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A Starbucks run by 100 AI-powered Robots
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The robot takeover has begun — and at Naver’s in-office Starbucks, the revolution is happening one cup of coffee at a time.
The company’s robot fleet navigates 36 floors to deliver orders, while providing a glimpse at the future of the service industry in the process. Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
Robots serve up coffee at Starbucks
Amazon’s AI ‘private investigator’
Underlord: your powerful but subordinate AI video intern
Microsoft’s AI weather forecasting model
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
NAVER
☕️ Robots serve up coffee at Starbucks
Image source: Naver Labs
The Rundown: South Korean search giant Naver shared a video of the company’s in-office autonomous Starbucks location — with 100 robots delivering coffee and other items throughout the building.
The details:
Naver's autonomous wheeled "Rookie" robots navigate the building's 36 floors to bring packages, coffee, and lunch to employees.
Rookie bots are assisted by dual-armed "Ambidex" robots, which are lightweight and dexterous for safer human interactions.
Both robots connect to the company’s ARC system, which enables control of navigation, planning, and processing for the entire fleet through cloud computing.
Naver also developed RoboPort, a dedicated elevator system that allows robots to move quickly and efficiently between floors.
Why it matters: Naver’s putting its robots to work in the ‘real world’ — and while the location is just a testing ground for now, it’s also a glimpse into how service robotics will be integrated into the mainstream sooner than many expect.
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AMAZON
📦 Amazon’s AI ‘private investigator’
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The Rundown: Amazon just unveiled Project P.I., an AI system that scans products in the company’s fulfillment centers to detect damaged or incorrect items before they ship to reduce returns and waste.
The details:
Project P.I. uses AI and computer vision to spot defects like damaged products as well as wrong colors/sizes as items pass through imaging tunnels.
The system is already in place across the company’s North American fulfillment centers, with plans to expand globally throughout the year.
Amazon also utilizes a multimodal LLM to investigate issues further, combining customer feedback with Project P.I. images to identify the source problem.
Why it matters: Amazon’s no stranger to adopting AI across its operations, and Project P.I. is yet another innovative approach to supercharge efficiency. Soon, the company will likely combine these talents with advanced warehouse robots — taking humans out of the fulfillment process altogether.
AI TRAINING
🎥 Underlord: your powerful but subordinate AI video intern
The Rundown: Descript, an AI-powered video-audio editor, just launched Underlord, with AI editing tools built into every step of your workflow.
Step-by-step:
Sign up for Descript. Download it or use it on the web for free.
Upload a file or record a video.
Ask Underlord to remove filler words or retakes, create clips, or do any editing tasks you hate most.
Explore all the other features that Underlord has to offer with its easy-to-use interface!
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AI RESEARCH
⛈️ Microsoft’s AI weather forecasting model
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The Rundown: Microsoft researchers just introduced Aurora, a new AI foundation model trained on over 1M hours of weather and climate data that can generate accurate weather forecasting insights.
The details:
Aurora produces accurate forecasts across a variety of weather scenarios, including extreme events or areas with limited data.
The 1.3B parameter model can generate a 5-day global air pollution prediction in under 60 seconds.
Aurora also produces 10-day global forecasts at high resolutions, beating both the top models and specialized AI weather systems.
Why it matters: Aurora’s success could usher in a huge shift in the way we do weather forecasting. With the recent progress of AI models, combined with massive amounts of atmospheric data — the day that the weatherman is truly right 100% of the time might be coming sooner than most people probably think.
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Intel introduced a series of new AI advancements at Computex, including new Xeon 6 processors, Gaudi accelerators, and a new Lunar Lake architecture to accelerate computing performance.
Stability AI announced the open release of Stable Diffusion 3-Medium is set for June 12, with the 2B parameter model coming in at a fraction of the full SD3 that is still awaiting model weight release.
AMD unveiled its next-gen MI325x AI chips at Computex, announcing a similar one-year release cadence that will feature the MI350 in 2025 and MI400 series in 2026.
Microsoft announced a $3.2B investment into Sweden’s AI and cloud infrastructure, aiming to train 250,000 workers by 2027 and boost capacity at data centers.
Google published a blog addressing the company’s recent AI Overview issues, highlighting new detection mechanisms and ongoing accuracy efforts.
