SoftBank, OpenAI Partner for Cristal Intelligence

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

SoftBank partners with OpenAI for Cristal Intelligence; EU invests $56M in OpenEuroLLM; Anthropic dares you to jailbreak Claude AI.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Top AI & Tech News

• Interesting Uses of AI

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Hottest AI News

OpenAI

SoftBank Teams Up With OpenAI to Develop Cristal Intelligence

SoftBank is advancing in AI, with CEO Masayoshi Son announcing partnerships with OpenAI and bold AGI predictions. At a Tokyo event, Son revealed initiatives that could reshape the AI landscape.

Details:

• SoftBank joins OpenAI's $500B Project Stargate to enhance US AI infrastructure and launches "Cristal Intelligence" to automate knowledge work. It plans to invest $3B to integrate OpenAI tech

• A 50-50 joint venture, "SB OpenAI Japan," will market Cristal Intelligence to Japanese firms. Plans include automating 100M workflows at SoftBank and boosting productivity at Arm

• Son revised his AGI timeline, predicting it will arrive "much earlier" than his previous 2-3 year estimate, echoing OpenAI's Sam Altman on AGI's evolving definitions

These moves mark a major AI push for SoftBank, despite past challenges like WeWork. The OpenAI partnership and Cristal Intelligence highlight its focus on AI's global impact.

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AI Investments

EU Funds $56M AI Project to Develop OpenEuroLLM

EU is shaking up the AI landscape with a $56M investment in open source AI, shifting from regulation to active participation in the global AI race.

Details:

• The investment will fund EU researchers to develop a large language model supporting 30 languages, using supercomputing from Mare Nostrum (Spain) and Leonardo (Italy)

• Though smaller than OpenAI's $25B or Mistral's $640M, it’s 10x more than Deepseek’s R1 model, suggesting efficient resource use with potential impact

• It reduces Europe's reliance on U.S. tech giants, aligning with EU values and offering an open-source alternative for companies and governments

This, plus €1.5B in grants and supercomputing investments, shows the EU’s AI push, but critics cite fragmented funding and the failed €550M Google rival.

Anthropic

Can You Jailbreak Claude AI? Anthropic Challenges You

Anthropic introduces Constitutional Classifiers, a robust defense against AI jailbreaks. Claude remains secure even after intense testing, and the company offers a $15,000 bounty for successful universal jailbreaks.

Details:

• Security researchers spent 3,000+ hours testing Claude over two months, with no jailbreaks. Constitutional Classifiers system blocks harmful requests and achieves a 95% success rate with minimal impact

• The development process started with a heavy version in June 2024, later optimized. Anthropic used Claude to generate thousands of test prompts in various languages for training

• Unlike AI chatbots like DeepSeek, Anthropic’s system sets a new standard. It adapts to emerging threats and has a reasonable cost, just 23.7% more than the regular model

Anthropic's security breakthrough proves strong safeguards are possible without sacrificing functionality, inspiring safer AI practices, with the challenge still open for testers.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

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• Qwen Chat: Latest update upgrades Qwen2.5-Plus to qwen-plus-0125-exp, with advanced post-training techniques, unlimited mode switching, support for texts over 10,000 characters [F-R-E-E]

• Storyblocker V2 App: Create virtual worlds, mockups, and stunning environments with AI-powered Text-to-3D and VID2VID

Top AI & Tech News

• Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky

• The Beatles won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance with their AI-assisted track

• Snap has introduced an AI text-to-image model designed for mobile devices

• OpenAI is expanding its presence in Asia through strategic partnerships with South Korea's Kakao

• Adobe Acrobat AI reads and explains your contracts in minutes — here’s how it works

• OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's capabilities on WhatsApp to include image and voice note inputs, in addition to text

Interesting Uses of AI

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney

Prompt:

A photorealistic tabby cat dressed as a chef, meticulously preparing sushi in a high-end kitchen, steam rising from the rice, 16:9 aspect ratio, vibrant colors, ultra-detailed, cinematic lighting --v 6.1

AI Prompt of the Day

Content Production

This prompt creates a content system that works in your absence, collecting details on your process and offering a 14-day calendar aligned to your goals.

Prompt:

Create a content production system that works while I'm on vacation. First ask about my current process for creating [specify content types you produce]. When you have the details, suggest a 14-day content calendar outline with specific dates and topics aligned with my business goals of [describe goals]. Do not write the posts, just give the schedule. Include how to batch create content efficiently and metrics to track performance while I'm gone

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