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OpenAI's best model just got better
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI just launched free fine-tuning for GPT-4o, allowing developers to customize the most advanced AI model at no cost until September 23.
But what will this new wave of hyper-specialized AI models really unlock for developers and AI apps across industries? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI adds free fine-tuning to GPT-4o
Claude sued for copyright infringement
Create AI images in real-time on WhatsApp
Microsoft’s new AI beats larger models
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🛠️ OpenAI adds free fine-tuning to GPT-4o
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The Rundown: OpenAI just launched free fine-tuning (up to 1 million tokens per day through September 23) for GPT-4o, allowing developers to customize the model for higher performance and accuracy.
The details:
Developers can now, for the first time ever, fine-tune GPT-4o to improve the model’s structure, tone, and domain-specific instructions for their AI applications.
Fine-tuning is available on all paid usage tiers with training costs of $25 per million tokens, but it is completely free until September 23.
OpenAI suggests that developers should see strong results from fine-tuning with only a few dozen training examples.
Additionally, Google’s Gemini API is giving developers 1.5 billion tokens for free every day on its Gemini 1.5 Flash model and 1.6 million tokens on its Gemini 1.5 Pro model.
Why it matters: Just last week, a company that was granted early access to fine-tune GPT-4o, produced Genie and achieved state-of-the-art scores on both SWE-bench Verified (43.8%) and Full (30.1%) benchmarks. With free fine-tuning now available to all developers, get ready for a new wave of smarter, faster and more capable AI bots.
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ANTHROPIC
👨⚖️ Claude sued for copyright infringement
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The Rundown: A group of authors filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, alleging the company committed “large-scale theft” by training its Claude chatbot on pirated copies of copyrighted books.
The details:
This is the first lawsuit from writers targeting Anthropic and Claude, but similar lawsuits have been filed against competitor OpenAI and ChatGPT.
The lawsuit accuses Anthropic of using a dataset called The Pile, which includes numerous pirated books.
Anthropic and others, including OpenAI, have argued that training AI models is protected under the “fair use” doctrine of U.S. laws, which permits the limited use of copyrighted materials.
Why it matters: This is not the first time an AI company has been sued over copyright infringement, but it resurfaces an important debate about AI training data. While similar cases have been largely dismissed in the past, courts have yet to definitively address the core issue of using unauthorized internet-scraped material for AI training.
AI TRAINING
🎨 Create AI images in real-time on WhatsApp
The Rundown: WhatsApp's new “Imagine“ AI image generator feature allows users to create images in real-time simply by describing what they want in the chatbot.
Step-by-step:
Open WhatsApp and tap on the blue circle icon at the top of the main chat screen.
Start your description with "Imagine".
Watch as the AI generates an image in real time based on your prompt.
When satisfied, hit “Send” and download the image.
Hot tip: If you don’t see the blue circle, it might not have rolled out into your account/country yet.
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AI RESEARCH
🧪 Microsoft’s new AI beats larger models
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The Rundown: Microsoft just released Phi-3.5-MoE, an advanced AI model that rivals the reasoning capabilities of much larger models while maintaining a compact and efficient architecture.
The details:
Phi-3.5-MoE uses a new mixture-of-experts (MoE) approach, which selectively activates only the most relevant parts of the model for each task to save compute power.
The new model excels at understanding and following complex instructions and can handle up to ~125,000 words in a single prompt.
In head-to-head benchmarks, Phi-3.5-MoE outperformed popular models like Meta’s Llama 3 8B and Google’s Gemma 2 9B, but fell short against OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini.
Microsoft made the model available under an open-source MIT license on Hugging Face.
Why it matters: While the mainstream media focuses on the most advanced large language model, there’s also another race amongst tech giants for the smartest, fastest, and smallest AI. Breakthroughs like Phi-3.5-MoE are paving the way for advanced AI models to run directly and privately on our mobile devices.
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Perplexity introduced code interpreter upgrades, enabling library installation and chart rendering for AI-powered data visualization.
International Data Corporation (IDC) forcasted that worldwide AI spending is expected to reach $632 billion by 2028, with generative AI accounting for 32% of that.
AI influencer Justin Fineberg and Cassidy AI announced a $3.7 million raise to build an intelligent automation platform for reliable AI workflows.
CodeSignal launched Conversation Practice, an AI-powered tool for simulating workplace conversations and providing personalized feedback.
LTX Studio opened to the public and launched five new features, including character animation and dialogue, face motion capture, and generation and keyframe control.
