Pepsi’s Polar Bear vs. the AI Hype

Creativity Wins as Pepsi Leaves Artificial Intelligence Offstage Entirely

February 09, 2026

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This week brings clearer signs of where intelligence is heading: deeper involvement in healthcare understanding, competing visions on the Super Bowl stage, and a massive leap in scale hinted at by Grok 5. 

Let’s start the week by breaking down what changed and what it means going forward. 

Inside This Issue:

  • AI in healthcare clarity

  • Super Bowl AI strategy shifts

  • Grok 5’s massive scale leaks

  • New AI tools to try

  • Key signals shaping AI’s future

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AI’s Super Bowl presence sparked debate, intensified by Anthropic’s ad, which Sam Altman criticized. The company softened messaging, shifting from an anti-OpenAI tone to a broader stance against ads in AI chats.

Super Bowl LX highlights AI rivalry as OpenAI and Anthropic air competing ads. OpenAI emphasizes Codex’s enterprise value, developer productivity, and real-world creation, positioning it beyond ChatGPT as core to long-term commercial success.

Super Bowl LX ads reflect AI debates. After backlash to Coke’s AI ad, Pepsi chose traditional CGI and human creativity, highlighting craftsmanship and talent while featuring a polar bear picking Pepsi in a taste test.

A Laughter Moment

The Delay Isn’t a Bug. It’s the Scale.

Elon Musk has pushed Grok 5’s launch not because it failed, but because it may be the most ambitious AI system ever built. Leaks point to a model designed for real-time, always-on intelligence, moving beyond static knowledge into continuous awareness.

What makes Grok 5 different:

  • ~6 trillion parameters and 200,000 Nvidia GPUs powering Colossus 2

  • Energy usage comparable to a small city

  • Real-time multimodal processing of live video, audio, and text from X

  • Near-instant responses with sub-120 ms latency

The bigger shift:
AI may be evolving from an encyclopedia into a 24/7 live observer of the real world. The real question isn’t capability. It’s a consequence.

Will live learning unlock unprecedented intelligence, or create a feedback loop of chaos that the industry isn’t ready for?

Key Highlights

  • Healthcare information is accessible but often hard to understand.

  • Millions were already using ChatGPT for health questions before the official features.

  • ChatGPT Health adds privacy, separation from normal chat, and clearer safeguards.

  • Healthcare providers gain admin support, evidence retrieval, and compliant workflows.

  • AI helps translate terms, interpret labs, prepare questions, and spot wellness patterns.

  • It does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace doctors.

  • The focus is clarity and responsibility, not hype or speed.

  • AI is becoming a first step for understanding, while human care remains essential.

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P.S. If this week tells us anything, it’s that AI is moving from headlines into habits. It’s becoming something we consult, build with, question, and rely on, often all at once. 

The pace will only accelerate from here, but clarity will matter more than ever. Our goal remains simple: bring you the signals that truly count, every Monday. 

Until then, have a meaningful week ahead

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