Adobe is facing backlash after the estate of late artist Ansel Adams called out the company for including AI-generated images for sale in Adobe Stock labeled with “Ansel Adams-style”, which violates the platform’s ToS.
Zoom founder Eric Yuan said in an interview with The Verge that ‘digital twin’ AI avatars will eventually attend Zoom meetings and make decisions on user’s behalf.
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Nvidia's new industrial revolution
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The next industrial revolution is upon us, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — and the chip leader isn’t taking its foot off the accelerator.
The company just unveiled more next-gen chips and a slew of new tools, continuing to prove that it’s currently Nvidia’s AI world, and we’re just living in it. Let’s dig deeper…
In today’s AI rundown:
Nvidia unveils next-gen AI chips
Perplexity Pages power AI content creation
How to create AI videos with Krea AI
Swiss startup trains ‘living’ computers
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
NVIDIA
💾 Nvidia unveils next-gen AI chips
Image source: AP
The Rundown: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just announced a series of new AI announcements during a keynote at the Computex conference, including next-gen ‘Rubin’ chips, a new AI gaming assistant, and AI tools for creating lifelike avatars.
The details:
Nvidia’s ‘Rubin’ platform is slated for 2026, with the ‘Rubin Ultra’ coming a year later as part of what Huang called a “new industrial revolution”.
Nvidia also showed off Project G-Assist, an AI gaming assistant that provides context-aware help and personalized responses for PC games.
The company also introduced ACE, a suite of AI services that simplify the creation of digital avatars for applications like customer service and healthcare.
Why it matters: It’s Nvidia’s AI world — we’re all just living in it. Jensen Huang and Co. continue to stay at the forefront of the AI revolution, both in the company’s dominance in pushing the acceleration of AI chips and new tools that can shape the future of AI-powered experiences beyond the data center.
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PERPLEXITY
✍️ Perplexity Pages power AI content creation
Image source: Perplexity
The Rundown: AI startup Perplexity just launched a new feature called Pages, which allows users to easily create customizable, visually appealing AI-generated articles, guides, and reports.
The details:
Pages tap into Perplexity's AI search models to find information and generate a structured report on the requested topic with citations.
Users can tailor the writing style to beginners, experts, or a general audience and can modify the structure by adding, rearranging, or removing sections.
The tool also automatically incorporates visuals into the generated pages, which the user can further customize.
Perplexity Pages are publishable, shareable, and are already being picked up by search engines like Google, potentially changing the SEO landscape.
Why it matters: While LLMs have already upended content creation, Perplexity just took things a step further. The question is whether Pages is actually adding reliable, quality content, or just adding to the surplus of SEO-optimized AI-generated junk already plaguing the web.
AI TRAINING
🎥 How to create AI videos with Krea AI
The Rundown: Krea AI recently released a powerful AI video generator that allows users to generate videos for free using a combination of images and text prompts.
Step by step:
Visit Krea AI and click on “AI video generation.”
Set up keyframes by importing images or using Krea AI's image generator.
Add text prompts to set the mood, modify scenes, and separate different parts of a video.
Explore additional options, such as duration, music, filters, and style.
Click “Generate Video” and let Krea AI work its magic!
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FINALSPARK
🧠 Swiss startup trains ‘living’ computers
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The Rundown: Swiss biocomputing startup FinalSpark launched Neuroplatform, the world’s first online system that allows scientists to use living brain cells for computing.
The details:
The Neuroplatform uses 16 tiny clumps of human brain cells, called organoids, as mini "bioprocessors."
Neuroplatform combines traditional computer parts with living brain cells, rewarding the organoids with dopamine to train the biocomputer.
FinalSpark claims bioprocessors like Neuroplatform consume a million times less power than digital processors.
Why it matters: While biocomputing is a bit of a sci-fi realm of exploration, the claim of using one million times less power than silicon chips is particularly interesting given current energy-related concerns with AI data centers. That said, these living biocomputers likely aren’t scaling to train massive AI models any time soon.
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QUICK HITS
ElevenLabs launched Text to Sound Effects, a new tool enabling users to generate sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and soundscapes from text prompts.
Sam Altman participated in an interview at the AI for Good Global Summit, hitting on topics including GPT-5, the Scarlett Johannson voice controversy, and Helen Toner’s recent commentary.
Anthropic Chief of Staff Avital Balwit wrote an article titled ‘My Last Five Years of Work’, detailing the belief that AI advancements over the next several years will ‘end employment’ as we know it.