LVMH founder Bernard Arnault, the third richest man in the world, invested in five AI startups in 2024 through his family office Aglaé Ventures.
Chinese scientists developed a brain-inspired AI network model to address challenges like high resource consumption and interpretability.
Nvidia unveiled advances in digital humans and avatar tech, including Nemotron-4 4B NIM, the first small AI language model for game characters.
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China's new humanoid robot fleet
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
China’s AGIBOT just unveiled a fleet of not just one… but FIVE advanced humanoid robots to directly compete against Tesla’s Optimus.
As the race for a consumer-ready humanoid robot intensifies, is the U.S. at risk of losing its lead to China? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
AGIBOT reveals new humanoid robot family
ChatGPT runs for mayor in Wyoming
Create your own AI assistant on Mistral
Luma Labs launches Dream Machine 1.5
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AGIBOT
🤖 AGIBOT reveals new humanoid robot family
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The Rundown: AGIBOT, a China-based robotics startup, just unveiled a family of five advanced humanoid robots, directly challenging Elon Musk and Tesla’s upcoming Optimus bot.
The details:
AGIBOT’s five new models are both wheeled and biped humanoid robots specifically designed for diverse tasks — from household chores to industrial operations.
The flagship model, Yuanzheng A2, stands 5'9" (175cm), weighs 121 lbs (55kg), and can perform delicate tasks like needle threading.
The company aims to start shipping 300 units by the end of 2024, claiming better commercialization and cost-control abilities than Tesla.
Unitree, another high-performance robot manufacturer from China, also showcased its new G1 mass production-ready robot with better functionality and appearance.
Why it matters: The humanoid robotics and AI race between the US and China is intensifying. While it’s been months since Tesla unveiled its Optimus 2 prototype, four Chinese startups, including AGIBOT revealing five new humanoid robots, have showcased major technical progress in just a few days.
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The Rundown: The LLM Hallucination Index ranks the top 22 AI models for RAG, evaluating them on accuracy, hallucination rates, and cost-efficiency – helping you discover which models excel and why larger is not always better.
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Evaluations across short, medium, and long RAG tasks
Comparison between open-source vs closed-source models
Cost-efficiency rankings relative to performance
OPENAI
🏛️ ChatGPT runs for mayor in Wyoming
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The Rundown: Victor Miller, a mayoral candidate in Wyoming’s capital city, just vowed to let his customized ChatGPT GPT named Vic (Virtual Integrated Citizen) help run the local government if elected.
The details:
Miller created VIC using ChatGPT, feeding it city ordinances and related documents to make municipal decisions.
Miller filed for him and VIC to run for mayor, proposing that the ChatGPT GPT provides data-driven insights and solutions while Miller ensures legal execution.
OpenAI has shut down Miller's account twice, citing policies against using its products for campaigning.
Wyoming's Secretary of State raised concerns, but local officials allowed Miller's candidacy with his human name on the ballot.
Why it matters: While Miller's chances of winning seem slim, and his grasp of data privacy and LLMs seem slimmer, this marks the first time a political candidate has openly advocated for AI in governance. Whether Cheyenne, Wyoming is ready for an AI co-pilot in City Hall is debatable, but AI will certainly infiltrate politics in the coming years.
AI TRAINING
🔥 Create your own AI assistant on Mistral
The Rundown: Mistral AI's new ‘Agents’ feature lets anyone customize and deploy AI models for specific tasks, with no coding required.
Step-by-step:
Sign up on Mistral AI's website and hit "Build on La Plateforme"
Select “Create an Agent” and choose your preferred AI model (e.g. Mistral Large 2)
Adjust the randomness slider and write clear instructions for your agent's behaviour
Add example interactions to guide your agent's responses (Optional)
Deploy your agent and start testing!
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LUMA AI
🎥 Luma Labs launches Dream Machine 1.5
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The Rundown: Luma Labs just released Dream Machine 1.5, a major upgrade to their current AI video generation model, with higher quality text-to-video, smarter prompt understanding, and better image-to-video capabilities.
The details:
Dream Machine 1.5 builds on the original model’s ability to generate high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text and image prompts.
The upgraded model showcases better natural language processing, interpreting and executing prompts at a higher accuracy.
It excels in creating smooth motion, cinematography, and dramatic shots, turning static concepts into dynamic stories, but lags in morphing, movement, and text.
Dream Machine 1.5 is available to try for free here.
