🧙🏼‍♂️ ChatGPT getting real-time news

What's brewing in AI #20

Author

Dario Chincha
December 19, 2023

Welcome to the 314 new subscribers who joined last week. I’m excited that you are here to learn with me.

Here’s what’s brewing in AI:

This week’s issue is brought to you by: Decode

Sponsored
Decode AITurn Artificial Intelligence into Real Results with carefully curated AI developments and insights in less than 5 minutes a day alongside 50k+ readers from companies like Adobe, Amazon, Microsoft, ...

 Dario’s Picks

I. Gemini Pro is available through API

Gemini Pro is Google’s second best LLM in the family of Gemini-models (Ultra, the top model, is set to launch early next year).

Launched earlier this month, Gemini Pro has thus far only been available inside Bard, but is now also accessible via API, which will allow developers to start building tools with it and integrating it into their products.

II. OpenAI’s two new safety initiatives

OpenAI has launched two new initiatives related to AI safety in the last week:

  1. 10m$ in superalignment fast grants to support research towards safety of superhuman AI systems. The company also released a paper on how we as humans can supervise AI that is far more intelligent than us.

  2. The Preparedness Framework: A living document that describes how OpenAI works to protect against catastrophic risks from increasingly powerful AI models.

 In Focus 

Axel Springer teaming up with OpenAI

OpenAI has partnered up with media giant Axel Springer to serve recent news right inside ChatGPT. The content will come from Axel Springers’ publications on a wide variety of topics, including content from Politic, Business Insider, Bild and Welt. The collaboration will also allow OpenAI to train on content from these sources.

“This partnership with Axel Springer will help provide people with new ways to access quality, real-time news content through our AI tools. We are deeply committed to working with publishers and creators around the world and ensuring they benefit from advanced AI technology and new revenue models.”

Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI (from Axel Springer’s press release)

My thoughts:

This feels like a step forward considering the tension between OpenAI and publishers/authors seen this year.

For OpenAI, it addresses the key need for obtaining fresh data to train on, something that’s getting challenging as ChatGPT is already trained on so much of the existing information in the world.

On the side of the publisher (in this case Axel Springer), the revenue from ChatGPT could keep funding quality reporting, and drive traffic through links back from their aggregated content.

End-users stand to benefit from up to date news content inside ChatGPT. Personally, I’m a bit skeptical on the utility of aggregated news inside ChatGPT. I’ve tried the main chatbots out there for staying on top of news (Perplexity did the best – it’s pretty fast and with organised references), but still find myself resorting to my regular publications and Google.

I think we’ll see two related developments for 2024:

  • Publishers and social media platforms will increasingly guard their content with paywalls so LLMs can’t train on it (like X and Reddit has done).

  • We’ll see several more AI companies and publishers team up like this on content distribution and training data.

GPTs

VentureGPT - Acts as a co-pilot for venture capital endeavors.

Cylect.io - Assists in locating specific data within the vast internet landscape (OSINT tool).

Meme Magic - Generates a wide array of memes, leveraging classic and current trends.

Categories with most new launches

🍿 Entertainment - 73 GPTs (19 new)

📣 Marketing and SEO - 87 GPTs (16 new)

🖋️ Writing - 93 GPTs (13 new)

 Bytes 

  • ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, was secretly using OpenAI’s API to build a competing model and got their account suspended.

  • ChatGPT plus subscriptions are now re-enabled! “Thank you for your patience while we found more gpus”, tweets Sam Altman.

  • Eric Ries (Lean-startup creator) and Jeremy Howard (ex co-founder of Kaggle) starts an answer.ai – an R&D lab to create practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.

  • Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses (still in Beta) just got an upgrade with a vision model that can see what you’re seeing.

  • IBM is upping it’s AI game. The company is set to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B. The new technology will be integrated into the company’s watsonx AI and data platform.

  • Intel unveils its new AI chip, the 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, aiming to compete with Nvidia.

That’s a wrap for this week year!

Fellow wizards – see you all in 2024 ✨

Until next time,

Dario Chincha 🧙🏼‍♂️

What's your verdict on this week's email?

Login or Subscribe to participate in polls.

Shoutout to everyone who leaves me a comment in the poll – your feedback helps me improve.

🧙🏼‍♂️ Reach out to over 6k+ professionals leveraging AI in their business and life. Become a sponsor.