DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 21

OPENAI 🔥:
- OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, a drug-development coordination platform, to build on its Rosalind life sciences models and tools.
- Locked Chats are rolling out in ChatGPT across all plans, letting users protect chats with a PIN, Face ID, Touch ID or device unlock.
- The OpenAI API now offers 12-hour prompt caching, so persistent agents can keep shared context cached at the lower rate for longer.
- ChatGPT team tasks can now automate recurring engineering work, like a weekly roundup of what shipped and what's blocked.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- SpaceX reported $14.6B in Q3 revenue, with its Super Intelligence segment (Cursor, Grok Bot and its neocloud) bringing in $7.5B.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Gemini with Personal Intelligence is rolling out globally on Android Auto, with cars with Google built-in following in the coming months.
- Google released llm-d 1.0, an open-source Kubernetes-native stack for distributed LLM inference, at the PyTorch Conference.

MISTRAL 🔥:
- Mistral released Voxtral 3, a family of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models powering its new voice agents API.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity Computer on Mac can now run fully local, powered by PPLX Pro, a post-trained Qwen 3.8 model, for Pro, Max and Enterprise users.

META 🔥:
- Muse web is preparing Confidential VMs, an encrypted mode for running Muse tasks that will initially be limited to Meta AI subscribers.

ELEVENLABS 🔥:
- ElevenLabs released Eleven Realtime v1 Max and Mini speech-to-speech models on its ElevenAgents platform and APIs.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.