AI Daily Brief — 27 June 2025
A Musk-and-Meta Friday. Late-night X post from Musk: Grok 4 is coming “just after July 4” with a specialized coding companion model needing one more training run. CNN published a feature questioning whether Musk is trying to make Grok in his own image. Meta’s hiring war netted three more OpenAI researchers, including the Zurich-office trio.
Top stories
- Musk: Grok 4 ships just after July 4, plus coding model. Late on June 27, Musk posted that he had been “grinding on Grok all night with the xAI team,” confirming the next model will be Grok 4 and is targeted for release just after July 4, with one more big training run needed for a specialized coding companion. via X
- CNN: experts worry Musk is making Grok in his own image. A CNN Business feature dated June 27 examined Musk’s repeated public dissatisfaction with Grok’s outputs and his promise to deliver an update that would “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”, with experts warning the next-gen model risks being shaped by his personal ideological filters. via CNN Business
- Meta’s recruiting blitz nets three more OpenAI researchers. Reporting around June 25-27 confirmed Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai — the trio who established OpenAI’s Zurich research office — had joined Meta’s superintelligence team, capping a push in which Zuckerberg dangled $100M+ packages and personally WhatsApped researchers. via TechCrunch
- Anduril closes $2.5B Series G at $30.5B valuation. Defense-AI startup Anduril Industries closed a $2.5B round in June led by Founders Fund, more than doubling its valuation to $30.5B post-money — one of the largest mid-year defense-AI rounds and a marker of dual-use AI capital. via Crunchbase News
Who shipped
xAI shipped a date, not a model. Meta shipped talent acquisitions. Anduril shipped capital.
Open-source pulse
Quiet on open-weight releases. Huawei Cloud’s new-generation Ascend AI service based on the CloudMatrix384 super-node went fully live following the June 20 Huawei Developer Conference — a key data point in China’s domestic 100,000-GPU cluster push.
Money, infra & hardware
AMD’s MI350 accelerator family began volume shipments in June, marking AMD’s most credible Blackwell-class challenger to date. via AMD
Quiet corners
EU AI Act GPAI obligations countdown reached 36 days to the August 2 deadline as Brussels and frontier labs raced to finalize the Commission’s draft General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. Bartz v. Anthropic from earlier in the week continued shaping AI copyright debate.
By the numbers
- ~July 5-6 — Musk’s Grok 4 target release window
- 3 — OpenAI Zurich researchers (Beyer, Kolesnikov, Zhai) joining Meta
- $2.5B / $30.5B — Anduril Series G size and post-money valuation
- 36 days — to EU AI Act GPAI obligations on Aug 2
- 100K+ — Huawei CloudMatrix384 GPU cluster ambition
Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 27 June 2025.