not much happened today

**ChatGPT Search** was launched by **Sam Altman**, who called it his favorite feature since ChatGPT's original launch, doubling his usage. Comparisons were made between ChatGPT Search and **Perplexity** with improvements noted in Perplexity's web navigation. **Google** introduced a "Grounding" feature in the Gemini API & AI Studio enabling Gemini models to access real-time web information. Despite Gemini's leaderboard performance, developer adoption lags behind **OpenAI** and **Anthropic**. **SmolLM2**, a new small, powerful on-device language model, outperforms **Meta's Llama 3.2 1B**. A **Claude** desktop app was released for Mac and Windows. **Meta AI** announced robotics advancements including Meta Sparsh, Meta Digit 360, and Meta Digit Plexus. **Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium**, a 2B parameter model with a permissive license, was released. Insights on AGI development suggest initial inferiority but rapid improvement. **Anthropic** advocates for early targeted AI regulation. Discussions on ML specialization predict training will concentrate among few companies, while inference becomes commoditized. New AI tools include **Suno AI Personas** for music creation, **PromptQL** for natural language querying over data, and **Agent S** for desktop task automation. Humor was shared about Python environment upgrades.