New features and launches in ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity and other AI tools, plus changes to pricing and availability.
Xbox just announced a multi-year partnership with Inworld AI to bring generative AI to game narrative and character design. The collaboration will produce an AI design copilot that turns developer prompts into scripts and dialogue trees, alongside an in-game runtime engine that dynamically generates quests and dialogue for players.
OpenAI just launched GPTs, allowing users to create tailored versions of ChatGPT simply by chatting with a builder and plugging in custom instructions, files, and external APIs. A GPT Store is coming later this month with leaderboards and future revenue sharing. It basically turns everyone into an AI app builder, available now to Plus and Enterprise users.
Brave just rolled out Leo, a native AI assistant for its desktop browser that puts user privacy front and center. Powered by Meta's Llama 2, the free tool can summarize webpages, answer questions, and translate text without requiring a login or saving chats for model training. Brave is also offering a $15 monthly tier to tap Anthropic's Claude Instant, with mobile apps coming soon.
Doritos just rolled out Doritos Silent, a free AI-powered Windows app designed to mute your snack crunching during voice chats. Developed with Smooth Technology over six months of analyzing crunch audio, the software acts as a mic filter to stop you from annoying your teammates mid-game. Why it matters: It turns brand marketing into a genuinely fun piece of utility for PC gamers.
The Beatles just released "Now And Then," the legendary band's final original song featuring all four members. Using machine learning audio separation tech developed for Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, the team cleanly isolated John Lennon's vocals from a murky 1970s cassette demo. It marks the first 21st-century Beatles track and shows how AI can revive lost musical history without generating synthetic voices.
Google just rolled out Product Studio to U.S. merchants and advertisers, letting businesses generate custom product imagery, swap backgrounds, and enhance low-res shots for free using text prompts. It is built to save sellers from costly reshoots ahead of seasonal campaigns. The tool is currently available via Merchant Center Next and Shopify.
Instagram is developing a customizable "AI friend" chatbot, according to newly leaked app screenshots. Users can tweak traits like age, gender, personality style, and specific hobbies before picking an avatar and jumping into open-ended chats. While Meta just launched celebrity AI personas last month, this shifts the focus to personalized everyday companionship.
ElevenLabs just launched a unified enterprise AI voice platform split into two engines: ElevenAgents for customer-facing bots and ElevenCreative for high-fidelity audio production. It integrates out of the box with tools like Salesforce and Zendesk, giving companies an easy path to deploy voice agents at scale.
Google just added a "respond in real time" setting to Bard, streaming answers line-by-line instead of making you wait for the full response to finish generating. A new "Skip response" button lets you immediately halt unhelpful answers mid-generation. You can toggle between real-time streaming and complete responses in the settings menu.
Forbes just launched Adelaide, a generative AI search tool powered by Google Cloud's Vertex AI. Built exclusively on the publisher's articles from the past 12 months, it generates conversational answers and personalized recommendations without hallucinating from the wider web. A beta is now live for select visitors.
Google just rolled out a major AI update to Google Maps, making it behave much more like its signature Search engine. The app now analyzes billions of user photos to answer vague queries like latte art designs, expands its 3D Immersive View to 15 cities, and tracks EV charger activity to weed out broken stations. Why it matters: Maps is shifting from a utilitarian navigation tool into an AI-powered visual discovery engine.
Shutterstock just launched a suite of OpenAI-powered creative editing tools, turning its massive photo library into fully customizable assets. Users can now expand scenes, brush to swap objects, and replace backgrounds directly on the platform. Contributors still get paid when their edited work is licensed, but AI-altered content cannot be resubmitted.
Quora's Poe platform just launched a monetization program that pays creators for building AI chatbots. Developers and prompt creators can earn up to $20 when their bot drives a new subscription, with per-message pricing arriving soon. The move turns Poe into an app store for conversational bots, though it is currently limited to U.S. creators.
Google just made its "About this image" feature available to all English-language users worldwide. The tool lets people check when an image first appeared in Search, how other sites describe it, and metadata showing if it was AI-generated. Approved fact-checkers and journalists are also getting access via dedicated APIs.
Microsoft just kicked off its 2023 release wave 2 for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, rolling out fresh Copilot capabilities across ERP, customer service, and low-code development. Teams can now generate Power Automate workflows with plain text and receive automated purchasing recommendations, with features rolling out through March 2024.
Grammarly just announced a new feature called "Personalized voice detection and application" rolling out to business subscribers by year's end. The AI analyzes your day-to-day writing to build a custom voice profile, letting you rewrite any draft in your own distinct tone. Why it matters: it makes AI output feel authentic, but opens up tricky questions about identity and style cloning at work.
D-ID just launched its mobile app on iOS and Android, bringing its viral AI video tech straight to smartphones. Users can upload a photo, type a script in 119 languages with customizable emotional tones, and generate talking videos up to 10 minutes long. Subscriptions start at $5.99 a month with a 14-day free trial.
Researchers at the University of Chicago just unveiled Nightshade, a tool that lets artists add invisible pixel tweaks to their work before posting online. If scraped into AI training sets, the poisoned samples corrupt the model into swapping concepts—like turning dogs into cats or handbags into toasters. It aims to force tech giants to respect copyright, with an open-source release planned.
Microsoft just opened its Security Copilot Early Access Program to qualified enterprise customers. The generative AI assistant is now directly embedded into Microsoft 365 Defender, generating incident summaries and converting natural-language prompts into KQL queries while bundling Defender Threat Intelligence at no extra charge. It is aimed at giving overworked security teams a much-needed speed advantage.
Inflection AI just gave its conversational assistant Pi real-time web access. Users can now ask Pi about breaking news and live events directly. The friendly companion bot is no longer trapped in the past, finally closing the knowledge gap with competitors.