Why it matters: With text-to-image AI generation nearly indistinguishable from reality, the next big frontier is text-to-video — and Dream Machine 1.5 is another big leap forward for realism. While AI video still has some catching up to do, expect fast-moving startups like Luma Labs to close that gap for AI video, fast.
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AMD acquired server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion to strengthen its AI capabilities and compete with leaders in the space like Nvidia.
Berkeley Law launched a new Master of Laws program focused on AI law and governance, and it is expected to start next summer.
The United States invested $335 billion in AI over the past decade, triple China’s investment, with 71,000 AI job postings in 2024 alone.
Stability AI appointed entertainment industry veteran Hanno Basse as its new Chief Technology Officer to drive business growth.
ElevenLabs released its AI-powered text-to-speech app Reader globally, supporting over 30 languages and hundreds of new voices.
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AI made with human brain cells
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
A startup from Switzerland has created AI “biocomputers“ made from real human brain cells, that are now rentable for just $500 a month.
Could using organoids be the future of how we create 100,000x more energy efficient AI, or is this an ethical disaster waiting to happen? Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
Creating AI using human brain cells
California compromises on AI safety bill
Create ultra-realistic images with AI
New AI solves Rubik’s Cube faster
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
FINALSPARK
🧠 Creating AI using human brain cells
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The Rundown: Swiss startup FinalSpark just launched a service allowing scientists to rent cloud access to "biocomputers" made of human brain cells for $500 a month, in an effort to create AI that uses 100,000x less energy than current systems.
The details:
The system uses organoids (clumps of human brain cells) that can "live" and compute for up to 100 days.
AI models are trained using dopamine for positive reinforcement and electrical signals for negative reinforcement, mimicking natural neural processes.
FinalSpark claims these biocomputers could be up to 100,000 times more efficient for AI training than traditional silicon-based technology.
The organoids and their behaviour are live streamed 24/7, which you can access here.
Why it matters: AI is an energy-hungry industry, and alleviating its dependence on CPUs and GPUs is generally a step in the right direction. That said, using brain organoids for biocomputing is completely uncharted territory and is bound to raise ethical concerns — such as the sci-fi possibility that cell masses somehow achieve consciousness.
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ANTHROPIC
🤝 California compromises on AI safety bill
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The Rundown: California’s SB 1047, an aggressive AI safety bill aimed at preventing AI disasters, just got significantly revised to address concerns raised by AI companies like Anthropic and open-source developers.
The details:
The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event occurs.
AI labs are now only required to submit public “statements” about their safety practices vs certifications “under penalty of perjury.”
Likewise, developers must now provide “reasonable care” vs “reasonable assurance” that AI models do not pose significant risks.
The bill is headed to California’s Assembly floor for a final vote.
Why it matters: There’s a fine line between advancing technological progress and mitigating potential existential risks that governments are navigating — and California is showing that regulation can be practical and adaptive. These changes are a big step towards fostering responsible AI development through collaborative governance.
AI TRAINING
🎨 Create ultra-realistic images with AI
The Rundown: Flux Realism LoRA on Fal AI allows users to create ultra-realistic images simply by describing your vision.
Step-by-step:
Visit the Fal AI website and create an account to access the tool.
In the "Prompt" box, describe your desired image in detail.
Click "More" under Additional Settings to fine-tune parameters like image size, number of inference steps, and guidance scale.
Hit "Run" and watch as the AI brings your description to life!
Hot tip: Try adding your generation into Runway’s image-to-video to transform your images to real-life videos.
AI RESEARCH
⏳ New AI solves Rubik’s Cube faster
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The Rundown: Researchers just developed a new technique to find shorter solutions to scrambled Rubik’s Cubes by cleverly analyzing the puzzle’s structure and identifying the best moves more quickly.
The details:
The Rubik’s Cube has an enormous number of possible configurations, over 43 quintillion, making it challenging for AI to solve in the fewest moves possible.
Researchers represented the Rubik’s Cube as a complex network or “graph" and used a new technique to pass useful information, like the moves required to solve the puzzle, between connected nodes.
The AI then considers which next moves are most likely to lead to a quick solution, using the probabilities as weights, and focuses on the most promising paths.
When tested, the new technique found solutions to the puzzle faster than current state-of-the-art Rubik’s Cube solving AI systems.
Why it matters: As companies like Sakana build AIs that can completely automate scientific research, it’s important to make sure they’re solving highly complex problems efficiently. This technique, coupled with Sakana’s processes, could be massively beneficial in areas like optimizing supply chains and advanced drug discovery.
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Claude introduced a new screenshot capture button, allowing users to easily include images from their screen in prompts.
