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Senators demand OpenAI answers
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Another week, another round of OpenAI drama — with five U.S. Senators now demanding answers about the company's AI safety practices.
Could these constant legal hurdles stifle OpenAI's momentum and create an opening for a new leader in the AI race? Let's investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
Senators demand answers on OpenAI's practices
Meta's Llama 3.1 takes on GPT-4o
Create 8-second clips with new AI video model
Adobe’s new AI features for Photoshop
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🚨 Senators demand answers on OpenAI's practices
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The Rundown: Five U.S. Senators have just sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, demanding details about the company's efforts to ensure AI safety following reports of rushed safety testing for GPT-4 Omni.
The details:
Senators question OpenAI's safety protocols, citing reports that the company rushed safety testing of GPT-4 Omni to meet a May release date.
The letter requests OpenAI to make its next foundation model available to U.S. Government agencies for deployment testing, review, analysis, and assessment.
Lawmakers ask if OpenAI will commit 20% of computing resources to AI safety research, a promise made in July 2023 when announcing the now disbanded "Superalignment team".
Why it matters: With allegations of rushed safety testing, potential retaliation against whistleblowers, and the disbanding of the "Superalignment team," OpenAI is under intense scrutiny. This letter also marks a critical moment for the entire AI industry — with the potential to lead to stricter government oversight and new industry standards.
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META
🦙 Meta's Llama 3.1 takes on GPT-4o
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The Rundown: In case you missed our exclusive deep dive with Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, Meta released Llama 3.1, including it’s long awaited 405B paramater model — the first open sourced frontier model that beats top closed models like GPT-4o across several benchmarks.
The details:
The 405B parameter version of Llama 3.1 matches or exceeds top closed models on several benchmarks.
Meta is offering open and free weights and code, with a license enabling fine-tuning, distillation into other models, and deployment anywhere.
Llama 3.1 features a 128k context length, multi-lingual abilities, strong code generation performance, and complex reasoning capabilities.
For exclusive insights on Llama 3.1, open source, AI agents, and more, read our full deep dive with Mark Zuckerberg here, or watch the full interview here.
Why it matters: Meta’s release of Llama 3.1 405b is a significant moment in AI history because it’s the first time an open-source AI model matches or outperforms top closed AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o. By offering a private, customizable alternative to closed AI systems, Meta is enabling anyone to create their own tailored AI.
AI TRAINING
🎥 Create 8-second clips with new AI video model
The Rundown: Haiper’s new AI video generation model allows users to generate up to 8-second videos for free and even upscale them to HD resolution.
Step-by-step:
Visit the Haiper website and click on "Create video with text".
Craft your video prompt by selecting pre-defined options or inputting your own description.
Submit your video generation request.
Log in to your account (or create one) to view your AI-generated masterpiece.
Enhance your video with HD upscaling if desired, then download and share your creation.
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ADOBE
🔥 Adobe’s new AI features for Photoshop
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The Rundown: Adobe just unveiled major AI-powered updates to Illustrator and Photoshop, leveraging its Firefly AI model to accelerate creative workflows and introduce new generative design capabilities.
The details:
Illustrator introduces Generative Shape Fill using Firefly Vector AI to add detailed vectors to shapes and create scalable patterns via text prompts.
Text to Pattern in Illustrator creates scalable, customized vector patterns for designs like wallpapers.
Photoshop's new AI-powered Selection Brush Tool and Generate Image function are now generally available.
Photoshop also gets an enhanced version of its popular Generative Fill for improved sharpness in large images.
Why it matters: These updates could dramatically increase designers' productivity by automating tedious, time-consuming tasks. We’ve always preached that the best AI products are those embedded into everyday workflows — and Adobe is doing just that by putting powerful tech directly into designers’ everyday tools.
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QUICK HITS
Meta AI unveiled a new 'Imagine me' selfie feature, allowing users to create stylized AI-generated selfies based on prompts, alongside expanded language support and integration with Meta's Llama 3.1 405B model.
OpenAI announced GPT-4o fine-tuning — offering 2 million free daily training tokens until September 23 to help developers customize the model for specific applications.
The FTC launched an investigation into eight companies offering AI-powered "surveillance service pricing", seeking information on how these technologies use consumer data to personalize pricing.
Harvey, an AI platform for legal services, secured a $100M Series C funding round led by Google Ventures, valuing the company at $1.5B, with plans to expand its AI capabilities in the professional services sector.
Cohere launched Rerank 3 Nimble, a new foundation model for enterprise search and RAG systems, offering 3x faster performance than its predecessor while maintaining accuracy and supporting 100+ languages.
Elon Musk proposed a $5 billion Tesla investment into xAI, subject to shareholder and board approval, potentially boosting Tesla's AI leadership and FSD capabilities.
