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GPT-5 is getting a body

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The AI world is buzzing about GPT-5, wondering if OpenAI’s next release will be the first to bring AGI into the world.

But if the AI leader’s latest partnership is any indication, the next model may be more human than we ever imagined. Let's investigate...


In today’s AI rundown:

  • OpenAI takes robotics leap with Figure

  • Microsoft launches ‘Copilot for Finance’

  • Use Gemini to evaluate + solve household repairs

  • AI unlocks new prostate cancer findings

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🤖 OpenAI takes robotics leap with Figure

Image source: Figure

The Rundown: Figure just officially announced its $675M funding round, alongside a shiny new collaboration with OpenAI — partnering to develop and infuse advanced AI capabilities into the startup’s humanoid robots.

The details:

  • OpenAI's newest AI models will be integrated into Figure's humanoid robots, enhancing their ability to process natural language commands.

  • The funding will accelerate commercial deployment, with Figure-01 robots already being integrated into BMW’s auto plants.

  • Figure recently demoed its robot completing real-world tasks completely autonomously, while most competitors share demos teleoperated behind the scenes.

Why it matters: Humanoid robots paired with industry-leading AI models are an extremely powerful combination — and given OpenAI Head of DevOps Logan Kilpatrick’s tweet: “The final form for ChatGPT is not chat, this partnership may be a major signal of the company’s grand vision.

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MICROSOFT

📊 Microsoft launches ‘Copilot for Finance’

Image source: Microsoft

The Rundown: Microsoft just unveiled a finance-focused version of its AI assistant called Copilot for Finance, aimed at helping teams speed processes like reconciling data and tracking payments.

The details:

  • The AI tool integrates with existing financial platforms like Dynamics 365, as well as Microsoft apps like Outlook, Excel, and Teams.

  • Key benefits include streamlining audits, simplifying collections processes, and accelerating financial reporting.

  • Microsoft is also exploring future Copilot versions tailored for other sectors like marketing and supply chain management.

Why it matters: Microsoft is about to unlock major AI-powered automation, one enterprise sector at a time. With the company’s massive built-in user base and industry-standard business tools, integrating specialized AI across familiar apps is a savvy path toward mass adoption of the tech.

AI TRAINING

🚰 Use Gemini to evaluate + solve household repairs

The Rundown: Recently, Google has integrated Gemini into its mobile apps. Having Gemini in your pocket can simplify the process of obtaining answers, suggestions, and instructional videos for simple household repair projects.

  1. Open the Google mobile app (iOS or Android) and switch to Gemini at the top.

  2. Capture a photo of the object that requires repair. Provide a description of the problem and ask for suggestions on how to fix it.

  3. You can ask additional questions based on the response to resolve the problem. If you've enabled the YouTube extension, try asking Gemini for YouTube videos that could assist with the repair.

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AI RESEARCH

🔬 AI unlocks new prostate cancer findings

Image source: LRI EM Unit

The Rundown: A new study from Cancer Research UK just uncovered two previously unknown subtypes of prostate cancer using AI, laying the groundwork for personalized treatments and more accurate diagnosis.

The details:

  • Researchers analyzed prostate cancer data from 159 patients, using neural networks to compare samples.

  • The neural networks helped uncover two distinct subtypes, countering the previous medical opinion that prostate cancer is a single type of disease.

  • The findings could help better inform diagnosis and personalized treatments for one of the most common cancers found in men.

Why it matters: With yet another groundbreaking cancer finding, it’s abundantly clear that AI is going to completely revolutionize our understanding and treatment of the world’s deadliest diseases. A cure for cancer feels closer than ever.

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QUICK HITS

Vimeo launched Vimeo Central, an AI-powered video hub for enterprises consolidating video content, meetings, and analytics into one platform.

Security researchers discovered over 100 malicious AI models on the popular hub HuggingFace capable of executing code on users’ machines and establishing backdoors.

TikTok parent company ByteDance is reportedly going ‘all in’ on generative AI, with the release of Sora heightening the urgency of the company to double down on the tech.

Brave rolled out its Leo AI assistant to Android users, with the ability to choose between LLMs to handle in-browser tasks with a focus on privacy.