Top AI leaders are heading to the Bilderberg Meeting this week, with CEOs from Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, Anthropic, and Mistral all reportedly attending to discuss AI, geopolitics, and global economic challenges.
Google DeepMind released new demos of its Veo AI video generation model, showcasing the ability to turn single reference images into new videos with simple text instructions.
Grok is rumored to be receiving two new modes, Socrates and D.E.I., adding to the current selections of Normal and Fun to augment the AI chatbot’s responses.
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The 'Netflix of AI'
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Forget binge-watching — The Simulation’s new Showrunner platform lets you direct, star in, and even get paid for your own AI-generated TV shows.
The boundaries between creator and consumer are dissolving fast, and the traditional media model may never be the same. Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
The Simulation unveils ‘Netflix of AI’
Siri 2.0 to enable AI-powered app control
Bring AI to your browsing experience
OpenAI’s current board pushes back
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
THE SIMULATION
🎬 The Simulation unveils ‘Netflix of AI’
Image source: Showrunner
The Rundown: AI entertainment startup The Simulation (formerly Fable Studio) just launched Showrunner, a platform that allows users to generate and watch AI-powered TV shows set in virtual simulated worlds.
The details:
Showrunner combines multi-agent simulations with LLMs to create interactive content aligned with specific virtual worlds.
Users can watch, direct, and star in shows set in virtual environments populated by AI characters, with the ability to craft episodes from prompts.
The platform is launching with 10 original shows, with users able to generate new episodes and edit deeper into scripts, shots, and voices.
Showrunner is opening in alpha to a limited number of users, with select user-created episodes receiving payment, rev share, and IMDB credits.
The studio went viral last year after the release of its South Park episode demos and research paper on its SHOW-1 model.
Why it matters: Showrunner is a wild step towards the merging of AI, gaming, and traditional entertainment, enabling users to not only consume but create stories within simulated worlds. The lines are blurring fast between creators and audiences — and the traditional Hollywood media model may never be the same.
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APPLE
🗣️ Siri 2.0 to enable AI-powered app control
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The Rundown: Apple is reportedly set to reveal a major overhaul of its Siri voice assistant at the upcoming WWDC event, infusing AI to enable more granular control of individual apps with voice commands.
The details:
The revamped Siri will reportedly use LLMs to understand and execute more complex voice commands within on-device apps.
The AI will also analyze user habits to auto-enable new Siri commands on Apple apps, with plans to eventually expand to third-party applications.
Examples of new voice command capabilities include summarizing articles, editing and sharing photos, and sending and deleting emails.
While Siri will only handle single commands at launch planned in September, Apple hopes to enable chained, multi-step tasks as early as next year.
Why it matters: It sounds like Siri is getting a needed upgrade, but is it enough to make it truly useful? With ‘chained’ commands reportedly not coming til next year, the rumored upgrades feel a bit underwhelming — especially compared to the next-gen voice tech demoed by OpenAI and Google just in the last few weeks alone.
AI TRAINING
🌐 Bring AI to your browsing experience
The Rundown: Zapier has a new Chrome extension that brings the power of AI to the browser, allowing users to summarize websites, translate content, learn from web pages, and automate tasks in real-time.
Step-by-step:
Log in to the Zapier Central website or create a free account.
Install the Zapier Central Chrome Extension from here.
Navigate to any website you want to use with the AI.
Click the Zapier extension icon, press “+ New Bot”, and start interacting with the AI with requests such as: “Summarize this page” or “Translate this page to Spanish”.
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OPENAI
🥊 OpenAI’s current board pushes back
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The Rundown: OpenAI board members Bret Taylor and Larry Summers just responded to recent commentary from former board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, defending CEO Sam Altman and the company’s commitment to safety.
The details:
Taylor and Summers rejected Toner and McCauley’s claims made in The Economist earlier this week.
The response cited a law firm’s external review, finding no evidence that Altman’s firing was due to safety, financial issues, or misleading statements.
Taylor and Summers also highlighted OpenAI’s efforts with policymakers, support for regulation, and voluntary safety commitments.
Toner also recently made additional explosive comments, accusing Altman of ‘outright lying’ and manipulating other board members.
Why it matters: The tension between the former board and OpenAI is getting uncomfortably public — with the two now trading claims via a major publication. Toner’s media push seems to make it clear this situation isn’t going away quietly, despite what the current board and Altman may hope.