Midjourney released a new unified web-based AI image editor with advanced tools for seamlessly modifying and extending generated images.
Rebellions and Sapeon, South Korean AI chip makers, signed a definitive merger agreement to challenge global leaders like Nvidia.
Bzigo launched Iris, an AI-powered mosquito detector that tracks and marks mosquitoes with a laser pointer for easy swatting.
Coinbase started a $15,000 accelerator grant program for projects combining AI with crypto wallets to enable economic participation.
Microsoft unveiled PowerToys Workspaces, a new feature to auto-arrange apps, plus an AI-powered copy-paste tool with OpenAI API integration.
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AI helps Walmart 100x productivity
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Walmart just reported that generative AI has helped the company update 850 million product catalog entries, 100x faster than humans.
As the retail giant plans to integrate AI across all operations, are we witnessing the future, or the beginning of widespread job displacement? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
AI makes Walmart 100x more productive
SoftBank’s AI chip faces setback
Create a Siri-like voice AI with Llama 3.1
Hermes 3 is the newest open-source model
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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WALMART
🛒 AI makes Walmart 100x more productive
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The Rundown: Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon just reported that the company is using generative AI to increase its productivity, updating 850 million product catalog entries 100 times faster than human-led methods.
The details:
The report came during the company’s Q2 financial earnings call, where McMillon also announced AI improvements to customer search and seller support.
Customers can now use AI-powered search and a new shopping assistant on Walmart’s app and website — it even provides advice for questions like “Which TV is best for watching sports?”.
Walmart is also testing a completely new AI-driven experience for U.S. based marketplace sellers, but the details are not yet available.
McMillon said the company plans to continue experimenting with AI globally across all parts of its business.
Why it matters: Another multibillion dollar company is using AI to increase productivity, but most notably, Walmart is exploring the tech in all areas of its business ops. Whether people should be excited about the endless possibilities ahead or concerned about the relevance of their jobs is a question that’s not going away any time soon.
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SOFTBANK
🦄 SoftBank’s AI chip faces setback
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The Rundown: SoftBank’s ambitious Project Izanagi initiative, aimed at developing AI processors to rival Nvidia, is reportedly facing a major setback after Intel failed to meet volume and speed requirements.
The details:
SoftBank had been working with Intel to develop AI processors for Project Izanagi because it lacks in-house chip design expertise, but Intel failed to meet SoftBank’s demands.
In an effort to keep Project Izanagi on track, SoftBank is considering a new partnership with TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker.
TSMC has its own issues, however, failing to meet its current chipmaking demands, which has stalled the negotiations.
Despite the complications, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son remains committed to the company’s ambitious plan and is seeking investments from Saudi Arabia, UAE, and major tech companies.
Why it matters: Nvidia is currently dominating the AI chip space, which propelled the company to its current $3 trillion dollar market capitalization. But with recent delays of Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell AI chip, it could be time for competitors to strike.
AI TRAINING
🗣️ Create a Siri-like voice AI with Llama 3.1
The Rundown: This new custom iPhone shortcut trick lets you create a lightning-fast, Siri-like voice assistant powered by Meta’s Llama 3.1 and Groq's API.
Step-by-step:
Generate an API key in Groq’s website.
Create a new shortcut in the iPhone Shortcuts app.
Add actions to capture voice input, store your API key, and set the Groq API endpoint for Llama 3.1.
Call the Llama 3.1 API using a "Get Contents of URL" action with the appropriate headers and request body.
Extract the generated response.
Note: Members at The Rundown AI University can download this shortcut template directly into their phones.
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NOUS RESEARCH
🆕 Hermes 3 is the newest open-source model
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The Rundown: Nous Research just released Hermes 3, a new open-source model with significant improvements in roleplaying, agentic tasks, function calling, multi-turn chats, and long context coherence.
The details:
Hermes 3 is available in three sizes (8B, 70B, and 405B) with the 405B parameter model achieving state-of-the-art performance relative to other open models.
The model is instruct tuned, or trained, to faithfully respond to user requests and closely follow provided system prompts, unlike base or foundation models.
It achieves similar or better performance to Meta’s Llama-3.1 405B in judgement, reward modeling, interpretable problem-solving, code generation, and tool use.
Hermes 3 is available now for free via Lambda Chat or in the Nous Research Discord server.
Why it matters: Meta has been the leader in open-source AI for awhile, but companies like Nous Research and Mistral are catching up with their latest Hermes 3 and Large 2 models. And the more free, customizable and state-of-the-art AIs available to the public, the more transparency the world has.