Bench IQ announced a $2.1M pre-seed funding round for its legal AI tailored to help law firms better understand the decision-making of judges.

Morph Studio introduced a new partnership with Stability AI, allowing users to create and edit films using AI-generated clips.

Subaru unveiled a new partnership with Dell, with plans to use AI to enhance the safety capabilities of its EyeSight Driver Assist technology.

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Adobe's new AI music tool

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Forget learning an instrument — Adobe’s new demo just made creating custom music tracks as easy as a simple text prompt.

Image and video are already having their AI moment… Is audio up next? Let’s explore…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Adobe previews ‘Photoshop of music’

  • AI replaces 700 customer service reps

  • Create an expense report using ChatGPT

  • Alibaba’s EMO brings portraits to life

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ADOBE

🎶 Adobe previews ‘Photoshop of music’

Image source: Adobe

The Rundown: Adobe just demoed Project Music GenAI Control, a prototype for easily generating and editing audio with AI — allowing creators to craft custom music tracks using text prompts.

The details:

  • Users start by inputting a text description to produce initial audio in a specified genre.

  • Integrated editing controls then allow adjusting patterns, tempo, intensity, and length to customize tracks.

  • The model is also able to reshape audio based on a reference melody and produce seamless background loops.

  • Adobe aims to solve major pain points for podcasters, broadcasters and other audio needs without pro experience, though the tech is not yet being released to the public.

Why it matters: While image and video generation has garnered most of the hype, it feels like music’s AI moment is coming. Between this Adobe demo and breakthroughs like Suno and Google’s MusicLM — it’s only a matter of time before the next billboard song is generated from prompts.

Check out the full demo video here.

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KLARNA

📞 AI replaces 700 customer service reps

Image source: Klarna

The Rundown: Fintech giant Klarna just released a blog touting the success of its OpenAI-powered customer service chatbot, which handled a whopping 2.3M conversations in the last month.

The details:

  • Klarna estimates the assistant will drive $40M in additional profit in 2024.

  • The chatbot finished the equivalent work of 700 full-time employees.

  • The average time to resolution dropped from 11 minutes to 2 minutes, with the bot available 24/7 and able to converse in over 35 languages.

  • The Swedish firm laid off 700 employees in 2022 and said it will no longer be hiring new staff outside of engineering due to AI.

Why it matters: Klarna’s eye-popping statistics are a likely indicator of where all customer service is heading. Which, despite profit gains and user satisfaction, will decimate a massive segment of workers. While AI’s unlocks are endless — they won’t come without a major reorganization of current labor.

AI TRAINING

 📊 Create an expense report using ChatGPT

The Rundown: Using ChatGPT's vision and text extraction capabilities, you can upload your receipts to quickly generate an expense report.

  1. Go to ChatGPT and create a new chat.

  2. Upload or take photos of the receipts you wish to include in your expense report.

  3. Prompt ChatGPT: “Analyze each receipt and create an expense report based on the uploaded receipts. For each receipt, record the date, merchant, and amount, then categorize each expense”

  4. ChatGPT will provide initial results for you to verify their accuracy. Afterward, you can request a CSV file of the expenses to incorporate into your expense report or import it into a spreadsheet.

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AI RESEARCH

🗣️ Alibaba’s EMO brings portraits to life

Image source: Alibaba

The Rundown: Alibaba researchers just unveiled EMO, an AI system that generates realistic videos of portraits talking, singing, and moving from a single reference image and audio clip.

The details:

  • EMO was trained on 250+ hours of diverse multi-lingual footage, including speeches, films, and singing performances.

  • The model sidesteps traditionally needed 3D face models, directly generating frames with a diffusion model instead.

  • EMO mixes in reference footage to enable consistency across longer videos while realistically capturing expressions and lip-syncing.

Why it matters: Adding EMO’s realistic audio/expression syncing to Sora’s recent quality leap means we’re likely about to be in a whole new world of AI video generation capabilities very soon… Which brings both creative excitement and tremendous deepfake concern.

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Section is offering a free, 2-hour workshop on AI for Personal Productivity on March 14. Sign up to learn how to set up your AI workspace, pinpoint your best use cases, and more. Enroll here.*

Meta will reportedly release its upgraded Llama-3 model in July, set to be twice as large as Llama-2 and on par with GPT-4 in capabilities.

