Macrohard > Microsoft?
Good morning AI entrepreneurs & enthusiasts,
Elon Musk and xAI just introduced Macrohard — a no-human, AI-native software company designed to challenge Microsoft itself.
The play? Replace the entire software lifecycle — coding, design, management — with AI agents. This is Level 5 AGI territory: a business run entirely by machines. With trademark filings and recruitment already live, Macrohard could be our first real look at a company born and operated at machine-speed. Will it work? Maybe. Elon’s juggling rockets, robots, and brain chips — but that’s never stopped him before.
In today’s AI news:
xAI launch Macrohard to simulate Microsoft
Meta FAIR's DeepConf Shatters AIME
Meta taps Midjourney for aesthetics upgrade
OpenAI + Retro Biosciences rejuvenate old cells
Today's Top Tools & Quick News
xAI x MACROHARD 🚀 xAI launch Macrohard to simulate Microsoft
News: Elon Musk and xAI have unveiled Macrohard, a "purely AI software company" aiming to simulate and rival Microsoft’s dominance using advanced AI systems alone.
Details:
Musk announced the venture on X, calling the name "tongue-in-cheek" but confirming the project is real.
The idea: if Microsoft doesn't build hardware, AI can simulate the entire software stack — from development to operations.
Trademark filings show intent to cover products like AI chatbots, text generators, and even game design tools.
Why it matters: Macrohard challenges the very foundation of enterprise software creation, proposing AI-native workflows that could reduce costs by 70% and speed up go-to-market by 40%. If successful, it positions Musk and xAI to redefine what it means to run a modern software company — with AI as the only employee.
META FAIR x DEEPCONF 🤖 DeepConf Shatters AIME
News: Meta FAIR has introduced DeepConf (Deep Think with Confidence), a test-time open-source reasoning system that achieves a stunning 99.9% accuracy on the AIME benchmark — using open-source models like GPT-OSS-120B with minimal overhead and high efficiency.
Details:
DeepConf uses internal, local confidence signals to dynamically filter and stop low-quality reasoning paths in real time or after generation.
Achieves 99.9% accuracy on AIME 2025 with open-source models, outperforming ensemble/majority-vote methods.
Reduces token generation by up to 85% while increasing or maintaining accuracy.
Delivers a 10% boost in accuracy across diverse datasets and models with no extra training or tuning.
Implemented in ~50 lines of code, compatible with vLLM, and plug-and-play with open models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and GPT-OSS.
Why it matters: The real breakthrough here isn’t just the 99.9% accuracy — it’s that DeepConf achieves it while reducing token generation by nearly 90%, using just ~50 lines of code, and it’s fully open-sourced. This is a massive win for the open-source community, proving that with smarter reasoning strategies, even lightweight models can outperform heavy ensembles — unlocking high-efficiency, high-accuracy AI for everyone.
META x MIDJOURNEY 🎨 Meta taps Midjourney for aesthetics upgrade
News: Meta just unveiled a new collaboration with Midjourney to inject the latter’s "aesthetic tech" into Meta's future AI models — signaling a shift from their historically insular creative R&D.
Details:
Meta’s Chief AI Officer confirmed the partnership will co-develop visual capabilities for upcoming tools.
Meta already offers image and video tools like Imagine and Movie Gen, alongside research models like Dino V3.
Midjourney remains an independent, community-led company with no outside investors.
Its V1 video model debuted in June, enabling 5-second animated loops from images.
Why it matters: Meta’s willingness to look outward rather than reinvent internally shows strategic evolution. This mirrors broader moves we’ve seen from Meta lately — large acquisitions, creative partnerships, and major hires all signal a shift in how they’re approaching the AI race. It suggests two things: first, Meta recognizes critical gaps in areas like design and AI talent; and second, they have the humility and decisiveness to close those gaps fast by forming alliances. Midjourney’s aesthetic edge could massively elevate the quality of visual AI inside Meta’s ecosystem, and this partnership is emblematic of Meta's bold strategy to win by integration — not isolation.
AI RESEARCH 🧬 OpenAI + Retro Biosciences rejuvenate old cells
News: OpenAI teamed up with Retro Biosciences to create GPT-4b micro, a biological AI model trained specifically on biology and protein engineering data that redesigned the famous Yamanaka proteins used to reprogram aging cells.
Details:
GPT-4b micro is trained on biology data, not web text.
Its redesigned variants of Yamanaka factors, such as RetroSOX and RetroKLF (which won Nobel-Prizes in 2012) over 50x more efficient.
The proteins also dramatically improved DNA repair mechanisms, enhancing rejuvenation capabilities.
Several independent labs validated the results across cell types, donors, and delivery methods.
Why it matters: This breakthrough is a turning point for longevity science. The Yamanaka factors can reset a cell's age and identity—but have historically been inefficient and risky. Now, thanks to AI-redesigned proteins, OpenAI and Retro Biosciences have made the process 50x more effective, unlocking the potential for safe, fast, and scalable age-reversal therapies. It’s a proof-of-concept for using AI to compress decades of biological trial-and-error into weeks—paving the way for regenerative medicine that could one day delay or reverse aging itself.
🛠️ Today's Top Tools
Command R+ — Cohere’s new enterprise reasoning model
Seed-OSS — ByteDance’s open-source long-context reasoners
Qoder — Free agentic dev tool from Alibaba
📰 Quick News
Elon Musk asked Mark Zuckerberg to co-fund a $97.4B OpenAI buyout in February — Meta declined.
xAI open-sourced Grok 2.5 via Hugging Face; Grok 3 is expected to be released in ~6 months.
OpenAI launches a New Delhi office and a $5/month ChatGPT GO plan for the Indian market.
Baidu debuts MuseStreamer 2.0 — an image-to-video model with multi-character motion and synced audio.
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