🗞 OpenAI's DevDay 2024: Cost-Cutting and Developer-Empowering AI Updates 🔧

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI's DevDay 2024: Cost-Cutting and Developer-Empowering AI Updates 🔧

• OpenAI's AI 'Agents': Autonomous Task Performers Coming in 2025 🤖

• Microsoft Copilot Upgrade: Voice, Vision, and Personalized AI Features 🎙️

• Apple's 2025 Lineup: AI-Powered iPhone SE and Updated iPad Air 📱

• Nvidia Challenges GPT-4 with Powerful New AI Model NVLM 1.0 🧠

• Perplexity AI Launches Native Mac App with Pro Features 🍎

• Character.ai Pivots to Consumer Products After $2.7bn Google Deal 💼

• Other news you might find interesting 👀

🔧 OpenAI's DevDay 2024 introduces cost-cutting and developer-empowering AI updates. Link

• Prompt Caching offers 50% discount on recently processed input tokens, potentially saving developers thousands.

• Vision Fine-Tuning for GPT-4o allows customization of visual understanding capabilities, improving accuracy in various applications.

• Realtime API enables low-latency, multimodal experiences, particularly beneficial for speech-to-speech applications.

🤖 OpenAI set to launch AI 'agents' in 2025, capable of performing tasks independently. Link

• CEO Sam Altman confirmed AI agents are on track for release next year, marking stage three of AGI development.

• Agents could perform complex tasks like ordering products or managing emails without human input.

• While promising increased efficiency, alignment with human values remains a key challenge for safe deployment.

🗣️ Microsoft revamps Copilot with voice, vision, and personalized AI features. Link

• Copilot gains voice interaction capabilities, allowing natural conversations similar to OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode.

• New Copilot Vision feature enables the AI to analyze and respond to web content users are viewing.

• Redesigned interface offers a more personalized experience, including Copilot Daily for news summaries and Think Deeper for complex queries.

🆕 Apple reportedly launching new iPhone SE with AI, updated iPad Air, and Magic Keyboard in early 2025. Link

• Next iPhone SE expected to adopt iPhone 14-like design with edge-to-edge screen and Face ID.

• New iPhone SE will support Apple Intelligence, currently only available on iPhone 15 Pro and 16 models.

• Updated iPad Air models coming with "internal improvements" and a new version of the Magic Keyboard.

📦 Nvidia launches NVLM 1.0, a powerful new AI model rivaling OpenAI's GPT-4. Link

• The flagship NVLM-D-72B model has 72 billion parameters and excels at vision-language tasks while improving text performance.

• It can interpret charts/tables, analyze images, understand memes, code software, and solve math problems.

• The model is open for research but restricted from commercial use or modifications, limiting its "open source" nature.

🖥️ Perplexity AI announces native Mac app launching October 15th. Link

• The app will be available for download on the Mac App Store, unlike ChatGPT's macOS app.

• Features include Pro Search with voice/text input, Thread Follow-Up for continued conversations, source tracking, and history search.

• It will be free to download with an optional Perplexity Pro subscription available.

• Perplexity is an AI-powered conversational search tool that uses its own large language models.

💼 Character.ai shifts focus to consumer products after $2.7bn Google deal, abandoning AI model development race. Link

• The start-up will concentrate on improving its popular chatbot product that simulates conversations with various characters and celebrities, reaching 20 million monthly active users.

• Character.ai distributed $2.7bn from the Google transaction among employees in a co-operative structure, giving the company an 18-month runway.

• The pivot reflects broader industry trends, with concerns growing about Big Tech dominating the AI sector as start-ups struggle with the high costs of developing large language models.

More news you might find interesting:

AI and Technology Developments:

• ✍️ DeepMind's SCoRe enables LLMs to self-correct using internal knowledge, outperforming other methods. Link

• 🎥 Pika launches version 1.5 with innovative AI special effects, challenging competitors in the text-to-video space. Link

• 🚀 Nvidia's next-gen RTX 5090 GPU promises unprecedented power, while RTX 5080 specs disappoint. Link

AI in Healthcare and Research:

• 🧬 Recursion Pharmaceuticals gets FDA approval for phase 1 trials of AI-discovered cancer treatment. Link

• 🧠 Synchron's brain-computer interface achieves major milestone in US clinical trial, outpacing Neuralink. Link

AI in Business and Enterprise:

• 🚨 AI assistants in the workplace are inadvertently sharing sensitive information, raising privacy concerns. Link

• 🎨 Pinterest unveils AI-powered creative tools and Performance+ Suite to boost advertiser ROI. Link

• 🤝 Accenture and NVIDIA partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption with new Business Group and AI Refinery platform. Link

AI Companies and Personnel:

• 👋 OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma joins Anthropic, bolstering the AI company's talent roster. Link

• 🤖 Before Mira Murati's unexpected departure from OpenAI, employees complained that the o1 model had been launched too early. Link

AI in Sports:

• 🏎️ AI is transforming Formula 1 across teams, fans, and drivers. Link

Legal and Regulatory:

• 🏛️ Federal judge allows FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon to proceed, some claims dropped. Link

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