Lightricks launched LTX Studio for AI-powered filmmaking, enabling creatives to automatically generate scripts, editable storyboards, and short video clips.

Qualcomm announced its new AI Hub platform, which features over 75 optimized models for Snapdragon platforms to accelerate on-device AI app development.

Ideogram rolled out a new 1.0 version of its text-to-image model, boasting state-of-the-art text generation capabilities alongside enhanced image quality and prompt comprehension.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company expects to ‘break new ground’ in AI later this year during its annual shareholder meeting.

Three new publications have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, with The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet alleging copyright infringement.

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OpenAI strikes huge deal

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Your content may be feeding AI giants… With or without your consent.

Tumblr and WordPress pages are the latest training snack for hungry AI models, with bloggers left blindsided after a new deal with OpenAI and Midjourney. Let’s dig in…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Tumblr and WordPress near AI deal with OpenAI

  • New tech can control a car with your eyes

  • Improve prompts with Copilot Notebook

  • Optimizing warehouse robots with traffic AI

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI DATA DEALS

💰 Tumblr and WordPress near AI deal with OpenAI

Image source: 404 Media

The Rundown: Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and WordPress, is reportedly nearing deals to provide AI training data from posts to OpenAI and Midjourney – sparking major backlash from users.

The details:

  • Automattic scraped Tumblr content from 2014-2023 for an initial data dump but also mistakenly included private posts.

  • The company is reportedly launching an opt-out tool, but it’s unclear if previously shared data will be retroactively removed.

  • The news follows similar deals from platforms like Reddit and Shutterstock, with AI giants amassing data to train powerful models.

Why it matters: Human-generated content is the new gold for AI model training, and users are quickly finding out that their data is a hot commodity. With angry consumers blindsided by their posts being used without consent and with a disregard for privacy, the backlash will only intensify.

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HONOR

👁️ New tech can control a car with your eyes

Image source: Reuters

The Rundown: Huawei spin-off Honor demonstrated its AI-infused Magic 6 Pro smartphone, showing off the ability to control a car by just staring at the phone screen.

The details:

  • The Magic 6 Pro tracks your eyes to open apps from notifications.

  • The demo shows a user steering a car by staring at the smartphone’s on-screen commands.

  • The phone initially debuted in China but is now launching internationally at a $1,400 price point.

  • Honor also revealed a Chatbot based on Meta’s Llama-2 model, a video generator, new AI-powered MagicBook laptops, and other AI features.

Why it matters: Smartphone makers are racing to one-up each other with wild new AI infusions — and Honor’s eye-tracking feature is certainly a differentiator. While controlling a car with your eyes doesn’t seem very practical, the demo does succeed in hyping a pretty impressive piece of tech.

AI TRAINING

📓 Improve prompts with Copilot Notebook

The Rundown: Microsoft's Notebook (free) provides an easy-to-use interface for writing, learning, and modifying prompts to achieve better results.

  1. Head over to Microsoft’s new Copilot Notebook.

  2. You will discover an input and output interface, eliminating the need to start a new conversation for each prompt.

  3. Enter your prompt in the panel on the left and press Shift+Enter to submit. Unlike Copilot, which has a 4k character limit, Notebook allows up to 18k characters.

  4. Based on the results, you can modify and augment your initial prompt.

  5. Notebook will keep previous versions of your prompt, making it easier to make changes and improve your prompt writing until satisfied.

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AI RESEARCH

📦 Optimizing warehouse robots with traffic AI

Image source: MIT

The Rundown: MIT researchers just devised a new technique for streamlining the operations of robots in warehouses by applying AI learnings from navigating automobile traffic.

The details:

  • A deep learning model was used to identify optimal areas to reduce robot collisions in warehouses.

  • The model divided the robots into smaller groups of around 40 and determined which groups would provide the most impact if replanned.

  • The smaller group breakdown sped up planning 3.5x over traditional algorithms in simulated testing.

Why it matters: As warehouses scale up automation, AI coordination becomes critical to efficiently rout hundreds of robots. Techniques like this could smooth real-world rollouts and better inform other complex planning tasks.

