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AIPOOOL Weekly AI Digest – 14 September 2025
AI Weekly: From GPT-5’s Werewolf wins & Apple’s FastVLM breakthrough to OpenAI’s mentorship, nursing robots, and the hottest new tools 🚀
Kaif Ahmed
September 14, 2025
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In Today’s Email :
🔥 AI Rundown: From AI-fueled misinformation after Charlie Kirk’s death to OpenAI’s new founder mentorship and ChatGPT’s workflow-automation upgrade, the week was packed. Google’s raters expose grueling labor, Taiwan tests nursing robots, and Microsoft brings Anthropic into Office 365—AI’s future looks messy, human, and competitive.
⛏️ Trending Tools: FluxyAI for AI Customer Support, yesTool for Animated music videos & many more …
🔰 Quick Grab: GPT-5 Plays To Win: Dominates Werewolf with Bluffing, Strategy & Social Smarts!
🎆 Creators Corner: Top Picks from Hugging Face: Trending AI Applications You Can't Miss!
🥼 From Lab to Layman: Apple’s FastVLM: Vision-Language AI, Now Faster & Privacy-Friendly
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AI Happenings You Don’t Want To Miss
✨ AI Fuels False Claims After Charlie Kirk’s Death
Generative AIs—including X’s Grok—circulated misidentifications and AI-enhanced images after the killing, amplifying false leads and illustrating how quickly AI outputs can spread misinformation.
✨ OpenAI Launches “Grove” Mentorship for Early Founders
OpenAI unveiled Grove, a short, cohort-style mentorship for pre-idea and early-stage technical founders that offers in-person workshops, office hours, and direct access to OpenAI researchers.
✨ ChatGPT Developer Mode Gains Full MCP Write Actions
Developer Mode now supports full Model Context Protocol (MCP) write operations, letting connectors perform updates (e.g., change tickets, trigger workflows) and turning ChatGPT into an orchestration layer for real work.
✨ Humans in the Loop: Google’s Raters Say the Job Is Grueling
Contracted “super-raters” who tune and moderate Gemini report tight deadlines, poor pay, and emotional strain—highlighting the human labor behind AI safety and quality.
✨ Taiwan Trials Nurabot Nursing Robots to Ease Shortages
Foxconn and NVIDIA’s Nurabot (and related humanoid efforts) are being trialed in hospitals to handle deliveries and routine tasks—aiming to reduce nurse workload and address staffing gaps.
✨ Microsoft to Add Anthropic Models into Office 365 Features
Microsoft will pay to integrate Anthropic’s models for select Office features (accessed via cloud partners), signaling a diversification of AI suppliers beyond its longtime OpenAI partnership.
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📜 GPT-5 Plays To Win: Dominates Werewolf with Bluffing, Strategy & Social Smarts!
A new benchmark from French startup Foaster.ai tested how well language models perform in social deduction games — specifically, Werewolf. Over 210 games featuring roles like werewolves, villagers, seer, witch, and a mayor, GPT-5 trounced competitors with a sudden blend of manipulation, adaptability and strategy.
GPT-5 emerged on top with an Elo score of 1,492 and an astounding 96.7% win rate. Notably, as a werewolf it sustained a 93% manipulation rate on both Day 1 and Day 2 — while others (including Gemini 2.5 Pro and Kimi-K2) saw their deception abilities drop sharply over time. These results show GPT-5 doesn’t just perform well in static benchmarks; it holds its ground in dynamic, unpredictable social contexts.
The study underlines growing evidence that social intelligence — bluffing, persuasion, adapting to hidden information — is becoming a key frontier for LLMs, not just factual recall or rigid reasoning. What really sets GPT-5 apart is its consistency: it maintains high deception even when the game’s complexity rises.
🤖 Top Picks from Hugging Face: Trending AI Applications You Can't Miss!
✨ Wan-2.2 First-Last Frame: Video Generation Made Simple
This tool creates smooth video transitions by generating sequences from just the first and last frames, powered by the Wan-2.2 model.
✨ VibeVoice-Large: Expressive Voice Generation
An advanced speech model that produces natural, expressive voices — perfect for narration, characters, or AI assistants with personality.
✨ Qwen-Image Edit Inpaint: Smart Image Restoration
Edit or restore parts of an image with precision using Qwen’s inpainting capabilities, seamlessly filling in missing or unwanted areas.
✨ SearchGPT: Conversational Knowledge Retrieval
An AI search assistant that combines GPT’s reasoning with fast knowledge lookup, delivering concise, context-aware answers from vast data sources.
👨💻 Apple’s FastVLM: Vision-Language AI, Now Faster & Privacy-Friendly
Apple has introduced FastVLM—a vision-language model engineered for real-world, on-device performance. Traditional VLMs struggle with the speed-accuracy tradeoff: higher resolution images give more detail but slow down inference. FastVLM resolves this by using a hybrid vision encoder called FastViTHD, designed particularly for high-resolution inputs. It produces fewer visual tokens and drastically reduces encoding time.
In benchmarks comparing FastVLM to other existing VLMs using identical large language models, FastVLM achieves up to 85× faster time-to-first-token (TTFT) with vision encoders that are 3-4× smaller, while matching or exceeding prior accuracy on tasks like document question answering, text in images, and multimodal reasoning.
Crucially, FastVLM supports real-time visual queries directly on Apple devices—think accessibility tools, UI-based assistants, document processing, and live scene understanding—without sending data to the cloud. This preserves privacy while offering responsiveness. The researchers have released model checkpoints, code, and even demo apps for iOS/macOS to foster broader experimentation.
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