HumanX Spotlight – AI & Community Building: Aaron Leeder from Pavilion shares how their global community for GTM leaders is using AI to personalize member experiences, optimize event engagement, and future-proof career growth—blending human connection with smart automation to shape the next generation of sales and marketing leadership.

HumanX Spotlight – Smarter AI, Better Data: Jason Hecky from Seeker Technologies explains how their AI platform simplifies pre-training and fine-tuning, helping businesses reduce complexity, ensure data privacy, and build more accurate, efficient AI models—all while enabling faster, more strategic innovation.

Today’s Headlines:

• DeepSeek-V3 Runs Locally at 20 Tokens/Second, Challenging OpenAI - DeepSeek has quietly released its latest large language model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, sending shockwaves through the AI industry. The 641GB model, now live on Hugging Face, offers commercial use under an MIT license and can run locally at over 20 tokens per second on Apple’s high-end Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra chip—a significant shift from the GPU-intensive infrastructure typically required for models like ChatGPT or Claude.
  
  

  
  

• Ant Group Uses Chinese Chips to Cut AI Training Costs by 20% - Ant Group, backed by billionaire Jack Ma, has reportedly developed a cost-saving method to train large AI models using Chinese-made chips—achieving comparable results to Nvidia hardware while reducing expenses by up to 20%.
  
  
  
  

• OpenAI Expands Leadership Team as Altman Refocuses on Tech - OpenAI has announced a reshuffling of its top leadership as it continues scaling operations and transitioning toward more product-driven goals. CEO Sam Altman will now focus more heavily on technical direction, while three senior leaders—Mark Chen, Brad Lightcap, and Julia Villagra—have taken on expanded roles.
  
  
  
  

• FuriosaAI Rejects Meta’s $800M Bid, Pursues Independence - Founded eight years ago, FuriosaAI is led by CEO June Paik, a semiconductor veteran with experience at Samsung Electronics and AMD. The company specializes in AI inferencing chips, used to power real-time AI services. Its latest processor, RNGD, is built to rival top-tier solutions from Nvidia and other emerging hardware companies like SambaNova, Cerebras, and Groq.
  
  
  
  

• Zapier Launches MCP to Let AI Control 8,000+ Apps with No APIs - Zapier has launched a new protocol called Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing AI assistants to move beyond chat and start performing real-world actions across 8,000+ integrated apps—without the need for custom API development.

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert YouTube videos into personal tutors with Google AI Studio, which lets you ask questions about any video by simply pasting the link—making complex content instantly accessible for learning.

Step-by-step:

• Visit Google AI Studio and log in with your Google account.

• Select "Gemini 2.0 Flash" from the Model dropdown menu on the right side of the screen.

• Paste your YouTube video link in the prompt area, followed by your specific question about the content.

• Ask follow-up questions to explore the video content more deeply, referencing specific timestamps if needed.

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