Oct 21, 2024
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Welcome, AI Enthusiasts
OpenAI just shocked the AI world with ‘o1’, its new AI model that "thinks" before responding — and it outperforms humans on PhD-level science questions.
But how does it stack up against GPT-4o, what real-world breakthroughs could it unlock, and how can you access it? Let’s get into it…
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BITE-SIZE BREAKING NEWS
The Latest Innovation in AI
🤖 New Open Source Model: Mistral's Pixtral 12B processes both images and text. Built on Nemo 12B, it’s open-source and multimodal, capable of answering image-related questions.
📖 Voice Cloning for Voiceover Automation: Amazon’s beta test lets Audible narrators create AI voice clones. Narrators train replicas of their voice and retain control over final approval.
🎥 Upcoming Generative Video Model: Adobe’s new Firefly generative AI video model is set to launch later this year. The model is trained exclusively on licensed content to ensure it provides a "commercially safe" option for users. Initially, it’ll be available on the Firefly website with both text-to-video and image-to-video options.
The Rundown: Hugging Face's Latent Navigation space lets you generate smooth transitions between AI-generated images using CLIP text embeddings and Flux.1 schnell.
Step-by-step:
- Visit Latent Navigation space.
- Enter a detailed image description in the "Prompt" field (e.g., "a golden retriever in the park")
- Set transition directions: "1st direction to steer" (e.g., "winter") and "2nd direction to steer" (e.g., "summer")
- Adjust the "Strength" and other settings to fine-tune your transition
- Click "Generate directions" to create your AI image transition
Pro tip: Experiment with the "Advanced options" for more control over your transitions
EDUCATIONAL HIGHLIGHT
Resource Spotlight
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OTHER QUICK NEWS
Quick Hits
Google rolling out Gemini Live to free users on the Gemini Android app — offering natural voice conversations with the AI assistant and 10 new voice options.
OpenAI's ChatGPT reportedly surpassed 11 million paying subscribers, including 1 million on higher-priced business plans, potentially generating over $2.7 billion in annual revenue, according to COO Brad Lightcap.
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce, a suite of low-code tools for building autonomous AI agents capable of reasoning and completing tasks in sales, service, marketing, and commerce.
Mastercard agreed to acquire AI-powered threat intelligence company Recorded Future for $2.65 billion, aiming to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities.
Google introduced DataGemma, the first open models designed to connect large language models with real-world data from Google's Data Commons, aiming to reduce AI hallucinations by grounding responses in factual stats.
Hume AI launched Empathic Voice Interface 2 (EVI 2), a new voice-to-voice foundation model trained for emotional intelligence, capable of understanding and generating various tones of voice and speaking styles.
And that’s all for this week! Hopefully, something here sparks some inspiration. Don’t forget to pass it along to anyone who might enjoy it. See you next week for more concise and new innovation
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— SearchTools.ai Team