AI News: Sam vs Elon, Claude 1m Context, Situational Awareness $1.5B

AI Model Development & Competition - OpenAI's reasoning system achieved a gold medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics, surpassing most human participants and all other AI participants [27][28] - Mistral AI introduced Mistral Medium 3.1, featuring performance boosts and improved web searches [29] - Anthropic has upped the context window of Claude Sonnet 4 to 1 million tokens, costing $3 per million tokens for prompts less than 200,000 tokens and $6 per million tokens for prompts greater than 200,000 tokens [16][18][19] AI Applications & Products - Perplexity launched video generation, offering Pro subscribers five videos per month and Max subscribers 15 videos per month [19] - Lindy launched Lindy 3.0 with autopilot features, enabling AI agents to use computers like humans, offering a $50 credit to new users [13][14][15] - Skywork Matrix Game 2.0 released an open-source real-time long sequence interactive world model, generating 25 frames per second [21][22][23] AI Industry Investment & Talent - Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Ashenbrenner raised $1.5 billion for a hedge fund focused on AI-related investments, including semiconductor, infrastructure, and power companies, with a 47% gain in the first half of the year [24][25][26] Tech Industry Disputes - Elon Musk criticized Apple's App Store for allegedly favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT and disadvantaging X and Grok, claiming antitrust violations [2][3][4] - Sam Altman rebutted Musk's claims, referencing allegations of Musk manipulating X to benefit himself and his companies [7][8]