Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grok 3 API Access Despite OpenAI Countersuit

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Just a quick heads-up: Elon Musk launches API for the first time and Canava is going full on AI.

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• 🌐 Tech Pulse: Canva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets and more.

• 📁 Unfold AI Tricks: Create Personalized AI Videos in HubSpot – Automatically.

• 5 New Tools on the Block

• 🔎 Spotlight: Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

• 🤝 Who is getting funded?

• ✅ To-dos

🌐 Tech Pulse

• Spotify CEO’s Neko Health opens its biggest body-scanning clinic yet.

• Microsoft inks massive carbon removal deal powered by a paper mill.

• Stripe CEO says he ensures his top leaders interview a customer twice a month.

• Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines.

• DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will eventually combine its Gemini and Veo AI models.

• AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows.

• Canva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets and more.

• YouTube rolls out a free AI music-making tool for creators.
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📁 Unfold AI Tricks: Create Personalized AI Videos in HubSpot – Automatically

Overview: Want to send personalized AI videos at scale—without editing a single frame?

The new HeyGen x HubSpot integration lets you generate and email custom AI videos directly inside your CRM.

Skill: Beginner

Time: 10-20 minutes

Here’s how it works 👇

• Connect HubSpot & HeyGen via Zapier

  • Use Zapier (or Make.com) to trigger a workflow when a new contact is created in HubSpot.

• Create a Dynamic Video Template in HeyGen

  • Go to HeyGen → Video Templates → Create a template.

  • Use dynamic variables like {first_name} or {company} in the script.

• Zapier Workflow Example

  • Trigger: New Contact in HubSpot.

  • Action: Generate HeyGen Video (select your template and map variables from HubSpot).

  • Optional: Email the video link to the lead directly using HubSpot’s email automation.

• Personalized Magic Happens ✨

  • The lead receives a tailored video in minutes. No manual work. Full wow factor.

⚙️ What It Does

🎥 1. Instantly Generate AI Videos

• HeyGen installs a custom workflow in HubSpot.

• It includes:

  • ✅ Trigger: Contact joins a list

  • 🎬 Action: Create AI video using CRM data

  • 📩 Step: Email the personalized video link to the contact

🧠 2. Uses CRM Data for Personalization

• Videos can auto-reference:

  • 🧑‍💼 Contact’s first name

  • 🏢 Their company name

  • 💼 Job title and more

• Just map HubSpot properties to HeyGen’s video template fields.

📈 3. Scales Like a Beast

• Every contact gets their own custom video.

• Auto-inserts:

  • 🎞️ A personalized GIF preview

  • 🔗 Unique video link

• All through HubSpot marketing emails.

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🔎 Spotlight: Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

Summary: The recent public release of xAI's flagship large language model, Grok 3, through an application programming interface (API), making it accessible to developers despite an ongoing legal dispute with OpenAI. The piece outlines the capabilities of Grok 3, including its ability to analyze images and power features on the social media platform X, and it compares the pricing and reported performance of Grok 3 and its smaller version, Grok 3 Mini, against competing models like those from Anthropic and Google, noting some discrepancies in benchmark claims and context window size. Furthermore, the article touches upon the controversial positioning of previous Grok models as being "edgy" and "anti-woke," and discusses Elon Musk's stated intentions to make the AI more politically neutral, alongside observations about its past political leanings and censorship incidents.

Here’s Why It Matter’s:

• It makes xAI's flagship Grok 3 model, including its image analysis and reasoning capabilities, accessible to developers and businesses through an API, positioning it as a direct competitor to models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini.

• The API offers different pricing tiers for Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini, with options for speedier versions, allowing users to choose based on their needs and budget, although Grok 3 is noted to be priced similarly to Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet and more expensive than Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro.

• Despite claims of a 1 million token context window, the API currently limits the context window to 131,072 tokens, and while earlier Grok models were positioned as unfiltered, there are ongoing questions about the political neutrality of Grok 3 following concerns about bias in previous versions

Sources: Grok AI pricing model, TechCrunch, Wired, WSJ,

 🤝 Who is getting funded?

• Mira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for a massive $2B seed round.

• Jobandtalent raises $103M on a down-round $1.5B valuation as it looks to AI to recruit temps.

• Sydney Thomas’ Symphonic Capital raises $13.5M for inaugural fund.

• Incident.io raises $62M at a $400M valuation to help IT teams move fast when things break.

• AI insurtech Ominimo bags its first investment at a $220M valuation.

• Solid, which claimed to be the ‘AWS of fintech,’ files for bankruptcy after raising nearly $81M in funding.

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