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QUICK HITS
OpenAI is reportedly relaunching its robotics team after scrapping the division in 2020, aiming to develop models for other companies’ robots instead of creating its own hardware.
Perplexity unveiled Pages, a new tool that converts research into visual, comprehensive content like articles, reports, and guides.
You.com launched Custom Assistants, allowing users to build their own personalized AI bots using top LLMs like GPT-4o and Claude 3.
Maven AGI came out of stealth and announced a $28M raise, sharing new details on its customer support AI that autonomously resolves over 93% of issues and cuts support costs by 81%.
Perplexity is also reportedly in talks to raise $250M at a $3B valuation, with the company generating over $20M in annual subscription revenue.
Anthropic rolled out the ability for Claude to interact with tools to all users, enabling more complex tasks and building capabilities.
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OpenAI's news empire grows
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI just added several new media giants to its AI news empire, along with an accelerator to spread the tech even further across the journalism landscape.
But as publishers line up to join the AI gold rush, are they adapting to a new revolution — or sealing the industry’s fate? Let's explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI adds major news partners
Mistral unveils first code-focused model
Unlock ChatGPT’s interactive charts and tables
AI brain implant language breakthrough
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🗞️ OpenAI adds major news partners
Image source: Midjourney
The Rundown: OpenAI just announced a series of new content and product partnerships with Vox Media and The Atlantic, as well as a global accelerator program to help publishers leverage AI.
The details:
The Vox partnership gives ChatGPT training access to content from brands like Vox, The Verge, New York Magazine, Eater, and more.
The Atlantic’s content will be more discoverable within OpenAI products.
The partnership announcement comes despite an article that ran in The Atlantic last week warning that media partnerships with AI firms are a mistake.
The Newsroom AI Catalyst, a joint effort between OpenAI and WAN-IFRA, will provide AI guidance and experience to 128 newsrooms across the globe.
Why it matters: Despite constant pushback on AI firms and their training data, media companies are finding few available paths forward other than bending the knee. While AI tools can undoubtedly enhance newsroom efficiency, their adoption won’t come without some major growing pains.
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MISTRAL AI
🚀 Mistral unveils first code-focused model
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The Rundown: French AI startup Mistral just released Codestral, the company’s first code-focused model for software development — outperforming other coding-specific rivals across major benchmarks.
The details:
Codestral is a 22B parameter, open-weight model that specializes in coding tasks, with training on over 80 different programming languages.
The model beats out code-focused rivals like CodeLlama 70B and Deepseek Coder 33B across top benchmarks like HumanEval and RepoBench.
The model is available for use under a non-commercial license on both Hugging Face and through Mistral’s Le Chat platform.
Why it matters: AI has already completely revolutionized programmer workflows, and impressive open releases like Codestral will put advanced tools into even more hands. The model is also another feather in Mistral’s cap, as the French startup continues to compete with the world’s top AI firms.
AI TRAINING
📊 Unlock ChatGPT’s interactive charts and tables
The Rundown: OpenAI recently introduced a game-changing feature in ChatGPT that lets you analyze, visualize, and interact with your data without the need for complex formulas or coding.
Step-by-step:
Head over to ChatGPT and select GPT-4o.
Upload data by clicking the 📎 button and select specific columns or rows for a clear focus.
Prompt for interactive charts for powerful visualizations (e.g., "Create a pie chart for X distribution").
Hover over the different sections to see the exact values, change the chart type, and explore the legend for better understanding.
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AI RESEARCH
🧠 AI brain implant language breakthrough
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The Rundown: Researchers at UC San Francisco just developed a brain implant that utilizes AI to help a stroke survivor communicate in both Spanish and English, switching between languages seamlessly via brain activity.
The details:
The bilingual implant was tested on a patient who lost his ability to speak after suffering a stroke at the age of 20.
An AI-powered decoding system was trained to recognize the patient’s brain activity patterns when articulating words in both languages.
The system determined the patient’s intended language with 88% accuracy and the correct sentence 75% of the time.
The implant allows the patient to participate in bilingual conversations and switch between languages, despite not learning English until after his stroke.
Why it matters: This research is another example of AI’s increasing ability to interpret our brainwaves — potentially unlocking an endless supply of new learnings, treatments, and technology. It’s also yet another massive leap for unlocking communication for stroke victims while breaking language barriers in the process.
