OpenAI releases GPT-4.1

Welcome back, Superhuman. AI is great at helping scientists make new discoveries. But what if an AI learned how to think like a scientist and make new discoveries on its own? OpenAI is reportedly set to release a new model this week that does exactly that. But it’s going to come at an eye-popping price.

Today’s Insights

• GPT-4.1, Nvidia’s US manufacturing push, and DolphinGemma

• OpenAI reportedly set to release new reasoning models

• Tutorial: How to add objects to images with ChatGPT

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

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

TODAY IN AI

1. OpenAI rolls out new GPT-4.1 model: The new model is available in API only and can process up to 1M tokens (roughly 3,500 pages of text), surpassing GPT-4o's 128,000-token limit at a fraction of the cost. It offers improved performance in "coding, instruction following, and long context". OpenAI also launched GPT-4.1 Mini and its first-ever Nano model — the latter being their "smallest, fastest, and cheapest" model yet. This comes as the company phases out GPT-4.5 from its API and pushes the timeline on GPT-5 past its expected May launch.

2. Nvidia plans massive $500B AI manufacturing push on US soil: The chip giant announced it has already kicked off production of its latest Blackwell AI chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and is building supercomputer manufacturing facilities in Texas with Foxconn and Wistron. The $500B figure represents the total value of AI gear Nvidia expects to sell through 2029, largely fueled by cloud giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, who are projected to spend $371B on AI facilities this year alone.

3. Google’s new foundational model lets you talk to dolphins: DolphinGemma, an AI trained on decades of underwater recordings, can spot patterns in dolphin sounds, using them to generate realistic dolphin-like vocalizations. Using Pixel phones equipped with CHAT (Cetacean Hearing Augmentation Telemetry), researchers can potentially establish two-way communication by associating synthetic whistles with objects dolphins enjoy. It opens the door to humans potentially being able to communicate with other intelligent animal species. You can watch it in action here.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Report claims OpenAI set to launch new AI models that could cost as much as $20,000 per month

AI is great at solving problems — but terrible at asking the right questions or coming up with new ideas. That may be about to change. According to a report from The Information, OpenAI is set to release new AI models that can generate new ideas.

This is a huge deal. According to Oxford physicist David Deutsch, human progress is fundamentally driven by our ability to create new explanatory knowledge. An AI that could create new scientific ideas would represent an extension of what Deutsch calls "universal explainers" — entities capable of creating knowledge that can, in principle, explain anything explainable and accelerate human progress.

Why it matters: These models can reportedly cross-pollinate ideas from physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering — something even human researchers struggle with. Early testers have reportedly suggested that these models can be used to develop new methods for detecting pathogens in wastewater and designing precision-controlled plastic recycling experiments.

It’ll cost you a pretty penny. The report claims that OpenAI will name the models o3 and o4-mini, and may charge as much as $20,000/month for enterprise subscriptions. The models may be released as soon as this week.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to add objects to images with ChatGPT

• Go to ChatGPT and select GPT-4o as your model.

• Now create a base image to add objects or elements later on.

Sample Prompt: create a cinematic top-down shot of a valley in the desert

• Once your base image is ready, upload an image of the object you'd like to include.

Sample Prompt: [upload object image] add this image to the existing image, don’t change anything

• That’s it! You can seamlessly add any object to any scene using this simple method.

AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🎓️ Class Assistant: Google Classroom now offers AI-powered quiz creation. The Gemini-powered tool lets teachers select specific skills to test and instantly generate customized questions, which they can seamlessly export to Docs or Forms.

🛟 Saving Siri: Desperate times, desperate measures. Apple is reportedly planning on tapping user data to improve its floundering AI capabilities. The tech giant will compare synthetic training samples against real emails to fix its "ugly and embarrassing" Siri delays.

🕵️ Derma Detective: A London hospital pioneered an AI system that spots benign skin lesions with 99% accuracy without doctor review. The DERM app has helped catch over 14,000 cancer cases across more than 20 NHS hospitals.

💰️ Funding: Intel has sold a 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake for $4.46B to fund its revival efforts. Meanwhile, Alibaba-backed AI startup Zhipu AI just initiated IPO preparations, positioning itself to become China's first public AI startup.

PRODUCTIVITY

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Team Collaboration and Delegation

Prompt: Help me improve team collaboration and delegation for a project I'm leading. Break down how I can assign tasks based on individual strengths, keep everyone aligned without micromanaging, and maintain momentum. Suggest fun and effective tools or rituals for daily check-ins, async updates, and celebrating wins. Include creative delegation techniques like ‘delegation poker’ or rotating leadership roles. Bonus: Recommend how to handle bottlenecks, conflicting opinions, and motivate underperforming team members in a supportive way.

SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🤝 AI Employees: Lindy CEO Flo Crivello broke down how he creates “AI agent swarms“ to automate entire tasks and hours of work each day.

🏛️ PolicyGPT: Paul Graham thinks improving the quality of policy outputs in ChatGPT could make politicians more effective. Sam Altman agrees.

📜 No Cap, Cleopatra: What would life look like if Caesar and Cleopatra had access to Snapchat? A new viral video has the answers.

👽️ Alternate Universe: Someone created a video of an alternative ending to World War 2 where a group of aliens intervene to put an end to the war.

😉 Inside Joke: What comes after 4.5? Apparently 4.1 if you’re OpenAI. Even CEO Sam Altman agrees that the naming conventions for their AI models are ridiculous.

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Action Figures

ChatGPT Prompt: [upload photo] Draw an action figure toy (barbie doll) of the person in this photo. The figure should be full figure and displayed in its original blister pack packaging. On top of the box is the name of the toy ["add name" with "headline"] across a single line of text. In the blister pack packaging, next to the figure show the toy's accessories including a - [add accessories]

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