Mystery AI Model, Living Skin Tech, and Google's Dashboard Tool Shake Up the Tech World
Summary
An unidentified AI model called Ox Alpha stuns the tech world with frontier-level coding power and no known creator, while Lady Gaga's startup unveils living skin tech that slashes skincare discovery timelines, and Google's Gemini Canvas transforms spreadsheet data into shareable interactive dashboards instantly.
Key Points
- A mysterious AI model called Ox Alpha launches for free on OpenRouter with frontier-level coding scores, a 1M-token context window, and no identified creator, sparking widespread speculation that it originates from China's Zhipu AI.
- Lady Gaga and fiancé Michael Polansky's startup Outer Bio unveils Yuna, a platform that keeps human skin alive for four weeks and feeds experimental data into an AI to accelerate skincare compound discovery, cutting the timeline from 18 months to a new candidate every six weeks.
- Google's Gemini Canvas is emerging as a fast and easy tool for prototyping interactive dashboards directly from Google Sheets data, allowing users to share live, editable visualizations with collaborators through a simple shareable link.