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This link leads to one of the most interesting things I’ve seen in AI recently.

What’s cookin’? Google is adding two big AI features to Google Vids: Gemini Omni and personal avatars. Gemini Omni lets people create and edit videos by typing what they want in plain language. You can start with a prompt, add a photo or rough sketch for reference, and the tool generates a video around that idea. After that, you can keep editing by chatting with it, asking it to change the background, improve lighting, add effects, or tweak parts of the clip without starting over. The second feature, personal avatars, lets users upload a selfie and short voice recording to create a digital version of themselves that can deliver typed scripts on video.

🤔 Hunter’s take: Video is becoming less about filming and more about directing. The camera, lighting, editing software, and even the “person on screen” are starting to collapse into a text box.

What’s cookin’? OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program that will give 100,000 scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its most advanced AI tools. The rollout starts with 10,000 researchers this summer and will expand through 2027. Participants will get access to frontier models, including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, plus Codex for coding, larger context windows, research tools, and privacy protections that keep their data from being used for training by default. The goal is to help researchers with everything from literature reviews and grant writing to genomic analysis, protein modeling, math proofs, and data-heavy scientific work.

🤔 Hunter’s take: As an academic researcher, my first thought is: I hope I can get access! (LOL) But seriously, this is big because it puts some of the best AI models in the hands of some of the world’s best minds. The upside is not just faster papers or easier grant writing. It’s that researchers may be able to test bigger ideas, connect dots across fields, and explore questions that used to be too slow, expensive, or complex to chase.

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Hi — I’m Hunter, a PhD candidate whose work has appeared in major academic journals and popular tech outlets. I founded FryAI to make staying ahead of AI clear, accessible, and fun.

How close are we to the point where AI surpasses human intelligence across nearly every domain and begins advancing beyond our control or prediction?