📖 DeepSeek tells all

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Welcome back, Superhuman. The average second of a two hour Hollywood movie with a $100M budget costs north of $5,000. Google’s new AI video generation model will cost $0.50 per second of video.

Today’s Insights

• Veo 2, Microsoft’s cold feet, and AI-powered diagnoses

• DeepSeek gives us a peek behind the curtain

• Tutorial: How to generate videos from product URLs

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. Google’s Veo 2 gets public release: First announced in December, Google’s Veo 2 has finally made its public debut on AI image and video platforms Freepik and Fal. Google says it beats out rivals like Meta’s Movie Gen and OpenAI’s Sora Turbo across both prompt adherence and overall performance. Freepik shared some examples of what you can create along with the prompts used to generate them. Early users can get a few generations at no cost, but the official Veo 2 pricing page says using the model will cost 50 cents per second of video.

2. Microsoft may be getting cold feet about aggressive AI spend: Microsoft has begun canceling lease agreements for significant data center capacity across the US, according to a new analyst report. If true, the move raises questions about long-term AI computing demand, and could impact OpenAI, which relies on Microsoft's infrastructure to power its AI models. The apparent pullback comes as investors increasingly scrutinize the massive capital expenditures flowing into AI infrastructure.

3. New AI tool can detect whether you have Covid, diabetes, or HIV: Researchers have developed a new method of diagnosing multiple diseases with a single blood test. Using a special machine learning technique, the scientists were able to determine whether a patient had Covid, HIV, lupus, and type-1 diabetes. It could even tell if they’d recently gotten a flu shot. The real game-changer: The technique could one day be used to diagnose more obscure conditions that are currently undetectable.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

DeepSeek reveals more details about how it built R1

AI spending has mostly recovered from DeepSeek’s market shakeup. But there’s still plenty left to learn from the startup’s state-of-the-art model, R1. The Chinese company revealed it’ll publish five code repositories filled with data and materials related to its reasoning-focused LLM this week, giving developers a rare glimpse into how it was built.

What’s behind the decision? It says it’s making the bold move because “every line shared becomes collective momentum that accelerates the journey” toward AGI. In other words, it wants to let smaller developers check its notes so that they can build their own state-of-the-art models using similar techniques. Universities in China are even launching their own courses just to study the breakthrough.

Why it matters: There’s a lot of debate about what truly counts as “open-source.” Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have opted to completely hide their model training data and methods. But even open-source proponents like Meta and xAI keep some proprietary information to themselves. DeepSeek’s move could pressure them to share more details about their models next time around.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to generate videos from product URLs

• Go to Creatify AI and sign up with your account.

• Now enter your product link in the text box and click ‘Analyze URL’.

• Wait for a few seconds, choose AI script or write your own script.

• Select the required video settings for your platform and add your target audience.

• Enter the product description and add product assets. (You can also use AI-generated assets)

• Choose your favorite avatar from the list and click on Next.

• Wait for a few seconds and you’ll get multiple AI-generated videos of your product.

• Choose the one you like, render it, and download it to be posted online.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🚨 Code Red: OpenAI says it found evidence that hackers based in China had used ChatGPT to help build an AI-powered surveillance tool to monitor anti-Chinese posts in the West.

💾 Little Sibling: xAI is building a second AI data center in Atlanta that, while smaller than the startup’s record-setting Colossus supercomputer, will still be stocked with 12,000 Nvidia GPUs.

🧑‍💻 Hidden Cost: A new report that analyzed 211 million lines of code over four years found that software engineers are reusing code less and less — suggesting AI coding assistants could be leading to a decline in overall code quality.

🥽 Vision Evolved: Apple’s Vision Pro headset is slated to finally get Apple Intelligence in April, with text and image-generation features coming first. (Here’s a preview video if you want to learn more.)

💰 Funding: Palo Alto-based AI search startup Genspark, raised $110M in a Series A funding round. It’s now valued at $530M.

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Role-play a cold call

Prompt: You will help me roleplay a cold call. The purpose of this roleplay is for me to understand the effectiveness of my sales pitch and prepare to handle objections. So, pretend you are the [position at company] and you receive a cold call from [position, company and nature of business] selling [product/service description]. Here is the sales pitch you hear: [insert cold call script]. Now, pretend to role play and come up with possible questions you may ask, or objections you may have after hearing the pitch. Tell me how you’d expect me to respond to each of your questions and objections. 

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🚀 Warp Speed: Replit’s Matt Palmer shows how to build your own app with Grok 3 and Replit in a matter of minutes.

🤔 Cheat Codes: Builder Sully Omar shows us how to create a functioning Airbnb clone in just 10 minutes with the AI coding tool Cursor.

🙏 Coming Clean: Nvidia-backed startup Sakana AI is walking back claims that its new system was able to speed up model training by 100x. It turns out, the model “cheated” by sneakily skipping some steps, making it look faster than it actually was.

🌀 Spin Cycle: Video editing tool CapCut has a new “microwave filter” that rotates any subject 360 degrees. It’s already been used over 350,000 times on TikTok, but as technologist Bilawal Sidhu puts it, the results are pure nightmare fuel.

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Fish in the Sky

Midjourney Prompt: In the white wall of an empty room, there is light shining through from above and colorful fish swimming in it. The walls have a strong sense of perspective effect. In front of you stands a large sculpture made by Tadao ,high resolution photography, hyper-realistic,HD --ar 59:128

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