What's trending in AI right now, from the app charts to the community feeds. Real links, our take.
Sam Altman's Parenting Suggestion Did Not Land Well
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted this week suggesting parents use ChatGPT Work to create personalized morning podcasts for their kids, pulling from family calendars and interests. Animator Alex Hirsch replied "What if you just talked to your children?" and got 122,000 likes. Altman's original post got 9,600. TechCrunch covers the exchange and notes Altman has been making this case for a while. The engagement gap tells you something about where the public is on AI parenting advice right now.
AI Video Apps Are All Over the App Charts
At least five separate AI video generator apps climbed into the App Store top 25 this week, spread across the Graphics, Photo, and Video categories. That momentum is also showing up on YouTube, where how-to tutorials for making AI videos have been racking up thousands of views per hour in Hindi, Portuguese, and English. If you want a clear-eyed look at what these tools actually do, Zapier put together a current roundup of the main ones people are gravitating toward.
MiniMax Put Its Video Model Weights Online
MiniMax published open weights for H3, its flagship video generation model, to Hugging Face on August 3. The model produces 2K video clips up to 15 seconds with stereo audio baked in. It also started working natively in ComfyUI almost immediately after release. ComfyUI Wiki has a walkthrough of how to set it up. For context on why the model itself matters, RunPod has a solid explainer including what hardware you actually need to run it locally.
OpenAI Shipped Its First Physical Product
OpenAI released a $230 hardware device called the Codex Micro, built with keyboard maker Work Louder. It is a programmable macro pad with 13 mechanical keys, a joystick, and a dial that shows live status of AI coding agents via RGB lighting. 9to5Mac covered the launch when it went on sale in July. It is aimed at developers running multiple Codex threads at once, but the broader significance is that OpenAI now sells something you can hold in your hand.
Grammarly Is Still Growing
Grammarly climbed two spots in the App Store Productivity charts this week. The app has changed substantially over the past year, shifting from a passive grammar checker to something that can generate content, adjust tone, and integrate with other tools. The free tier now includes 100 AI prompts a month. DemandSage has a breakdown of what the current product looks like if you have not taken a look recently. The chart movement suggests it is still finding new users despite the crowded AI writing space.