AI News: They All Launched the Same Thing!

TL;DR

Both Claude and ChatGPT launched interactive visual learning tools the same week, but work very differently under the hood.

Key Points

• 1.Claude's interactive visualizations build custom charts from scratch (takes ~1–2 min), enabling sliders for compound interest, AI timelines, and maps — available free on all plans as of March 12.
• 2.ChatGPT's version (launched March 10) uses a fixed library of pre-built, cached visuals for math/science topics like Ohm's Law and the Pythagorean theorem — near-instant but not customizable beyond supported concepts.
• 3.Perplexity Computer expanded beyond Max plans to all paid tiers ($20/month Pro), giving users access to a cloud-hosted Mac Mini agent that autonomously builds dashboards, drafts emails, and manages tasks across tools like Slack, Notion, and Gmail.
• 4.Canva's Magic Layers automatically separates AI-generated or real images into independent moveable layers, letting users recompose thumbnails and ads — available on all Canva plans.
• 5.Nvidia released Neotron 3 Super, an open-weight 120B parameter model available on Nvidia's platform, Perplexity, Open Router, and Hugging Face, with more expected at GTC next week.
• 6.Andrej Karpathy open-sourced "Auto Research" — a system where an AI agent autonomously runs 5-minute LLM training experiments overnight, keeps improvements, and discards failures, compounding model gains while you sleep.
• 7.Meta acquired the team behind Moltbook (an AI-agent-only social network), sparking theories that Meta wants AI agents to both create content and eventually become the target audience for advertising.
• 8.ChatGPT came to Excel via a right-sidebar integration that reads and writes spreadsheet data in plain language, while Google Gemini rolled out similar features inside Docs, Sheets, and Slides for paid subscribers.