OpenAI is rolling out a new beta update to ChatGPT Plus that lets users upload and analyze files directly in chat. Even better, it drops the clunky tool switcher—GPT-4 can now automatically figure out whether to browse the web, analyze data, or generate images based on context. The update is gradually rolling out to subscribers.
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.
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.
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.
Bill Gates thinks generative AI may have reached a ceiling, telling Handelsblatt that GPT-5 will not be noticeably better than GPT-4. While he called the jump from GPT-2 to GPT-4 incredible, he argues current models are hitting limits. Still, he expects AI accuracy to climb and costs to drop over the next five years, unlocking reliable applications in healthcare.
A deep dive into the top 50 AI tools reveals they generated over 24 billion visits between September 2022 and August 2023, with ChatGPT commanding a staggering 14 billion visits alone. Character AI and Google Bard took the next spots in net growth. Conversational chatbots drove the bulk of web attention, with more than 63% of users logging on from mobile devices.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just published his 2023 annual shareholder letter, outlining an aggressive roadmap to infuse AI across every single layer of the company's tech stack. He framed natural language and automated reasoning as the defining breakthroughs of our era, betting the farm on Copilot becoming the next universal interface. Microsoft is treating generative AI not as a feature, but as the next computing platform.
OpenAI just launched DALL·E 3 for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users, letting people generate and refine images directly inside conversations. The model brings major upgrades to tricky rendering tasks like text, hands, and faces, and follows detailed prompts much more faithfully. OpenAI also added guardrails to block requests mimicking living artists and shared progress on a 99% accurate image provenance tool.
OpenAI quietly killed an internal AI model code-named Arrakis earlier this year after it failed to meet efficiency targets, according to The Information. Built alongside GPT-4 to drastically lower the eye-watering compute costs of running apps like ChatGPT, the setback left some Microsoft executives disappointed. It shows that slashing inference expenses remains a brutal hurdle, even for AI's market leader.
Baidu CEO Robin Li just unveiled Ernie 4.0 at an event in Beijing, boldly claiming the new model is not inferior to OpenAI's GPT-4 in any aspect. The update brings major upgrades to understanding, reasoning, generation, and memory, and will plug directly into Baidu Search and Maps. Markets reacted cautiously, with shares dipping slightly after the demo.
Anthropic just expanded web access to claude.ai, officially rolling out its flagship AI assistant to users across 95 countries for professional and everyday tasks. It’s a major leap forward from its initial US- and UK-only availability, giving millions more users direct access to Claude.
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.
Leaked screenshots reveal Google is quietly bringing its multimodal Gemini model to MakerSuite alongside an unannounced tool called "Stubbs." The secret feature lets creators generate, deploy, and share functional app prototypes with just a single text prompt and an optional reference image.
OpenAI just overhauled the core values on its careers page, putting "AGI focus" at the very top of the list. The new guidelines bluntly state that "anything that doesn’t help with that is out of scope," alongside traits like "Scale" and "Intense and scrappy." It marks a clear cultural shift as the company narrows its entire mission toward racing to human-level AI.
Google just added image generation and drafting tools directly into its Search Generative Experience (SGE). Users can create up to four AI images from a text prompt, tweak the descriptions, or draft messages to export straight into Gmail and Google Docs. It turns search from a link directory into an active workspace, though it's currently limited to US SGE testers.
Character.AI just rolled out Character Group Chat, allowing c.ai+ subscribers to chat with multiple AI personas and human friends in the same room. Users can run text adventure games, host multi-character book clubs, or debate historical figures simultaneously. The feature is currently live on iOS and Android apps, with web support coming soon.
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati just revealed that the company was completely unprepared for ChatGPT's viral explosion, noting all preparations became irrelevant within a few hours of launch. While the boom kicked off a global AI arms race, Murati warned that rival tech giants scrambling to ship products risk a dangerous race to the bottom on safety.
Google just unveiled Assistant with Bard, blending its generative AI chatbot directly into its digital helper. It works across voice, text, and images, connects with Gmail and Docs, and features a mobile overlay that sees what is on your screen. It is rolling out to select testers first before launching publicly on Android and iOS.