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QUICK HITS
Udio launched new updates to its AI music generation platform, including a new model for two-minute track generation, more advanced controls and prompt strength, and more.
Mr. Beast released new tools for his ViewStats Pro content platform, including an AI-powered thumbnail search that allows users to find inspiration with natural language prompts.
Samsung announced new AI features coming to its Galaxy Watch, including Energy Score for advanced health tracking analysis and Wellness Tips for more personalized insights.
Arm released new AI-optimized chip designs and software tools for smartphones, working to speed adoption by working with Samsung and TSMC on manufacturing blueprints.
Scale AI introduced SEAL Leaderboards, a new evaluation metric for frontier AI models that aims for more secure, trustworthy measurements.
Midjourney founder David Holz revealed that the company has a new hardware team, which comes after previous rumors of wanting to build a ‘holodeck’ type device.
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Sam Altman's new safety squad
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI just unveiled its new safety committee… But a roster comprised of Sam Altman and his allies likely has detractors feeling anything but secure.
With old board members speaking out, a former safety lead joining a rival, and more conflicting commentary — is Sam’s latest squad just a PR play? Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI begins training the next model
Former OpenAI safety co-lead joins Anthropic
Create unique AI music tracks in seconds
Google Chromebooks get AI infusion
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
👀 OpenAI begins training the next model
Image source: Financial Times
The Rundown: OpenAI just announced the formation of a new Safety and Security Committee to oversee the development of its next frontier AI model, which the company also said it has recently started training.
The details:
The new committee is led by CEO Sam Altman and includes board members Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, and Nicole Seligman.
The group will provide evaluation of safety and security processes over the next 90 days, with plans to share adopted recommendations publicly.
OpenAI said the new model will ‘bring us to the next level of capabilities on our path to AGI’.
Why it matters: The new safety squad (made up exclusively of Altman backers) won’t bring comfort to those who feel OpenAI’s current leadership can’t be trusted. The vague new model commentary is also sure to get the rumor mill churning, with many interpreting it as GPT-5’s release being imminent and the next system already being trained.
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ANTHROPIC
🤝 Former OpenAI safety co-lead joins Anthropic
Image source: Jan Leike (@janleike on X)
The Rundown: Former OpenAI executive and AI safety lead Jan Leike just announced that he is joining rival Anthropic — leading a new superalignment team focused on safety and security.
The details:
Leike resigned from OpenAI in mid-May alongside Ilya Sutskever, which resulted in the company’s dissolution of the superalignment safety team.
Leike shared that his new team at Anthropic will focus on ‘scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research’.
The move comes weeks after Leike said OpenAI’s safety culture had taken a backseat to ‘shiny products’.
Why it matters: It didn’t take long for Leike to find a new AI safety home — and it comes at one of OpenAI’s biggest rivals. The move lends credibility to Anthropic as a haven for more safety-focused development, and maybe even lures another major AI safety free agent (who may or may not have seen something at OpenAI).
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💻 Google Chromebooks get AI infusion
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The Rundown: Google just unveiled a suite of new AI-powered features for its $350 Chromebook Plus laptops, aimed at enhancing productivity, creativity, and collaboration for users.
The details:
Google’s Gemini assistant is integrated directly into the Chromebook Plus home screen, allowing quick access to AI tools.
The “Help Me Write” feature brings AI capabilities to all text entry fields, providing suggestions, changing tone, and rewriting text.
Google Photos’ Magic Editor gives users advanced AI-powered image editing capabilities directly within the Chromebook Plus.
Generative features like AI wallpapers and video call backgrounds also offer users new customization options.
Why it matters: Google’s budget-friendly laptops aren’t being left behind in the AI push. If anything, this indicates that the next wave of computers will be infused with advanced capabilities like never before — regardless of price point.
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QUICK HITS
French AI startup Mistral is reportedly expanding into the U.S. market, ramping up hiring in an aim to provide businesses with an alternative to large providers like OpenAI and Google.
Lmsys released new performance results for Google’s latest Gemini 1.5 models, with Pro/Advanced moving into second just below GPT-4o, and Flash nearing GPT-4 on the leaderboard.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently signed the Giving Pledge, committing to donate the majority of his wealth to philanthropy alongside other tech moguls, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Helen Toner detailed claims of Sam Altman ‘outright lying’ to the previous board in an exclusive interview with Bilawal Sidhu, saying she was pushed out after Altman manipulated other board members.
