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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
January 12, 2025
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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
AI-HOY and happy Sunday, dear AInauts!
Maybe you didn't catch all the exciting news, tools and hacks about AI last week, or maybe you've just joined us. No need to worry!
We have summarized our highlights of the past week for you:
Finally, we have the most important quick news for you at the end - so you can keep an eye on all relevant developments with just one click! Ready? Let's go!
The BILD method (create basis, prepare ideas, create layout, start distribution) revolutionizes book writing! With tools such as NotebookLM or Google Gemini Deep Research, research becomes super easy. The content is enhanced in Google AI Studio and gets a visual glow up with Napkin.ai. The layout is created in Google Docs, while the AI image creator of your choice ensures a captivating cover. After just 90 minutes, you have your own book - ready for social media and you can even publish it on Amazon KDP!
The "Unbound Academy" in Arizona is revolutionizing the education system as the first school in the world without human teachers. With just two hours of AI-supported lessons per day, students achieve impressive results. Core subjects are taught in four 25-minute sessions, while the time gained is used for practical future skills.
The AI adapts individually to each student and enables personalized learning paths. Human guides remain as emotional support. Despite impressive test results, there are critical voices regarding the development of social skills and quality control.
ChatGPT proves to be a versatile digital coach that can be used to provide support in a wide variety of areas of life. The AI assistant helps with personal and professional development, acts as a sparring partner and offers creative solutions to everyday challenges.
Using AI locally is now easier than ever! With Ollama, language models such as Llama 3.2 can be installed on your own computer at lightning speed and free of charge. The only important thing is a decent hardware - the Mac Mini with M4 chip offers the best price-performance ratio here. However, the compact 2GB model also runs on older computers.
For those who like it more convenient: Chatbot Ollama or Lobe Chat offer user-friendly ChatGPT-like interfaces. Installation is super easy with the Pinokio browser - perfect for techies!
At CES, NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang presented "Project Digits" - an AI supercomputer for private users. While most are still in the Generative AI phase, NVIDIA has already arrived at Physical AI.
The new home computer enables local execution of AI models without cloud or internet, with impressive performance of 1 petaflop and 128GB memory. Launch is planned for May 2025, with an expected starting price of $3,000. A technical milestone for AI enthusiasts that rings in the future of local AI use.
Different AI language models show different strengths in data analysis. While Claude 3.5 Sonnet shines with marketing texts, OpenAI o1 is great for complex questions. Gemini 2.0 Flash is suitable for long conversations, DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3 for programming. In a practical test to analyze lead lists, the models delivered different results - from 38 to 45 instead of the correct 42. For better results, model stacking or the parallel use of several models via OpenRouter is recommended.
📰 AI news quickie: The HAI highlights from the industry
The news are coming in fast, here are the most important updates for you!
AI applications and tools in everyday life
How to set up ChatGPT as an assistant on your iPhone - simply map the action button to Advanced Voice, including video and internet search.
The simple Flowdrafter allows you to write faster without constantly correcting yourself as you write - fewer edits, more flow!
With ebook2audiobook, you can turn eBooks into high-quality audiobooks with chapters and metadata thanks to AI - in over 1100 languages.
Cobalt is great to download videos, audio and images directly from your favorite websites - just insert a link and get started!
Thanks to SheepScript, you can turn a video or podcast into snappy social media posts with AI support.
Stackfix compares software for you in a matter of seconds. You can find the right solution for your needs with just a few clicks.
Impakt is perfect for your resolutions: it's the first fusion of AI, SocialFi and fitness. Do workouts, get real-time feedback and share your progress with the community.
The Simple AI Phone Assistant is available in the iPhone App Store and can make phone calls on behalf of the user.
The simple prompt "write better code" ensures that Claude 3.5 speeds up the execution time of a Python program by over 100 times. Unexpected enterprise features have also been added! Clever, isn't it?
AI models and training
Meta introduced it and killed it again: unpopular AI bot profiles on Instagram shock users!
Google bought Character AI because they could reduce the cost of inference management. This is the key to Gemini's success!
Elon Musk and his xAI team have not been able to meet the Grok 3 deadline... but at least they released the Grok iPhone app in the USA.
Fancy an AI Python for Beginners course? DeepLearning.AI offers this and other training courses.
For those who prefer reading: the 2025 AI Engineer Reading List offers a curated selection to optimally prepare AI engineers!
Or take the Google Prompting Essentials course to learn how to give clear instructions to generative AI in 5 easy steps.
The web is about to change! AI agents everywhere, while OpenAI and Google are working on AI browsers that control our computers - and that will revolutionize our browsing experience (keep an eye on this list).
2025 will be a year of technology wonders! From the gigantic Vera C. Rubin Observatory for astronomical discovery to smart and sleek robotaxis and groundbreaking Generative AI search capabilities - read more in MIT Technology Review.
In his reflections, Sam Altman talks about the rise of ChatGPT, his personal lessons learned from ups and downs, and the importance of AGI for the future of humanity. Now more than ever, right?
The founders of Anthropic discuss the past, present and future of AI in their latest session.
Robotics and automation
CES 2025 showcases cool advances in the world of robots: from cleaning robots with arms to emotional companions that enchant your everyday life!
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang inspires with humanoids, self-driving cars and a market worth 38 billion dollars for robots.
German Bionics presents the Apogee Ultra, an exoskeleton that supports an impressive 80 pounds when lifting. It makes working in logistics and construction easier = less back pain, more efficiency!
AgiBot has released the world's largest humanoid robot dataset with over 1 million movements to advance AI robot training.
The Unitree B2-W currently costs USD 100,000, but could cost just a fraction of that in five years' time - with better hardware! The robot revolution is just around the corner.
A Waymo robotaxi collided with a delivery robot in Los Angeles - the crash was minor and the delivery robot escaped!
Boston Dynamics is laying off 5% of its employees because the company is burning too much money...
AI in companies and the economy
AI has increased the value of the 100 most valuable platforms by almost 50 percent to 22.7 trillion dollars. America dominates with 86%, while Europe and Africa lag far behind.
The wave of investment in generative AI exploded in 2024 with a whopping 56 billion US dollars, setting a record!
Andrew Wilkinson paid $5,000 for a complicated memo from a lawyer, but Claude immediately provided him with a clear answer to the same question. RIP, conventional legal advice!
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Your AInauts,
Fabian & Reto
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