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Apple is officially cancelling ‘Project Titan’, its decade-long autonomous driving EV effort – with employees shifting focus to the company’s generative AI division.

Google is reportedly paying publishers to test an unreleased AI tool that scrapes articles from other sites to craft new content, raising ethical concerns.

OpenAI accused the New York Times of ‘hacking’ ChatGPT to generate regurgitated content in a motion filed to dismiss the NYT’s claims.

Glean secured a new $200M Series D funding round for its AI-powered work assistant, pushing the startup’s valuation to $2.2B.

Pika Labs introduced a new lip sync feature to its AI video generator, allowing for realistic mouth movement and voice generation powered by ElevenLabs.

Klarna said its AI assistant handled two-thirds of the company’s customer service chats in the past month, equivalent to 700 employees — with high satisfaction and a 25% lower error rate than human workers.

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Google's new AI generates video games

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Google just rolled out a new AI model called ‘Genie‘, and it could be a game-changer...

The AI can build video games from text or image prompts, opening the possibility for anyone to design their own playable worlds in the near future. Let’s get into it…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Google’s ‘Genie’ enables prompt-to-video games

  • Mistral reveals Large, Le Chat, and a new partnership

  • Convert videos to GIFs using ChatGPT

  • Meta’s MobileLLM AI for on-device use

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE DEEPMIND

🎮 Google’s ‘Genie’ enables prompt-to-games

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Researchers at Google DeepMind just unveiled Genie, an AI system that can generate interactive video games from just a text or image prompt — without any prior training on game mechanics.

The details:

  • The model was trained on over 200,000 hours of 2D platform game videos, learning to understand gameplay autonomously.

  • Users can control game characters and objects on a frame-by-frame basis despite Genie not being trained with action labels.

  • The foundation model can also determine who the main character is and enable a user to control that character in the generated world.

  • Genie is a research-only model for now and can only create games at 1 FPS — limiting its current viability despite future promise.

Why it matters: Anyone will be able to create their own entirely imagined virtual worlds soon, and that’s a wild sentence to say out loud. The model’s ability to learn and develop world models is also a massive step towards general AI agents.

See Genie’s wild game generations in action here.

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MISTRAL

🚀 Mistral reveals Large, Le Chat, and a new partnership

Image source: Mistral

The Rundown: French AI startup Mistral just released its highly anticipated Mistral Large model while also announcing a new chatbot and major partnership with Microsoft.

The details:

  • Mistral Large boasts top-tier reasoning abilities and multilingual fluency, claiming to rank second only to GPT-4 on key benchmarks.

  • The new model has a 32k context window, and its API usage pricing comes in cheaper than GPT-4T at $8 / million tokens.

  • The company also launched a beta version of its ChatGPT competitor ‘Le Chat’.

  • Microsoft announced a new partnership with Mistral, bringing the startups' models to Azure users while providing infrastructure and scaling resources.

Why it matters: Mistral AI is now competing with the world’s top models. Large’s capabilities mark a serious milestone — and with massive funding and new strategic partnerships (like Microsoft), the startup is rapidly ascending the ranks as a dark horse AI leader.

AI TRAINING

♻️ Convert videos to GIFs using ChatGPT

Image source: Chase Lean (@chaseleantj on X)

The Rundown: ChatGPT can now easily convert a .mp4 video file to a GIF by reading, extracting, and converting frames using Code Interpreter.

Simple step-by-step:

  1. Go to ChatGPT and create a new chat.

  2. Upload your .mp4 video and prompt ChatGPT to convert it to a GIF using the prompt in the image above.

  3. Download the GIF file provided by ChatGPT.

Bonus tip: You can ask ChatGPT to slow down or speed up the GIF based on the output. For example, try prompting ChatGPT to “slow down the gif by 30%”.

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AI RESEARCH

📱 Meta’s MobileLLM AI for on-device use

Image source: Meta

The Rundown: Meta researchers just proposed MobileLLM, a family of optimized smaller models for on-device applications, which set new SOTA benchmarks for accuracy among similar models.

The details:

  • MobileLLM emphasized model architecture over data and parameter quantity, contrary to prevailing beliefs.

  • The 125M parameter MobileLLM is 2.7% more accurate than the previous best small models.

