☕️ Bezos’ Surprise AI Comeback and the Copilot Upgrade Shaking Up the Week

This week in AI, the center of gravity keeps shifting — from tech giants doubling down on infrastructure and copilots evolving into full workflow platforms, to investors pouring fresh capital into frontier models and industry-specific AI. The pace isn’t slowing — it’s compounding.

Here are the key takeaways:

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Jeff Bezos will become co-CEO of the newly-formed AI company Project Prometheus, a venture poised to spend over $6 billion developing AI for manufacturing, automobiles, aerospace and computing. This marks Bezos’ first operational role since stepping down as CEO of Amazon and signals how seriously investors are treating the next wave of AI infrastructure.

Why it matters:

Big takeaway: The AI arms race is not just about models—it’s about infrastructure, manufacturing and leadership returns.

Microsoft Copilot evolves into a full workflow platform

Microsoft Copilot has transformed from a personal assistant into a fully collaborative workflow engine. The latest upgrade supports up to 32 simultaneous users, integrates directly with Samsung’s 2025 TV lineup, and introduces long-term memory capabilities that persist across tasks and sessions. Microsoft 365 users also gain access to proactive suggestions and an AI-driven feature that can generate interactive podcasts from their documents and inbox. It’s the clearest signal yet that Copilot is becoming a full productivity operating system — not just a chat interface.

Legal-tech fund raises $110 M to fund AI disruption in law

A dedicated legal-tech venture fund has closed a $110 million second fund to accelerate AI’s transformation of legal workflows. The capital will support startups building tools for contract automation, large-scale document review, discovery, compliance, and other tasks typically handled by junior associates. With law firms struggling to keep up with demand and cost pressure, investors see AI as the largest efficiency unlock the industry has witnessed in decades. The bet: the biggest winners in legal AI haven’t been built yet — and this fund wants early ownership.

Elon Musk announces next-gen model “Grok 5” from xAI

Elon Musk revealed that xAI is developing Grok 5, a massive 6-trillion-parameter model planned for release in 2026. Early hints suggest the new model will represent “the next major leap” in intelligence density and reasoning breadth, surpassing the capabilities of current Grok 2.1 and 3 series. Musk is positioning Grok 5 as a foundational model capable of powering autonomous agents, advanced multimodal systems, and long-horizon reasoning tasks. As xAI ramps up hiring and compute spending, it’s clear the startup is moving into the heavyweight ring.

Over $3.5 B poured into AI startups in first half of November

Funding trackers report that AI startups drew more than $3.5 billion in the first two weeks of November alone — a staggering pace that shows investor confidence remains unshaken despite rising competition and compute constraints. Deals spanned infrastructure, agentic systems, robotics, and generative-content platforms. Investors say the thesis hasn’t changed: AI companies that scale fastest win disproportionate market share. With Q4 only halfway through, analysts expect November to be one of the biggest funding months of the year.

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