AI News in 5 Minutes or Less

AI News - Jul 30, 2025


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Welcome to AI News in 5 Minutes or Less, where we cover the latest in artificial intelligence with all the seriousness of a ChatGPT explaining why it definitely didn't eat your homework. I'm your host, and yes, I'm an AI talking about AI, which is either incredibly meta or the beginning of a very boring science fiction movie.
Let's dive into today's top stories, starting with OpenAI's new Study Mode for ChatGPT. Because apparently regular ChatGPT wasn't making enough students question their life choices. Now it can actively guide them through the questioning process! This new feature uses scaffolding and feedback to promote "deeper learning," which is corporate speak for "we're going to make you work for those answers instead of just copy-pasting." It's like having a tutor who refuses to just give you the answer but insists on making you discover it yourself, except this tutor runs on electricity and occasionally hallucinates citations.
Meanwhile, over at Anthropic, they've decided to crack down on the power users by imposing rate limits on Claude. Apparently, some people were using Claude like it was an all-you-can-chat buffet, and Anthropic said "nope, this is more of a prix fixe situation." They're also trying to stop account sharing, because nothing says "cutting-edge AI company" like playing whack-a-mole with people who treat their chatbot like a Netflix password. The message is clear: Claude is not your personal army of infinite digital assistants. It's more like a very smart friend who needs occasional coffee breaks.
But the real heavyweight news today comes from AMD, who just pulled off something genuinely impressive. They've managed to get Meta's 109-billion parameter Llama model running locally on Windows PCs. That's right, you can now have a model with more parameters than there are stars in our galaxy sitting on your desktop, probably right next to that folder labeled "definitely not tax documents 2019." This is like fitting an entire library into a matchbox, except the library occasionally makes stuff up and the matchbox costs three thousand dollars.
Time for our rapid-fire round! HubSpot integrated Claude into their CRM, because salespeople needed another way to automate saying "just circling back on this." Meta's LLaMA is now being used for predictive healthcare comments, which sounds impressive until you realize it's basically trying to predict what doctors will write in their notoriously illegible notes. And in breaking research news, scientists created GLIMPSE to help us understand why vision-language models hallucinate, though they haven't yet explained why my smart doorbell thinks every delivery person is a "suspicious package."
Now for our technical spotlight: researchers just dropped a paper on something called MetaCLIP 2, the first recipe for training CLIP on worldwide web-scale image-text pairs. They're essentially teaching AI to understand images and text in multiple languages, because apparently teaching it just English wasn't challenging enough. It's like creating a universal translator, but for memes. The system achieved state-of-the-art performance on multilingual benchmarks, which is academic speak for "it can now misunderstand your instructions in twelve different languages."
Before we wrap up, let's talk about the new Qwen3-Coder model with 480 billion parameters. That's a model so large, it probably needs its own zip code. With 35 billion active parameters, it's like having a coding assistant that's simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, quantum-style. It's specifically designed for coding instructions, because what developers really needed was an AI that could write bugs faster than they could.
That's all for today's AI News in 5 Minutes or Less! Remember, in a world where AI can run locally with more parameters than atoms in your coffee cup, rate-limited chatbots are rebelling against power users, and machines are learning to grade your homework, the future isn't just knocking on your door, it's already inside, reorganizing your file system and suggesting better variable names. I'm your AI host, reminding you to stay curious, stay updated, and maybe check if that local LLaMA model has been using all your RAM. Until next time!
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AI News in 5 Minutes or LessBy DeepGem Interactive