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A new $100B NVIDIA competitor emerges
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The AI chip wars just got a new heavyweight contender.
Japanese multi-billionaire Masayoshi Son is putting $100B on the line to challenge NVIDIA — aiming not only to help develop AGI, but to lead it. Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
SoftBank founder builds an AI chip company
Reddit inks major AI data deal
How to use ChatGPT and Zapier to prepare for meetings
Mistral stealth drops demo of ‘next’ model
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
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SOFTBANK
🇯🇵 SoftBank founder builds an AI chip company
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The Rundown: SoftBank founder (and multi-billionaire) Masayoshi Son is reportedly looking to raise $100B to launch ‘Project Izanagi,’ an AI chip venture to compete with NVIDIA and push towards AGI.
The details:
Izanagi would aim to compete with chipmaking leader NVIDIA and complement Son's chip design firm, Arm Holdings.
With $30B potentially from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern backers, it would be one of the largest AI bets to date.
Son believes AGI will be realized within the next 10 years.
The venture is separate from Sam Altman’s chip production ambitions, though the two have reportedly spoken about potentially ‘joining forces’.
Why it matters: Global titans are racing to acquire the shovels for the AI chip gold rush, and Izanagi brings another well-funded challenger to the arena. If creating AGI is a matter of continuing to scale compute power, these new ventures may help avoid projected chip shortages that stand in the way.
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💰 Reddit inks major AI data deal
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The Rundown: Reddit has reportedly signed a $60M annual deal granting an unnamed AI firm access to its user-generated content for model training, with the deal coming prior to the company’s upcoming IPO.
The details:
Users have created Reddit's trove of content without compensation, sparking backlash over commercial use for AI training.
Reddit also reportedly considered blocking Google search crawlers if an AI data deal could not be found.
The $60M/year deal could establish a framework for future AI licensing agreements with social platforms.
Why it matters: As human data continues to fuel AI’s rise, social media platforms will increasingly find themselves with a goldmine of data ripe for training new models. While Meta and X have their own AI ambitions, others (like Reddit) may be content to reap the sudden external value of their data.
AI TRAINING
💼 How to use ChatGPT and Zapier to prepare for meetings
The Rundown: With Zapier's AI workflows and ChatGPT integration, you can create a Chief of Staff agent to prep you before your meetings.
Hat tip to Olivia Moore for the brilliant idea!
Step-by-step:
Go to Zapier to create your automation.
Connect your calendar and have the trigger fire 15 minutes before the start of the meeting, and instruct Zapier to filter the type of meetings you need help preparing for. For example, exclude meetings where the organizer’s email does not contain your company’s domain name.
Instruct Zapier to extract the company name from the meeting organizer’s email address.
Connect and prompt ChatGPT to research the company and the attendees and to write a summary of the purpose of the meeting.
Connect your email to have ChatGPT send you the meeting summary so you are ready for your next meeting!
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AI RESEARCH
👀 Mistral stealth drops demo of ‘next’ model
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The Rundown: French AI startup Mistral just quietly released a new model called ‘next’ for testing.
The details:
The model was made available to try on LMSYS Direct Chat, and only announced via a single Discord comment.
Early users tested the model on coding and reasoning, finding it on par or better than GPT-4.
Mistral received a massive $415M funding round in December, valuing the company at $2B.
Why it matters: Mistral feels like an absolute powerhouse lurking in the shadows, quietly releasing models that are pushing the top chatbots on the leaderboard. If a ‘next’ release does end up surpassing GPT-4, it would mark a milestone moment for open-source.
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OpenAI secured a tender offer led by Thrive Capital, elevating its valuation to over $80B and tripling the company’s value in just the last year.
Apple is building a new AI coding tool for Xcode to rival Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, aiming to improve developer efficiency and potentially reduce costs.
ElevenLabs teased a new AI Sound Effects feature, allowing users to generate audio via text prompts and showcasing the outputs in use with demos from OpenAI’s Sora release.
