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My fellow AI explorers

It looked like a slow week in AI—until it wasn’t.

On Thursday, OpenAI dropped an unscheduled live stream with Sam Altman opening with:

And he wasn’t kidding. ChatGPT Agent is here.

It’s not a new model, and it’s not GPT-5. But it might be more useful.

In today’s edition:

• 🧠 ChatGPT Agent is finally here—and it works

• 🤖 Grok launches AI companions with personalities (yes, including goth girlfriends)

• 🎨 Higgsfield lets you train image models on your face—and the results are freakishly good

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ChatGPT Agent

🧠 OpenAI’s New Agent Combines Tools Into a Real Assistant

OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Agent, a unified agent system that combines tools like web browsing, code execution, image generation, and desktop automation.

Here’s what it actually includes:

• Deep Research: autonomously searches the web and writes multi-step answers

• Operator: clicks through websites and interacts with UIs on your behalf

• Terminal: executes code and stores results to reuse later

• ImageGen + FileOps: generates visuals or manipulates files based on context

🔮 Prediction: This isn't a prototype—it’s a functional v1. If OpenAI nails stability and expands usage to Plus and Teams, this could shift how most people use AI. Expect agents like this to be the default interface by early 2026.

👉 See OpenAI’s official Agent release

Grok

🤖 AI Gets a Face—Grok Launches Social Companions

Grok just became the first major LLM provider to roll out AI companions inside its app. They’re human-like personalities with names, quirks, and very specific aesthetics.

Here’s how it works:

• Two sample companions, Annie and Rudy, are live inside the Grok app

• Responses are voice-optional and way more conversational than you'd expect

• Grok leans into edgy, unfiltered humor—which makes these “characters” feel less corporate

Annie, for example, has a goth-chic persona and references naming goldfish “Poseidon” or petting dogs in the morning light. It’s fun, weird—and definitely made for Gen Z energy.

🌐 Use case: This isn’t about search or productivity. It’s a bet on emotional AI. Think digital relationships, mental health support, and social loneliness solutions… all powered by Grok.

🔮 Expect every major LLM app (Claude, Gemini, etc.) to follow suit with persona layers. The era of “just chat” is giving way to emotionally intelligent characters.

👉 Watch Annie respond in Grok

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AI Video

🎨 The AI Model That Actually Looks Like You

Higgsfield just released Soul ID, a fine-tunable image model that recreates your likeness with stunning realism. It’s been trained on Instagram-style photos, and it shows.

What’s different:

• You upload 20–25 images of yourself

• The model generates photos that feel like candid, emotional phone snaps

• Results preserve facial detail, vibe, and mood better than almost anything else right now

🔮 Prediction: With Soul ID, influencer clones, digital models, and personal avatar creators just got a major upgrade. And when paired with video agents? Things get real. Fast.

👉 Check out Higgsfield’s results

30-Second AI Play

⚡️ How To Auto-Reply to Gmail with ChatGPT Agent

Want your AI to draft real email replies based on your latest inbox threads?
Here’s how we pulled it off with the new ChatGPT Agent:

1. Go to ChatGPT Pro and turn on connectors

2. Authenticate your Gmail account inside ChatGPT

3. Prompt: “Read my 5 most recent emails and draft polite replies to each”

4. The agent reads, analyzes, and drafts emails in 2 minutes

5. You can edit and send from Gmail directly—or let the agent do it with follow-ups

🎯 Why it matters: It’s the first time connectors actually work. This moves AI beyond content and into admin workflows. With a little SOP context added, it could replace most repetitive email tasks.

💡 Pro tip: Limit to 5–10 emails at a time. More than that and the agent gets overwhelmed.

Other Relevant AI News!

🔗 Anthropic just released connectors for Claude, letting users interact with tools like Gmail and Slack via chat. It's not as polished as OpenAI’s—but it's a sign Anthropic is going agentic. See it here

📚 NotebookLM quietly published a set of 8 templates to help users unlock its full potential—from philosophy guides to life advice notebooks based on Arthur C. Brooks.

🧑‍💻 Claude Code is now being used as a daily productivity agent by devs and non-devs alike. One viral thread shows how it manages to-do lists, brainstorming, and project workflows—proving dev tools can be general agents, too.

🎤 Mistral’s Voxtral is a new open-source speech model positioned as a Whisper/11Labs alternative. It supports transcription-heavy apps at scale. Explore here

🌐 Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2, a new trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, is making waves in China and on LLM benchmarks. Read more

🎬 Runway Act II adds better avatar generation from video footage. It’s still not Hollywood-ready, but it’s getting freakishly close. Watch the demo

🧠 Grok’s Radical Personality made headlines when the model pulled an edgy surname from a meme. Instead of dodging the issue, xAI published the system prompt update—a rare moment of transparency in AI.

Golden Nuggets

• 🧠 ChatGPT Agent finally unifies research, coding, and action into a usable workflow

• 💌 Grok’s Companions point to a future where LLMs don’t just inform—they connect

• 🧍‍♂️ Soul ID shows how personalized AI avatars are crossing the uncanny valley

• 📧 Email automation with agents is finally practical—and might reshape productivity tools

• 🧪 Open-source speech models like Voxtral are closing the gap with commercial leaders

Until our next AI rendezvous,

Anthony | Founder of Uncover AI