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Apple Shifts Focus From Vision Pro to AI Smart Glasses đź‘“
Turn any logo into a 3D design with AI
Gina Acosta
October 02, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Apple is now moving all its focus to AI-powered smart glasses, aiming to catch up with Meta’s strong and growing lead.
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Apple Shifts Focus to Smart Glasses
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Launches Its First Product
AI Tutorial: Turn any logo into a 3D design with AI
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech đź’ˇ
AI News
APPLE
Apple Shifts Focus to Smart Glasses, Shelves Vision Headset Revamp
Apple has stopped work on a lighter Vision Pro to instead “accelerate development” of new smart glasses that would rival products from Meta.
Details:
Apple had been planning a 2027 launch of a thinner, more affordable version of its $3,499 Vision Pro, which has struggled to sustain momentum against cheaper competitors like Meta’s Quest.
Engineers from that project have now been reassigned to Apple’s smart glasses initiative, which reportedly includes at least two models.
The first, codenamed N50, will pair with an iPhone and lack its own display. Apple may preview the device as early as next year, with a full release in 2027.
The second version, with a built-in display, is planned for 2028 and is intended to challenge the Meta Ray-Ban Display.
Both versions will have speakers, cameras, come in multiple styles, and “will rely heavily on voice interaction and artificial intelligence.”
While work on the lighter Vision Pro model is on hold, Apple still plans to refresh the current Vision Pro with an M5 chip later this year.
Apple is entering the smart glasses race years behind Meta, which has already come out with several variations of its Ray-Bans since 2023. With Android XR and others also set to launch glasses soon, Apple risks entering a market where many consumers may already be committed to competing products, but its pivot suggests confidence that its glasses will be distinct enough to stand out.
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THINKING MACHINES
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Launches Its First Product
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup just launched Tinker, a Python-based API that allows researchers and developers to train or fine-tune open-weight models without having to manage complex infrastructure themselves.
Details:
Tinker works with several open-weight models from Meta (Llama) and Alibaba (Qwen), including larger ones like Qwen-235B-A22B.
It supports both classical supervised fine-tuning and highly experimental RL pipelines across vastly different domains.
Before its public debut, Tinker was already in use at several research labs, including Berkeley, Princeton, Stanford, and Redwood Research, each applying the API to distinct model training problems.
Tinker is currently in closed beta; interested users can join the waitlist. The service is free during this period, with usage-based pricing set to roll out in the coming weeks.
This launch is the first public milestone for the startup, which raised $2 billion earlier this year from a16z, NVIDIA, Cisco, and others.
AI Tutorial
Turn any logo into a 3D design with AI
Go to ChatGPT and sign in.
Upload a clean black-and-white version of your logo or icon.
Search Google Images for “Cinema 4D materials” or “Blender textures,” or look for specific materials like marble, metal, wood, or glass; save the PNG.
Upload both the logo and texture into ChatGPT-4o and prompt:
“Create a 3D version of this logo (left image) using the texture from the right image. Cinema 4D style, 8K quality, realistic lighting and shadows, black background.”
If needed, refine the output by asking for tweaks like “Make it more metallic”, “Add more depth”, or “Change the lighting angle.”
Tip: experiment with unusual textures like fabric, ice, or even food to make your design stand out.
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AI Findings/Resources
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The latest in AI and Tech
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Perplexity is opening its Comet AI browser to everyone for free, expanding beyond its $200-per-month Max plan.
Max subscribers enjoy extra features, such as access to higher-end AI models and a powerful new “background assistant” that can manage multiple tasks at once.
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