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Issue #155: OpenAI and Broadcom team up for 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips
PLUS: Claude gets Skills for custom workflows, Haiku 4.5 matches Sonnet at 1/3 the cost, and Salesforce embeds CRM directly into ChatGPT
Nathan Lands
October 17, 2025
Good morning, welcome to this week's Lore Brief, your 3-minute brief of the most important moves in AI and tech.
Thank you all for your support in making the Lore.com announcement a huge success! Our launch post on X garnered over 280,000 views and generated a ton of outreach from strategic partners. We're just getting started!
Let's dive in.
OpenAI teams up with Broadcom to build custom AI chips →
OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to co-design and deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed accelerators and network systems. Deployment begins in 2026, making this one of the boldest infrastructure plays yet.
Read more here →Anthropic launches Claude Skills — customize Claude for your workflows → Claude can now use Skills, which are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources it loads only when relevant, making it smarter at tasks like Excel, brand compliance, or your internal docs. Read more here →
Google releases Veo 3.1 + Flow enhancements — more control, better realism, native audio → With Veo 3.1 and upgrades to Flow, Google brings richer audio, stronger narrative control, and improved prompt adherence. Read more here →
An insightful dive into Claude Code for non-develpoers:
Everyone should be using Claude Code more
PMs, marketers, designers, founders, parents. Everyone.
The trick is to forget that it’s called Claude Code and instead think of it as Claude Local or Claude Agent. It’s essentially a super-intelligent AI running locally, able to do
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan)
4:07 PM • Oct 14, 2025
The difference between an automation and an AI agent explained clearly:
The average CEO cannot tell you the difference between an automation and an AI agent.
This breakdown (h/t @wadefoster) makes it glaringly obvious.
An automation is anything that requires no-trust decision making (if this, then that).
An AI agent is anything that requires
— Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista)
12:30 AM • Oct 15, 2025
Excellent thread about Nano Banana use cases:
Me and my team ran 800+ Nano Banana tests 🍌
Why? To uncover the BEST use cases for AI animation.
Here are the top 15 every creator should know 👇
— Framer 🇱🇹 (@0xFramer)
1:16 PM • Oct 15, 2025
“Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP” writes Simon Willison → An insightful comparison between MCPs and the new “Skills“ feature in Claude. Read it here
ChatGPT now automatically manages your saved memories - surfacing the most relevant ones and relegating less-used ones behind the scenes so “memory full” issues are rarer. Read more here →
Another very impressive artistic, indie movie trailer generated with Sora 2 Pro by Jimmy Apples → Generated with just one prompt. 30 secs. Watch it here
Claude Haiku 4.5 is out. Speed, efficiency, frontier power in light form →
Haiku 4.5 is available to all users today — it matches or even beats Sonnet 4 on some tasks, at one-third the cost and over twice the speed. With it you can run smarter agents in real time, with lower latency and lower price. Read more here →Google’s Gemma AI helps map a cancer-therapy pathway →
Google’s AI model Gemma has revealed a new potential therapy path for a subtype of cancer, by predicting target interactions across molecular networks. Read more here →Salesforce + OpenAI join forces - CRM meets conversational AI →
Salesforce is partnering with OpenAI to embed CRM workflows and records inside ChatGPT. Reps will soon be able to pull leads, update deals, or get customer context directly in chat. Read more here →Anduril unveils EagleEye — an AI-powered helmet for the front line →
EagleEye is a mixed-reality helmet that puts mission data, sensors, and AI directly in a warfighter’s field of view — maps, friend/foe overlays, live drone feeds, and voice/gesture controls — so commanders and soldiers can see, decide, and act faster without digging for separate screens.