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Exclusive interview with Mark Zuckerberg
Meta just released Llama 3.1, the newest version of its open source model family, alongside its prized 405B model — the first-ever open sourced frontier AI model.
We sat down for an exclusive interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Meta, diving into why this marks a major moment for the AI community. Let’s get into it…
In our interview:
Meta releases Llama 3.1 405B
Open source for the greater good
Meta’s vision: lessons from the past
Zuck’s prediction for the future of AI agents
– Rowan Cheung, founder
EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH MARK ZUCKERBERG
LLAMA 3.1
🦙 Meta releases Llama 3.1 405B
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The Rundown: Meta just released Llama 3.1 alongside its prized 405B model, achieving state-of-the-art performance across key benchmarks and becoming the first-ever open sourced frontier model, marking a major milestone in open source AI development.
Cheung: “Can you give us the rundown on everything being released and why it's important?”
Zuckerberg: “The big release today is Llama 3.1, and we're releasing three models. This is the first time we're releasing a 405 billion parameter model. It's by far the most sophisticated open source model that I think anyone has put out, and it really kind of is competitive with some of the leading closed models and in some areas is even ahead.”
Cheung: “The benchmarks look incredible. Are there any specific real-world use cases that you're really excited about seeing people build with the models?“
Zuckerberg: “The thing that I'm most excited about is seeing people use it to distill and fine-tune their own models… By our estimates, it's going to be 50% cheaper, I think, than GPT-4 to do inference directly on the 405B model."
Why it matters: Zuckerberg views Llama 3.1 as a pivotal moment for open source AI, potentially becoming "the open source AI standard" akin to Linux's impact on operating systems. By offering a cost-effective, customizable alternative to closed AI systems, Meta aims to democratize AI to empower "every startup, enterprise, and government" to create their own tailored AI solutions.
OPEN SOURCE
🤗 Open source for the greater good
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The Rundown: Alongside the major AI announcements from Meta, Zuckerberg published an open letter detailing his thoughts on open source AI and it’s benefits for the greater good — which we further explored in our interview.
Cheung: “Can you talk more about what the broad societal implications are of open source AI?”
Zuckerberg: "There are awesome things that AI is going to bring in terms of productivity gains and creativity enhancements for people, and hopefully, it'll help us with research and things like that. But I think open source is an important part of how we make sure that this benefits and is accessible to everyone, and isn't something that's just locked into a handful of big companies."
Cheung: “One other thing you mentioned in your letter is that open source AI can accelerate innovation and economic growth. How is this already happening, and how do you see this happening more in the future?“
Zuckerberg: “There are a lot of folks today who don't have access to fine-tune or build their own state-of-the-art models. They're limited to what large labs do.” Meta wants to give “startups, hackers, academics, and universities access to models they can build on, tweak, and distill down to run on their own devices. This will unlock a ton of progress.“
Why it matters: Zuckerberg's open-source AI strategy aims to make state-of-the-art AI accessible to everyone, from individuals to nations, potentially starting a new wave of global innovation. He argues this approach is not just more accessible but "safer than the alternative of closed development," stating that we’ll see a "massive equalizing effect" on technological progress.
META VS. CLOSED AI
🚀 Meta’s vision: lessons from the past
Image credits: Kiki Wu / The Rundown
The Rundown: In his open letter, Zuckerberg also discusses the open versus closed AI ecosystem, reflecting on previous personal experience where Meta was constrained by what Apple allowed them to build on their platforms.
Cheung: “I was a little shocked by how directly you called out Apple and their closed approach. Can you expand on that and where Apple has been a blocker for Meta and potentially others?”
Zuckerberg: “I actually don't know how they're going to approach AI. They do some open development, they do some closed development. I just think that in this case, open models are going to be the standard, and I think that it’s going to be good for the world.”
Zuckerberg added: “I'm not saying that Apple's necessarily going to be in the wrong place on this for AI, but if you look back over the last 10 or 15 years, it has been a formative experience for us is building our services on top of platforms that are controlled by our competitors and for a number of different incentives.”
Zuckerberg added: “It's a little bit soul-crushing when you go build features that are what you believe is good for your community, and then you're told that you can't ship them because some company wants to put you in a box so that they can better compete with you.“
Why it matters: Zuckerberg argues that closed systems inherently lead to innovation bottlenecks and unfair competition. His vision for an open AI ecosystem isn't just about Meta's interests—it's about fostering industry-wide innovation and preventing a monopoly on AI development. As he puts it, "I want to restore the industry to the state where the open ecosystem is actually the one that is leading."
PREDICTIONS
📈 Zuck’s prediction for the future of AI agents
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The Rundown: Zuckerberg predicts a world with billions of personalized AI agents and emphasizes the importance of open source development to ensure widespread benefits and mitigate potential risks.
Cheung: “What's your 10-year plan or long-term vision of what you think is going to happen with AI and AGI?”
