🧙🏼 o3-mini is around the corner

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It’s been a busy minute since my last email. I've been working on a new website/tool for you (almost ready so stay tuned), and this week, I started a new role in the marketing team at a tech company.

To balance everything and ensure top quality in this newsletter, I'm going to switch to just 1-2 editions per week. You can expect a Sunday roundup of what's brewing in AI, with an extra update during the week if there's just too much good stuff to hold onto.

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Without further ado — here’s what’s brewing in AI.

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1. o3-mini to be released in a couple of weeks

Sam Altman just tweeted that they’ve wrapped up the external safety testing for the o3-mini model, and that its release is around the corner.

ICYMI, o3 is OpenAI’s new series of reasoning models and is the closest thing to AGI yet. The o3-mini model is, as you might guess, a smaller, faster version of the full o3 model; it’s also optimised for coding.

This time, API access it being pushed at the same time as the model hits ChatGPT, meaning builders will be able to start creating apps right from the get go.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Exciting times. While benchmarks are flawed—if they’re at least an indication— then o3 will probably be able to tackle some complex problems that have been out of reach for AI so far.

PS worth mentioning that while o3-mini has passed the external safety testing, AI alignment remains a topic of huge concern for many of the world’s top experts. Check out this series of recent tweets from an OpenAI researcher who claims they already know claims they already know how to create superintelligence, but don’t know how to control it.

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3. You can now schedule tasks with ChatGPT

OpenAI dropped something cool this week: You can now schedule tasks that ChatGPT will do for you and remind you with an alarm. One-time or weekly reminders? Daily news briefing on a specific subject? Daily meal plan? There’s really a bunch of ways you could use this feature in your daily life.

Here’s some ideas to get your mind going:

1. Have ChatGPT fetch your stock price every morning

2. Let it write new sci-fi stories in Canvas on a schedule

3. ”Automate” language practice

4. Ask it to generate puzzles for interviews

5. Get suggestions on weekend activities based on the weather

6. Get different types of news digests, e.g. a global news summary every morning, summary of academic papers for your field. With this use case, beware of fake headlines.

7. Monthly alerts for upcoming concerts of your favourite artists in your area

ChatGPT Tasks is already rolled out to Plus, Pro, and Teams subscribers.

You can configure if you want to receive the tasks by push notification, email, or both (adjust this under Settings → Notifications).

There’s also new task view that allows you to manage your tasks on the ChatGPT web version, and you can max have 10 tasks ongoing at any time.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ ChatGPT is way smarter than Siri, so I can see myself using this to schedule to-dos and reminders. When they can sort out some of the initial bugs, like the task management page not working properly, I see this becoming a solid feature for the mobile app.

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4. Cohere launches “North” – a secure AI for work

Cohere is shifting focus to making useful AI for work; their latest product, North, combines LLMs, enterprise search, and AI agents into a single, secure platform that businesses can deploy, even in private or air-gapped environments.

The deets:

• North beats MS Copilot and Google Vertex AI Agent Builder in several accuracy benchmarks

• Has a feature called Compass, a highly secure AI search system that quickly locates and indexes text, images, and spreadsheets (in any language)

• Makes it easy to deploy AI agents that handle time-consuming tasks across HR, finance, IT, and more—for instance, RBC is already exploring a specialized “North for Banking” to meet finance-specific security and privacy needs.

• Optimized for strict security and privacy requirements

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Cohere is shifting their focus from building the smartest model to a hands-on business solutions with AI. Might be a solid move considering the competition in the model layer of AI, and the current massive interest (and spending) in AI-solutions for business, which I think will only increase with the rise of agents that can complete whole tasks.

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5. Google’s upcoming mind map feature for NotebookLM

Google is working on a feature for NotebookLM—a research assistant that went viralfor its ability to create AI-generated podcasts on the fly—is testing a feature that generates an interactive mindmap from the sources in the notebook. You can click on nodes in the map and NotebookLM will give you a breakdown of the item in the context of the overall topic.

Let’s say you ask about AI news, and it shows you the mind map depicted in the screenshot above. If you click on Luma AI (an AI video generator), it’s going to break down recent news related to Luma AI.

This feature is still being tested and is in an experimental phase, so it might change before Google eventually does an official rollout.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Combining the deep knowledge of AI with visuals like this can make it more accessible and easier to use. Potentially a very useful tool for getting an overview of any topic, with the ability to quickly dive deep in a visual way, without writing a bunch of prompts.

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