world model' for recognizing 3D environments and the movements of physical objects more accurately.
  • V-JEPA 2 operates as an AI 'world model' by building an internal simulation of reality to understand, predict, and plan in the physical world.
  • Meta's release of this AI 'world model' aims to advance robotics and self-driving cars by improving how they understand and plan in physical environments.

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Other news & articles you might like

  • Sam Altman thinks AI will have ‘novel insights’ next year LINK
  • Why Apple’s big events no longer feel revolutionary LINK
  • Android 16 is here LINK
  • HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam LINK
  • The Browser Company launches its AI-first browser, Dia, in beta LINK
  • The EU challenges Google and Cloudflare with its very own DNS resolver that can filter dangerous traffic LINK
  • Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water LINK
  • More than a million people now have Alexa Plus LINK
  • Nvidia trumpets European AI infrastructure push LINK
  • Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search LINK

Trending research and tools

Xeneva Operating System: an operating system built from the ground up for both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures. LINK
S3mini: a tiny and fast client for S3-compatible object storage, allowing users to manage files on Node, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, and other edge platforms. LINK
Modern Minimal Perfect Hashing: A Survey: this paper reviews current methods for minimal perfect hashing, which is a way to assign unique, sequential numbers to a known set of items without gaps or collisions. LINK
A Family of Non-Periodic Tilings, Describable Using Elementary Tools: this paper introduces new types of non-repeating patterns that can be understood and built using basic mathematical methods. LINK
S5cmd: a very fast execution tool for parallel S3 and local filesystem tasks, offering wildcard support for managing numerous files. LINK
RomM: a self-hosted ROM manager and player that scans, enriches, browses, and plays your game collection. LINK

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