  • The models show particularly strong performance on chat and API calling, vital for mobile app functionality.

Why it matters: While it’s clear that mobile devices are about to have an AI explosion, incorporating high-performing models is a science still being worked out. Meta’s impressive results highlight a new potential architecture for optimized on-device AI models.

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QUICK HITS

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he believes humans will no longer need to know how to code in the future, with AI replacing programming languages via human prompts.

Deustche Telekom revealed its app-less, AI-powered ‘T-Phone’ at the Mobile World Congress 2024, also announcing a partnership with Perplexity AI for real-time info.

Google executive Brian Rakowski revealed that he expects the company’s Gemini AI model to be integrated into Android phones in 2025.

Avolution AI researchers released an open-source AI video diffusion model called AnimateLCM, allowing for text and image-to-video generations.

Google plans to bring image generation back to Gemini in ‘the next few weeks’ after controversy surrounding the model’s overly diverse tuning and issues with generating people.

Figure CEO Brett Adcock shared new footage of the startup’s Figure 01 humanoid robot completing real-world tasks like staking and moving crates, operating completely autonomously without human intervention.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he predicts AI-designed prescription drugs will be in clinical trials within the next few years.

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Apple's next wearable frontier

Rowan Cheung • 4 minutes

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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.

Apple’s already seen major success in the wearables market, but a new land grab may be on the horizon.

The tech giant is reportedly exploring new smart devices like rings and glasses — with a potential ecosystem expansion that could put competitors on notice. Let’s investigate…


In today’s tech rundown:

  • Apple eyes wearable market with smart ring, glasses

  • Lenovo debuts see-through laptop

  • 7 New products

  • Samsung shows off Galaxy Ring

  • Xiaomi showcases SU7 Max EV Tesla competitor

  • Intuitive Machines, JAXA moon landing updates

Read time: 3 minutes

TODAY’S HEADLINES

APPLE

🍏 Apple eyes wearable market with smart ring, glasses

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Apple is exploring a range of new wearable devices, including a fitness-focused smart ring, AirPods with cameras, and even lower-cost glasses.

The details:

  • Gurman said Apple engineers have discussed smart glasses to compete with Meta and Amazon, with features like audio, integrated AI, and camera functionality.

  • Apple has also explored adding enhanced functionality to AirPods, including cameras, AI, and health-tracking tech.

  • A ring concept would be focused on health functionality, targeting users who want to track health data without having to wear a watch.

  • Apple’s wearable sector is already highly profitable, with the Apple Watch and AirPods accounting for 10% of overall revenue.

Why it matters: With Apple's existing success in wearables, competing with the likes of Samsung’s upcoming ring and Meta’s existing glasses makes sense. New wearables could both deepen product integration within the ecosystem and attract new users looking for Apple’s magic touch to product development.

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LENOVO

💻 Lenovo debuts see-through laptop

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The Rundown: Lenovo just unveiled Project Crystal at Mobile World Congress 2024, a fully-functioning concept laptop with a transparent micro-LED display that offers a literal clear view of what’s behind it.

The details:

  • The 17" prototype runs Windows with a bright, transparent MicroLED display surrounded by Gorilla Glass.

  • The concept features an AR camera for overlaying graphics and a digital keyboard for input.

  • Reviewers questioned the utility of the transparent screen, highlighting potential privacy concerns and impractical features.

  • Lenovo’s other announcements included a new line of ThinkPad AI-infused PCs, featuring built-in access to Microsoft’s Copilot assistant.

Why it matters: Lenovo is known for pushing the boundaries of tech with experimental features, and this laptop seems to fit the bill. While it may not be a mainstream product any time soon, the prototype sparks discussion on how AR and transparent displays can integrate into future devices.

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SNIPPETS

Google rolled out 9 new Android updates, including AI-powered message summaries and captions, enhanced Maps features, new health tracking integrations, and more.

Samsung officially showed off its Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024, entering the smart ring wearables market with sleep tracking at the forefront.

Xiaomi unveiled its new SU7 Max EV, boasting a 2.78 second 0-100 km/h speed and positioning the company as a competitor to Tesla.

Nintendo will reportedly launch its Switch console successor in early 2025.

