Earlier this year, it was rumored that Reddit is planning to license its data to an “anonymous” AI company. Today, OpenAI announced that they are partnering with Reddit, shocking? Not even. Considering the CEO of OpenAI owns 8.7% of Reddit.
This week was huge for artificial intelligence.
Major tech companies and startups announced groundbreaking AI advancements. These developments have me really excited about AI’s potential to transform our world.
OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, setting new records across text, vision, reasoning, and multilingual benchmarks. Google previewed features like AI-generated video with Veo and AI-powered Search Overviews using Gemini.
While some products need more time, the era of multimodal AI assistants that understand, reason and create across different formats is coming fast. As AI disrupts traditional business models, illustrated by startup Perplexity’s criticisms of Google, the future looks promising for enhanced knowledge accessibility and creativity driven by AI.
Get ready for an exciting ride!
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OpenAI and Reddit Partnership
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit’s content to ChatGPT and new products via Reddit’s Data API. The partnership enables AI-powered features for redditors and mods, with OpenAI becoming a Reddit ad partner.
ChatGPT now lets you import files directly from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive
ChatGPT now supports direct file imports from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive for Plus, Team, and Enterprise users. Users can interact with and customize imported spreadsheets, presentations, and documents within the ChatGPT interface.
Site Traffic Down? Google Just Made Some Big Search AI Changes
Google’s AI Overviews raise concerns among publishers about potential loss of traffic and revenue. While designed to provide answers directly, AI Overviews may discourage users from clicking through to sites.
Sam Altman throws shade at Google’s ‘aesthetic’
Sam Altman critiques Google’s event aesthetics compared to OpenAI’s more intimate and sleek presentation. Altman’s post highlights the stark contrast between the two companies’ AI events held within a day of each other.
Sophia the AI robot gives commencement speech at New York college
Sophia the AI robot delivered the commencement speech at D’Youville University’s graduation ceremony. Students were surprised and unsettled to have an artificial intelligence as their commencement speaker.
✱ Top news of the week!
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Hello GPT-4o
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, a groundbreaking AI model that pushes the boundaries of artificial intelligence. With enhanced capabilities across text, vision, reasoning, and multilingual tasks, GPT-4o sets new standards in AI performance.
- GPT-4o achieves GPT-4 Turbo-level performance on text, reasoning, and coding intelligence benchmarks.
- The model sets new high watermarks on multilingual, audio, and vision capabilities.
- GPT-4o scores 88.7% on 0-shot COT MMLU and 87.2% on 5-shot no-CoT MMLU, setting new records.
- The model achieves state-of-the-art performance on visual perception benchmarks in a 0-shot setting.
- GPT-4o’s new tokenizer compresses text up to 4.4x more efficiently across 20 different languages.
Google I/O Showed Gemini Still Needs Time to Bake
Google’s I/O 2024 keynote hinted at promising AI improvements powered by Gemini, but most features are not ready for prime time yet. Consumers will have to wait a bit longer for their “Her” moment with Google’s AI assistant.
- Google Search will soon feature “AI Overviews” that generate multi-paragraph responses to queries.
- Gmail’s Gemini-powered summarization features will roll out to Workspace Labs users this month.
- Some of Google’s promised AI features may require a Gemini Advanced subscription.
- Google is approaching AI with a sense of excitement while emphasizing its commitment to responsible development.
- Google Gemini is a multimodal AI platform that can generate text, images, video, audio, and code.
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever Resigns
Ilya Sutskever, a key figure in OpenAI’s rise, announced his departure from the AI pioneer on Tuesday. The move comes months after Sutskever’s involvement in the brief ousting of CEO Sam Altman last year.
- Sutskever, who joined OpenAI as research director in 2015, will be succeeded by Jakub Pachocki.
- In an X post, Sutskever expressed awe at OpenAI’s progress and confidence in its current leadership.
- Sutskever played a pivotal role in the brief dismissal of CEO Sam Altman last year.
- Following the turmoil, Sutskever stepped down from the board but remained at the company.
- Altman and Sutskever expressed mutual admiration and hope for future collaboration.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas takes shots at Google
Perplexity AI’s CEO believes Google will be the biggest loser in a world where AI provides direct answers to searches. Srinivas took jabs at Google’s business model and changing messaging around AI search.
- Srinivas gently mocked Google’s marketing resets as it has responded to the popularity of ChatGPT.
- He criticized Google’s business model, where the same links used for truth are also used for ads.
- Perplexity is exploring advertising revenue but aims to sell ads more indirectly to avoid compromising answers.
- Google has said ad dollars never influence search results, but sponsored results have grown more prominent.
- Perplexity recently raised $62.7 million, taking its total fundraising to $164 million and valuation over $1 billion.
Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video
At Google I/O 2024, the tech giant introduced Veo, a powerful AI model developed by DeepMind that can generate 1080p video clips from text prompts. Veo showcases impressive capabilities, setting a new standard in the video generation market.
- Veo can generate high-resolution, longer videos up to one minute in length based on text prompts.
- The model can capture various visual and cinematic styles, such as landscapes and timelapses.
- Veo supports masked editing for changes to specific areas of a video and can generate videos from a still image.
- Given a sequence of prompts that tell a story, Veo can generate longer videos beyond a minute in length.
- Veo will remain behind a waitlist on Google Labs for the foreseeable future.
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