OpenAI announced the company is signing the Tech Accord, joining other major players in committing to help manage AI-related risks in the 2024 elections.
The NBA teased an ‘NB-AI’ voice assistant, which will transform live games into personalized experiences — such as turning a highlight into a fan’s favorite movie scene.
Air Canada was forced to refund a customer after losing a landmark case, with the court ruling that the company was responsible for info provided by its AI tools.
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OpenAI changes the AI video world!
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
We just witnessed one of the wilder AI days in recent memory.
Google came out hot with another new Gemini upgrade — but OpenAI countered with a stealth drop that just elevated AI video to a whole new level. Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI stealth drops Sora video generation model
Google unveils Gemini 1.5 with massive context window
How to verify Gemini’s responses with Google Search
Is Michigan selling student data for AI training?
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🎥 OpenAI stealth drops Sora video generation model
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The Rundown: OpenAI just unexpectedly introduced Sora, an impressive text-to-video AI model able to create realistic and cohesive video generations up to a minute long directly from text prompts and images.
The details:
Sora combines aspects of GPT and DALL-E to better understand physical dynamics and maintain details across generated shots for realistic outputs.
The model can generate video up to 60 seconds from both text prompts and still images, and can also insert scenes within existing video.
Sora is currently being offered to red-teamers and select creators to gain early feedback before potential wider release.
While training data is still unknown, NVIDIA AI researcher Dr. Jim Fan speculates the model was developed using synthetic data from Unreal Engine, calling it a ‘simulation of many worlds, real or fantastical’.
Why it matters: OpenAI just took a massive video leap out of nowhere, bringing us closer to outputs nearly indistinguishable from reality. Sora looks to bring both creative unlocks and new panic-inducing capabilities for bad actors. For better or worse… the AI video game just completely changed.
Check out some of the impressive video outputs here.
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✨ Google unveils Gemini 1.5 with massive context window
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The Rundown: A week after launching Gemini Ultra, Google just revealed an upgraded Gemini 1.5 model — featuring a groundbreaking 1M token context window (up to 10M in testing) to process vastly more data than previous AI systems.
The details:
Gemini 1.5 Pro can handle 700,000 words of text, 30,000 lines of code, 11 hours of audio, or 1 hour of video — enabling groundbreaking processing capabilities.
The upgrade maintains performance despite the large context window, with the ability to analyze granular details from huge blocks of text, code, and videos.
1.5 will be released to the public with a 128K context window, scaling up as the model is improved.
Currently, the full 1M token version is only available to approved developers and enterprise customers.
Beyond the expanded context, Gemini 1.5 brings improvements for more efficient performance on par with the top-tier Gemini Ultra model.
Why it matters: After just rolling out Gemini Advanced, Google shipped fast with another major upgrade. The massive context window unlocks new capabilities like analyzing entire books, full movies, large codebases, and more — giving Gemini a serious differentiator and a new leg up in the LLM wars.
AI TRAINING
✅ How to verify Gemini’s responses with Google Search
The Rundown: Gemini's latest performance and accuracy improvements are impressive, but it's important not to trust responses blindly (due to hallucinations). To verify correctness, you can now compare Gemini's answers with Google search results.
Step-by-Step:
Head to Gemini (free & premium) and enter your question or prompt.
Click the Google logo under Gemini's reply.
Google checks Gemini’s answer and marks the text according to what it finds. Green highlighted text means it found similar content. Orange highlight means it found different content.
You can then click on the highlighted content to get the relevant link from Google’s sources so that you can read more.
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
🚨 Is Michigan selling student data for AI training?
Image source: Catalyst Research Alliance
The Rundown: The University of Michigan is facing major backlash on X (formerly Twitter) after a third-party vendor of the institution advertised datasets of lectures and papers for licensing to AI firms for training LLMs, without student consent.
The details:
A Google DeepMind engineer posted a screenshot of an email received that offered over 80 hours of academic speeches and 829 unpublished student papers.
The advertisement was from Catalyst Research Alliance, with sample datasets including lectures from 1999 — and a price tag as high as $25k for the papers and recordings.