Zuckerberg: “Our vision is that there should be a lot of different AI out there and AI services, not just one singular AI... I think we're going to live in a world where there are going to be hundreds of millions or billions of different AI agents eventually, probably more AI agents than there are people in the world.“
Zuckerberg added: “Every business in the future, just like they have an email address, a website, and a social media presence today, is going to have an AI agent that their customers can talk to in the future.”
Cheung: “What factors do you think will be crucial in changing anti-AI perspectives?”
Zuckerberg: “I think [open source] is important because if this develops in a way where it's just a small number of companies that build the products and benefit and people use the products and maybe they like talking to an AI assistant and that's valuable for them, but if this doesn't in some way help lift all boats, then I think you end up eventually getting a backlash.”
Why it matters: Zuckerberg's vision challenges the idea of a singular, dominant AI system. He advocates for "a lot of different AI out there and AI services, not just one singular AI," aiming to democratize AI. This approach could foster widespread innovation and address societal concerns. As he warns, "If this doesn't in some way help lift all boats, then I think you end up eventually getting a backlash."
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Grok 3.0 is coming
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, only announced its inception just over a year ago — and now they’re firing up 100k GPUs to create the "world's most powerful AI" by December.
s xAI seriously about to become a top competitor in the AI race, or is this just another moonshot? Let's investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
The "world's most powerful" supercomputer
Google’s AI-powered weather model
Transform images in seconds with Freepik Expand
MIT's AI identifies breast cancer risk
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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XAI
🚀 The "world's most powerful" supercomputer
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The Rundown: Elon Musk and xAI just announced the Memphis Supercluster — “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world“, also revealing that Grok 3.0 is planned to be released in December and should be the most powerful AI in the world.
The details:
Musk tweeted that xAI just launched the "Memphis Supercluster," using 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, making it "the most powerful AI training cluster in the world."
The xAI founder also revealed that Grok 2.0 is done training and will be released soon.
The supercluster aims to create the "world's most powerful AI by every metric", Grok 3.0, by December 2024.
In a separate tweet yesterday, Musk also revealed that Tesla plans to have humanoid robots in "low production" for internal use next year.
Why it matters: Love him or hate him, the speed at which Elon and the team at xAI operate has been wild to witness. If estimates are accurate, xAI might be on track to create the most powerful AI systems in the world by year's end — solidifying its position as one of the top competitors in the space and not just another AI startup.
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GOOGLE AI
🌦️ Google’s AI-powered weather model
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The Rundown: Google researchers have developed a new AI-powered weather and climate model called ‘NeuralGCM’ by combining methods of machine learning and neural networks with traditional physics-based modeling.
The details:
NeuralGCM has proven more accurate than purely machine learning-based models for 1-10 day forecasts and top extended-range models.
NeuralGCM is up to 100,000 times more efficient than other models for simulating the atmosphere.
The model is open-source and can run relatively quickly on a laptop, unlike traditional models that require supercomputers.
Why it matters: At up to 100,000 times more efficient than traditional models — NeuralGCM could dramatically enhance our ability to simulate complex climate scenarios quickly and accurately. While still a ton of adoption challenges ahead, it’s a big leap forward for more informed climate action and resilience planning.
AI TRAINING
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The Rundown: Freepik Expand allows users to seamlessly adapt images when zooming or resizing by filling the gaps with AI.
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Head over to Freepik and upload any image.
Choose an aspect ratio and adjust on the canvas.
Add a prompt for custom fills, hit “Expand” and select your favorite generated image.
Enhance your image with Freepik’s AI tools: Upscaler for sharper details, Retouch for edits, and Reimagine for variations.
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AI RESEARCH
🧬 MIT's AI identifies breast cancer risk
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The Rundown: Researchers from MIT and ETH Zurich have developed an AI model that can identify different stages of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a type of preinvasive breast tumor, using simple tissue images.
The details:
The model analyzes chromatin images from 560 tissue samples (122 patients), identifying 8 distinct cell states across DCIS stages.
It considers both cellular composition and spatial arrangement, revealing that tissue organization is crucial in predicting disease progression.
Surprisingly, cell states associated with invasive cancer were detected even in seemingly normal tissue.
Why it matters: This AI model could democratize advanced breast cancer diagnostics, offering a cheaper, faster way to assess DCIS risk. While clinical validation is still needed, AI is likely going to work hand-in-hand with pathologists in the near future to catch cancer earlier and more accurately.
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QUICK HITS
NVIDIA is reportedly working on a version of its new flagship AI chips for the Chinese market that would be compatible with the restrictions around current U.S. export controls.
Elon Musk revealed in a tweet that Tesla will have humanoid robots working internally next year at Tesla, with high production for other companies expected in 2026.