Microsoft unveiled a new Copilot Telegram bot, allowing users to search, chat, and ask the chatbot questions directly in-app.
Opera integrated Google’s Gemini AI into its browser, adding new image generation and text-to-audio capabilities to its own built-in Aria AI assistant.
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AI cracks the stock market
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Brace yourselves, Wall Street — a new study just revealed that AI can outperform even the most seasoned financial analysts.
Is this the beginning of a new era for investing, or a recipe for some serious market mayhem? Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
Study: AI shows stock-picking prowess
xAI’s record-breaking funding round
Easily create stunning AI images
Researchers develop AI sign language
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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AI RESEARCH
🏦 Study: AI shows stock-picking prowess
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The Rundown: A new study from the University of Chicago found that LLMs like GPT-4 can successfully perform financial statement analysis and even outperform human analysts in predicting the direction of future earnings.
The details:
Researchers provided GPT-4 with standard, anonymized statements and a prompt to mimic how analysts process financial information.
GPT-4’s insights outperformed professional analysts in predicting future earning trends, despite not having access to qualitative info.
The model’s performance also matched and even slightly exceeded other state-of-the-art models trained specifically for earning prediction tasks.
The study also found that the model’s ability came from its analysis of trends, ratios, and economic reasoning — not from training data.
Why it matters: This study not only shows that AI is about to drastically alter the financial industry, but also challenges assumptions about the tech's limits in judgment-based tasks. Soon, everyone will have access to an AI financial expert, democratizing information and analysis and changing how non-experts operate in the markets.
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XAI
💰 xAI’s record-breaking funding round
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The Rundown: Elon Musk’s xAI just officially announced the company’s Series B funding round, raising a whopping $6B from major investors to challenge OpenAI and other competitors in the AI race.
The details:
The record-setting Series B funding round values the company at $24B post-money, just a year after its launch in July of 2023.
xAI said the funds will be used to ‘bring the company’s first products to market, build out advanced infrastructure, and accelerate R&D’.
The company is also hiring across its engineering and research division, with a reported pay higher than other competitors.
The startup is also reportedly planning to build its own AI supercomputer by fall 2025, which would require 100,000 of Nvidia's H100 chips.
Why it matters: Elon Musk just predicted that AGI is coming next year — and now armed with a huge war chest, xAI can secure the compute necessary to continue scaling. The biggest winner of the announcement is Nvidia, who’ll be more than happy to provide the shovels for Elon’s AI gold rush.
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AI RESEARCH
✌️ Researchers develop AI sign language
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The Rundown: Researchers just introduced SignLLM, the first multilingual Sign Language Production (SLP) AI model capable of generating avatar videos of sign language gestures from prompts across eight languages.
The details:
The researchers first developed Prompt2Sign, a multilingual sign language dataset optimized for training on upper-body movements.
The SignLLM AI model was then trained on the dataset, with two modes enabling video avatar generations in multiple languages from prompts.
In tests, SignLLM outperformed all other sign language AI models on sign-related tasks across all eight languages in the training data.
Why it matters: SignLLM and broader AI-related data are potentially huge steps in making sign language more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing people around the world. And the best part is that this is just scratching the surface of what will be possible for assistive tech in the near future.
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QUICK HITS
Helen Toner and and Tasha McCauley penned an op-ed for The Economist, with the former OpenAI board members arguing that AI companies cannot govern themselves and stricter third-party regulation is needed.
AI researcher Kai-Fu Lee doubled down on his 2017 prediction that AI would displace 50% of jobs by 2027, saying white collar jobs will be eliminated faster than blue collar work.
Google’s ‘X’ moonshot lab has reportedly been reined in, with budget cuts and the rise of ChatGPT pushing the tech giant to focus on AI and search engine efforts.
Meta AI chief Yann LeCun clapped back at Elon Musk’s xAI hiring announcement, replying with a series of remarks taking shots at previous Musk commentary.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said he doesn’t believe filmmakers and actors will lose jobs to AI, but that a ‘person who uses AI well’ might take the job instead.
Rows secured $8.7M in funding to expand its AI-powered spreadsheet app, aiming to enhance data integrations and grow into new markets.
