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Happy Monday, AI family, and welcome to another AI Valley edition. This issue takes 4 minutes to read.

Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:

• OpenAI said to be working on music-generating AI

• Google’s new breakthrough in Quantum Computing

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ OpenAI said to be working on music-generating AI to rival Suno, Udio

The company reshaping how we write, code, and create images is now turning its sights toward music. OpenAI is reportedly developing a next-generation generative music model capable of composing full songs or enhancing existing tracks from text or audio prompts (its most ambitious music effort since Jukebox in 2020).

Unlike earlier experiments, this new system can generate complete musical compositions or add specific elements such as guitar riffs, percussion, or orchestral backing based on user input. To improve phrasing, rhythm, and human-like musical structure, OpenAI has enlisted Juilliard students to annotate sheet music used in training.

The model is expected to leverage advances in voice synthesis and audio generation seen in ChatGPT and Sora and could eventually be integrated into OpenAI’s broader media ecosystem.

Why does it matter?

OpenAI is aiming to become the go-to destination for all generative content. With expert-annotated training data, the company appears ready to take on platforms like Suno, Udio, and AIVA with studio-quality composition capabilities. If integrated into ChatGPT or Sora, music generation could become as accessible as creating text or images, transforming how both creators and casual users produce sound.

2/ Google says its Willow Chip hit a major Quantum Computing milestone

Google claims its new Willow quantum chip has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing, solving a task considered infeasible for classical supercomputers, and completing it 13,000 times faster.

The achievement was demonstrated using Willow, Google’s latest 105-qubit quantum processor, which powers the company’s quantum supercomputer.

In a paper published Wednesday in Nature, Google researchers reported that their Quantum Echoes algorithm executed 13,000x faster than classical systems while maintaining error rates as low as 0.03%. The announcement comes amid growing competition from IBM and others in the quantum race and shortly after this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics honored foundational work in quantum mechanics.

Why does it matter?

Quantum advantage has long been theoretical, with few verified demonstrations that truly surpass classical computing. Google’s Willow result represents the first confirmed instance where quantum hardware not only performs faster, but also accomplishes something classical supercomputers realistically cannot. If this performance continues to scale, quantum processors could transition from experimental labs to solving real-world industrial and scientific challenges, potentially outperforming even today’s most advanced AI accelerators.

TRENDING TOOLS

• Annotate Mode > A new coding experience in Google AI Studio, where you sketch what you want, and Gemini turns your drawings into working code

• Twigg > Turns your AI chats into a visual conversation tree, letting you branch from any message to explore new directions without losing your original thread

• BrowserOS > An open-source, privacy-first browser agent platform positioned as an alternative to OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet

• Claude Desktop > Anthropic’s desktop app now supports screenshot capture, window-based context sharing, and voice communication for smoother workflows

• Company Knowledge in ChatGPT > A GPT-5-powered upgrade that unifies data from Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, SharePoint, Gmail, HubSpot, and more into citation-backed, context-aware answers

• Director by Browserbase > Build fully repeatable browser agents using just a natural language prompt

THINK PIECES / BRAIN BOOST

• The ‘Hands Problem' is holding back the humanoid revolution

• Every single product OpenAI is working on

• A 300,000-scenario experiment shows how Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google’s AIs disagree on the same moral questions

• I went all-in on AI. The MIT study is right

• The Game Theory of how algorithms can drive up prices

• OpenAI is becoming the next Facebook, with one in five OpenAI staffers coming from Meta, reshaping company culture

• Nof1 launched Alpha Arena a new benchmark designed to measure AI’s investing abilities. Each model is given $10,000 of real money, in real markets, with identical prompts and input data

THE VALLEY GEMS

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