Chapter 1: What are Apple's latest AI acquisition plans?
Aloha, everyone. It's Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, and this is episode 588. I am Jun Li, and joining me today is Beth. We will cover today's AI headlines, take a deeper look at AI that helps chemists discover new materials, and share a quick highlight of comfy UI, a node-based creative tool that you can try out for yourself.
Chapter 2: How does AI2's Olmo Earth model support environmental research?
This is The Daily AI Show. It's good to see you, Beth. Hi. Good to be here.
Chapter 3: What features does Meta's new smart ring offer?
Good to see you, actually. This is definitely the news-heavy time for AI. The late fall is usually when they come out with all of their different things, announcements, stories, and the last couple of weeks has been filled with stuff. So why don't you start us off with a news story?
All right, so the news story that caught my eye was Apple announcing, Tim Cook actually saying that they're opening mergers and acquisitions.
Chapter 4: How is Archive addressing AI-generated paper submissions?
They're open to mergers and acquisitions on the AI front. So it's not like giant news, but anytime Apple acknowledges where they are in AI news, and signals some sort of moving forward in that direction. It makes sense. I think it's news, again, just because of their deep distribution. And they're supposedly still on target for 2026. That's still there. We're going to be doing it in 2026 here.
And, and I think that's a signal that they're going to be doing it, but they, they're not saying that they're going to be doing it internally. They're not ready internally. So, so I think we're looking for what they're going to acquire and, and who they're, they're interested in getting in bed with.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's kind of been foretold, or at least there's been a lot of chatter from the online community about, hey, they need to really get into the mix here. And I think a lot of...
Chapter 5: What is the significance of Anthropic's AI education pilot in Iceland?
Some of the stories that come out, some of the rumors that have come out have talked about these mergers. So having this official announcement saying, yes, we are going to move forward on these and we're going to jump back into the fray, I think is quelling some of the doom and gloom that I've heard around, oh, what are they going to do now?
Chapter 6: What are the goals of Google's Project Suncatcher?
They're so far behind, you know, those kinds of things. So that's really good to hear.
I mean, if they keep waiting, you're just going to be able to run Siri's entire model, the mini Siri model on the phone, right? If they keep waiting, the models keep shrinking, the things get better. Yeah, no, we just let everybody else do all that work. And now we just have on device because that was our plan all along.
Right. All right.
Chapter 7: How is AI influencing material discovery in science?
Yes. We planned this whole thing. We realized that. What is that term for the balancing out, waiting to find out, or discovering it for yourself? I know we talked about it before. I don't remember what it's called.
Andy, put it in chat if you know.
There you go. I know. Yeah. Andy introduced us to that.
Yeah.
Shout out to everybody who's joining in chat, including our lovely Andy, who's healing after knee surgery.
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Chapter 8: What is ComfyUI and how can it enhance creative workflows?
So everybody give him the props and healing thoughts his way.
Yeah. Heal up, Andy. And thanks for the warm. Welcome back, everybody. Jeff, Jen. okay so the story one of the stories that i wanted to cover today is uh funny enough about um an ai in science story what um so uh the allen institute for ai or otherwise known as ai2 uh announced uh olemo or omo earth it's a platform and Olimel Earth model family.
It's trained on millions of satellite and sensor images. It's a foundation model. Yeah, sorry. It's a foundation model, which is a general purpose model trained on broad data that can be adapted for many tests. AI2 said the platform is end-to-end from raw data to fine-tuning and deployment with tools for labeling and evaluation.
Business Wire notice adds that the training corpus spans roughly 10 terabytes with examples like wildfire risk mapping and surface water change detection. The models and pipeline aim to help governments, NGOs, and local teams who lack geospatial AI resources.
The differentiator here is openness and reproducibility across the entire stack from models to data pipelines, which AI2 has emphasized across its OLMO efforts. They've come out with a bunch of different projects all under this same project banner. While their peers have built Earth AI models before, but full openness pipelines with productive deployment tools are rarer.
The question is whether open infrastructure can lower the cost time to move from research to field decisions like fire mitigation and illegal fishing detection without sacrificing quality and safety. Early users will test if the package stack reduces specialized engineering effort while meeting accuracy targets in the wild. So the thing that drew me to this story is
Overall, the AI2 organization has been really focused on the AI for good kind of thing. And it's been either biological or ecological in focus. And this project is definitely ecological in focus. And what's really nice about this is, like I said earlier, it is an open source platform. So right now it's in beta and you get beta access. You got to sign up for it.
They'll evaluate your access and usage and your project that you want to use it for, your purpose you want to use it for. But essentially it's for projects and researchers and scientists who want to use this information or this data set, essentially this platform for lots of early warning kind of things. And a 10 terabyte data set is a big data set.
And not everybody has access to this kind of information. That's kind of the big focus here is another, hey, we've got an open source version as well. Google has always had one of these kind of things, and they've recently talked about it. Google Earth, you know, all of that geospatial information. But now it's an open source data set.
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