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OpenAI strikes huge deal

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

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

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


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Tumblr and WordPress near AI deal with OpenAI

  • New tech can control a car with your eyes

  • Improve prompts with Copilot Notebook

  • Optimizing warehouse robots with traffic AI

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI DATA DEALS

💰 Tumblr and WordPress near AI deal with OpenAI

Image source: 404 Media

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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HONOR

👁️ New tech can control a car with your eyes

Image source: Reuters

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

AI TRAINING

📓 Improve prompts with Copilot Notebook

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

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

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

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

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

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

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AI RESEARCH

📦 Optimizing warehouse robots with traffic AI

Image source: MIT

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Google's new AI generates video games

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

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

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


In today’s AI rundown:

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

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

  • Convert videos to GIFs using ChatGPT

  • Meta’s MobileLLM AI for on-device use

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE DEEPMIND

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

Image source: Google

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

See Genie’s wild game generations in action here.

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MISTRAL

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

Image source: Mistral

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

AI TRAINING

♻️ Convert videos to GIFs using ChatGPT

Image source: Chase Lean (@chaseleantj on X)

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

Simple step-by-step:

  1. Go to ChatGPT and create a new chat.

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

  3. Download the GIF file provided by ChatGPT.

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

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AI RESEARCH

📱 Meta’s MobileLLM AI for on-device use

Image source: Meta

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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QUICK HITS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Apple's next wearable frontier

Rowan Cheung • 4 minutes

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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.

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

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


In today’s tech rundown:

  • Apple eyes wearable market with smart ring, glasses

  • Lenovo debuts see-through laptop

  • 7 New products

  • Samsung shows off Galaxy Ring

  • Xiaomi showcases SU7 Max EV Tesla competitor

  • Intuitive Machines, JAXA moon landing updates

Read time: 3 minutes

TODAY’S HEADLINES

APPLE

🍏 Apple eyes wearable market with smart ring, glasses

Image source: Midjourney

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

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LENOVO

💻 Lenovo debuts see-through laptop

Image source: Wired

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

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SNIPPETS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hollywood's AI alarm bells

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

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

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


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Tyler Perry halts studio expansion over AI fears

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

  • Automate meeting notes with Notion AI

  • OpenAI’s mysterious Feather platform

  • 7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

HOLLYWOOD & AI

🎥 Tyler Perry halts studio expansion over AI fears

Image source: Getty Images

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

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FIGURE AI

🤖 Tech titans back Figure AI in $675 funding round

Image source: Figure

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

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

  1. Go to Notion or open the Notion app.

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

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

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

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OPENAI

🪶 OpenAI’s mysterious Feather platform

Image source: Feather

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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QUICK HITS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Google's AI ethics crisis

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

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

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

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


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Google pauses AI image generation

  • Stability AI debuts Stable Diffusion 3

  • Animate flat vector illustrations

  • AI tackles nuclear fusion instability

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

⏸️ Google pauses AI image generation

Image source: The Financial Times

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

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STABILITY AI

🎨 Stability AI debuts Stable Diffusion 3

Image source: Stability AI

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

AI TRAINING

🎥 Animate flat vector illustrations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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AI RESEARCH

☢️ AI tackles nuclear fusion instability

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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QUICK HITS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Google goes open-source!

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Google is keeping its foot on the AI gas pedal.

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


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Google releases new open-source models

  • Magic claims major AI reasoning breakthrough

  • Summarize PDFs with Adobe Acrobat AI

  • 5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

 Google releases new open-source models

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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MAGIC

🪄 Magic claims major AI reasoning breakthrough

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

The details:

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

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

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

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

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

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💬 Summarize PDFs with Adobe Acrobat AI

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

Here’s a quick step-by-step:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Elon reveals a potential Midjourney partnership

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Elon Musk is setting the AI rumor mill on fire.

A new live-spaces recording revealed a potential Midjourney collab, a Neuralink breakthrough, Grok 1.5, and more — a casual string of AI bombshells! Let’s get into it…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Musk reveals potential Midjourney partnership

  • Adobe adds AI to Acrobat

  • Use NotebookLM to enhance reading

  • Study shows AI reshaping freelance landscape

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ELON MUSK

👀 Musk reveals potential Midjourney partnership

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The Rundown: Elon Musk dropped some major AI news during a live Spaces appearance on X (formerly Twitter), including a potential partnership with Midjourney, a Neuralink patient update, and Grok 1.5 information.

