This is what was announced last week for AI 🗞️

ISSUE 008

Welcome to the 8th edition of Curious Hours

What a week it has been for Generative AI and we can’t wait to show you what’s being going on in this space.

YouTube's Generative AI Features: YouTube is set to test new generative AI features for its premium subscribers. These include a conversational tool for answering questions about content and making recommendations, and a feature that summarises video comment topics​​.

Kai-Fu Lee's AI Startup Model Release: Kai-Fu Lee's AI startup, 01.AI, has released its first model, Yi-34B. This startup, valued at $1 billion, was founded just seven months ago​​.

GitHub's Customisable Copilot Plan: GitHub is planning an enterprise subscription tier allowing companies to tailor its Copilot pair-programmer based on their internal codebases. This announcement was part of GitHub's recent developments shared at its annual developer conference​​.

OpenAI Dev Day is essentially a conference organised by OpenAI, aimed at developers and AI enthusiasts. It serves as a platform to discuss and showcase the latest developments in artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on advancements like ChatGPT, and the potential impact of such technologies across various industries​​.

During this conference, OpenAI presents opportunities for learning and collaboration through workshops, presentations, and coding sessions, where attendees can enhance their knowledge and skills in AI. It's also an event for networking with peers and experts in the field​​.

The Dev Day also features announcements about new tools and updates from OpenAI. Some of these updates include lower prices for developers and the unveiling of new capabilities, like advanced vision features, which could be used to build applications in various sectors, including medicine and entertainment​​.

Another key point of the event is to foster the integration of OpenAI's technology into businesses, with the aim of enhancing efficiency and driving innovation within industries. This could include the integration of AI-powered chatbots and autonomous agents into different organisational operations​​.

The recent OpenAI Dev Day brought several exciting announcements. One of the most significant was the introduction of GPT-4 Turbo, an AI model with a 128K context window capable of processing a vast amount of text at once and at a lower cost than its predecessors. OpenAI also improved function-calling capabilities, making interactions with AI models more efficient, and introduced reproducible outputs and log probabilities for better control over model behaviour.

Updates to existing models and the introduction of the Assistants API were announced, enabling the creation of AI assistants for a variety of applications. Furthermore, OpenAI now offers multimodal capabilities, including vision and text-to-speech, and has made AI more accessible by lowering prices and increasing rate limits for developers​​.

In simple terms, OpenAI Dev Day is an important event for anyone interested in AI, offering a peek at the latest AI innovations and fostering a community of developers and businesses ready to harness these advancements for creating cutting-edge applications and solutions.

Mozilla's AI Chatbot: Following its acquisition of Fakespot, Mozilla has launched its first large language model, Fakespot Chat. This AI agent assists consumers in online shopping by answering product-related questions and suggesting useful queries for product research​​.

Hugging Face's Model Development Team: AI startup Hugging Face's impressive data science hosting and development tools are majorly attributed to its two-person model team, H4, formed in January this year​​.

Samsung's Generative AI: Samsung has introduced its generative AI family named Samsung Gauss, featuring three models – a large language model similar to ChatGPT, a code-generating model, and an image generation and editing model. Currently used internally, these models will soon be available to the public​​.

Microsoft's AI Initiative for Startups: Microsoft is updating its startup program, Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, to include a free Azure AI infrastructure option. This will provide startups with Nvidia-based GPU virtual machine clusters to train and run generative models, initially available to Y Combinator and its startup community in a private preview​​.

DeepMind's Robotics Ambitions: An interview with Vincent Vanhoucke, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, revealed insights into Google's ambitions in robotics, touching on general-purpose robots and generative AI​​.

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