Cohere announced a new funding round of $500M from investors including Cisco, AMD, and Fujitsu, bringing its new valuation to a whopping $5.5B.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore committed $74.3M to support financial institutions in building capabilities towards quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Scaled Foundations, a research company building ‘General Robot Intelligence’, announced GRID Beta, a free and cloud-based IDE to develop AI for robots.
Disney Research published a new paper on its famous bipedal robots, explaining the system that combines expressive motions and dynamic mobility to make the robots particularly lifelike.
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OpenAI plans its own AI chip
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI is gearing up to break free from Nvidia's chip stranglehold, eyeing its latest venture into developing its very own custom AI chips.
Is this just another tech innovation race — or does the path toward AGI face a serious compute / supply challenge? Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI wants its own AI chip
The state of AI humanoids and robotics
How to test and customize GPT-4o mini
Apple’s new 7B open-source AI model
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🤖 OpenAI wants its own AI chip
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The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly in talks with chip designers like Broadcom to develop its own AI chip, aiming to reduce dependence on scarce and expensive GPUs from Nvidia.
The details:
OpenAI has already hired former Google employees who worked on Google’s tensor processing unit (Google’s AI chip).
The ChatGPT maker has been talking to chip designers including Broadcom, however production of the new chip isn't expected until 2026 at the earliest.
The company is exploring various chip packaging and memory components to optimize performance.
OpenAI is also considering creating new companies with outside investors to finance infrastructure like data centers.
Why it matters: This move isn't just about OpenAI playing chip designer — it's a power play. By developing its own chips, OpenAI could break free from the GPU shortage bottleneck, potentially supercharging its mission towards AGI.
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COATUE
🤖 The state of AI humanoids and robotics
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The Rundown: Coatue Management, an investment firm with over $70B assets under management, has released a comprehensive report on the current state and future prospects of AI humanoids and robotics.
The details:
Coatue argues that robotics won't have a sudden "ChatGPT-like" moment due to restricting factors such as physical limitations to adoption, high upfront costs, and a nascent ecosystem.
2023 saw a surge in new robotics companies, with over 20 launching humanoid initiatives since 2021 — which is expected to continue in 2024.
The report predicts that AI and quality training data, rather than hardware, will be the key differentiator for humanoids.
Coatue envisions robots going through a progression from warehouse and store automation to more complex tasks like firefighting, surgery, and in-home assistance.
Why it matters: While we might not see a robot butler in every home overnight, Coatue's analysis suggests we're on the cusp of a gradual yet profound transformation. As AI and robotics capabilities increase, many industries, from manufacturing to healthcare, will be completely reshaped.
AI TRAINING
⚙️ How to test and customize GPT-4o mini
The Rundown: Last Thursday, OpenAI revealed the GPT-4o mini, a compact version of its flagship GPT-4o model. While the model is slowly rolling out into ChatGPT accounts, the OpenAI Playground lets you access and customize the model instantly.
Step-by-step:
Go to OpenAI’s Playground and sign in with your credentials.
On the left side, click where it says “Chat”.
Click on the Models dropdown menu and select “gpt-4o-mini”.
Enter a prompt where it says “User,” play around with the different parameters (e.g., system prompt, temperature, or maximum length), and personalize your outputs.
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APPLE
🍎 Apple’s new 7B open-source AI model
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The Rundown: Apple just unveiled a new 7 billion parameter open-source AI model, dubbed DCLM-7B, that outperforms Mistral 7B and closes in on other leading open models like Llama 3 and Gemma across key benchmarks.
The details:
The DCLM-7B model achieves 63.7% 5-shot accuracy on MMLU, surpassing Mistral 7B and nearing performance of Llama 3 and Gemma.
Apple open-sourced not just the model weights and training code, but also the complete pretraining dataset.
The model was trained on 2.5 trillion tokens using pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework.
The model was released alongside the family of DCLM models, and are available on Hugging Face.
Why it matters: While Apple has been a bit slow to the open-source hype train, developers from around the world will still appreciate the unexpected open dataset. What this means is that researchers and developers now have open access to not just the model, but the entire process behind its creation.
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QUICK HITS
Anthropic is reportedly working on a new screenshot tool for Claude, potentially allowing users to seamlessly take screenshots from other screens or tabs.
Electronic Arts created digital clones of 11,000 college football players for their upcoming video game in 3 months — using AI to create the avatars using athletes’ headshot photographs.
California state legislators are pushing for a proposed bill that would require big tech companies to test AI for "catastrophic" risks before public release.
Ukraine is reportedly developing AI-enabled war drones, aiming to overcome Russian signal jamming and enable swarm operations on the battlefield.
AMD claims its new laptop chips can outperform Apple's M3 — boasting improved performance in multitasking, image processing, and gaming.
Google is reportedly developing a ‘Prompts Gallery‘ to allow users to curate a collection of favorite prompts and get inspiration from other users within it’s Gemini chatbots.
