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All I Want for Shipmas: OpenAI’s Holiday Rush

OpenAI is closing out the year in style with “12 Days of Shipmas.”

Starting today, we will see a new announcement or tool release, showcasing the company’s latest innovations, confirmed right from the source at the New York Times Dealbook conference:

But what’s under the tree?

• OpenAI will likely unveil Sora, its long-awaited text-to-video AI model. Sora promises to create high-quality, one-minute videos from text or image prompts, setting the stage for new possibilities in video generation.

• A snowflake might replace ChatGPT's voice button.

• Beyond the marquee announcements, OpenAI teases additional tools and features to delight users throughout the event, because if it’s one thing we’ve learned, they love a good surprise.

So What?

After watching competitors like Google and Anthropic dominate recent headlines with their releases, OpenAI is making a bold move to reassert its position in the AI race.

Whether you're a dev looking for new toys or just an AI enthusiast waiting to see what's next, this is one holiday countdown that won't disappoint. Just don't expect any partridges in pear trees – unless they're AI-generated.

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Google DeepMind’s New Triple Threat

Google DeepMind just dropped some major AI announcements that might help explain Shipmas a little better.

We saw two remarkable models in research and one video model available to enterprises:

Veo

Google’s new text-to-video model, Veo, is now available for businesses through Vertex AI, offering 1080p high-quality video creation from text or image prompts. The model supports diverse visual and cinematic styles, with results so polished it’s hard to distinguish them from human-made videos.

GenCast

Google DeepMind has made significant progress with GenCast, a breakthrough AI weather forecasting model. Trained on 40 years of ECMWF-curated weather data, GenCast outperforms the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ leading system in both daily and extreme weather predictions. It uses diffusion model technology to generate probabilistic forecasts that account for a range of possibilities, which is more fruitful than traditional models.

Genie 2

This model can generate an unlimited array of action-controllable, playable 3D environments for training and testing embodied agents. Starting from a single prompt image, these environments can be navigated by either human users or AI agents via keyboard and mouse inputs.

The AI race is heating up just as the weather cools down. With Google flexing its AI muscles and OpenAI responding with 12 days of releases, December is shaping up to be anything but quiet in the AI world.

Of course we'll be tracking every announcement and breaking down what matters!

Claude Gets Plugged In

Anthropic is going all in on low-code automation through Claude.

Last week, Claude got Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for its Desktop interface, enabling AI assistants to connect directly to content repositories, business tools, and development environments.

Out of the box, it offers configurations for tools like Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, and more. For developers, there’s also the option to build custom tooling and function calls.

We took it for a spin to connect it to a local sqlite database:

Here’s how you can do it too 👇️ 

Create your database:

# Create a new SQLite database
sqlite3 ~/test.db <<EOF
CREATE TABLE products (
  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
  name TEXT,
  price REAL
);

INSERT INTO products (name, price) VALUES
  ('Widget', 19.99),
  ('Gadget', 29.99),
  . -- more rows can go here
  .
  .
  ('Portable SSD', 179.99);
EOF

Configure Claude Desktop:

Open your Claude Desktop App configuration at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json in a text editor.

Add this configuration and replace YOUR_USERNAME with your username (you may also need to change the uvx portion to point to where you have uvx installed on your end. Be sure to also specify the path to your database:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sqlite": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-sqlite", "--db-path", "/Users/YOUR_USERNAME/test.db"]
    }
  }
}

Give it a spin on Claude Desktop!

Can you connect to my SQLite database and tell me what products are available?

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

Amazon unveiled Nova, a new generation of foundation models with the ability to process text, images, and video prompts.

ElevenLabs launched Conversational AI, a platform to create AI voice agents with ease.

ChatGPT users have spotted an unusual glitch that prevents the AI chatbot from saying the name ‘David Mayer’.

Vodafone launched an AI ad, and everyone says it’s way better than Coca Cola’s.

Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services’ custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and potentially Apple Intelligence.

Tencent released HunyuanVideo, a state-of-the-art open-source video generation model.

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