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Elon Musk revealed that xAI is developing an in-house image generation system to replace the current Flux model in Grok 2 but it’s currently months away from release.
Google recently expanded its AI-generated search summaries to six new countries and added hyperlinks and quality improvements after initial issues.
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau highlighted risks of AI in finance, saying existing laws apply and innovation requires consistent regulatory treatment.
Grammarly is reportedly rolling out a new AI content detector tool that can detect whether AI, a human, or a combination of the two created content.
CodeRabbit raised $16 million to automate code reviews using AI, which claims to provide actionable, human-like feedback to developers.
Apptronik, an automation company that makes humanoid robots, recently reported that the company is preparing for a commercial launch by the end of 2025.
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Elon's Grok 2 shocks the AI world
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Elon Musk’s xAI has officially proved itself as a major competitor in the AI race after launching the new version of its Grok-2 chatbot.
In just over a year, the AI startup has created a state-of-the-art model that outperforms versions of GPT-4 and Claude. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Grok 2 reaches state-of-the-art status
Apple’s iPad is getting a robotic arm
Creating sound effects with text
Google’s Imagen 3 tops Midjourney, DALL-E
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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XAI
🏆 Grok-2 reaches state-of-the-art status
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The Rundown: xAI’s newest AI model, Grok-2, is now available in beta for users on the X platform — achieving state-of-the-art status and outperforming versions of Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4.
The details:
In addition to Grok-2, Grok-2 mini is also now available to users on the X platform in beta with an enterprise API release planned for later this month.
Both Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini show significant improvements in reasoning with retrieved content, tool use capabilities, and performance across all academic benchmarks.
Grok-2 can now create and publish images directly on the X platform, powered by Black Forest Lab's Flux 1 AI model.
Grok-2 surpasses OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet in some categories, making it one of the best models currently available to the public if based purely on benchmarks.
Why it matters: Grok-1 debuted as a niche, no-filter chatbot, but Grok-2’s newly achieved state-of-the-art status has catapulted xAI into a legitimate competitor in the AI race. The startup is looking to have a bright future with its new Supercluster, Elon’s ability to attract talent, and vast amounts of real-time training data available on X.
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APPLE
🤖 Apple’s iPad is getting a robotic arm
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The Rundown: Apple is reportedly ramping up development on a high-end tabletop smart home device with a robotic arm, an iPad-like display, and Siri voice command to operate its AI features.
The details:
The project, codenamed J595, reportedly involves a team of several hundred people and could launch as early as 2026 or 2027.
The device combines an iPad-like display with a thin robotic arm that can tilt, spin 360 degrees, and move the screen around.
It is expected to run a modified version of iPadOS making it a familiar smart home command center, videoconferencing tool, and remote-controlled home security device.
Apple is targeting a price point of around $1,000 for the product.
Why it matters: Apple is doubling down on its commitment to artificial intelligence by ramping up the development of a strange new Siri-powered, countertop robotic arm. With Apple Intelligence launching later this year, the tech giant seemingly has big plans for implementing AI into its hardware.
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Select "Sound Effects" from the left sidebar.
Describe your desired sound effect in the text box.
Adjust settings for duration and prompt influence.
Click "Generate Sound Effects" to create your sounds.
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🧪 Google’s Imagen 3 tops Midjourney, DALL-E
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The Rundown: Google DeepMind recently published the paper for it’s new state-of-the-art AI image generation model, Imagen 3, flexing that it beat DALL-E 3, Midjourney v6, and Stable Diffusion 3 in human performance evaluations.
The details:
The human evaluations asked participants to rank their preferred models for overall quality and adherence to detailed prompts.
Imagen 3 excelled particularly in generating high-quality, realistic images that closely match long and complex text descriptions.
Despite its capability to accurately generate photorealistic images, it struggles with certain tasks requiring numerical reasoning, understanding scale, and depicting actions.
Why it matters: Google struggled to find its footing early in the AI text-to-image category, but with its latest Imagen 3 release, it’s beating the top tools in the space. It’s another win for Google after also beating OpenAI in the race to widespread rollouts of advanced voice AI just yesterday.
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Anthropic launched prompt caching for Claude, reducing costs for developers by 90% and latency by 85% for longer prompts.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT-4o model update tested under the codename “anonymous-chatbot” and reclaimed the top spot on LMSYS Arena.
MIT CSAIL released its first-ever AI Risk Repository, a comprehensive database of over 700 AI risks from 43 existing frameworks.
