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your web3 & AI weekly roundup.

February 07, 2025 • Read time: 7 minutes

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welcome back to another week where the charts are bleeding and macro still calls the shots.

RWAs hit an all-time high of $17.1 billion last month, while BlackRock keeps expanding its ETP game in Switzerland.

On the AI front, things are moving fast—AI-powered Alexa is coming, Cursor just became the fastest app ever to jump from $1M to $100M in revenue, and OpenAI is making moves into hardware. Buckle up.

As always, we’re using this space to provide you with the latest product updates and relevant industry news in the shortest form possible.

Let’s go! @getenzyme

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
OpenAI rolls out Deep Research

Just days after launching o3-mini, we have a new AI agent that's crushing it, accomplishing in minutes what would take humans up to 30 days.

Introducing Deep Research, an AI model that can autonomously gather information from across the web and turn it into concise, detailed reports. You can feed it text, images, PDFs, or even spreadsheets, and in just 5 to 30 minutes, it’ll return a thorough answer with citations.

In testing, Deep Research scored an impressive 26.6% on the ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ benchmark, easily outpacing competitors like Gemini Thinking (6.2%), Grok-2 (3.8%), and DeepSeek’s R1 (9.4%). However, it’s not flawless, sometimes hallucinating or struggling to tell the difference between credible and unreliable sources.

Pro users can already access Deep Research with 100 queries per month, and Plus and Team users will get access soon.

The tech world is already buzzing about it, with many praising Deep Research for its potential to change the game.

SUBSTRATES
What else is on the radar?

WEB3

  • Ethereum increased its gas limit for the first time post-Merge.

  • Coinbase obtains VASP registration in the UK, making it the largest registered digital asset in the country.

  • Tether’s Paolo Ardoino teases AI apps in development including AI voice assistant, AI Bitcoin wallet assistant and AI translate.

  • Berachain Foundation launches its Layer-1 mainnet, using a unique proof-of-liquidity consensus to combine security and liquidity.

  • MicroStrategy rebrands to ‘Strategy’ to diversify its business approach and include more digital assets.

  • The S a Crypto Task Force to clarify regulations, engage the public on crypto laws and compliance, and support innovation.

  • Travala integrates crypto payments for 2.2 million hotels on Trivago, allowing bookings in over 100 cryptocurrencies.

AI

  • ByteDance launched OmniHuman-1, an AI model that turns photos into ultra-realistic videos.

  • Google releases Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental and Gemini 2.0 Flash for everyone.

  • OpenAI and SoftBank launch SB OpenAI Japan to provide AI services for corporate clients.

  • Hugging Face developers create Open Deep Research, the open alternative to OpenAI’s deep research using the o1 model and open-source agentic framework. Moreover, their Spaces gets a big upgrade, allowing developers to easily browse 400K apps by category.

  • Mistral rolls out updates to Le Chat, its AI assistant, along with a mobile app for iOS and Android.

  • Replit launches a mobile app, letting anyone build custom programs with simple text prompts on their phone.

  • Stanford researchers work on an open rival of OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model for under $50.

  • John Schulman leaves Anthropic just months after joining in August following his departure from OpenAI.

  • OpenAI rebrands with a new logo, color scheme, and custom typeface, OpenAI Sans, for a more humanized look.

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SCOOPS OF THE WEEK

And that’s it for the week - not so short but sweet.

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