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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
November 23, 2024
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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
AI-HOI and happy weekend, 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:
And at the end, we also have the most important Quick News for you - so you can keep an eye on all relevant developments with just one click! Ready? Let's go!
We're sharing a powerful prompt that lets you analyze your writing style down to the smallest detail - style DNA hacking for everyone! You can try out the GPT here:
With our "StylePro" prompt, you create a multidimensional style profile with which you can copy your own writing style. This allows you to create your own GPT that writes emails, blog posts and more in your style.
P.S.: Curious what it's like to write in the style of Alex Hormozi or Gary Vee? No problem! Use our GPTs and take your text game to the next level!
While we are excited about the possibilities of AI, our uneasy feelings are also increasing... Bill Gates reveals his top 3 AI nightmares: cybercrime, job losses and loss of control.
And he's not alone: OpenAI employees rebel, hackers warn against AGI, Max Tegmark longs for simple tool AI instead of AGI, while Boston Dynamics' robots explore the world on their own. Even AI models like Claude and Gemini are going off the rails!
Regulation? Not a chance. According to Microsoft's AI boss Mustafa Suleyman, we are currently breeding a new digital alien species. Sounds like sci-fi? But it's our reality.
via X
Hey, have you heard about Google's new gadget NotebookLM? TIME calls it one of the best innovations of 2023! 🚀 It allows you to organize and analyze information from various sources and even create podcasts. How cool is that?
Whether it's Second Brain for students, reports, marketing materials or analyzing complex documents - the possibilities are endless! Particularly ingenious: the audio overviews. Create your own podcast and listen to it at any time via Spotify. 🎧
🤯 The time has come to finally give Europe some of the AI love, too!
The French are really hitting their stride! Mistral has unveiled its new multimodal model Pixtral, outperforming even Google and OpenAI. With a context window of 128K tokens, it processes 30 high-resolution images or a 300-page book at once.
But the big hit is Le Chat: it's the free equivalent of ChatGPT. With web search, ingenious image generation via the FLUX model from BlackForestLabs and a smart canvas feature, it really rocks. Oh, and as we’ve said: it's FREE!
Perplexity, the AI start-up that Google would love to swallow, is bringing a breath of fresh air to online shopping. With its AI search engine, you can now shop directly - no detours necessary!
It even understands complex queries such as "I would like to furnish my home office in a modern way. Budget: 2,000 dollars. What do I need?" Zack, a list of furniture and decorations, some even with a one-click purchasing offer for Pro users. A clever attack on Google, Amazon & Co!
Outlier Ventures has published the Post-Web Thesis and is shaking up our understanding of the future Internet. Forget the Attention Economy - welcome to the era of the Intention Economy! Instead of vying for our attention, the Internet of tomorrow will fulfill our intentions.
Through the fusion of AI and Web3, AI agents will take over the complex tasks while we simply express our wishes. Not science fiction, but reality! Web1 let us read, Web2 let us create, Web3 let us own - and the post-web lets us delegate.
And here is the NotebookLM audio summary.
📰 AI news quickie: The HAI-lights from the industry
Finally, the most important news from the last week. Have fun!
OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google, NVIDIA & Elon
Sam Altman makes it clear that, in his view, there are no limits to the scaling of AI systems - the future is taking shape.
ChatGPT is the 8th most visited website with 3.7 billion hits - Google Gemini is far behind with 292 million, but at least Google Learn About ChatGPT beats Search in the test (our article here).
ChatGPT beats doctors in diagnosis with a 90% hit rate - will this soon (hopefully) revolutionize our healthcare?
The long-awaited Advanced Voice Mode has recently become available in Europe, and for ChatGPT Plus users is now also available on the web - be sure to check it out if you haven't already!
Explosive emails between Musk and Altman reveal the early OpenAI power struggles - more exciting than any Silicon Valley thriller, audio deepdive here!
Elon's xAI secures $6 billion for 100,000 Nvidia chips - SamA won't like that at all ... Btw, record quarter for NVIDIA: $35.1 billion revenue!
Microsoft & Copilot
Microsoft Ignite 2024 conference brings massive AI updates for Azure, Windows and Office - the office is getting smarter!
Satya's keynote (video) also made some waves in the AI agent space - this will be the big thing in 2025, guaranteed.
Copilot earns mixed reviews - for the WSJ it's the "annoying class clown" and Tom's Guide thinks Apple Intelligence is better - while Lumen saves $50m USD a year and the Salesforce CEO has only praise for it.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman reveals how Copilot improves workflows.
Teams gets voice cloning in 9 languages - perfect for international meetings!
New tools & features
Suno launches v4 - best ever! Create any kind of song with powerful audio, sharper lyrics and dynamic textures. Try it out at suno.com!
Black Forest Labs has just released FLUX.1 tools for image editing.
The new Windsurf Editor unites developers and AI in a revolutionary IDE - coding becomes a creative flow, devs should check it out ...
OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) lets you program open source AI agents - woe betide you if you let them loose …
Go Deeper! Trends & Interviews
Nathan Benaich discusses the State of AI 2024 report (our article here) and the shift from risk fears to monetization and robotics. Exciting!
Generative AI is booming (who would have thought it)! IDC's Top 5 AI Trends 2024 show how companies are increasing their productivity and ROI.
Eric Schmidt's new book highlights AI's hope for medicine and the dark risks that challenge our humanity. His take: As soon as the machine develops deadly viruses, we should pull the plug …
Regulation & security
The EU AI Act comes into force, now it's getting serious (for the big players) - strict rules must be implemented by 2027
USA plans a "Manhattan Project for AI" in response to China's progress.
The Existential Risk Observatory group is calling for a global AI security treaty - it's time to put the brakes on AI (or at least set a speed limit)?
Exciting sideshows
A reporter tests AI dating - more Black Mirror than love story...
Smart glasses with facial recognition have found their way to Europe and show names and jobs in seconds - creepy or genius?
Meta launches AI tools for 200 million companies under the leadership of Clara Shih, ex-CEO of Salesforce AI - business AI for everyone!
The Meta Orion AR glasses promise sci-fi features such as skill downloads - the matrix becomes real.
Coca-Cola's AI Christmas ad without Santa causes debate - tradition vs. innovation.
Caught: Even great Substack authors use AI tools to write their articles.
Explore the Prompt Engineering Hub - for all prompt techniques and tools!
AI tools are getting so good it's scary! Angry Tom breathes new life into George Washington with AI - and here are 10 wild video examples.
AI tools are getting so good, it’s scary.
You can now create blockbuster level shots and shorts without the Hollywood budget.
10 wild examples:
— Min Choi (@minchoi)
4:46 PM • Nov 16, 2024
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Your AInauts,
Fabian & Reto
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