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AI is entering the world of materials science. Liam Fedus, OpenAI’s VP of Research for Post-Training, is leaving to start an AI-first materials science company, with OpenAI itself backing the venture. As AI-powered discovery heats up, this move places OpenAI in direct competition with DeepMind and Microsoft, who are racing to use AI for breakthroughs in chemistry, energy, and new materials.

In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:

• OpenAI’s Materials Science Bet: AI moves deeper into scientific discovery.

• Roblox’s 3D AI Tool: Cube 3D generates fully usable game assets from text.

• Zoom’s AI Upgrade: AI Companion evolves into an agentic workplace assistant.

• Google’s AI Wildfire Detection: FireSat detects fires within minutes of ignition.

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🧪 OpenAI Exec Leaves to Launch AI-Powered Materials Science Startup

Liam Fedus, OpenAI’s VP of Research for Post-Training, is departing to found an AI-first materials science startup, with OpenAI itself backing the venture. This move underscores the race to leverage AI for scientific breakthroughs, an area where Google DeepMind and Microsoft are already making aggressive plays.

🔍 What’s Changing?

• AI-Driven Discovery: Fedus' startup aims to push AI into real-world materials science, competing with DeepMind’s Gnome and Microsoft’s MatterGen and MatterSim, which focus on accelerating the discovery of new materials.

• OpenAI’s Strategic Bet: OpenAI views AI-powered science as critical to achieving artificial superintelligence (ASI) and plans to invest in and collaborate with Fedus’ company.

• The Brain Drain Continues: Fedus joins a growing list of OpenAI talent exits, including Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati, raising questions about OpenAI’s internal direction.

• Can AI Actually Innovate?: While AI has shown promise in identifying material properties, some experts argue it’s still far from making truly novel discoveries—meaning this might be a test case for AI’s limits in scientific research.

If Fedus can prove that AI is ready to revolutionize materials science, it could reshape industries from semiconductors to energy storage. But if AI falls short? We may be hitting the edge of the current AI paradigm. Either way, this experiment will tell us just how far AI can go beyond hype.

🎮 Roblox Releases AI Tool for Instant 3D Creation

Roblox just dropped Cube 3D, an open-source AI model that generates fully functional 3D assets straight from text prompts. Unlike traditional 3D tools that rely on image-based reconstruction, Cube 3D is trained on native 3D data, meaning its creations are ready to use in games—no extra modeling required.

🚀 What’s Changing?

• Instant 3D Generation: Type "/generate motorcycle," and Cube 3D will create a fully modeled, game-ready asset.

• AI That Thinks in 3D: Uses 3D tokenization, predicting object shapes like a language model predicts words.

• Future-Proofed for 4D: Built to evolve toward AI-powered scene and animation generation.

• Open-Source Flexibility: Developers can fine-tune, extend, and integrate Cube 3D into their own pipelines.

• Roblox Studio Upgrades: Improved AI-powered tools for faster prototyping, real-time collaboration, and monetization.

With 85M+ daily users, Cube 3D is a game-changer for AI-assisted development, making asset creation faster, easier, and limitless.

🎥 Zoom AI Gets Smarter with New Agentic Capabilities

Zoom is taking AI to the next level with agentic AI Companion, giving it memory, reasoning, and task execution abilities across the platform. From scheduling meetings to transcribing voice notes and even generating AI avatars, Zoom is making digital assistants more proactive and intelligent than ever.

🔊 What’s New?

• AI Companion Can Now Take Action: Automatically detects and completes tasks like scheduling follow-ups, summarizing meetings, and generating documents.

• Expanded AI Features: Includes live transcription, calendar management, AI-powered writing assistance, and personalized coaching tools.

• Custom AI Companion Add-On: Launching in April for $12/month, offering AI avatars, custom meeting templates, and personal coaching.

• Third-Party Agent Support: Users will be able to integrate AI agents from ServiceNow, HR, and IT platforms for automated workflows.

• AI-Powered Workplace: Zoom Drive, AI-enhanced Zoom Docs, and AI-generated task tracking are coming later this year.

With CEO Eric Yuan’s vision of AI digital twins attending meetings on your behalf, Zoom’s AI-first approach is taking shape fast.

🚀 Google’s AI Satellite Will Detect Wildfires in Minutes

Google Research and Muon Space have launched FireSat, an AI-powered satellite designed to revolutionize wildfire detection. Equipped with infrared sensors and real-time AI analysis, FireSat can identify fires as small as a classroom within minutes—a major leap from today’s slow, low-resolution satellite systems.

🔥 Why It Matters

• Next-Level Detection: FireSat spots 5x5 meter fires—compared to existing satellites, which only detect fires once they’re several acres in size.

• Rapid Monitoring: The 50+ satellite constellation will scan nearly all of Earth’s surface every 20 minutes, ensuring near real-time updates.

• AI-Driven Wildfire Prevention: The system analyzes historical fire behavior to improve firefighting strategies and climate modeling.

• Built for Emergency Response: FireSat delivers early warnings to firefighters, helping them contain blazes before they spread uncontrollably.

As wildfire seasons become longer and more intense, FireSat’s AI-powered detection could be a game-changer for disaster prevention and response. Could this be the beginning of AI-driven climate resilience?

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