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💬 OpenAI Developments

OpenAI head of product shares 5 tips for using ChatGPT

OpenAI's Head of Product, Nick Turley, shared five tips for maximizing ChatGPT's capabilities, including experimenting with voice mode, creating personalized GPTs for specific tasks, and leveraging features like document uploads and image generation. These tools enable users to enhance productivity, creativity, and customization, highlighting the versatile potential of ChatGPT's GPT-4o model.

Rox goes “all in” on OpenAI

Rox has integrated OpenAI's models to develop a platform that unifies fragmented data and employs AI agents to enhance sales team productivity, resulting in significant time savings and a doubling of sales-accepted pipelines. This collaboration enables Rox to offer a configurable revenue platform that scales top-performing sales practices across teams, leveraging OpenAI's API for tasks ranging from data cleaning to complex sales outreach.

OpenAI and Common Sense Media launch free AI training for educators

OpenAI and Common Sense Media have launched a free AI training course for K-12 educators, aiming to demystify artificial intelligence and prompt engineering. This initiative seeks to illustrate the positive role of AI tools like ChatGPT in education, offering practical applications such as lesson content creation and meeting streamlining, accessible through Common Sense Media's website.

🌐 AI in Various Sectors

Healthcare: Meta is actively promoting the integration of its Llama AI model into the UK's National Health Service (NHS) to enhance healthcare services. The company recently organized a hackathon in Europe, engaging over 200 developers to explore applications of Llama AI aimed at reducing wait times in Britain's Accident & Emergency (A&E) departments.

Robotics: Amazon is integrating humanoid robots into its warehouses to enhance efficiency and address labor shortages, emphasizing that these robots are designed to assist rather than replace human workers. The company has partnered with Agility Robotics to deploy the bipedal robot Digit, capable of performing tasks like picking and packing, aiming to improve productivity and reduce operational costs.

Social Media and Interaction: TikTok has integrated Getty Images into its Symphony Creative Studio dual-slot air-coo, enabling advertisers to create AI-generated ads and avatars using Getty’s licensed images and videos. The tool supports features like AI avatars, multilingual dubbing, and ad remixing for engaging, TikTok-specific content.

🚀 Tech Industry Moves

Microsoft has established the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem with over 100,000 organizations using its Copilot Studio, driven by robust enterprise-grade infrastructure, extensive integrations, and a focus on business outcomes. By enabling flexible use of LLMs and launching autonomous, collaborative agents, Microsoft is setting the stage for widespread enterprise transformation, while competitors race to catch up.

Microsoft announced Interpreter in Teams, a new feature allowing users to clone their voices for real-time speech-to-speech interpretation during meetings in nine languages, including English, French, and Mandarin. Launching in early 2025, this tool aims to enhance multilingual communication by simulating users' voices in translated languages.

NVIDIA has optimized Meta's Llama 3.2 models, including vision language models (VLMs) and small language models (SLMs), to deliver high performance across various platforms—from data centers to edge devices like NVIDIA Jetson. These optimizations, utilizing NVIDIA's TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, and TensorRT Model Optimizer libraries, enable efficient inference with support for long context lengths and multimodal inputs, enhancing both throughput and latency.

Nvidia's H200 NVL, aled GPU with PCIe 5.0 connectivity, offers enhanced performance over its predecessor, the H100 NVL, with 1.5x the memory capacity, 1.2x the memory bandwidth, and optimized efficiency for air-cooled data center racks. It supports up to 900 GB/s NVLink bandwidth and is compatible with existing hardware, making it a cost-effective upgrade solution amidst challenges faced by liquid-cooled Blackwell GPUs.

Google's Gemini chatbot now features memory, allowing it to store user preferences and tailor responses, such as recommending restaurants based on culinary tastes, for users subscribed to the $20-per-month Google One AI Premium plan. The memory, which does not train the model and is manually deletable, is currently available only on the web client and supports English-language prompts.

⚖️ AI Ethics and Regulation

There is a growing concern about the industry of AI influencers, highlighted by the success of Itana, a virtual model with a large following and lucrative sponsorship deals. Created by a Barcelona-based agency, Itana's realistic visuals and lifestyle branding appeal primarily to a male demographic, raising ethical concerns about promoting unattainable beauty standards and their impact on young audiences, particularly teenagers. Critics argue that such AI models blur the line between reality and fiction, potentially misleading followers who may not realize these personas are not real. Despite early resistance to diversity in AI models, the agency has expanded its portfolio to include varied looks and male models, though with less commercial success. The industry's evolution, including AI-designed personas for car companies, underscores its expanding influence but also amplifies debates on authenticity, societal values, and the ethical implications of such innovations in marketing.

💡 Emerging AI Technologies and Companies

Physical AI startup BrightAI bootstraps to $80M in revenue

BrightAI, a physical AI startup founded by Alex Hawkinson, leverages sensors and AI to monitor and manage critical infrastructure, enabling real-time data collection and predictive maintenance across multiple industries like pest control, HVAC, and waste management. The company, which bootstrapped to $80M in revenue, recently raised $15M in seed funding to expand its technology and scale operations to meet growing customer demand.

UK clears Google's $2 billion investment in Anthropic AI startups

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded its investigation into Google's $2 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic, determining that the partnership does not meet the criteria for a merger investigation. The CMA found that Google lacks material influence over Anthropic's commercial policies, as it holds no board seats, voting rights, or veto powers, allowing the investment to proceed without further scrutiny.

Social Tides launches second GROW AI Accelerator to support social impact across Europe

Social Tides has launched the second cohort of its GROW AI Accelerator, a six-month, equity-free program aimed at helping impact organizations and social enterprises in Europe, Ukraine, and the UK leverage AI and machine learning for social change. Supported by Google.org and powered by INCO in collaboration with Share it, the accelerator offers training, mentoring, and grants up to $250,000, with applications open until December 16, 2024.

🌍 Global AI Race

China's 'people-centered, AI-for-good' principles shine at WIC Wuzhen Summit

The 2024 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit, held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, emphasizes a "people-centered" and "AI-for-good" approach to digital development, aiming to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace. China's vision promotes equitable access to AI technologies, counters cyber hegemony, and fosters international cooperation, particularly benefiting Global South countries.

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