However, a Michigan spokesperson said the information shared was ‘inaccurate’ and the data was ‘voluntarily contributed.’
Why it matters: The University of Michigan says the data was voluntary, but it’s tough to argue that students and professors in the late 90’s and early 2000’s were consenting to being part of LLM training. This incident highlights the inevitable ethical issues coming as human data becomes increasingly valuable for AI models.
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OpenAI is reportedly developing a new web search service with Bing integration, looking to challenge Google's dominance in the search engine market.
Microsoft announced a new $3.44B investment in Germany focused on AI and data center development.
LangChain announced the public launch of its LangSmith platform for LLM app development, now open for general sign-up — while also revealing a fresh $25M Series A funding round.
Meta released V-JEPA, a new learning model for AI to better understand the physical world through video analysis and learn like humans do.
Slack integrated new generative AI features into the platform, including enhanced search, channel recaps, thread summaries, and more.
X is adding AI into its Explore tab, with trending topics set to get more context via Grok-generated summaries.
Magic announced a $117M raise led by former Github CEO Nat Friedman for its frontier-scale AI code models, seeking to build an ‘AI software engineer’.
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OpenAI co-founder quits (again)
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI’s research team just took a major blow, with co-founder and renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy announcing his departure from the company.
With this exit and the lingering mystery surrounding Ilya Sutskever’s exile — is something bigger brewing behind the scenes at OpenAI? Let’s investigate…
In today’s AI rundown:
Andrej Karpathy departs OpenAI
Apple makes mysterious AI domain purchase
How to save time & money when shopping using Vetted
LLMs improve human forecasting accuracy
7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
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OPENAI
😱 Andrej Karpathy departs OpenAI
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The Rundown: Renowned AI researcher and founding OpenAI member Andrej Karpathy just announced he is departing the company for a second time, posting on X that he plans to pursue personal projects.
The details:
Karpathy helped found OpenAI in 2016 before serving as Tesla's Senior Director of AI for five years, rejoining Sam Altman and co. in 2023.
The departure follows OpenAI’s drama with Altman and the board, which has since relegated fellow co-founder Ilya Sutskever to an unclear role in the company.
Karpathy emphasized that no drama or event led to the departure and that he was simply pursuing personal projects (including his famous AI lectures on YouTube).
Why it matters: Between the mystery surrounding Ilya Sutskever and now Karpathy’s departure, something seems fishy between the science and business arms of OpenAI. All eyes now turn to where Karpathy heads next — with likely no shortage of suitors for one of the world’s top AI minds.
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APPLE
🌐 Apple makes mysterious AI domain purchase
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The Rundown: Apple just acquired a new domain shortly after open-sourcing a new image editing model and releasing several AI-focused research papers, sparking speculation of major AI plans for its productivity apps.
The details:
Apple recently purchased the rights to iWork.ai at an expired domain auction, coinciding with expected major AI moves for Apple’s suite of products.
iWork has been used in Apple branding for nearly 20 years, referring to the suite of OS apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers
Apple recently released MLLM-Guided Image Editing, and reports have claimed iOS 18 will highlight Apple's biggest AI leap yet.
Why it matters: Between MGIE's release, new AI research, and the iOS 18 rumors, Apple appears to finally be building momentum in the sector after a slow start. But this domain purchase making headlines could be the rumor mill trying to will new AI moves into existence. Patience, Apple lovers!
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AI RESEARCH
🔮 LLMs improve human forecasting accuracy
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The Rundown: New research just found that access to a GPT-4T LLM assistant boosted forecasting accuracy by 23% over basic AI access, regardless of the assistant's bias — indicating benefit beyond prediction accuracy.
The details:
The study tested both biased (instructed to give extreme forecasts) and unbiased (instructed to be an objective ‘superforecaster’) assistants.
Both biased and unbiased LLM assistants helped humans make much better forecasts.
Excluding one confusing question, the unbiased assistant improved human accuracy by 43%, while the biased one improved it by 28%.
