Tue 11 February, 2025 - Musk vs Altman

Plus, five AI tools you may have missed

WELCOME

Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. This week, we’ve got:, GitHub’s newest AI agent, more DeepSeek launches, and a breakdown of the latest Elon x Sam Altman drama.

TOP LAUNCHES

GitHub’s newest AI launch

TOP LAUNCHES

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode (Preview) is the autonomous coding feature in VS Code Insiders. Copilot plans, codes, runs tests, and fixes errors – all driven by your natural language requests.

Talo is an AI-powered assistant that translates your video calls in real time into whatever language you might speak. Its goal is to break down communication barriers and increase productivity. 

DeepSeek-VL2 are a collection of  open-source vision-language models with strong multimodal understanding. They are powered by an MoE architecture.

ToolJet lets you build custom apps and AI agents just by using natural language prompts. It handles the UI, database, queries, and more. You can then edit your app with drag and drop elements. 

OneShotLoRA turns videos into high-quality, realistic AI models with consistent outputs. Just upload or link a video, and get a fine-tuned LoRA model ready for art, VFX, and AI content creation.

THE BIG IDEA

Thanks but no thanks

Elon Musk just tried to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion, and OpenAI hit him with a “no thanks.”

Musk, who helped start OpenAI before leaving in 2018, says the company has lost its way—too closed off, too profit-driven, not the open-source AI utopia he envisioned. So, he and a group of investors made an offer to take control and, presumably, set things right. This comes after Musk sued OpenAI last year, arguing that its for-profit shift betrayed its original mission.

OpenAI’s response? A hard pass. CEO Sam Altman even joked that OpenAI would buy Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) for $9.74 billion instead. Beyond the billionaire drama, the real question is: should AI be controlled by one guy with a lot of money, or... a different guy with a lot of money?.

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