
My fellow AI explorers
Meta dropped nearly $15 billion on a strategic bet that could change the entire AI ecosystem. Apple finally gave us a deeper look at how âApple Intelligenceâ will quietly take over your device. And MidJourney? Yepâtheyâre getting into video now.
From the kitchen to the cloud, AI is moving fastâand getting weird. Letâs unpack the biggest breakthroughs, smartest tools, and the moments that made us say: âDid my fridge just talk to me?â
In todayâs edition:
đ§ Appleâs on-device AI is smarter, fasterâand finally useful
đ¸ď¸ Meta just bought a key piece of the global AI supply chain
đĽ MidJourney and Meta push deeper into generative video
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IOS
đ Apple Intelligence Gets Real
Appleâs WWDC reveals on-device AI thatâs private, practical, and⌠surprisingly good.
Appleâs new features didnât come with splashy AGI demosâbut their AI tools are quietly becoming indispensable. And they all run on-device.
Live Translation: Works in Messages, FaceTime, and phone callsâinstantly.
Visual Search: Tap any object in a photo to find similar items online.
Genmoji + Image Playground: Mash emojis with AI images to create wild visuals.
AI in Shortcuts: Automate transcriptions and summaries from lecture recordings.
Appleâs positioning itself as the private AI companyârunning powerful models directly on your iPhone. Even the Apple Watch gets smarter workouts, and Apple Vision Pro now has persistent AI widgets and spatial memory.
đŽ Prediction: Appleâs long-term play is clearâAI that feels invisible but deeply personalized. Expect more devs to flock to its on-device models, building tools that feel native and frictionless.
AI Video
đĽ MidJourneyâs Next Frontier: Video
MidJourney video is finally realâsort of.
For months, MidJourney teased generative video. Now, theyâve launched a video ranking partyâwhere users rate model outputs to fine-tune quality.
No prompts yet: You canât generate videos, but you can vote.
Two videos at a time: Choose which one looks better.
Model Training: Helps MidJourney dial in video quality before public release.
Meanwhile, Meta AI launched preset-based video editingâtransforming outfits, lighting, and environments in real footage. Think Gen-1 and Runway, but baked into Facebookâs core.
đŽ Prediction: Expect MidJourney to launch text-to-video within weeks. Metaâs going wide with consumer access, while MidJourney is going deep on quality. The generative video wars are just getting started.
Meta AI
đ¸ď¸ Meta Buys Into the AI Supply Chain
Meta acquires 49% of Scale AI. This isnât just an investmentâitâs a land grab.
Scale AI provides training data to nearly every major AI companyâincluding OpenAI, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Now Meta owns nearly half of it.
Price Tag: ~$15 billion
Leadership Shift: Scale CEO Alexander Wang joins Meta to lead a superintelligence lab
Industry Shakeup: Metaâs closest AI rivals depend on Scale for data
Scale says itâll stay âindependentââbut when your biggest competitor owns half the shop, things get awkward fast.
đŽ Prediction: Metaâs planning a vertically integrated AI empire, from infrastructure to intelligence. This is their OpenAIâMicrosoft momentâand it may force other labs to rethink who trains their models.
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Other Relevant AI News!
đ§ OpenAI Pro users just got access to the O3 Pro modelâits fastest, most capable reasoning model yet. Read update
đŠď¸ DeepMindâs Weather Lab now forecasts cyclones 15 days outâacross 50 scenarios. Explore more
đ¸ Leonardo AIâs new Lucid Realism model rivals photo qualityâwith eerily lifelike image generation. See samples
đ§ Mistral's Magistral is Europeâs first reasoning LLMâwith open weights and enterprise variants. Test here
đŽ Disney and Universal sue MidJourney for AI-generated IP violationsâhighlighting a murky future for copyright law. Full story
Golden Nuggets
đ Appleâs building useful, invisible AI into everythingâwithout touching the cloud
đ¸ď¸ Metaâs Scale acquisition could reshuffle the AI power map
đĽ MidJourney video is realâand it might drop sooner than you think
What did you think about today's edition
Until our next AI rendezvous,
Anthony | Founder of Uncover AI

