Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• Elon's "smartest AI" costs 10x more than ChatGPT 💵 

• The $6.5B AI hardware revolution (OpenAI's master plan) 🔥

• Google's 1.4B person AI marketing experiment 👀

• The Google Chrome killer you haven't heard about 🤐

• Access premium ChatGPT subscriptions for a fraction of the cost 💸

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Elon Musk officially launches Grok 4 with a bold $300/month price tag💥

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4, along with a new premium subscription plan called SuperGrok Heavy, priced at $300/month. The startup claims to have created the "smartest AI in the world" 🧠

• Grok 4 AI models have surpassed all major AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic in key benchmarks. Grok 4 scored 15.9% on ARC-AGI-2, taking the top spot in the AI benchmark rankings 📊

• Initially, Grok 4 will be available only to X's Premium+ subscribers, limiting access to the platform’s highest-paying users 📱

• A new SuperGrok subscription at $30/month provides access to the standard Grok 4 model. Meanwhile, the top-tier SuperGrok Heavy plan at $300/month offers Grok 4 Heavy, increased usage limits, priority support, and early access to new features 🚀

• xAI describes Grok 4 as its most advanced model to date, capable of refining human knowledge by correcting errors, filling gaps, and enhancing reasoning ➡️

Why You Should Care: With the $300 monthly subscription, xAI believes that businesses and serious users will pay high prices for better AI, which could change how the market sets prices. If Grok 4's performance claims are validated, the launch might push OpenAI and Google to speed up their own model releases while justifying much higher prices across the industry.

Open AI to buy Jony Ive’s io Products to build hardware 💻

OpenAI has completed its acquisition of io Products, headed by former Apple designer Jony Ive. This deal is valued at $6.5B in stock deal, which pushes the ChatGPT maker into consumer hardware market 💼

• The mega-deal structure includes $5 billion using stock to acquire io, with the rest covered by the 23% stake it already has in io, making it the largest venture-backed acquisition by a private buyer 📈

• Ive will take on deep creative and design responsibilities at OpenAI and io. His 50-person team will join OpenAI to design and build hardware for AI interfaces 🔧

• Legal challenges arose as OpenAI retracted promotional materials for its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's io startup to comply with a court order in a trademark dispute 💰

• The partnership began as early collaboration between Altman and Ive. The team at io, is now merging with OpenAI and working closely with its research, engineering, and product teams in San Francisco 🤝

Why You Should Care: This acquisition marks OpenAI's significant move beyond software to develop the next generation of AI-native devices. The $6.5 billion price shows OpenAI's belief that the future of AI is not limited to chatbots. It also involves rethinking how people engage with artificial intelligence through physical devices.

Google's billion-dollar bet on India's AI ad revolution 📢

Google has introduced a set of its AI-powered advertising tools in India. These tools first appeared in the U.S. The repeal of the so-called "Google tax" has made the South Asian market more appealing to global tech companies that sell online ads 🤖

• The regulatory change occurred when India plans to remove the 6% equalization levy on digital ads. This aims to improve India-US trade relations and help tech companies like Google and Meta⚡

• Google’s newly launched features, including AI Max for Search Campaigns, Smart Bidding Exploration, YouTube's shoppable masthead and CTV, and Performance Max Retention-Only Mode, support Hindi to improve local campaign compatibility ➡️
  

• Advertisers using AI Max in Search campaigns usually experience 14% more conversions or conversion value while maintaining a similar CPA or ROAS 💰
  

• Two main features, search term matching and asset optimization, use Google AI to improve your ads in real time. This increases your customer reach and value for your business 🔍

Why You Should Care: Google's expansion in India is a significant bet on the country's digital advertising potential, especially now that regulatory barriers have been lifted. The launch aims at India's 1.4 billion people and its fast-growing digital economy which shows how tax policies can directly affect the rollout of products by major tech companies.

Perplexity enters the browser wars with AI-powered Comet ⚔️

Perplexity launched its first AI-powered web browser, Comet. This move represents the company's latest effort to challenge Google Search. The AI search startup is stepping up its competition against the tech giant by offering a complete browsing experience 🔁

• San Francisco-based Perplexity, “Comet” is now available to its top-paying Perplexity Max subscribers and a select group of others in a limited rollout 🔐

• Key features include an integrated AI assistant that understands on-page context, automates complex workflows, and provides instant answers without leaving the page 📄

• The browser offers privacy settings, such as built-in ad-blocking and an option to opt-out of data sharing. It aims to be a privacy-focused alternative to Chrome 🚫

• Perplexity had 780 million queries in May 2025. The company's search products are experiencing over 20% growth each month, creating momentum for the browser launch ✅

Why You Should Care: Comet is Perplexity's biggest attempt to challenge Google's dominance by taking control of the entire search and browsing experience. The browser includes AI assistance right in web navigation. Perplexity believes users want intelligence in every part of their online experience, not just in search queries.

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PROMPT OF THE WEEK

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“Evaluate the competitive positioning and industry impact of OpenAI’s 4.1, o3, and o4-mini models versus Anthropic's Claude and Mistral’s Mixtral series. Include adoption trends across key verticals (e.g., finance, healthcare, education, and creative industries), model performance benchmarks, integration strategies (API, custom apps, partnerships), and provide data visualizations highlighting usage shifts over the past 12 months.”

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

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