A Powell Tribune resigned after admitting to using AI to generate fake quotes in multiple published articles.
SAG-AFTRA video game performers strike against major gaming companies over AI protections in contract negotiations.
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Google's advanced AI voice is here!
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Google just stole OpenAI’s Voice Mode spotlight — launching its new Gemini Live with advanced conversational capabilities to the masses.
A new future of how we interact with AI is here, and it’s speaking loud and clear. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Google beats OpenAI in voice mode race
OpenAI redesigns coding benchmark
Bring images to life with Kling AI
Become a tennis pro with AI
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
✨ Google beats OpenAI in voice mode race
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The Rundown: Google just launched Gemini Live, a mobile conversational AI with advanced voice capabilities, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode remains in its “limited alpha phase” and is not yet available to everyone.
The details:
Gemini Live, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, is capable of “in-depth“ hands-free conversations and has 10 different human-like voice options.
Users can interrupt and ask follow-up questions mid-response, mimicking natural conversation flow — however Gemini Live’s ability to see and respond to your camera view is planned later this year.
Similar to Apple’s upcoming Intelligence features, Gemini integrates directly with Google to provide context-aware answers without switching apps.
Gemini Live is now the default assistant on Google’s Pixel 9 and is available today to all Gemini Advanced subscribers on Android (coming to iOS soon).
Why it matters: Real-time voice is slowly shifting AI from a tool we text/prompt with, to an intelligence that we collaborate, learn, consult, and grow with. As the world’s anticipation for OpenAI’s unreleased products grows, Google has swooped in to steal the spotlight as the first to lead widespread advanced AI voice rollouts.
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OPENAI
👨💻 OpenAI redesigns coding benchmark
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The Rundown: OpenAI and the authors of SWE-bench collaborated to redesign the popular software engineering benchmark and release ‘SWE-bench Verified’, a human-validated subset of the original benchmark.
The details:
SWE-bench Verified addresses issues in the original benchmark, such as overly specific unit tests and unreliable development environments that leads to incorrect assessments of AI performance.
The new subset includes 500 samples verified by human professional software developers to make evaluating models on SWE-bench easier and more reliable.
On SWE-bench Verified, GPT-4o figures out 33.2% of samples, and the best open-source scaffold, Agentless, doubles its previous score to 16%.
The leaderboard for SWE-bench Verified does not include Cosine’s Genie we wrote about yesterday, which shattered the high score on the old benchmark by over 10%.
Why it matters: Accurate benchmarking of AI in human-level tasks like coding is crucial for transparency and assessing AI risk. However, OpenAI's collab with SWE-bench is a double-edged sword — while it improves the benchmark, it also raises questions about potential conflicts of interest, especially with ‘Project Strawberry’ rumors heating up.
AI TRAINING
🎥 Bring images to life with Kling AI
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The Rundown: Kling AI's new image-to-video feature allows users to take static images, and turn them into dynamic videos, offering a new dimension to the AI video generator’s character consistency.
Step-by-step:
Go to Kling AI and log in or sign up for free.
Click "AI Videos" on the dashboard, then select "Image to Video" on the top bar.
Upload your chosen image and write a prompt describing how you want the image animated.
Hit "Generate" and watch your image come to life!
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AI RESEARCH
🎾 Become a tennis pro with AI
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The Rundown: Researchers just created Match Point AI, a groundbreaking tennis simulation that pits AI agents against virtual pros, giving players data-driven tennis strategies and tools to help improve their game.
The details:
Match Point AI realistically models the complexities and uncertainties of real tennis, allowing AI to test new strategies in virtual games.
Early experiments show the AI rediscovering time-tested tennis strategies, like making opponents run, validating the framework’s ability to understand the sport.
By watching Match Point’s AI agents that mimic tennis legends like Novak Djokovic, players can learn the perfect strategies to optimize their game quickly and efficiently.
Why it matters: AI has long been trained to compete in games, but researchers usually focus on board and video games with straightforward mechanics. Match Point AI learns to make decisions in a real-world, complex sport, similar to how Google’s newest AI robot can play ping pong against intermediate players.
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Google unveiled Pixel Buds Pro 2 with a custom Tensor A1 chip, enhanced noise cancellation, and Gemini AI integration.
Stability AI and Midjourney face an ongoing copyright lawsuit as the court declined to dismiss copyright infringement claims against the companies.
AMD completed its $665 million acquisition of Silo AI, a European AI lab specializing in smart devices, autonomous vehicles, and more.