Why it matters: This study focused on predictions, but the ability of even biased AI to enhance human reasoning likely applies to many judgment-heavy areas like business, policymaking, and medicine. One day soon, we may be bouncing ideas off a panel of super-intelligent assistants to analyze a decision.
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Google is establishing a new AI hub in France, with plans to host around 300 researchers and engineers in Paris following its inauguration this week.
Stability AI introduced a research preview of Stable Cascade, a new image generation model with a new architecture for more efficient and detailed image creation.
A California court partially dismissed the copyright case against OpenAI, brought by authors including comedian Sarah Silverman, keeping the direct infringement claim while throwing out others.
Replit introduced new collaborative features in AI Chat, allowing for joint coding sessions, as well as the ability to manage multiple chat sessions and seamlessly switch between tasks without losing progress.
Google has been bolstering its fight against fake online reviews using an AI algorithm, blocking over 170M fraudulent reviews in 2023 to protect businesses on Maps and Search.
Artist Alicia Framis is set to become the first woman to marry an AI-generated hologram, as part of her art project 'Hybrid Couple’.
OpenAI and Microsoft have disrupted operations of five state-affiliated cyber threats, including malicious actors out of China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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Zuck's Vision Pro review
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
Apple’s Vision Pro may be the talk of the tech world, but not everyone is impressed...
Mark Zuckerberg just came out swinging on Instagram, calling out Apple's ‘fanboys’ and staking Meta’s claim to the headset throne. Game on.
In today’s tech rundown:
Zuck: Quest ‘better product’ than Vision Pro
Scientists create flexible, long-lasting calcium battery
7 New products
X under fire for terrorist verifications
SpaceX retires 100 Starlink satellites
Vision Pro surpasses 1,000 apps
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
META
🥽 Zuck: Quest ‘better product’ than Vision Pro
Image source: Mark Zuckerberg on Instagram
The Rundown: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to social media to compare his company’s headset with the newly-released Apple Vision Pro, arguing that the Quest 3 is ‘the better product’ based on factors like cost, weight, and immersion.
The details:
Zuckerberg highlighted the Quest 3's lighter weight for comfort, lack of wires for freedom of motion, and much lower $1500 price tag.
He praised aspects like the Vision Pro's display resolution but said it required too many tradeoffs — convinced that the Quest is better for ‘the vast majority of things’.
Zuck reiterated Meta's head start in the headset race while slighting "fanboys" who assume Apple leads in new technologies.
Why it matters: As Apple tries to stake claim to the mixed-reality headset throne, Meta is here to remind the world who came first. While the Vision Pro has captured the deadlines, Zuck seems confident and reassured that his tech can out-duel Apple’s hype.
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BATTERY TECH
🔋 Scientists create flexible, long-lasting calcium battery
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The Rundown: Chinese researchers just developed a calcium-oxygen battery that is able to be charged repeatedly at room temperature – marking a milestone for finding more abundant alternatives to lithium-ion batteries.
The details:
Researchers at Shanghai’s Fundan University were able to charge and discharge the battery completely for up to 700 cycles, a milestone in the field of energy storage.
Calcium is 2,500 times more abundant than lithium, making the battery a more sustainable option than traditional lithium-ion tech.
It also maintains stability when bent, which could enable woven, wearable textile batteries to be compatible with smartphones.
Why it matters: While battery tech has seemingly lagged behind other breakthroughs, it feels like a revolution is coming soon. This alternative suggests possibilities for cheaper, safer batteries minus lithium supply constraints — with potential uses from EVs to flexible electronics.
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X is under scrutiny for allegedly offering paid verification services to accounts linked to Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities, raising concerns over potential violations.
Apple’s Vision Pro surpassed 1,000 apps on the device, showcasing developer enthusiasm for its spatial computing capabilities.
Tesla rolled out a new software update introducing features to target cold weather challenges, including informing drivers when a battery is warm enough for charging and automatically defrosting ports.
Google introduced enhanced Android security with a "Safe Browsing" feature to alert users about phishing attempts and malware.
