Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week. So, I summarized everything from OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, Figure, Unitree, OpenMind, Microsoft, Perplexity, ElevenLabs, and more. Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:

OpenAI had a huge week, announcing: —New flagship models: GPT-5, GPT-5 Pro, and GPT-5 Mini —gpt-oss-120B and 20B: OAI's first open models since GPT-2 —New personalities for ChatGPT —Deal with the U.S. govt to offer ChatGPT at $1/agency

Google DeepMind released Genie 3 It's a model capable of generating playable worlds in real-time, with consistency and visual memory up to 1 min Major push for gaming and entertainment, as well as a new foundation for training physical AI

xAI started rolling out Imagine, its new image and video generation model Available for free via the Grok app, Imagine can create images in different styles from text prompts, which can then be animated All videos also come with native audio, like Veo 3

OpenMind raised $20M for building OM1, a software layer for humanoids that acts as their OS The company also unveiled FABRIC, a protocol that allows robots to verify identity and share context and information with other robots