Canalys reported AI PCs accounted for 14% of all personal computers shipped in Q2, and Apple led the way with a 60% market share.
Huawei reportedly developed a rival AI chip, Ascend 910C, to compete with Nvidia’s H100 in China during U.S. sanctions.
Atlas AI partnered with Airbus to provide hyperlocal travel demand forecasts using AI analysis of satellite imagery.
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The world's first autonomous 'AI Scientist'
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Sakana AI, OpenAI’s Japanese rival, just revealed the world’s first AI system that can completely automate scientific research.
With the AI able to conduct entire research projects—from ideation to it’s OWN peer review, are we headed into a new era of accelerated discovery? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Sakana reveals an autonomous AI scientist
CEO says it’s okay to marry AI chatbots
Create incredibly realistic images with FLUX
New AI shatters coding benchmark record
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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SAKANA AI
🚀 Sakana reveals an autonomous AI scientist
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The Rundown: Tokyo-based Sakana AI just introduced "The AI Scientist," the world’s first AI system capable of autonomously conducting scientific research — potentially revolutionizing the scientific process.
The details:
The system generates new research ideas, writes code, runs experiments, writes papers, and performs its own peer review with near-human accuracy.
Sakana AI envisions a future where we won't just see an autonomous AI researcher but also autonomous reviewers, area chairs, and entire conferences.
The AI Scientist has already produced papers with novel contributions in machine learning domains like language modeling and diffusion models.
Each paper only costs approximately $15 to produce, which could potentially democratize research capabilities.
Why it matters: This breakthrough could dramatically accelerate scientific progress by allowing researchers to collaborate with AI agents and automate time-consuming tasks. We're entering a new era where academia could soon be powered by a tireless community of AI agents, working round-the-clock on any problem they're directed to.
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REPLIKA
👰 CEO says it’s okay to marry AI chatbots
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The Rundown: Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda just said that AI companions, like the ones that Replika creates, can complement real-life relationships and potentially lead to marriages between humans and AI.
The details:
Replika is an AI friend app with over 30 million users, offering emotional support and companionship though text, voice, and AR/VR interactions.
Some users develop romantic relationships with their Replikas, and Kuyda sees this as one “flavor” of the AI companionship.
The company even restored the ability to send AI companions erotic messages last year because of user complaints after they removed it.
Replika is working on a major 2.0 update with more realistic avatars, better voice and video interactions, and more human-like conversations.
Why it matters: After OpenAI’s recent report suggesting users could fall in love with Voice mode, it seems like the perfect time to talk about human-chatbot relationships. As we enter this uncharted, dystopian-like future, the looming question is if “marrying“ an AI is either delusional, or a new harmless step toward improving a person’s well-being.
AI TRAINING
🖼️ Create incredibly realistic images with FLUX
The Rundown: Freepik now offers access to FLUX, a powerful new AI image generation model that produces stunning visuals too realistic to tell that they were created by AI.
Step-by-step:
Visit Freepik Pikaso and sign up (Members at the Rundown University get a Premium membership to Freepik).
Click on "AI image generator" in the main menu.
In the Model dropdown, select "Flux" for optimal quality.
Craft a detailed prompt and adjust style, color, camera, and lighting settings.
Hit "Create" and watch AI bring your vision to life!
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COSINE
🧑💻 New AI shatters coding benchmark record
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The Rundown: Cosine just showed off Genie, its new fully autonomous AI software engineer that broke the high score on a benchmark for evaluating the coding abilities of large language models (LLMs), by over 10%.
The details:
Cosine trained Genie on a dataset that emulates how human software engineers actually work from incremental knowledge discovery to step-by-step decision making.
When it makes a mistake, Genie iterates, re-plans, and re-executes until it fixes the problem, something that foundational models struggle with.
Genie scored 30.08% on SWE-Bench, a 57% improvement over previous top performers like Amazon's Q and Code Factory at 19% (GPT-4 scores 1.31%).
The waitlist is currently open, but Genie has not yet been released to the general public.
Why it matters: Cosine completely rethinks the way that AI is trained, teaching it to be more human-like during its training rather than focusing on post-training prompt design — and it works! With its recent SWE-Bench success, more companies are likely to adopt the process and build smarter AIs, a win-win for everyone.
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Microsoft joined forces with ANZ, a banking services company, to train thousands of leaders in AI adoption through its AI Immersion Center.
Technology Innovation Institute released Falcon Mamba-7B, a performant open-source model that does not rely on the attention mechanism, the dominant architecture for the best LLMs currently.