Lyft CEO David Risher apologized for a clerical error in a press release that mistakenly inflated the company's earnings outlook, causing a significant stock surge.
SpaceX is retiring 100 Starlink satellites due to an unidentified flaw, aiming for a controlled descent to mitigate the risk of becoming space debris.
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ChatGPT gets a memory!
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Ever feel like ChatGPT is a bit… Forgetful? So did OpenAI.
A new memory feature will let ChatGPT learn and remember details across chats — paving the way for more natural, personalized assistants. Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI tests new ChatGPT memory capabilities
Nvidia releases local RTX chatbot for PCs
How to use ChatGPT-V to describe objects on the go
Cohere’s massively multilingual Aya model
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
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OPENAI
🧠 OpenAI tests new ChatGPT memory capabilities
Image source: OpenAI
The Rundown: OpenAI just launched a new experiment to select users, enabling ChatGPT to remember key details from prior chats, aiming to provide more helpful and personalized responses in future conversations.
The details:
Users can control what's remembered, with options to delete specifics, wipe memory, or disable the feature.
ChatGPT can pick up on preferences, contexts, instructions, and other relevant info to improve over time and remember details across chats.
GPTs will also be able to leverage distinct memory capabilities when enabled by their builders.
The experiment is rolling out to a small percentage of both free and plus users this week, with a broader rollout expected at a later date.
Why it matters: Features like memory are key stepping stones towards more natural chatbot interactions that better understand personal contexts while still maintaining user control. Personalized and tailored AI assistants are inching closer every day!
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NVIDIA
👁️🗨️ Nvidia releases local RTX chatbot for PCs
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The Rundown: Nvidia just released Chat with RTX, a free chatbot demo that can run leading open-source models locally on Windows RTX PCs, with the ability to analyze process responses based on a user's own files and data.
The details:
Chat with RTX can query documents, videos, and other local content for fast, relevant answers without needing the internet.
The chatbot keeps data on device rather than relying on cloud services, enhancing privacy.
The app can also integrate data from YouTube videos and playlists by simply providing a URL.
You can download NVIDIA Chat with RTX here if you use a Windows RTX PC or workstation.
Why it matters: Nvidia’s making serious power moves with Chat with RTX — firing shots at closed, online models like ChatGPT while pumping RTX sales and breaking into the consumer chatbot space with local PC integration.
AI TRAINING
📸 How to use ChatGPT-V to describe objects on the go
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The Rundown: With the impressive speed and accuracy of GPT-4 Vision, you can now use your iPhone to get descriptions of places and objects by simply double-taping the back of your phone.
Hat tip to Alvaro Cintas for this creative idea.
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Generate and copy a new OpenAI API key.
Add your Open AI key to the GPT-4 shortcut.
On your iPhone, go to Settings —> Accessibility —> Touch —> Back Tap —> Double Tab —> GPT-4 Vision shortcut.
You are all set! With the camera open, double-tap the back of your phone to receive a description of the object.
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AI RESEARCH
🤖 Cohere’s massively multilingual Aya model
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The Rundown: Cohere researchers just introduced Aya, a multilingual AI model that expands capabilities across 101 languages, 50% of which are lower-resourced — significantly expanding coverage while maintaining effectiveness.
The details:
Aya was trained on 2.5 times more data, covering over twice as many languages as prior multilingual AI models.
Despite significantly greater language coverage, Aya outperformed comparable models like mT0, BLOOMZ, and Bactrian-X across benchmarks.
Extensive data weighting and pruning balances representation across higher and lower-resourced languages, expanding beyond data-rich languages.
Why it matters: By greatly expanding language coverage, Aya works towards democratizing access to AI capabilities beyond dialects with the most data for training — while still maintaining high performance. The days of universal translation and global access to AI chatbots are inching closer.
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QUICK HITS
Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI and top AI researchers worldwide, has departed from OpenAI.
Nous Research introduced Hermes 2 Llama-2 70B, its largest model trained on over 1M synthetic data entries, also featuring advanced prompt formats for enhanced dialogue interaction.