Japan’s JAXA Moon lander sent a surprising message back to Earth, surviving the lunar night after an initial rough landing risked permanently losing power.

Cybersecurity firm Cisco announced it is laying off over 700 employees as part of reorganization efforts.

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander sent images from its sideways landing, but will likely cease operations within a day due to limited sunlight reaching its solar panels.

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Hollywood's AI alarm bells

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

After seeing the mind-blowing capabilities of OpenAI’s Sora, the entertainment business is bracing for impact.

Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry is going as far as slamming pause on a $800M film studio expansion — warning that an AI crisis is about to hit the industry. Let’s get into it…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Tyler Perry halts studio expansion over AI fears

  • Tech titans back Figure AI in $675M funding round

  • Automate meeting notes with Notion AI

  • OpenAI’s mysterious Feather platform

  • 7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

HOLLYWOOD & AI

🎥 Tyler Perry halts studio expansion over AI fears

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The Rundown: Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry revealed he halted a major studio expansion after seeing OpenAI’s Sora, predicting sweeping entertainment industry job losses from AI progress.

The details:

  • Perry paused his $800M film studio expansion after seeing Sora’s debut on Feb.15.

  • The Actor and director said he already employed AI for aging makeup effects in two upcoming films, saving hours of labor.

  • Perry said he doesn’t see how the industry survives without regulations to protect workers.

  • Perry called for an "all hands on deck" approach from Hollywood, urging unions and Congress to act and protect industry workers.

Why it matters: As studios weigh bottom lines against human livelihoods, it’s inevitable that AI is going to create major shakeups in the industry. While union deals and slow-moving legislation try to catch up, the tech is already here — and this is the worst it will ever be.

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FIGURE AI

🤖 Tech titans back Figure AI in $675 funding round

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The Rundown: Humanoid robotics startup Figure AI has reportedly secured a massive $675M funding round led by tech giants including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

The details:

  • Bezos committed $100M, alongside Microsoft ($95M), Nvidia ($50M), Intel ($25M), Samsung ($5M) and more.

  • OpenAI and Microsoft initially led the round, and had even reportedly previously considered acquiring the robotics startup.

  • Figure aims to create robots that safely take on labor shortages in repetitive or hazardous jobs, with a recent partnership placing the tech in BMW’s car manufacturing plant.

  • Figure AI's pre-money valuation reaches roughly $2B with the new investments.

Why it matters: It’s not every day you see Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and other tech titans all on the same project, but the race to get humanoid robots to market is heating up — and everyone wants in. Expect the tech to get here a LOT sooner than people think.

AI TRAINING

📝 Automate meeting notes with Notion AI

The Rundown: Using Notion AI, you can automatically summarize meetings, generate topic tags, capture tasks, organize meeting notes, and more with ‘auto-fill properties’.

  1. Go to Notion or open the Notion app.

  2. Establish a database for meeting notes, incorporating relevant properties. For example, the meeting date, attendees, a summary, topics discussed, and tasks assigned.

  3. Enable Notion AI to autofill fields that can be generated from your meeting notes.

  4. To do this, select 'Property', then 'Edit Property', then 'AI Auto-fill', and finally, insert the prompt or list of tags.

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OPENAI

🪶 OpenAI’s mysterious Feather platform

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The Rundown: Rumors swirled after the internet re-discovered an OpenAI landing page called ‘Feather’, with a patent filing describing the trademark as ‘data labeling and annotation services’.

The details:

  • Based on the trademark from November 2023, ‘Feather‘ appears to be an old service related to finetuning, data sets, etc., for enterprise partners.

  • Current speculation is that the site may be used by contractors who label sets of images, audio, code, and text for training AI models.

  • The website provides an ‘unauthorized user’ message when prompted to sign in.

Why it matters: The world is salivating for any new OpenAI releases — and while it does feel like something big is coming soon, Feather seems more like the rumor mill trying to make something out of nothing.

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QUICK HITS

Nvidia researcher Dr. Jim Fan announced he is co-founding a new research group named GEAR, aimed at building AI foundation agents spanning multimodal LLMs, general purpose robots, and more.

A new study from the Mozilla Foundation warns that AI romance chatbots pose privacy risks, collect sensitive user data, and may foster unhealthy behaviors.