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Google's AI Overview nightmare
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Google’s AI Overviews, a new search feature intended to streamline user experience, has instead become a viral sensation — for all the wrong reasons.
As inaccurate, bizarre responses flood social media, the tech giant finds itself once again grappling with the fallout of another AI-related controversy. Let’s dive deeper…
In today’s AI rundown:
Google’s AI Overviews spark backlash
Canva launches new AI features
Bring photos to life with D-ID
Elon Musk plans xAI supercomputer
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
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🤦♂️ Google’s AI Overviews spark backlash
Image source: AI Overview screenshots
The Rundown: Google’s newly unveiled ‘AI Overviews’ search feature is under fire following an outpouring of bizarre and inaccurate responses that have gone viral across social media.
The details:
The AI-generated summaries began rolling out at last week’s Google I/O event, added above standard Google search results for more streamlined answers.
The overviews have provided false and misleading information, such as recommending glue as a pizza topping, suggesting eating rocks, and more.
Google stated that the majority of AI Overview queries result in "high-quality information" and that the shared examples are uncommon.
The company is reportedly working to manually disable AI Overviews for specific searches as the issues circulate on social media.
Why it matters: In an issue reminiscent of the viral AI image fiasco earlier this year, Google’s AI tools are again in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. This rocky rollout could potentially erode trust towards the search giant’s results, and puts the company on the defensive again in spite of its impressive other AI rollouts at I/O.
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CANVA
🚀 Canva launches new AI features
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The Rundown: Canva just introduced a slew of new AI features to its creative platform, including text-to-graphic capabilities, an AI-powered photo editor, video editing upgrades, and more.
The details:
A new ‘Magic Media’ text-to-graphic tool allows users to create images, icons, and illustrations from simple text prompts.
'Magic Switch’ transforms and generates alternative media forms in seconds, such as a presentation into a website.
A new ‘Magic Write’ copywriting assistant crafts text unique to the user’s voice from a short writing sample.
New AI video-editing tools include streamlined clipping with ‘Highlights’ and ‘Enhance Voice’ to improve audio.
Why it matters: Canva’s original disruption of the design industry came by making it simple for anyone to create — and the pairing with AI is a match made in heaven. Integrating subtle but powerful AI tools will only further the ability for users to take creative workflows into their own hands.
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🗣️ Bring photos to life with D-ID
The Rundown: D-ID allows users to generate lifelike talking-head avatars from just a static portrait image and a script.
Step-by-step:
Sign up for a free account on D-ID and receive bonus credits.
Click "Create" and select "Video" to access the video creation page.
Choose a pre-generated presenter, generate a unique AI avatar, or upload an image.
Type a script and customize an avatar with language, voice, and style options.
Click "Generate video" to bring a photo to life!
XAI
🖥️ Elon Musk plans xAI supercomputer
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The Rundown: Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly planning to build a massive supercomputer containing 100,000 GPUs dubbed a ‘gigafactory of compute’, aiming to accelerate the development of its Grok AI chatbot.
The details:
The supercomputer would use 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, making it at least 4x larger than the biggest AI clusters currently in existence.
Musk hopes to have the supercomputer operational by Fall 2025, with Oracle floated as a potential partner in the endeavor.
The gigafactory will be used to further train and operate new versions of Grok — with Grok 2.0 currently being trained on 20,000 GPUs.
OpenAI and Microsoft have also discussed a ‘Stargate’ cluster even larger than Musk’s proposal.
Why it matters: The push for AI acceleration is about to lead to a scale of supercomputers unlike anything the world has ever seen. Greater compute power is the key to unlocking more capable AI — and the amount of chips, energy, and money pouring into these clusters is only going in one direction… Up.
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QUICK HITS
Apple’s upcoming WWDC AI announcements will reportedly focus on practical features, including a ‘Project Greymatter’ toolset for apps like Safari and Photos, as well as new generative custom emojis.
Suno launched its v3.5 update, offering the ability to generate longer songs with improved structure — also teasing the ability to craft songs from specific sounds.
Elon Musk predicted that AGI will arrive ‘next year’ in a response to a post on X from Google’s Logan Kilpatrick.
Filmmaker George Lucas said that AI’s use in the industry is ‘inevitable’, comparing anti-AI sentiment to preferring the horse over the automobile.