Sam Altman spoke at the World Government Summit, revealing insights on GPT-5 capability expectations, AI regulation, and more.
GitHub announced a new cohort for its Accelerator program, dedicating $40,000 in funding and resources to projects making open-source AI advancements.
Researchers unveiled AutoMathText, a new strategy that improves the mathematical reasoning of AI models by autonomously evaluating and selecting high-quality content.
ElevenLabs is expanding its Speech to Speech feature into 29 different languages, allowing for multilingual custom voices with maintained emotion and consistency.
Dozens of protestors gathered outside of OpenAI’s San Francisco office to object to the development of AGI and the company backtracking on its military affiliation stance.
The University of Pennsylvania became the first Ivy League institution to offer an undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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Lyft's billion-dollar typo
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
Lyft just took its investors on the ride of their lives.
The rideshare giant saw its stock soar on initial reporting — before a costly typo erased a casual $2B in market value. Fasten your seatbelts!
In today’s tech rundown:
Lyft shares surge, then plunge after earnings typo
Giant tidal ‘kite’ delivers first power to grid
7 New products
Mozilla resizes, cuts 5% of workforce
Intuitive Machines set for moon launch
Stellantis finally adopts EV fast charger standard
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
LYFT
🚕 Lyft shares surge, then plunge after earnings typo
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The Rundown: Lyft shares initially spiked over 60% on stronger-than-expected earnings but plummeted after a typo in a key growth figure in what turned into a rollercoaster day for the rideshare company.
The details:
The earnings release said 2024 margin expansion would be 500 basis points (5%), but the CFO corrected it to only 50 (.5%) on the call.
After soaring 64% on the initial news, the typo erased over $2B in Lyft’s market value.
Q4 numbers were positive, with a 4% revenue rise to $1.22B, and the company expects positive free cash flow for the first time in 2024.
Lyft shares have struggled since its IPO in 2019 and were down 19% this year prior to reporting.
Why it matters: Lyft’s wild stock chart looks like something out of the crypto world. While everyone makes a mistake from time to time — doing it on a public earnings report has to be one of the more expensive typos in history.
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ENERGY TECH
⛵️ Giant tidal ‘kite’ delivers first power to grid
Image source: Minesto
The Rundown: A 28-ton tidal energy device called the Dragon 12 has started generating renewable electricity in the Faroe Islands from marine currents, marking a milestone for ocean energy.
The details:
The kite moves in a repeated figure-eight motion to generate water flow around the device.
It uses currents to produce 1.2MW — enough to power around 1,000 homes.
It’s designed by Swedish company Minesto to be smaller and more efficient than massive tidal turbines.
With €40m in EU funding, the Dragon 12 demonstrates a new competitive renewable energy approach suitable for islands and coastal communities.
Why it matters: Harnessing reliable tidal currents could augment less consistent wind and solar options, especially for more remote areas — and modular tech like Minesto's kite helps pave the way for competitive and scalable marine energy.
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SNIPPETS
Walmart is reportedly in talks to acquire TV maker Vizio for around $2B, aiming to compete with Amazon and other retailers in the affordable smart TV market.
Intuitive Machines is set to launch its first lunar lander, aiming to become the first private company to successfully land on the moon.
The EU decided that Apple’s iMessage, as well as Microsofts Bing and Edge, won’t face harsher rules under the Digital Markets Act after they were not ruled as ‘core platform services’.
Mozilla announced that the company is laying off about 5% of its workforce, focusing resources on Firefox Mobile and AI initiatives.
Waymo issued its first software recall following issues that caused two robotaxis to crash into the same pickup truck in Phoenix last December.
Stellantis announced it will adopt the J3400 EV charging standard starting in 2025, becoming the last major automaker to switch over — but curiously didn’t mention Tesla’s Supercharger network in the press release.
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Sam Altman Vs. Jensen Huang
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Two AI titans are accelerating at breakneck speeds — but see very different paths forward for the industry.