Perplexity rolled out Voice Mode to it’s AI assistant on its iOS app, allowing Pro users to chat and ask questions to the AI search engine through various voice modes.
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OpenAI's unveils GPT-4o Mini!
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
It may not be the GPT-5 drop that everyone is anxiously awaiting, but OpenAI’s latest offering proves that sometimes less is more.
The new GPT-4o mini is a cheaper, faster, and smaller AI model that significantly outperforms its GPT-3.5 predecessor. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI debuts new GPT-4o mini model
Mistral and Nvidia drop small AI powerhouse
Automate your content creation workflow
Groq’s new AI models surge up leaderboard
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🚀OpenAI debuts new GPT-4o mini model
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The Rundown: OpenAI just announced the launch of GPT-4o mini, a cost-efficient and compact version of its flagship GPT-4o model — aimed at expanding AI accessibility for developers and businesses.
The details:
GPT-4o mini is priced at 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output tokens, over 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo.
The model scores 82% on the MMLU benchmark, outperforming Google's Gemini Flash (77.9%) and Anthropic's Claude Haiku (73.8%).
GPT-4o mini is replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo in ChatGPT for Free, Plus, and Team users starting today.
The model supports a 128K token context window and handles text and vision inputs, with audio and video capabilities planned for future updates.
Why it matters: While it's not GPT-5, the price and capabilities of this mini-release significantly lower the barrier to entry for AI integrations — and marks a massive leap over GPT 3.5 Turbo. With models getting cheaper, faster, and more intelligent with each release, the perfect storm for AI acceleration is forming.
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The Rundown: The Stanford Technology Training Program is sponsoring an AI-Generated Visual Art competition. Your entry should explore this year’s Techie Festival’s theme of: AI New Frontiers.
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MISTRAL
💪Mistral and Nvidia drop small AI powerhouse
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The Rundown: Mistral AI and Nvidia just unveiled Mistral NeMo, a new open-source, 12B parameter small language model that surpasses competitors like Gemma 2 9B and Llama 3 8B on key benchmarks alongside a massive context window increase.
The details:
NeMo features a 128k token context window, and offers SOTA performance in reasoning, world knowledge, and coding accuracy for its size category.
The model also excels in multi-turn conversations, math, and common sense reasoning, making it versatile for various enterprise applications.
Mistral also introduced ‘Tekken’, a tokenizer that represents text more efficiently across 100+ languages, allowing for 30% more content within the context window.
NeMo is designed to run on a single NVIDIA L40S, GeForce RTX 4090, or RTX 4500 GPU, bringing powerful AI capabilities to standard business hardware.
Why it matters: Small language models are having a moment — and we’re quickly entering a new shift toward AI releases that don’t sacrifice power for size and speed. Mistral also continues its impressive week of releases, continuing to flex the open-source muscle and compete with the industry’s giants.
AI TRAINING
⚡️ Automate your content creation workflow
The Rundown: Zapier Central can automatically generate content drafts based on your writing style and preferences, saving you time and effort with your personal or business content creation process.
Step-by-step:
Visit Zapier Central and sign up for free.
Click "New bot" on the dashboard to create your AI content creation bot.
Set up the Google Docs integration in the "Instant actions" section.
Upload a writing sample in the "Data sources" tab as a reference for the AI.
Instruct your bot to generate content and create a new Google Doc with the draft.
AI RESEARCH
⚒️ Groq’s new AI models surge up leaderboard
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The Rundown: AI startup Groq just released two new open-source AI models specializing in tool use, surpassing heavyweights like GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro on key function calling benchmarks.
The details:
Groq’s two models, Llama 3 Groq Tool Use 8B and 70B, are both fine-tuned versions of Meta's Llama 3.
The 70B achieved 90.76% accuracy on the BFCL Leaderboard, securing the top position for all proprietary and open-source models.
The smaller 8B model was not far behind, coming in at No. 3 on the leaderboard with 89.06% accuracy.
The models were trained exclusively on synthetic data, and are available through the Groq API and on Hugging Face.
Why it matters: Groq made waves earlier this year with its blazing-fast AI speeds — and now its pairing those capabilities with top-end specialized models. Near real-time speeds and highly-advanced tool use opens the door for a near endless supply of new innovations and user applications.
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QUICK HITS
Sam Altman revealed in a post on X that the alpha release of OpenAI’s Voice Mode is coming ‘later this month’, with general availability coming ‘a bit after’.
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li launched World Labs in April, a ‘spatial intelligence’ startup already valued at over $1B — working on developing AI capable of understanding and navigating 3D environments.
OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Broadcom to develop a new AI chip, hoping to reduce reliance on Nvidia and boost global semiconductor infrastructure.
Tech giants including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon formed the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), an open-source initiative aiming to develop best practices and address challenges in AI security.
