🧙🏼 ChatGPT gets organized

Happy Monday, wizards.

Here’s what’s brewing in AI today.

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1. ChatGPT gets organized with projects

OpenAI’s Day 7 of shipmas continued on Friday with the launch of a much-awaited feature in ChatGPT: Projects, fancy folders to organize your chats.

• A project holds chats, uploaded files and specific custom instructions together in one place. This makes it a whole lot easier to find and continue where you left off for ongoing work.

• Projects have support for web search and Canvas

• Powered by GPT-4o, ie you can’t use o1 with projects (at least not yet)

For now, Projects is only available on the web version of ChatGPT and on the Windows desktop app. All ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users should already have it, while Enterprise, Edu and Free users will have to wait a bit longer.

Demos:

• Putting documentation about stuff around your home (fridge manual, garage instruction, smart home notes, maintenance log, etc) in one project so you can query it anytime 🔥

• Creating and iterating on a personal website. The project holds code documentation about a specific Javascript framework that the site is built on, and has uploaded details about the author.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ I’ve seen this feature requested so many times on social media and it’s finally here. The search for those previous chats where we had that perfect prompt or had given ChatGPT so much good context is finally over.

Also don’t miss the first demo I linked to here – it can seem deceptively trivial, but creating these “mini-systems” for yourself using ChatGPT/Claude/what-have-you is, in my opinion, the best way to learn to be effective with AI.

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2. Pika 2.0 brings more control of characters and objects to AI video

Pika just dropped a 2.0 upgrade of its AI video generator. The main update is that users can now upload and use their own images in generated videos, so called “Scene Ingredients”. You have control over characters, objects and backgrounds which can all be included in shots.

Pika’s new model also has better realism and character consistency, as well as text alignment (marketing folks, take note).

Here’s 10 demos showcasing what you can do with Pika now.

To access the 2.0 version you’ll need a Pro subscription though (starting at $28/month).

You can try Pika here.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Sora—you got serious competition 🐰 

Creating personalised videos just got a whole lot easier with Pika. This is a Christmas gift for content creators looking for solutions to scale their reach with AI. Pika isn’t the only company thinking along these lines — I also reviewed a related tool last week, RenderNet.

Pika’s upgrade fits within the trend of AI video tools getting more specialised in terms of use cases; better storylines, consistency in characters and models trained for specific use cases.

Related: Sora sign-ups are now back again.

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3. Five quick-fire headlines

There’s been more brewing in AI over the last days than I can cover in detail today. But here’s the other important headlines to keep you in the loop:

• Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are siding with Elon Musk, asking the California attorney general to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit company.

• Ex-OpenAI employee who accused the company of breaking copyright laws (while maintaining it’s a broader issue) found dead in his apartment; suicide cited as cause of death, but speculation abounds.

• Perplexity introduced custom web sources in Spaces, ie the ability to influence the response by choosing which websites Perplexity searches.

• NotebookLM, Google’s viral assistant that generates AI podcasts of articles, will let you talk to the podcast hosts.

• ChatGPT might soon not be the only assistant with a canvas feature; Google is experimenting with a canvas editor for it’s new Deep Research mode.

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

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