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Happy Monday, AI family, and welcome to another AI Valley edition. This issue takes 4.5 minutes to read.
Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:
Gemini 3.0 launch teased
Yann LeCun is leaving Meta to build a world-model AI startup
Disney actor launches AI avatars of the dead
Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources
Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…
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THROUGH THE VALLEY
Google is only days away from releasing Gemini 3.0, and the hype online has turned into a prediction game. Betting markets now put the odds above 90 percent that it arrives before November 22. Excitement jumped after a playful repost from Sundar Pichai, which many see as his version of a hint.
Some users on X claim they already have early access and call the model a game-changer. Google has not confirmed any of this, but the company has a long history of testing models quietly behind the scenes.
The launch comes during a shaky moment for the AI narrative. Big Short’s Michael Burry is shorting AI stocks, investors are questioning OpenAI’s massive spending plans, and people are unsure how long hyperscale companies can keep pouring money into compute.
Why does it matter?
This launch could reset the momentum in the AI race. If Gemini 3.0 shows clear improvements in coding, reasoning, and multimodal work, Google can finally pull ahead again using its massive product ecosystem. If Gemini 3.0 falls short, OpenAI keeps the lead. The results of this launch will set the tone for 2025 and 2026.
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Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is preparing to leave the company to build his own world model startup. LeCun is a Turing Award winner and one of the founding voices of modern deep learning, so his exit is a major moment for the field.
He has led FAIR, Meta’s research lab, since 2013. But Mark Zuckerberg has shifted the company away from long-term research and toward fast product cycles to keep up with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. That shift accelerated after Meta bought 49 percent of Scale AI for 14.3 billion dollars and placed Scale’s CEO, Alexandr Wang, in charge of a new superintelligence group that LeCun now reports into.
Zuckerberg also created an elite team called TBD Lab to build Meta’s next flagship models. The company offered compensation packages worth around 100 million dollars to lure top researchers from rivals. The shakeup followed a rough stretch for Meta’s AI efforts. Llama 4 lagged behind competitors, and Meta’s chatbot has struggled to gain traction.
LeCun has long disagreed with Meta’s reliance on large language models. He argues that LLMs can imitate intelligence but cannot reason or plan like humans. FAIR, under his leadership, has focused on world models that learn from video and spatial data to understand physical environments more deeply. His upcoming startup is expected to push that vision forward.
Why does it matter?
The timing hurts Meta. Investors want proof that its huge AI spending will pay off, especially after the stock fell 12.6 percent in late October when Zuckerberg warned that AI costs could exceed 100 billion dollars next year. The company is also facing brain drain. Joelle Pineau (VP of FAIR) left for Cohere in May, and Meta cut around 600 roles in its AI research unit last month. At the same time, Zuckerberg is hiring new AI leaders with massive compensation offers, which has created real tension inside the company.
Disney Channel actor Calum Worthy has launched 2wai, an AI app that generates interactive avatars of deceased relatives. The system creates digital HoloAvatars that talk and react like living family members, which sparked instant backlash and comparisons to Black Mirror.
The app builds an avatar from a few minutes of recorded video and lets users have live conversations with AI versions of loved ones. A promo showing an AI grandmother following her grandson from childhood to adulthood went viral on X and drew thousands of angry comments.
The beta is free on the App Store, with a paid tier and Android release coming soon. Critics say the concept is exploitative and harmful, arguing that the dead cannot consent and the tool could disrupt healthy grieving.
Why does it matter?
People are forming deeper emotional bonds with AI, and 2wai pushes directly into the most fragile parts of that relationship. Recreating the dead as interactive digital ghosts raises difficult questions about consent, identity, and grief. It blurs the line between comfort and something that might distort memory or prolong emotional pain.
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