Meta and Apple are planning to exclude EU customers from upcoming AI releases, citing regulatory uncertainty surrounding data usage and training under GDPR data protection laws.
OpenAI also introduced new compliance and administrative tools for ChatGPT Enterprise, aimed at supporting large-scale AI deployments in regulated industries.
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AI's 'Manhattan Project' is coming
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump's allies are reportedly drafting AI orders that could rewrite the rulebook on regulation and military AI in a big way.
As the 2024 election looms, is this potential seismic shift in AI policy a recipe for innovation, or disaster? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Trump allies draft AI order
Microsoft’s AI Designer app goes mobile
Craft perfect AI prompts with Claude
Learn how to leverage AI for marketing
OpenAI trains AI to explain itself better
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AI & POLITICS
📜Trump allies draft AI order
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The Rundown: Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s allies are reportedly drafting an AI executive order aimed at boosting military AI development, rolling back current regulations, and more — signaling a potential shift in the country’s AI policy if the party returns to the White House.
The details:
The doc obtained by the Washington Post includes a ‘Make America First in AI’ section, calling for “Manhattan Projects” to advance military AI capabilities.
It also proposes creating ‘industry-led’ agencies to evaluate models and protect systems from foreign threats.
The plan would immediately review and eliminate ‘burdensome regulations’ on AI development, and repeal Pres. Biden’s AI executive order.
Senator J.D. Vance was recently named as Trump’s running mate, who has previously indicated support for open-source AI and hands-off regulation.
Why it matters: Given how quickly AI is accelerating, it’s not surprising that it has become a political issue — and the views of Trump’s camp are a stark contrast to the current administration's slower, safety-focused approach. The upcoming 2024 election could mark a pivotal moment for the future of AI regulation in the U.S.
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MICROSOFT
🎨Microsoft’s AI Designer app goes mobile
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The Rundown: Microsoft just announced its AI-powered Designer is out of preview and now available worldwide, bringing advanced image generation, editing, and design capabilities to users on mobile and Windows platforms.
The details:
Designer is available in over 80 languages on the web, on Android and iOS, and via Windows platforms.
The app uses AI to generate images and designs from text prompts, with the ability to create outputs like custom stickers, emojis, avatars, and more.
The free version offers 15 daily ‘boosts’ for AI creations, with 100 for Copilot Pro subscribers ($20/mo).
New features include ‘prompt templates’ for fast creation, ‘Restyle’ for remixing existing images, and ‘Frame’ for creating personalized frames and collages.
Why it matters: Microsoft is making a big push into the AI design space, but it isn’t alone — with major players like Canva and Adobe already leaning heavily into the tech to make creativity more accessible to everyday users. With no shortage of options, the AI boom is set to completely reshape how people approach design.
AI TRAINING
✍️Craft perfect AI prompts with Claude
The Rundown: Using this prompting method, you can train Claude 3.5 Sonnet to create optimal prompts for AI video and image generation tools, increasing your creative output with an endless supply of ideas.
Step-by-step:
Visit Claude AI.
Start your prompt with: "I'm using [AI Tool Name]. I want you to craft a perfect prompt for [your desired output] by following the prompting guide below."
Copy and paste the prompting guide for your chosen AI video or image tool (here is the Runway Gen-3 Guide)
Ask Claude to generate an optimized prompt based on your specific needs.
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OPENAI
🔍 OpenAI trains AI to explain itself better
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The Rundown: OpenAI just published new research detailing a method to make large language models produce more understandable and verifiable outputs, using a game played between two AIs to make generations more ‘legible’ to humans.
The details:
The technique uses a "Prover-Verifier Game" where a stronger AI model (the prover) tries to convince a weaker model (the verifier) that its answers are correct.
Through multiple rounds of the game, the prover learns to generate solutions that are not only correct, but also easier to verify.
While the method only boosted accuracy by about 50% compared to optimizing solely for correctness, its solutions were easily checkable by humans.
OpenAI tested the approach on grade-school math problems, with plans to expand to more complex domains in the future.
Why it matters: AI will likely surpass humans in almost all capabilities in the future — so ensuring outputs remain interpretable to lesser intelligence is crucial for safety and trust. This research offers a scalable way to potentially keep systems ‘honest’, but the performance trade-off shows the challenge in balancing capability with explainability.
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Menlo Ventures unveiled its $100M Anthology Fund in partnership with Anthropic, aiming to back startups leveraging Anthropic’s tech across areas like infrastructure, new applications, and consumer experiences.
Hugging Face introduced SmolLM, a family of high-performing small language models with 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameters — which outperform competitors in their size categories across benchmarks.
Salesforce announced Einstein Service Agent, an AI-powered autonomous customer service chatbot that leverages LLMs and company data to understand context, take action on issues, and provide personalized responses.
Tinder launched ‘Photo Selector’, an AI-powered feature that analyzes users’ camera rolls to curate profile pictures and streamline the photo selection process on the dating app.
