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OpenAI正大举进军硬件领域，模仿苹果公司过往的成功模式。通过招募苹果前硬件专家、设计师及制造商，OpenAI旨在打造一系列创新的AI设备。据报道，公司已吸引了包括前苹果高管在内的多位人才，并与iPhone制造商建立了合作关系，计划在2026年底或2027年初推出首款无屏幕智能音箱形态的设备，后续还将考虑眼镜、可穿戴设备等。前苹果设计大师Jony Ive也为OpenAI的硬件愿景提供了指导，预示着这家AI巨头正以一种熟悉且备受期待的方式，重新定义未来的硬件产品。
🚀 **OpenAI 硬件野心勃勃，借鉴苹果成功模式**：OpenAI正积极招募苹果公司的硬件人才，包括界面设计师、音频工程师和制造专家，并提供高额薪酬。此举意在借鉴苹果公司在硬件产品开发和制造上的成功经验，为公司未来的AI设备奠定基础。
🤝 **与苹果前高管及制造商合作**：前苹果高管Tang Tan正在领导OpenAI的硬件项目，他向候选人承诺减少官僚流程并实现宏伟的产品愿景。同时，OpenAI已与iPhone制造商Luxshare和Goertek达成生产协议，讨论制造一款无屏幕的智能音箱形态设备。
💡 **多款AI设备蓄势待发，预计2026年底发布**：OpenAI正在考虑的产品组合包括眼镜、别针式可穿戴设备和录音笔等，首款产品预计将在2026年底或2027年初发布。这些设备的开发受到前苹果设计师Jony Ive的指导，旨在创造具有颠覆性的用户体验。
💰 **xAI推出成本效益极高的Grok 4 Fast模型**：xAI发布了Grok 4 Fast，一个性能接近前沿但计算成本显著降低的推理模型。该模型在保持与Grok 4相当的性能下，平均思考令牌减少40%，成本降低98%，并在多项基准测试中表现优异，甚至超越了Claude 4.1 Opus和Gemini 2.5 Pro。
Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. OpenAI’s secretive hardware projects are getting a bit clearer, and the development could be coming straight out of the Apple playbook. Armed with Apple's former talent, manufacturers, and even Jony Ive's design vision, the AI giant is betting that the best way to shape the device future is to hire the people who built the past.
In today’s AI rundown:OpenAI raids Apple for hardware pushxAI’s cost-efficient Grok 4 FastUse Notion AI to build a CRM pipelineAI artist Xania Monet lands $3M record deal4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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OpenAI raids Apple for hardware pushImage source: Nano Banana / The Rundown
OAI has recruited dozens of Apple hardware vets, offering $1M+ packages to interface designers, audio engineers, and manufacturing specialists.Former Apple exec Tang Tan is leading the hardware effort, selling candidates promises of reduced red tape and an ambitious product vision. Production agreements now link OAI with iPhone manufacturers Luxshare and Goertek, discussing the creation of a display-less, smart speaker-type device.Other products in consideration include glasses, a pin wearable, and a voice recorder, aiming for an inaugural release in “late 2026 or early 2027”.
Why it matters: OAI’s hardware ambitions are being shaped by former Apple designer Jony Ive, and it sounds like both talent acquisition and manufacturing are coming from the old Apple playbook. With the secrecy and hype around the upcoming devices, the eventual release will be one of the most anticipated product launches in recent memory. TOGETHER WITH TURING🧪 The research accelerator for frontier AI labsThe Rundown: While data factories churn out quantity, leading AI labs need partners who co-own research goals and engineer the complex human-AI loops that push models from promising to state-of-the-art. Turing specializes in closing capability gaps through custom research acceleration.Turing's research-focused approach includes:Co-owned experimental outcomes, not just data delivery, and vendor neutralityQuality-by-design workflows with transparent data lineage and auditable resultsCustom RL environments and SFT/RLHF/DPO pipelines designed for your benchmarks
Partner with the research accelerator that understands what frontier AI labs actually need.XAI💨 xAI’s cost-efficient Grok 4 FastThe Rundown: xAI unveiled Grok 4 Fast, a new hyper-efficient reasoning model that delivers near-frontier performance and top speed at a fraction of the compute cost of its predecessor, Grok 4. The details:Grok 4 Fast achieves comparable results to Grok 4, despite using 40% fewer thinking tokens on average, resulting in a 98% price reduction.Benchmarks place it above Claude 4.1 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro, hitting 85.7% on GPQA Diamond (science) and 92% on AIME 2025 (math). The model also rose to No. 1 in LMArena's Search Arena, and showed strong performance on coding benchmarks — even surpassing the larger Grok 4. Grok 4 Fast also supports a 2M token context, along with native tool integration for web browsing and code execution.
