How ChatGPT Can Help You Score the Best Shopping Deals 🛒

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Finding the best deal usually means juggling price comparisons, specs, reviews, and too many open tabs. In today’s issue, we show how you can use ChatGPT’s Shopping Research feature to simplify all of that and find the best deal based on your budget and what actually matters to you.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Wikimedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft

• OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain-Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs

• AI Tutorial: Use ChatGPT to Find the Best Deals in Minutes

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

WIKIMEDIA

Wikimedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft

The Wikimedia Foundation has revealed a wave of new AI partnerships as part of Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary, expanding how its content is licensed and reused in the age of generative AI.

Details:

• Wikipedia’s parent organization disclosed new partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity, in addition to earlier and ongoing deals with companies like Google, Ecosia, and others.

• These companies access Wikipedia and other Wikimedia project content through Wikimedia Enterprise, the foundation’s commercial product designed for large-scale, high-speed data reuse.

• The agreements provide a new revenue stream for Wikipedia as AI models increasingly rely on its content to deliver fast, factual answers.

• Wikipedia remains one of the world’s most visited websites, serving over 65 million articles in more than 300 languages and drawing nearly 15 billion page views each month

These deals mark a major step in the non-profit’s ability to monetize tech firms’ reliance on its content, after it has long been grappling with companies scraping large volumes of its freely available knowledge for AI training, which drove up server demand and costs for an organization funded mostly by small public donations.

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MERGE LABS

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain-Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs

OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup founded by CEO Sam Altman, deepening the company’s push into technologies that connect human biology directly with AI.

Details:

• Merge Labs emerged from stealth with a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation, with OpenAI writing the largest single check, according to sources familiar with the deal.

• The startup describes itself as a research lab focused on bridging biological and artificial intelligence to enhance human capabilities, with an emphasis on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces.

• Merge Labs plans to develop new methods that connect to neurons using molecules instead of electrodes, potentially relying on modalities like ultrasound to send and receive signals.

• As part of the deal, OpenAI will collaborate with Merge Labs on scientific foundation models and other frontier tools, aiming to accelerate research in neuroscience, bioengineering, and device design.

The investment puts OpenAI in closer competition with Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain‑implant company that is developing surgically implanted brain‑computer interface chips designed to allow people, especially those with paralysis, to control computers and other devices directly with their thoughts.

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AI Tutorial

Use ChatGPT to Find the Best Deals in Minutes

1. Open ChatGPT, click the plus (+) button and select Shopping Research.

2. Tell ChatGPT exactly what you want to buy. Mention your budget, how you’ll use it, and what matters most to you (price, performance, battery life, brand, etc.).

Example:

“Recommend a compact coffee machine under $500 for everyday use in a small kitchen. Survey current standout deals at major retailers, explain the pros and cons of each choice, and pick the best overall option along with some other 2 standout picks.”

3. ChatGPT will ask follow-up questions to refine the results, such as brand preferences, size limits or features you care about.

4. Compare the suggestions and pick the one that fits your needs best.

AI Tools to check out

⭐ Talo: Real-time AI translator
for video calls.

🚀 Keak: AI agent that tests, learns, and updates your site to grow conversions.

👉 Opal: Build, edit, and share AI mini-apps using natural language.

💥 Remio: AI knowledge management app that empowers tech-savvy users to effortlessly collect, connect, and apply information.

🔍 TwelveLabs: Search and understand your videos with AI.

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AI Findings/Resources

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The latest in AI and Tech

OpenAI safety research lead joins Anthropic

Andrea Vallone, who led OpenAI’s safety research on how chatbots should respond to signs of mental health distress, has left the company to join Anthropic’s alignment team.

During her three years at OpenAI, Vallone built the "Model Policy" research group and worked on safety approaches tied to GPT-4, reasoning models, and GPT-5.

Replit launches feature to vibe code mobile apps

AI coding startup Replit has rolled out a new feature that lets users create and publish iOS mobile apps using only natural language prompts, pushing “vibe coding” further into consumer app development.

The Mobile Apps on Replit tool allows creators to go from idea to working app in minutes and submit to Apple’s App Store within days, with built-in Stripe integration for monetization.

Elon Musk says Grok 4.20 will lag behind Claude in coding but excel in other areas

He praised Anthropic for having done “something special with coding,” but also said that cutting xAI off was “not good for their karma.”

Lightricks open-sources LTX-2 video model with audio

The 19-billion-parameter AI model generates up to 20 seconds of video with fully synchronized stereo audio from a single text prompt. The company says the model is faster than rivals and can reach 4K resolution at up to 50 frames per second, with benchmarks showing major speed gains over competing systems.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Translate to take on Google Translate

OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT Translate, a standalone web-based translation tool that supports more than 50 languages. In addition to basic text translation, the service lets users control the tone and style of translations with prompts like “more fluent,” “academic,” or “business formal.”

While its interface closely mirrors Google Translate, ChatGPT Translate currently focuses on text (with limited voice input on mobile) and lacks full image or document support, at least for now.

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