Spotify expanded its AI DJ feature with a new Spanish-language voice, introducing “Livi” as an option for select Latin American and Spanish markets.
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AI giants stolen training data revealed
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
YouTube's vast library just became an unexpected training ground for AI giants — with the content’s creators left completely in the dark.
With the gold rush for data continuing to grow, has the AI revolution made everything fair game, or is a digital rights reckoning approaching? Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
Report: AI trained on YouTube without consent
OpenAI founding member pivots to AI education
Bring your images to life with Motion
Mistral releases new open-source models
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🔎AI trained on YouTube without consent
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The Rundown: A new investigation by Proof News just revealed that tech giants including Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce used content from over 170,000 YouTube videos to train their AI models without creators’ consent.
The details:
The dataset, called “YouTube Subtitles”, contains transcripts from over 48,000 channels, including popular creators, news outlets, learning channels and more.
Nonprofit EleutherAI compiled the data as part of a larger collection called ‘The Pile’, intended to provide training materials for developers and academics.
Creators were unaware their content had been used for AI training purposes, with YouTube’s ToS also prohibiting the use without permission.
Apple reportedly used the dataset to train OpenELM, a model related to new AI features for iPhones and MacBooks.
Why it matters: While the use of these transcripts isn’t going to create the best vibes with creators — we’ve yet to see many legal ramifications for firms in these cases. With this dataset also being public through EleutherAI, its hard to see anything other than bad PR coming from this report, despite the ethical/moral implications it raises.
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ANDREJ KARPATHY
📚 OpenAI founding member pivots to AI education
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The Rundown: OpenAI founding member and former Tesla Director of AI Andrej Karpathy just announced the launch of Eureka Labs, a new AI-integrated education platform — coming just months after his departure from OpenAI.
The details:
Karpathy’s post calls Eureka Labs an “AI-native” school, leveraging advanced AI to enhance the learning experience.
Its first offering, LLM101n, is an undergraduate-level course teaching students to train their own AI models.
The platform combines human expertise with AI teaching assistants to guide students, with plans to offer both digital and physical cohorts.
Karpathy announced his departure from OpenAI in February to pursue personal projects, and has since been posting educational AI videos on YouTube over the last year.
Why it matters: From hyper-personalized learning to advanced, on-demand AI tutors, education is about to be massively reshaped in the coming years—and the sector just gained one of the most well-respected scientists in the field to help lead the way.
AI TRAINING
🎭 Bring your images to life with Motion
The Rundown: Leonardo AI’s new ‘Motion‘ feature allows users to turn static images into captivating short animations for social media, web design, digital artists, and more.
Step-by-step:
Sign up on Leonardo AI’s website (free account includes 150 daily credits).
From the main dashboard, click on "Image Generation" in the sidebar menu.
Generate an image using the prompt of your choice.
Pick your favorite image, hover on it and click the ‘Motion’ button — adjust the Motion Strength slider as desired.
Click "Generate" and check out your animated creation!
AI RESEARCH
🚀Mistral releases new open-source models
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The Rundown: Mistral AI just launched Codestral Mamba and Mathstral, two new small, specialized language models that achieve state-of-the-art performance for open-source models on key benchmarks.
The details:
Codestral Mamba is a 7B model offering fast inference and advanced coding capabilities that surpass open-source rivals like CodeGemma and CodeLlama.
The model can handle context lengths up to 256k tokens (doubling GPT4o), making it ideal for large, complex coding tasks and local development.
Mathstral, also a 7B parameter model, achieves SOTA performance on math reasoning benchmarks like MATH (56.6%) and MMLU (63.47%).
Both were released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing for free use, modification, and distribution — and available via Mistral’s API and Hugging Face.
Why it matters: Mistral continues to shake up the AI landscape with innovative approaches — and with these specialized models, they join other rivals in demonstrating that bigger AI systems aren’t always better. In the future, every sector will likely have a hyper-specific, highly-capable open-source model of its own.
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The UK's Competition and Markets Authoritylaunched a formal probe into Microsoft's hiring of former Inflection AI staff, mirroring a similar investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission.
Visual AI startup Haiper released Haiper 1.5, a new video generation model that doubles the platform’s output length to 8 seconds and introduces new HD upscaling, realism, and image generation features.
Anthropic announced the release of an Android app for Claude, now available to mobile users in the Google Play store.
OpenAIposted new examples of its Sora video generation model on the company’s Instagram page, saying the tool is slowly being expanded to more creatives for testing.
Cohere is partnering with Japanese tech giant Fujitsu to develop 'Takane', an advanced Japanese language AI model for enterprise use based on Cohere’s Command R+, set to launch in September 2024.
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AI's Alzheimer's breakthrough!