With $7T at stake, the 2024 AI frenzy has become a battle between Jensen Huang and Sam Altman… but will the two forces eventually collide? Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
Nvidia CEO downplays Altman’s AI chip fundraising
Gen Z embraces AI with open arms
How to convert a diagram to text to learn faster
Apple research unlocks new AI animation workflow
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
NVIDIA
💰 Nvidia CEO downplays Altman’s AI chip fundraising
Image source: World Government Summit
The Rundown: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he expects computing advances to cap AI costs well below the reported $7T Sam Altman is targeting for semiconductor production, grabbing headlines during a conversation at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
The details:
Huang anticipates faster chips will increase efficiency, reducing overall AI spending needs significantly lower than Altman’s $7T chip initiative.
The CEO urged nations to use cultural data to build "sovereign AI" infrastructure and intelligence, emphasizing the need for countries to own their own data.
He also estimated the global cost of AI data centers to double to $2T in the next 5 years.
Nvidia also made headlines in the stock market, with its market value rising to $1.8T and surpassing Amazon on Monday.
Why it matters: In Nvidia’s eyes, data is the new gold — and while AI compute demands seem endless now, Huang clearly anticipates a shift to efficiency over compute. With two titans both accelerating in different paths, is there room for both to succeed? Or is a collision inevitable?
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AI & THE WORKPLACE
🫂 Gen Z embraces AI with open arms
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The Rundown: Unlike older generations more fearful of AI's impact in the workforce, Gen Z views AI tools as a career advantage and are actively integrating it into their studies and job applications.
The details:
A third of 2024 grads and over half of tech majors are planning to use AI professionally, according to a trends report from Handshake.
48% of Gen Z thinks AI will advance their careers by providing faster knowledge access.
LinkedIn saw a 75% monthly increase in AI skills added to Gen Z profiles in 2023.
57% of Gen Z respondents and 62% of millennials reported being more excited about benefits of AI than worried about the risks.
Why it matters: Most of the talk surrounding AI and work is centered on taking jobs — but Gen Z doesn’t seem to share the fears of older counterparts. Just like millennials with computers or smartphones, Gen Z will likely see using AI as second nature as it integrates into every aspect of our lives.
AI TRAINING
📊 How to convert a diagram to text to learn faster
Image source: Cameron R. Wolfe
The Rundown: With leading LLMs rapidly improving image-to-text vision capabilities, you can now quickly summarise and describe confusing diagrams and charts using ChatGPT or Gemini. Try it with the image above!
Step-by-step:
Go to ChatGPT or Gemini. You need to upgrade to premium versions of the tools for vision to work.
Based on our tests, ChatGPT+ Vision is slightly better than Gemini Advanced Vision. However, Gemini offers two months free.
Upload a confusing graph, chart, diagram, or even your homework.
Provide a prompt asking to explain the diagram and summarize the key takeaways, such as: “This is a picture of my [X]. Please summarize key takeaways in bullet point format“.
Continue asking questions until you have a good understanding of the content.
AI RESEARCH
✏️ Apple research unlocks new AI animation workflow
Image source: Apple
The Rundown: Apple researchers just introduced Keyframer, a tool to transform static images into animations via natural language prompts with LLMs.
The details:
Keyframer allows users to animate Scalable Vector Graphics by describing the desired animation via a GPT prompt.
Keyframer leverages GPT-4 to convert the user’s natural language prompt into CSS animation code, which it applies to the image.
Users can iteratively build animations through sequential prompting, with natural language commands catering to both novices and experts.
Why it matters: By combining prompting and editing, Keyframer shows how LLMs can enable wider audiences to engage in animation creation — lowering the barrier to entry into what was once a labor-intensive and niche expertise.
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QUICK HITS
ElevenLabs introduced a new feature for voice actors to upload clones to the platform’s Voice Library, earning cash rewards each time the voice is used.
Microsoft Azure announced updates to its Azure OpenAI Service, including a new Assistants API for building copilot experiences, new model support, text-to-speech capabilities, and more.