The details:

  • Musk said X is exploring a partnership with Midjourney, with speculation that the image generator will be integrated into X’s Grok chatbot.

  • X is also expected to start labeling AI-generated images on its feed, which could also come in tandem with a Midjourney deal.

  • Grok 1.5 is also set for release in the next few weeks, featuring a ‘Grok Analysis’ button for post summaries and writing aids.

  • Musk also revealed that the first human Neuralink patient has made a full recovery and is now able to control a computer mouse with just their thoughts.

Why it matters: While we knew X’s ‘Everything App’ ambitions included a hefty dose of AI — it’s doubtful many had a Midjourney partnership on their bingo cards. If the partnership goes through, X will instantly become one of the world's biggest generative AI image sites.

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ADOBE

💬 Adobe adds AI to Acrobat

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The Rundown: Adobe just launched an AI chatbot in beta for its Acrobat software, aiming to make navigating long documents easier with auto-generated summaries and insights.

The details:

  • AI Assistant aims to reduce tedious PDF management through conversational interactions.

  • The tool can answer questions about a document and works with PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints, and more.

  • AI summaries provide quick overviews of docs, with citations helping to verify the accuracy.

  • Both individual and business customers can get full access to the AI Assistant through a paid add-on subscription coming soon.

Why it matters: Injecting AI into one of the most ubiquitous workplace tools is a no brainer — and one that could spell trouble for the many PDF GPT wrappers.

AI TRAINING

📕 Use NotebookLM to enhance reading

The Rundown: You can use Google NotebookLM as a virtual research assistant to help unlock your Kindle highlights and improve the recall of your favorite books.

  1. Visit your Kindle Notebook, and save the notes from books relevant to your research topic (e.g., product development) as PDFs.

  2. Navigate to Google Notebook LM and create a new notebook, for example, "Product Development".

  3. Add your Kindle notes as source files.

  4. You can now ask questions, request summaries, and more based solely on the notes you provided. The responses will include citations that link directly to the Kindle files.

  5. Moreover, AI-generated prompts will help continue your exploration of the content, improving your recall and research!

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AI RESEARCH

💼 Study shows AI reshaping the freelance landscape

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The Rundown: An in-depth analysis of freelance platforms revealed that the AI revolution is already reshaping the job market, with certain roles feeling the heat while demand for AI-savvy skills skyrockets.

The details:

  • Writing gigs dropped over 30% as early AI adopters shifted to new tech, with customer service positions declining.

  • Demand for video editing, graphic design, and web/software development remains strong, with increased job postings and higher pay.

  • Chatbot development experienced a staggering 2000% surge in demand, with companies integrating AI APIs over developing their own models.

Why it matters: With concerns mounting over AI’s looming job displacements, the data paints an interesting picture of where trends are heading. However, as tools continue to improve and AI further integrates into society, expect needs to continue to change.

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QUICK HITS

Adobe introduced CAVA, a research team focused on the future of AI video creation, working to invent new models and processes.

OpenAI doubled rate limits for GPT-4 Turbo, now reaching a maximum of 1.5M tokens per minute while also removing daily limits.

Microsoft is working on a new network card to boost its Maia AI chip's performance, aiming to decrease its dependency on Nvidia.

U.S. House leaders established a bipartisan AI task force, co-chaired by California Reps. Jay Obernolte and Rep. Ted Lieu, to explore innovation and establish protective measures against AI risks.

Apple is reportedly accelerating the development of a smart ring, potentially entering the market to compete with Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Ring.

Recogni secured $102M in Series C funding to further develop its AI inference chip for generative AI and autonomous vehicles.

Bioptimus announced a $35M seed round, with plans to develop an AI model specifically focusing on biology applications.

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Groq creates the world's fastest AI

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Move over, GPUs — a new contender has the AI hardware space buzzing.