Mastercard rolled out a new software update to integrate AI into its fraud-prediction tech, helping better identify patterns and prevent stolen credit cards and info.
Emory student Benjamin Craver is suing the university after being suspended for his ‘Eightball’ AI study tool that took the top prize at the school’s startup competition.
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OpenAI controversy: ‘Sky’ speaks out
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
As OpenAI continues to gear up for its highly-anticipated releases, it can’t seem to escape the constant storm of controversy.
With leaked NDA documents, new ScarJo info, and another resignation, the AI giant’s reality-TV level drama is showing no signs of slowing down. Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI controversy: ‘Sky’ speaks out
Cohere unveils new multilingual LLMs
Transfer materials from an image to a subject
Arc rolls out ‘Call’ feature for AI search
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
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OPENAI
🤯 OpenAI controversy: ‘Sky’ speaks out
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The Rundown: There has been a wave of updates on several drama-filled OpenAI topics, including leaked documents related to the company’s controversial NDA clauses, new info surrounding the ‘Sky’ voice model, another resignation, and more.
The details:
The voice actress behind ChatGPT's 'Sky' voice has come forward, saying she was hired months before Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson.
Leaked documents with Sam Altman's signature contradict claims he was unaware of NDA clauses threatening to claw back former employees' equity.
OpenAI policy researcher Gretchen Kreuger resigned, with a post citing safety concerns about the company.
Teasers are coming out of presentations at the VivaTech conference, showing a potential move away from the ‘GPT-5’ name and a new Sora demo.
Why it matters: For a world-altering company, OpenAI continues to have reality TV levels of drama. The mounting controversies and resignations are impossible to ignore — and it certainly feels like another November 2023 fiasco is waiting to drop, despite the hype surrounding the upcoming releases.
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COHERE
🚀 Cohere unveils new multilingual LLMs
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The Rundown: C4AI, the non-profit research arm of Cohere, just launched Aya 23 — a family of state-of-the-art multilingual LLMs with open weights and support for 23 different languages.
The details:
Aya 23 has an 8B parameter model designed for efficiency and accessibility, and an advanced 35B parameter model based on the Command R architecture.
The models build on the previous Aya 101 initiative which covered 101 languages, now focusing more on depth.
Aya 23 significantly outperforms Aya 101 across a range of benchmarks, also exceeding other open rivals like Google’s Gemma and Mistral.
Why it matters: As AI's impact ripples across the globe, access to top models will become a make-or-break issue for many parts of the world. Democratizing access to these state-of-the-art multilingual models is a massive step towards ensuring that everyone can benefit from AI’s rapid advances.
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🎨 Transfer materials from an image to a subject
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Visit the "material-transfer" model on Replicate.
Select a high-quality material image and a subject image with good contrast.
Upload the material image to "material_image", the subject image to "subject_image", and add a brief description of your desired image.
Click "Run" and watch the AI work its magic.
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THE BROWSER COMPANY
📞 Arc rolls out ‘Call’ feature for AI search
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The Rundown: AI-powered app Arc Search just introduced ‘Call Arc’, a new feature enabling users to get quick answers by holding their phone to their ear and asking a question.
The details:
Call Arc is designed to provide instant voice responses to immediate questions, easier than typing out searches.
Users can access the feature by opening the iPhone app, holding the phone to their ear, and asking a question as if making a phone call.
The feature integrates with Arc Search's existing Voice Search, which is available as an action button on iPhones.
Why it matters: As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, intuitive features like this help bridge the gap between human communication and the advancing tech — potentially easing the transition as supercharged voice assistants soon hit the market.
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QUICK HITS
OpenAI secured a multi-year deal to license content from News Corp, allowing for AI training on material from outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, MarketWatch, and Barron’s.
Alphabet and Meta are reportedly offering millions to Hollywood studios for licensing content to train AI video generation software.
Elon Musk said that the rise of AI will make all jobs ‘optional’, with the combination of AI and robots providing ‘any goods and services you want’.
Google’s AI Overviews feature went viral after suggesting using ‘about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue’ to keep cheese from sliding off pizza.
Meta AI chief Yann LeCun said that LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence, arguing instead for a ‘world modeling’ approach to AI that may take 10 years to achieve.
Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly nearing a new $6.5B funding round with backing from VC’s including a16z, Lightspeed, Sequoia, and Tribe, potentially valuing the company at over $24B.
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