Surveillance AI startup Aware revealed major employers like Walmart, Delta Air Lines, and Starbucks use its tech to analyze worker communications for risk.
Brain artist studio introduced Goody-2, a hyper-cautious AI chatbot designed to humorously exaggerate AI safety measures by refusing all requests.
Romantic AI chatbots are reportedly surging in popularity amongst women in China, utilizing platforms like Glow and Wantalk for emotional support and romantic interaction.
The White House is developing a cryptographic verification system for President Joe Biden's videos to combat the rise of AI-generated deepfakes.
Microsoft introduced "Automatic Super Resolution" in Windows 11, an AI-assisted feature designed to upscale video and image quality in games.
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Self-driving Waymo robo-car set on fire...
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
Autonomous vehicles are on fire in San Francisco — and not in a good way.
A Waymo self-driving car was vandalized and set on fire this weekend, with tensions continuing to ignite over the tech’s rise across the city. Let’s investigate…
In today’s tech rundown:
Waymo driverless car set on fire as tensions grow
Tiny space robot simulates remote surgery
8 new products
Amazon faces class-action lawsuit over price manipulation
Xbox rumored to be moving multi-platform
Temu doubles down on Super Bowl ad spending
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
WAYMO
🔥 Waymo driverless car set on fire as tensions grow
Image source: Reuters
The Rundown: A crowd surrounded and lit fire to a Waymo self-driving taxi during a weekend celebration in San Francisco, destroying the vehicle and highlighting tensions around the tech’s use in the city.
The details:
A crowd surrounded the autonomous vehicle, breaking the glass and throwing fireworks inside to engulf it in flames.
No passengers were in the vehicle, and the motives for the vandalism were unclear.
Distrust of driverless tech is reportedly high in San Francisco after recent Waymo accidents and traffic issues.
Past disruptions include last year’s ‘Week of Cone’, which saw groups disrupt autonomous vehicles with traffic cones, and individual attacks on Cruise robotaxis.
Why it matters: The battle between U.S. cities and self-driving tech continues — and the event highlights the human factor that companies must consider when developing autonomous tech. This is why we can’t have nice things!
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ROBOTIC TECH
🤖 Tiny space robot simulates remote surgery
Image source: University of Nebraska
The Rundown: MIRA, a 2-pound robotic assistant, just arrived at the International Space Station — becoming the first surgical robot in space and practice zero gravity operations.
The details:
Invented at the University of Nebraska, MIRA will perform a simulated surgery with remote guidance from a surgeon in Nebraska.
MIRA aims to assess the feasibility of telesurgery for future space travel, as well as address surgeon shortages around the globe.
Weighing 1,000x less than existing technologies, MIRA was designed for portability.
After 20 years in development, data from the current mission will help dictate the next steps for surgical robots in extreme environments.
Why it matters: By sending robotic surgery capabilities to space, researchers are pushing boundaries on two fronts — potentially expanding access to remote medicine across the globe, as well as providing new medical capabilities to astronauts in space.
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SNIPPETS
Threads is testing a new feature in the US that displays currently popular discussion topics, akin to a trending topics function, on the platform.
A class action lawsuit alleges that Amazon manipulates its platform, causing most of its US customers to overpay for items by promoting higher-priced options through its biased "Buy Box" algorithm.
Phil Spencer will discuss the future of Xbox and potential multi-platform developments on the Official Xbox Podcast on February 15.
A federal judge has ordered Elon Musk to comply with an SEC subpoena to testify regarding his acquisition of Twitter.
Russian forces claim to be using Starlink terminals on the front line of battles in Ukaraine, though Elon Musk called the reports ‘categorically false’.
Chinese e-commerce platform Temu doubled down on its Super Bowl push with a series of TV ads and $15M+ in giveaways, garnering attention for its heavy spending during the big game.
X announced that advertisers can now target ads next to a curated list of creators to avoid appearing with controversial content, aiming to lure creators amid a 50% ad revenue drop in 2023.
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