Why it matters: xAI’s cost-efficiency gains with this new release are wild, with Grok 4 Fast competing with the top models in the world despite massive decreases in cost. When leaders like Sam Altman speak of ‘intelligence too cheap to meter,’ this model is part of the trend that exemplifies that coming reality. AI TRAINING🔥 Use Notion AI to build a CRM pipelineThe Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a CRM dashboard for your sales pipeline with Notion AI. Instead of manually creating pages, subpages, and toggles, all of this will be done for you using AI prompts.Step-by-step:Go to Notion.so, open Notion AI, and collapse the side panel for a cleaner workspaceUse this prompt: "A CRM pipeline database where I can track leads from first contact through conversion. Add filters for email, type of subscriber, first contact, second contact, did they convert, and why didn't they convert"Click Submit and let Notion AI build the database structure, then agree to suggested additions like follow-up stages and next stepsReview the generated "CRM – Sales Pipeline" page and refine fields by changing toggles to checkboxes or adding filters like deal size
Pro Tip: Experiment with prompt styles. For example, instead of saying "create me a CRM," try "create a sales pipeline with Kanban stages" or "build a lead tracker with follow-up reminders." The more specific you are, the better your results.PRESENTED BY ENCORD📊 Double your CV Model robustnessThe Rundown: Encord is the universal data layer for multimodal AI, consolidating curation, annotation, and model evaluation pipelines. Teams can accelerate model iteration cycles by using Encord’s agentic AI data workflow system to prepare balanced, accurately labeled datasets 10x faster.Join Encord on Sept. 24 for an edge case and model evaluation masterclass on:Uncovering edge cases your accuracy metrics are blind toCutting labeling time by prioritising edge-case dataCurating datasets for model performance in variable environments
Save your spot.AI & MUSIC🎵 AI artist Xania Monet lands $3M record dealThe Rundown: Mississippi poet Talisha Jones secured a multimillion-dollar contract for her AI-generated R&B persona Xania Monet, coming on the heels of the artist’s music debuting on Billboard’s charts and racking up 10M streams in the U.S. last week.The details: Jones created Monet’s identity using AI tools and uses Suno for music creation, but claims to use ‘live elements’ and writes all the lyrics herself.Multiple labels bid for the artist before Hallwood Media secured the $3M deal, though some also had copyright concerns about the use of Suno.Hallwood Media also signed top Suno creator Imoliver in July after a single hit 3M streams on the platform, which was the first known signing of a Suno artist.
Why it matters: We’re at a strange inflection point in AI and music, where the tech’s use is both controversial and still being identified. The latest music generation models have already reached quality levels imperceptible from professional tracks – meaning there’s likely already a flow of AI music blending into the streaming scene.QUICK HITS🛠️ Trending AI Tools⚙️ Grok 4 Fast - xAI’s new cost-efficient reasoning model✍️ Metaprompt - A simple tool to make AI prompts more powerful🔊 Studio 3.0 - ElevenLabs’ editing platform with new video support🎥 Ray3 - Luma AI’s new reasoning video model with studio-grade outputs
📰 Everything else in AI todayScale AI introduced SWE-Bench Pro, an updated, more challenging version of its agentic software development benchmark widely used across the industry. Satya Nadella shared that he’s “haunted” by the prospect of Microsoft becoming irrelevant with AI, saying its “biggest businesses” might not be as relevant in the future.Mistral AI released Magistral Small and Medium 1.2, updates to its reasoning model family that bring multimodal capabilities, upgraded tool use, and performance boosts. Sam Altman posted that OpenAI is releasing some new “compute-intensive offerings” over the next few weeks, available to Pro subscribers.Oracle is reportedly in talks with Meta for a $20B multi-year cloud computing deal to provide AI model training and deployment capacity. Anthropic’s Jan Leike criticized “Leading the Future, a pro-AI, $100M+ super-PAC from a16z, Greg Brockman, and others that Leike says is “bad news for AI safety".COMMUNITY🤝 Community AI workflowsEvery newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.Today’s workflow comes from reader Ibrahim I. in Türkiye:"I use AI as my "second brain"—it scans my calendar, mood logs, and to-do lists to predict when I’ll procrastinate… then automatically schedules micro-tasks with funny motivational nudges. ("Your 3pm slump called—it wants you to knock out 1 email before coffee.”How do you use AI? Tell us here.🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & EventsSee you soon,Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown
