OpenAI pulls a U-turn 🚨

Anthropic’s now bankrolling science

May 07, 2025

Welcome back! Meta’s new standalone AI app feels less like a revolution and more like a weird experiment. It’s pitched as a big leap for personalized AI, but early testers say it’s chaotic, directionless, and confusing.

Tech giants want to flood our phones, feeds, and wearables with their biggest models — but no one’s quite figured out how to make that meaningful yet.

OpenAI walks back its for-profit takeover

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OpenAI is doing a 180. The tech company raised eyebrows last year when it hinted it might shift control of its operations from its nonprofit board to its for-profit arm. But this week, it reversed course—the nonprofit will stay in charge.

The backstory: OpenAI’s original “capped profit” model was designed to balance innovation with ethical responsibility, but things got tense as investors pushed for faster growth. Now, leadership says it’s doubling down on the nonprofit’s mission to ensure safety and broad benefit.

The big picture: It’s a sharp reminder that the biggest tension in AI right now isn’t just technical—it’s ethical. Should world-shaping technology be a profit-making business or treated as a global public good? OpenAI’s decision keeps that question wide open.

Anthropic bets big on science

Anthropic just launched a new program to support scientific research using AI. The company is offering up to $20,000 in API credits to researchers and labs that propose projects pairing Claude with real-world discovery.

What Anthropic wants: Submissions could range from using AI to speed up climate modeling, to helping analyze complex biological data, to advancing material science research. It’s a direct play to put Claude into the hands of the scientific community.

The bigger trend: AI labs are under pressure to prove their models are good for more than chatbots and clickbait. Anthropic’s bet? Show that frontier models can unlock new breakthroughs in the scientific world.

Speed Meets Cinema-Quality

The latest version of LTX Video launched yesterday and it’s LTX Studio’s most advanced video-generation model yet.

Why LTXV is a game-changer:

  • Renders up to 30Ă— faster than competitors while maintaining true cinematic quality

  • Revolutionary multiscale rendering builds clips from coarse to fine for sharp, high-resolution results

  • Runs entirely on your own hardware or via LTX Studio

  • 100% open-source on GitHub and Hugging Face under OpenRAIL

This is quality creative control at your fingertips. Experience this 13-billion parameter difference starting today.

Speak your way past writer’s block

VoicePal

VoicePal is an AI-powered ghostwriting assistant that turns your spoken thoughts into polished drafts. It transcribes in real time, organizes ideas, asks follow-up questions, and adapts to your voice.

How you can use it:

  • Draft blog posts, scripts, or newsletters by talking

  • Brainstorm on the go without stopping to type

  • Turn messy voice notes into clean, structured content

Pricing: Free plan available; paid tiers start at $9/month

Turn simple prompts into 3D masterpieces

Bevelify

Bevelify transforms text descriptions or images into detailed 3D models in minutes. It offers ultra-fast processing, HD materials, and export-ready files compatible with top design tools.

How you can use it:

  • Create 3D assets for games, digital art, or marketing

  • Visualize product designs without needing modeling skills

  • Build visuals for web, social, or presentations

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans start at $16/month

Let your website chat like a human

Chatwize

Chatwize is an AI chatbot platform that creates custom GPT-based support agents for your site. It integrates your business data for 24/7 support across 95 languages.

How you can use it:

  • Automate customer service without extra hires

  • Offer instant, multilingual support day and night

  • Capture leads and improve site engagement through live chat

Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans start at 99 euros

Jobs, announcements, and big ideas

  • Windsurf unveils Wave 8 with new teams and enterprise tools.

  • Oura rolls out AI glucose tracking and smart meal logging.

  • Amazon is hiring an AI editor to develop prompts and train Amazon’s Shopping LLM.

  • ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Apriel Nemotron 15B for enterprise AI agents.

  • Google introduces Gemini for streamlined AI text simplification.

Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret for AI coding is out. Engineers say it changes everything about workflow.

That’s a wrap! See you Friday.

—Matt (FutureTools.io)

P.S. This newsletter is 100% written by a human. Okay, maybe 96%.