Xiaomi showcased its new line of AI-infused phones, including an ‘AI Portraits’ feature that allows users to upload existing images to generate a portrait photo.

Perplexity announced a partnership with ElevenLabs, introducing a daily podcast narrated by the startup’s AI-generated voices.

Lexica unveiled Aperture v4, an upgraded image generation model that generates near 4k resolution images.

A consultant for Dem. presidential nominee Dean Phillips admitted to creating the AI-generated Joe Biden robocall that stirred controversy last month, though the campaign denies involvement and denounced the deepfake.

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Google's AI ethics crisis

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Despite shipping at a rapid pace, Google is having a frustrating month.

Last week’s Gemini 1.5 breakthrough? Overshadowed by OpenAI’s Sora.

Now, the company faces major backlash after its AI image generator went viral — for all the wrong reasons. Let’s investigate…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Google pauses AI image generation

  • Stability AI debuts Stable Diffusion 3

  • Animate flat vector illustrations

  • AI tackles nuclear fusion instability

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

⏸️ Google pauses AI image generation

Image source: The Financial Times

The Rundown: Google announced that the company is pausing Gemini’s ability to generate images of people, following heavy criticism after the model continuously overcorrected for diversity in its outputs.

The details:

  • Gemini’s attempts to ‘diversify’ its image outputs of people went viral across X, with users posting inaccurate results and finding difficulty generating Caucasian characters.

  • Google acknowledged the issues with a statement, highlighting the importance of diversity but saying it ‘missed the mark’.

  • The incident sparked broader discussion over bias and safety in AI models.

  • Google paused Gemini’s image generation abilities of people for now, saying it will “re-release an improved version soon.”

Why it matters: Ethical balance is going to be a very difficult task for AI companies, and this situation highlights why many believe open, less restrictive models are imperative. As AI creates more of the world’s content, its ability to shape world views grows — putting even more importance on models remaining as impartial and neutral as possible.

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STABILITY AI

🎨 Stability AI debuts Stable Diffusion 3

Image source: Stability AI

The Rundown: Stability AI just unveiled Stable Diffusion 3, a new iteration of the company’s image generator that promises significant improvements in quality, multi-subject generation, and enhanced spelling within images.

The details:

  • The model is backed by a new transformer architecture similar to OpenAI’s Sora, improving quality and performance.

  • The release will include several different model sizes, ranging from 800M to 8B parameters.

  • Improved typography enables more accurate text generation and full sentences within images.

  • The upgraded model is currently available in ‘early preview’ via a waitlist.

Why it matters: While there was a major gap in the past between open models and closed AI leaders, it’s becoming clear that open-source can compete with the best. This upgrade continues the AI image acceleration — with impressive text skills that even Midjourney and OpenAI have yet to crack completely.

AI TRAINING

🎥 Animate flat vector illustrations

The Rundown: With Remix, you can easily create animated flat vector illustrations using a straightforward prompt and the smooth loop feature.

Hat tip to Chase Lean for this creative idea.

  1. Download the Remix app, sign up for free, and click the “+” option to start the image generation process.

  2. Select the "text" option and start your initial prompt with "A simple flat vector illustration of a [insert description]."

  3. If you need assistance, the "prompt enhancer" option is quite helpful, so don't hesitate to use it.

  4. Finally, choose your preferred model (e.g. Juggernaut XL) and image size.

  5. Once you've selected your ideal image, choose the loop option to generate an animated gif version!

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AI RESEARCH

☢️ AI tackles nuclear fusion instability

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: Scientists at Princeton just made a breakthrough in the pursuit of near-limitless clean energy, using AI to solve a critical instability challenge within fusion reactors.

The details:

  • Researchers developed an AI system capable of predicting disruptive "tearing" events in fusion plasma up to 300 milliseconds in advance.

  • In tests, the AI demonstrated the ability to adjust reactor power and plasma shape to prevent disruptions.

  • Unlike previous approaches, the model learns from real-world experimental data rather than theoretical physics.

Why it matters: This AI solution could make fusion reactors far more reliable and stable, bringing us a step closer to the long-held dream of clean, abundant fusion energy.

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QUICK HITS

Reddit’s previously reported sale of its data for AI training had its mystery buyer revealed, with Google striking the deal for around $60M per year.

