🗞️In this edition

• Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX for next-gen AI

• Workflow Wednesday #36 ‘Competitive Edge’

• K2 Think puts UAE in global AI race

• In other AI news –

  • Google’s Veo 3 update adds vertical AI video support

  • Microsoft eyes Anthropic AI for Office 365 apps

  • Meta signs $140M deal with Black Forest Labs for image AI

• 4 must-try AI tools

Nvidia targets software and video generation with new Rubin CPX chip

♨️News – Nvidia is gearing up to launch Rubin CPX, a new chip built to power demanding AI tasks such as video generation and software development. Expected at the end of 2026, the system is designed to make AI inference more efficient by separating how machines understand inputs from how they generate responses.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Rubin CPX builds on Nvidia’s Rubin line arriving in 2025.

• Available as server cards or standalone machines for data centers.

• Targets large-scale reasoning, able to handle millions of tokens at once.

• Nvidia says $100M invested in CPX could generate $5B in customer revenue.

• Analysts estimate Nvidia’s data center revenue could reach $184B this fiscal year.

🤓OpenTools POV – By tailoring chips for reasoning and large-scale AI workloads, Nvidia is moving to secure its lead in the industry. Rubin CPX shows how the company is aligning hardware innovation with the growing demand for measurable returns on AI investments.

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This Week in Workflow Wednesday #36: Competitive Edge

This Week in Workflow Wednesday: Competitive Edge

 Workflow 1: Out-Research Your Competition with Perplexity
Why waste hours Googling when Perplexity can hand you a competitive intel brief in minutes?

Step 1: Name your rival
Type in the company you want to track — pricing, features, customer praise and complaints all come back in a clean digest.

Step 2: Dig for weakness
Follow up with prompts that surface user frustrations from G2, Reddit, and X so you know exactly where to outshine them.

And here’s the kicker: we share the exact prompts and a simple template to flip this research into a strategy that…We break it all down in this week’s issue, along with 2 other AI workflows.

K2 Think brings UAE into competition with OpenAI and DeepSeek

☕News – The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in the UAE has introduced K2 Think, a reasoning model meant to stand alongside systems from OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek. At just 32 billion parameters, the model is far smaller than its rivals but still delivers similar performance in math, coding, and science tasks.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Developed by MBZUAI with support from G42 and Microsoft.

• Built on Alibaba’s open-source Qwen 2.5 and tested on Cerebras hardware.

• Matches leading models on reasoning benchmarks like AIME and LiveCodeBench.

• Uses chain-of-thought fine-tuning and test-time scaling to boost results.

• Designed for specialized research rather than building a chatbot..

🤓OpenTools POV – K2 Think highlights how smaller nations are stepping into the AI race with efficient, targeted models instead of sheer scale. This could mark a shift in global AI strategy, where performance isn’t just about size but smarter design.

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📢 What else is happening?

• Google’s Veo 3 can now generate vertical AI videos // The update also reduces pricing and adds higher resolution outputs for developers

• Microsoft plans to reduce OpenAI reliance by integrating Anthropic AI into Office 365 apps // The decision highlights a growing distance between Microsoft and OpenAI

• Meta to Pay $140 Million to Use Black Forest Labs AI for Images // Meta has signed a multi-year contract worth more than $100 million to use technology from AI image startup Black Forest Labs, the latest investment by the social media firm to expand its artificial intelligence offerings

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