9th November - AI News Daily - OpenAI Launches GPT-5.1, Pursues $1.4T Data Center Vision Amid AI Boom

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Major Partnerships & Infrastructure: Amazon and OpenAI signed a $38B multiyear AWS cloud deal, boosting Amazon's stock and AI-cloud competition. OpenAI is lobbying for expanded U.S. tax credits and advancing the $1.4T "Stargate" data center projectto address compute and energy demands. NVIDIA surpassed $5T market cap, while Google may give Meta TPU access, hinting at shifting infrastructure alliances.

Model Releases: OpenAI launched GPT-5.1 with Reasoning and Pro tiersfor research-grade performance. Kimi K2 (open weights) tops agentic reasoning leaderboards with 256K context. Meta introduced SPICE for self-improving training, while GLM-4.6 and Step-Audio-EditX expanded open-weight options. Google Gemini achieved state-of-the-art satellite understanding. Baidu ERNIE-5.0 leads Text Arena, and xAI Grok-4-Fast showed sharp reasoning gains.

Legal & Policy: An Ontario court allowed a copyright case against OpenAI to proceed, while U.S. lawsuits link chatbots to suicides, pressuring firms on safety. Google is scaling AI in India via free Gemini Pro with Reliance Jioand student programs, raising privacy concerns. OpenAI restructuring sparked IPO speculation.

New Tools: Google Opal expanded to 160+ countries for no-code AI app building. Notion integrated GPT-5 for agentic workflows. ServiceNow and Figma connected design-to-app pipelines. Anthropic added Code Execution for live code in conversations. Google Maps integrated Gemini for chat-based navigation. MiniMax M2 API launched affordable coding-focused tiers.

Research Highlights: AI agents compress drug discovery R&D from months to hours. Kosmos AI condenses six months of scientific work into hours. DePTH-GPT targets deep-sea exploration. Cross-family distillation improves smaller models' reliability. New benchmarks (MIRA, Oolong, Cambrian-S, SIMS-V) expose weaknesses in long-context and spatial reasoning.

Showcases: AI agents completed 200 sequential tool calls reliably. Sakana AI's "Petri Dish" visualized neural cellular automata. Grok Imagine added side-by-side comparisons. Claude performed end-to-end PowerPoint editing from one prompt.

Key Discussions: Intelligence costs are collapsing 350x, making professionals faster. Hybrid architectures may overtake pure self-attention. Product experts warn against AI-driven feature creep.