The AI News for March 14
No more holidays for the poor DeepSeek Staff Turn yourself into a baby with Pika Labs and take your best guess at what Perplexity is launching on Monday. Here’s today’s AI news. Just how important is the new AI company DeepSeek to China? Well, it’s been declared a ‘national treasure’, and along with that comes some new conditions for some of the staff.
The key players involved in research and development may be required to hand in their passports to limit their international travel. That’s how important DeepSeek is to China, and it gives us a glimpse of just how crucial the AI wars are to nations. Rarely a day goes by where Pika Labs isn’t unleashing some new, cool, generative AI tool.
This time, it’s their Pikaffects options that’s being showcased with no less than 16 new effects. These include ‘Museum Me’, ‘Baby Me’, ‘Hero Me’, ‘Princess Me’, and ‘Puppy Me’. Pika Labs is always cooking. Finally, Perplexity teased that something big is happening on Monday, March 17.
The video that accompanied the announcement is as cryptic as the announcement itself. The message is simply 3-17-25 What exactly are Perplexity launching on Monday? Could it be the Comet Agentic search browser that they teased a few weeks ago? Your guess is as good as ours.