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The global population is rapidly aging, and dementia is on the rise — but a new AI tool may have just given a glimpse into the future of Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
With the ability to predict cognitive decline with unparalleled accuracy, AI may be the diagnostic revolution needed in the fight against dementia. Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
AI breakthrough improves Alzheimer's predictions
YouTube Music gets new AI features
Generate beautiful presentations with AI
Microsoft gives AI a spreadsheet boost
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AI & MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHs
🔮 AI breakthrough improves Alzheimer's predictions
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The Rundown: Researchers from Cambridge University just developed a new AI tool that can predict whether patients showing mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer’s disease with over 80% accuracy.
The details:
The AI model analyzes data from cognitive assessments and MRI scans — eliminating the need for costly, invasive procedures like PET scans and spinal taps.
The tool categorizes patients into three groups: those likely to remain stable, those who may progress slowly, and those at risk of rapid decline.
The AI accurately identified 82% of cases that would progress to Alzheimer’s and 81% of cases that would remain stable, significantly reducing misdiagnosis rates.
The AI’s predictions were validated using 6 years of follow-up data and were tested on memory clinics in several countries to prove global application.
Why it matters: With a rapidly aging global population, the number of dementia cases is expected to triple over the next 50 years — and early detection is a key factor in how effective treatment can be. With AI’s prediction power, a new era of proactive treatment may soon be here for those struggling with cognitive decline.
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YOUTUBE
🎵 YouTube Music gets new AI features
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The Rundown: YouTube Music is rolling out a series of new AI-powered features, including the ability to search with sound and the testing of an AI-generated 'conversational radio’.
The details:
‘Sound Search’ will allow users to search YouTube’s catalog of over 100M songs by singing, humming, or playing a tune.
The feature launches a new fullscreen UI for audio input, with the results displaying song information and quick actions like ‘Play’ or ‘Save to Library’.
An ‘AI-generated conversational radio’ is being tested with U.S. premium users, enabling creation of custom stations through natural language prompts.
Users can describe their desired listening experience via a chat-based AI interface, with the feature generating a tailored playlist based on the prompt.
Why it matters: If you’re the type of person who gets a song stuck in your head but can’t figure out the title, this feature is for you. With Spotify, Amazon Music, and now YouTube experimenting with AI, the musical tech arms race is a boon for users — leading to more personalized listening experiences across the board.
AI TRAINING
✨ Generate beautiful presentations with AI
The Rundown: Gamma is a free tool that allows users to generate fully editable presentations and stunning visuals in minutes using AI. No design or coding skills are required.
Step-by-step:
Sign up for free on Gamma’s website
On the main menu, click “Create new [AI]” in the “All gammas” tab.
Click on “Generate” and describe your desired presentation. You can select the number of slides, the topic of each slide, and the theme.
In seconds, Gamma will generate a full presentation based on the details entered.
Once it’s done, edit anything to your preference and even regenerate if needed!
Note: By clicking the three dots located on the top-right of your screen, you can export your presentation as a PDF or as a PowerPoint file.
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AI RESEARCH
📊 Microsoft gives AI a spreadsheet boost
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The Rundown: Microsoft researchers just published new research introducing SpreadsheetLLM and SheetCompressor, new frameworks designed to help LLMs better understand and process information within spreadsheets.
The details:
SpreadsheetLLM can comprehend both structured and unstructured data within spreadsheets, including multiple tables and varied data formats.
SheetCompressor is a framework that compresses spreadsheets to achieve up to a 25x reduction in tokens while preserving critical information.
By using spreadsheets as a "source of truth," SpreadsheetLLM may significantly reduce AI hallucinations, improving the reliability of AI outputs.
Why it matters: Spreadsheets have long been the backbone of business analytics, but their complexity and format have often been an issue for AI systems. This increase in capabilities could supercharge AI’s use in areas like financial analysis and data science — as well as eventually see more powerful integration of LLMs right into Excel.
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An update to Reuters’ article detailing OpenAI’s ‘Strawberry’ revealed that an internally tested model scored over 90% on a benchmark of ‘championship math problems’, far surpassing the top available non-specialized LLMs.
Google debuted Vids in its Workspace Labs, an AI-powered video creation tool enabling users to generate presentations — with the ability to craft scripts, AI voiceovers, stock imagery, and more.
Amazon published a new op-ed calling for global alignment on responsible AI policies, emphasizing the need for collaboration between government and tech firms.
Apple’s stock rose to record highs following investment giant Morgan Stanley naming the company its ‘top pick’ based on recent Apple Intelligence and other AI initiatives potentially boosting device sales.
C3 AI unveiled a new AI application powered by Google Cloud for government programs to streamline efficiency across federal, state, and local agencies.
Disney Music Group is partnering with AI startup AudioShake to separate instrumental ‘stems’ from classic songs, hoping to revitalize the company’s iconic catalog for new uses in remixing, licensing, and fan engagement.
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