Anthropic releases Claude AI chatbot iOS app (1 minute read)
Anthropic has launched an iOS mobile app for its Claude 3 AI language models and introduced a new subscription tier designed for group collaboration.
Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers (4 minute read)
AWS has launched Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant aimed at improving software development and decision-making by leveraging a company’s internal data. Amazon Q facilitates coding, testing, and app development for developers, while offering data-driven support for business users through natural language interaction. The service also includes Amazon Q Apps, enabling the creation of custom AI applications without coding expertise.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (2 minute read)
Stack Overflow and OpenAI have announced a partnership that will give OpenAI access to Stack Overflow’s API and to provide a data API for OpenAI customers to retrieve real time and vetted data.
Google DeepMind’s new AI can model DNA, RNA, and ‘all life’s molecules’ (4 minute read)
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 can predict the structure of all of life’s molecules. Previous versions of the model could only predict the structures of proteins. AlphaFold 3 can model DNA, RNA, and ligands. It shows a 50% improvement in prediction accuracy compared to its previous models. DeepMind is making the AlphaFold Server research platform, powered by AlphaFold 3, to some researchers for free for academic and noncommercial use.
ElevenLabs Previews Music-Generating AI Model (3 minute read)
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is previewing a new model that converts prompts into song lyrics. The company is using a promotional strategy similar to the one OpenAI used for Sora AI.
OpenAI has released GPT-4o, an AI model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. Developers can access the GPT-4o API as a text and vision model. It’s 2x faster, half the price, and has 5x higher rate limits compared to GPT-4 Turbo.
Apple Finalizing Deal To Bring ChatGPT Features To The iPhone (1 minute read)
Apple is nearing an agreement with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT technology into the iPhone, potentially featuring it in the upcoming iOS 18 as part of its AI enhancements.
Google announced many new features, including Gemini Flash, Veo video generation, Imagen 3, and its newest assistant, Project Astra, at I/O 2024. In all, there are an impressive number of improvements, including 2m token context length, dramatically cheaper models, and improved multimodality.
The Maker of Stable Diffusion Is Collapsing, Considering Sale (2 minute read)
Stability AI is in big financial trouble and is in talks to be sold off. The company generated less than $5 million in revenue in the first quarter of this year while losing more than $30 million. It is reportedly sitting on $100 million worth of outstanding bills. The company lost its CEO Emad Mostaque in March and it is currently facing legal troubles over using Getty Images’ intellectual property to train AI models.
Introducing Copilot+ PCs (15 minute read)
Microsoft has introduced Copilot+ PCs, a new category of Windows PCs designed for AI with enhanced processors and new AI features like Recall, Cocreator, and Live Captions.
Google Introduces The Frontier Safety Framework (4 minute read)
Google DeepMind introduced the Frontier Safety Framework to address risks posed by future advanced AI models. This framework identifies critical capability levels (CCLs) for potentially harmful AI capabilities, evaluates models against these CCLs, and applies mitigation strategies when thresholds are reached.
Does AI Have a Gross Margin Problem? (5 minute read)
OpenAI and Anthropic are experiencing significant revenue growth, but the high costs associated with running AI models raise concerns about long-term profitability and gross margins. While smaller, purpose-built AI models can achieve high gross margins, larger models face substantial data center and training costs, making it crucial for AI companies to optimize their operations and relationships with suppliers to maintain profitability.
Google’s Moonshot Factory Falls Back Down to Earth (28 minute read)
Alphabet’s self-proclaimed moonshot factory is carving out a path in which projects can spin off as startups. While the company was initially reluctant to let outsiders share the fruits of its investments or risk compromising intellectual property, executives ultimately decided it was better than letting promising technology wither. The new policy opens up more possibilities, but it also signals that Alphabet will be shutting off funding to more mature projects that haven’t proven themselves financially viable.
Apple signs deal with OpenAI for iOS, still wants Google as an ‘option’ (1 minute read)
Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to provide chatbot functionality in iOS 18. The deal will be a component of Apple’s WWDC event in June. It will allow Apple to continue working on its own chatbot, like how it previously offered Google Maps before launching Apple Maps. Apple is still working on a deal with Google to offer Gemini as an option.
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest (2 minute read)
xAI has announced raising $6 billion in funding to help bring the startup’s first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate the research and development of future technologies. The funding comes from several sources, including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Saudi Arabian Prince Al Waleed bin Talal. Elon Musk plans to launch xAI’s new data center by the fall of 2025. Musk has said he would prefer to build products outside of Tesla when it comes to AI and robotics unless he gets more control.