Hey Synapticians,

The next frontier in gaming is emerging, and it's powered by artificial intelligence. AI-driven games are gaining massive traction, as demonstrated by "Death by AI" - a groundbreaking title that reached 20 million players in record time.

What makes this game unique? Every playthrough generates a completely new scenario through AI, creating endless possibilities for players. We recently dove in myself, facing the challenge of developing a survival strategy against an AI-crafted predicament. Here's the situation I encountered - We are curious to hear what approach you would take.

We strongly encourage you to experience it firsthand - there's nothing quite like matching wits with an AI that keeps you on your toes.

Here’s a screen of our game today :

Oh, and by the way - We managed to survive this one! Though we'll keep our winning strategy to ourselves 😉

Top AI news

1. AI Game Hits 20M Players Fast!
Little Umbrella, an emerging leader in AI-powered social gaming, has secured $2 million in funding following the success of its game “Death by AI.” This prompt-based survival game, guided by an AI game master, garnered 20 million players within its first three months. Initially launched on Discord, with web and limited iOS versions, the game capitalized on social platforms’ inherent connectivity. The new funding will enable the company to scale live operations and expedite new titles using their proprietary cross-platform social game kit, Playroom. CEO Tabish Ahmed emphasizes AI’s pivotal role in delivering fresh, personalized gaming experiences at a global scale.

2. AI2 Claims to Beat DeepSeek!
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has unveiled Tulu3-405B, a new AI model that surpasses DeepSeek’s leading AI in performance. Tulu3-405B sets new records across standard industry benchmarks, showcasing advanced capabilities in natural language understanding, text generation, and logical reasoning. This achievement positions AI2 as a key player in the AI field, competing with established leaders like DeepSeek and OpenAI. AI2 emphasizes its commitment to open research and collaboration by making Tulu3-405B accessible to the scientific community, aiming to foster ongoing innovation in artificial intelligence. 

3. Meta’s Llama 4 and AI Glasses: 2025 Ambitions Revealed
In Meta’s latest quarterly report, CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed the company’s ambitious AI plans for 2025. He announced that the lightweight version of Meta’s new language model, Llama 4, has completed pre-training, with reasoning models and larger variants showing promise. Designed as a native multimodal model with agentic capabilities, Llama 4 aims to position Meta as a leader in the open-source space. Zuckerberg also expects the Meta AI Assistant to reach over a billion people this year, emphasizing personalized experiences tailored to users’ contexts, interests, and cultures. To support these initiatives, Meta plans significant investments in AI infrastructure, including deploying nearly one gigawatt of computing capacity this year and building a two-gigawatt AI data center. Additionally, Zuckerberg anticipates developing an AI engineering agent with the skills of a mid-level engineer, believing that the first company to achieve this will gain a crucial advantage in AI research.

Bonus. New Method Filters Low-Quality Prompts to Enhance AI
A new study highlights the critical role of data quality in training large language models (LLMs). Researchers propose the “Rejecting Instruction Preferences” (RIP) method, which evaluates prompts by analyzing the variability and quality of their generated responses. Prompts leading to inconsistent or poor-quality answers are filtered out, resulting in a more effective training dataset. Tests on various Llama models showed significant performance improvements, including a 9.4% increase on AlpacaEval2 LC and a 9.9% boost on WildBench. This approach emphasizes the importance of prompt quality in developing more accurate and reliable AI models.

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