Groq’s new TPU tech is going viral, showcasing blazing speeds that enable near-instant chatbot responses and open the door for a new wave of innovation. Let’s explore…


In today’s AI rundown:

  • Blazing-fast Groq AI processor goes viral

  • Telecomm giant to reveal AI phone

  • Utilize Gemini across Google apps

  • AI chip uses light waves for processing

  • 6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs

  • More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GROQ

🔥 Blazing-fast Groq AI processor goes viral

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The Rundown: AI startup Groq’s (not Elon’s Grok…) hardware breakthroughs are going viral in the AI world, with specialized processing units that run LLMs delivering nearly instantaneous response times.

The details:

  • Groq uses LPU (language processing units) architecture instead of GPU (graphics processing unit), enabling more efficient and faster speeds.

  • Public benchmarks of Groq’s hardware hit blazing speeds of 500 tokens per second, compared to 30-50 for GPT 3.5.

  • This side-by-side demo of Groq vs. GPT 3.5 shows Groq completing the same prompt but ~4x faster.

  • Groq, founded in 2016, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Elon Musk’s X in November over its chatbot’s ‘Grok’ name reveal.

Why it matters: To understand the speeds Groq achieves, you truly have to see it to believe it. Near-instant responses open up a new world of potential for AI and user experiences, while the efficiency and affordability of LPUs could offer an alternative to in-demand GPUs on the market.

You can try Groq here using open-source LLMs like Mixtral or Llama.

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DEUTSCHE TELEKOM

📱Telecomm giant to reveal AI phone

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The Rundown: Deutsche Telekom, the majority stakeholder of T-Mobile, plans to release an app-free AI phone with a ‘generative interface’ called the T Phone on Feb. 26.

The details:

  • The AI phone aims to humanize interactions by replacing fixed apps with personalized experiences.

  • The company partnered with Brain.ai and Qualcomm to enable cloud-based AI to power the phone.

  • T Phone's voice-powered AI can assist with booking travel, shopping, logistics, and creative tasks.

Why it matters: The T Phone’s app-less design may fly in the face of current user-interface standards, but it could be the perfect complement to the radical changes coming with on-device AI. One thing is certain — the mobile era of artificial intelligence will enter the mainstream VERY soon.

AI TRAINING

 Utilize Gemini across Google apps

The Rundown: Just as you can incorporate GPTs into ChatGPT chats, you can now invoke Google apps in your Gemini prompts to swiftly search and summarize content.

Step-by-step:

  1. Head to Gemini and enable Google Workspace extensions.

  2. Try prompting Gemini to summarize or locate information across your Google Workspace by simply appending @gmail, @drive, or @docs to your queries.

  3. Unlike Gmail search, Gemini can find and summarize your emails. For instance, you can ask Gemini to identify high-priority emails that require your attention.

  4. You can also ask Gemini to review a Google Doc and summarize the key points.

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AI RESEARCH

⚡️AI chip uses light waves for processing

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The Rundown: Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania just created a first-of-its-kind AI chip that uses light waves instead of electricity for faster processing.

The details:

  • Leveraging light for computation utilizes the fastest possible means of communication.

  • The paper combines research on using light waves for processing with silicon devices.

  • The chip promises faster speed, lower energy costs, and enhanced privacy.

Why it matters: We’ve all heard the outcry over energy-hungry AI systems, as well as the vast amounts of compute needed for powering advanced models. If this light breakthrough can be applied, it could hold revolutionary potential for increasing AI capabilities.

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QUICK HITS

Elon Musk weighed in on the Sora hype, saying that Tesla video exceeds OpenAI’s model in predicting ‘extremely accurate physics’ for its self-driving functionality.

Singapore announced that the country is investing over $700M into its AI capabilities over the next five years, seeking to increase access to advanced chips and setting up AI centers to push innovation.

Meta’s Yann LeCun Meta has been critical of OpenAI's Sora, arguing his JEPA architecture is better suited for building comprehensive world models for AI autonomy.

Royal Caribbean is utilizing AI on its new ‘Icon of the Seas’ mega-ship, helping the company predict food usage on-board and reduce waste.

Chinese EV maker Xpeng is reportedly investing nearly $500M into AI in 2024, with plans to also hire 4,000 new workers despite other automakers slashing costs.

The UK and its allies are exploring the use of advanced AI-enabled swarm drones to support Ukraine's defense, potentially providing a new tactical advantage against Russian forces.

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