OpenAI released new updates to GPTs for both creators and users, including expanded profile options and new ratings and feedback forms to provide to builders.

Google launched its ‘Help Me Write’ tool in Chrome (powered by Gemini), allowing users to generate AI writing or revisions with a single click.

Disney announced its investment into five startups as part of its Accelerator program, with three of them — ElevenLabs, PrometheanAI, and AudioShake —  operating in the AI sector.

Poe announced new image understanding capabilities, integrating GPT-4V and LLaVa for use across the company’s range of chatbots.

Jasper acquired AI image editing platform Clipdrop from Stability AI, expending its AI-powered marketing capabilities and establishing a presence in Europe.

DatologyAI introduced a platform to automatically curate AI training data, optimizing model performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

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Google goes open-source!

Rowan Cheung • 4 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Google is keeping its foot on the AI gas pedal.

The tech giant just dropped a small (but powerful) open-source model called Gemma — ironically leaving OpenAI as the least ‘open’ major player left. Let’s dig in…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Google releases new open-source models

  • Magic claims major AI reasoning breakthrough

  • Summarize PDFs with Adobe Acrobat AI

  • 5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

 Google releases new open-source models

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Google just unveiled Gemma, a new open-source family of AI models, allowing developers to build freely on language capabilities from its proprietary Gemini without restrictions.

The details:

  • Gemma comes in 2B and 7B model sizes, outperforming models like Mistral and LLaMa 2 on key benchmarks.

  • While not as powerful as Gemini, the Gemma models offer speed and cost efficiencies — with the ability to run directly on a laptop.

  • Gemma is commercially available on HuggingFace, Kaggle, and Google’s Vertex AI.

Why it matters: While not as flashy as Gemini Ultra, Gemma’s small but mighty capabilities lend well to on-device use cases, allowing builders to get creative. Google’s open-source turn may now put pressure on OpenAI, who ironically stands as one of the only major AI players with fully ‘closed’ models.

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MAGIC

🪄 Magic claims major AI reasoning breakthrough

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The Rundown: A new report just revealed that Magic, a startup building AI coding “coworkers”, claims to have made a massive AI breakthrough in context length and reasoning ability.

The details:

  • Magic claims its model now can ingest up to 3.5M words (nearly 5x more than Google's latest Gemini 1.5 update).

  • The startup also reportedly made an ‘active reasoning’ breakthrough reminiscent of OpenAI's rumored Q* discovery.

  • Last week, the company announced a $117M raise led by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.

  • Magic has already lured top GitHub talent like its VP of design, with speculation it will ship a huge AI product in the next few months.

Why it matters: These claims shed more light on last week’s large funding round — and with recent major jumps in context lengths, we’re getting to near-infinite levels of processing ability. OpenAI’s mysterious Q* discovery could also return to the spotlight if Magic made a similar breakthrough.

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💬 Summarize PDFs with Adobe Acrobat AI

The Rundown: Adobe Acrobat just released an AI assistant that will analyze, summarize, and allow you to ask questions about PDFs. This tool will save you a ton of time and help you learn any subject.

Here’s a quick step-by-step:

  1. Head to Adobe Assistant, login, and sign up for a free trial or subscription.

  2. Upload your PDF, and the AI Assistant will provide a brief overview of the document.

  3. You can now pose questions through the chatbot or use the prompts suggested by the assistant to comprehend the document's content quickly.

  4. Try chatting with lengthy papers, business outlines, books, and more!

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Nvidia blew past expectations with its Q4 earnings report, with a 265% year-over-year increase and massive data center revenue pushing the company’s valuation above $1.5T.

Google announced that Gemini capabilities are now available across Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Slides for Premium users.

Chinese startup Moonshot AI raised over $1B from backers, including Alibaba, for its development of LLMs handling long-form text.

Scale AI has been tapped by the Pentagon to develop a framework for testing and evaluating LLMs, aiming to safely deploy AI in military applications.

Google’s Gemini is drawing viral criticism after users have struggled to generate images of Caucasians despite a variety of prompts.

ChatGPT briefly went off the rails, hallucinating incoherent (and often hilarious) responses before OpenAI announced the issue had been resolved.

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