Grok, xAI’s ChatGPT competitor, announced its next-gen chatbot is coming to beta mode “soon”, according to a recent tweet by Elon Musk.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) invested $500 million over 10 years to support AI-driven life science projects across its research community.
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Google's new AI meeting note-taker
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Google’s new AI feature can now take notes for you during meetings, making human note-takers a thing of our prehistoric, non-AI past.
But with the feature directly challenging several AI startups, is any AI wrapper safe from Big Tech’s AI dominance? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Google Meet adds new note-taking AI
AGI one step closer with supercomputers
Try Gemini 1.5 Pro ‘Experimental‘ for free
FCC cracks down on AI voice calls
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
📝 Google Meet adds new note-taking AI
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The Rundown: Google is rolling out a new "Take notes for me" feature powered by its Gemini AI for it’s Google Meet feature, allowing users to focus on the meeting while the AI automatically captures key points.
The details:
The AI-powered tool will automatically take notes during Google Meet calls, reducing the need for manual note-taking.
The feature is powered by Google's Gemini AI and will be available to Workspace customers with specific add-ons.
"Take notes for me" is part of the AI Meetings and Messaging add-on, which costs $10 per user/month across most Google Workspace plans.
Admins can configure the feature's availability through the Google Workspace Admin console.
Why it matters: Taking notes during meetings will soon be a thing from our prehistoric, non-AI past — with Google pushing for a more practical, AI-assisted future of work. Alongside this, the tech giant is directly competing against smaller AI startups such as Otter AI and Fireflies who’ve thrived by selling a nearly identical features to users.
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🧠 AGI one step closer with supercomputers
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The Rundown: SingularityNET is launching a worldwide network of supercomputers to host and train the architectures required for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with the first node coming online as early as September.
The details:
The network will use advanced hardware including Nvidia GPUs and AMD processors to create a "multi-level cognitive computing network."
SingularityNET's OpenCog Hyperon, an open-source software framework, is purpose-built to implement the AGI ecosystem environment on this new hardware infrastructure.
The project uses a tokenized system for access, allowing users to contribute to and utilize the growing dataset.
The company ultimate goal is to provide access to data for the growth of AI, AGI, and the hypothetical superintelligence.
Why it matters: While AI giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all currently have a stranglehold on the development of AGI, SingularityNET’s new decentralized approach could change that. It will be interesting to see if champions of open-source like Meta are willing to collaborate with the new OpenCog Hyperon.
AI TRAINING
🤖 Try Gemini 1.5 Pro ‘Experimental‘ for free
The Rundown: Gemini 1.5 Pro ‘Experimental’ recently surpassed both GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, and it’s now available to try for free.
Step-by-step:
Visit AI Studio and sign in with your Google account.
In the top-right corner, find the "Models" dropdown and select "Gemini 1.5 Flash".
Customize the AI's behavior using the "Run settings" panel on the right (adjust temperature, token count, etc.).
Enter your prompt in the main text area and click "Run" to start generating with the new Gemini 1.5 Pro.
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FCC
🚫 FCC cracks down on AI voice calls
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The Rundown: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just proposed new regulations requiring AI-generated voice calls to disclose the use of artificial intelligence.
The details:
The proposal aims to combat the rise of AI-generated voices in unwanted and potentially fraudulent ‘robocalls’.
AI voices would be required to explicitly state they are artificial at the beginning of calls.
The FCC is also exploring tools to alert people when they receive AI-generated calls and texts, including enhanced call filters, AI-based detection algorithms, and improved caller ID flagging.
Why it matters: As AI voices become indistinguishable from human speech, these regulations are crucial in combating highly targeted scams. But with enforcement likely to be a cat-and-mouse game against scammers, the best defence is education—especially for those most vulnerable to AI deception.
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NVIDIA and California launched an AI collaboration to train 100,000 students, educators, and workers in AI skills.
ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode unexpectedly imitated a user's voice during testing, revealed in OpenAI’s recent safety report.
Delphi unveiled an AI clone feature that creates lifelike digital replicas of individuals, demonstrating its capabilities in a TV interview on FOX Business.
Amazon's Alexa division lost $10 billion in 2022 alone, prompting layoffs and a pivot to generative AI to revitalize the smart assistant.
JPMorgan Chase rolled out an internal AI assistant called LLM Suite, powered by OpenAI, to over 60,000 employees for productivity tasks.
Will Eastcott released SuperSplat, a free, open-source web tool for inspecting and editing 3D images created by AI.
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