Daily Digest: OpenAI demos its search tool

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1. New tutorials:

   • Animate characters with motion video. Go from static image to animated video in a few clicks with Viggle.

   • Create TikTok and Instagram reels from videos. Quickly turn video footage into short clips using Canva’s AI.

   • How to create stunning videos with AI. Learn how to effectively use RunwayML’s Gen-3 for video creation, with a focus on crafting powerful prompts.

2. Gemini’s gotten some cool upgrades. Its free tier is now powered by Gemini 1.5 Flash. It’s a much faster and better model. Gemini results will also feature “related links” for you to go deeper or fact-check.

3. Google has also released two AI models: AlphaGeometry 2 and AlphaProof which scored a silver medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad 2024. It was just 2 points behind the Gold Medal. The current version has less to do with LLMs, but some of this work will likely make it to the Gemini models.

4. As tradition holds, soon after Google’s news, OpenAI previews SearchGPT. It’s OpenAI’s (improved) attempt to bring search results into ChatGPT. Citations are much more prominent, answers have custom UIs with visual elements and content from OpenAI’s recent publisher partnerships. It’s a “prototype” in OpenAI’s words and behind a waitlist. So, we don’t know much—but its demo already got something wrong.

5. Enhance RAG response quality with better data preparation. Unstructured data is notoriously hard to wrangle, but AI systems are hungry for it. Parse, de-identify, chunk, and embed clean, normalized data from any file format for your vector store with Tonic Textual for better quality RAG systems. (sponsor)

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• Healer - On-demand AI health specialists in your pocket 24/7.

• Dera - Create gamified, bite-sized learning experiences for your students using AI.

• Tidyread - Read more in less time.

• Friend - Open source AI necklace. Transform your conversations into summaries and advice.

• Only Pans - Craft tailored weekly dinner plans in your lingo with AI.

• Lilac Labs - Automate drive-thru orders with voice AI.

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NEWS

• Who will control the future of AI? - oped by Sam Altman

• RunwayML trained on YouTube videos without permission, thousands of them.

• IBM reports boost in AI bookings, better-than-expected revenue.

• Alphabet revenue jump shows no sign of AI denting search business.

• JPMorgan pitches in-house chatbot as AI-based research analyst.

• Moderating LLM inputs with PromptGuard.

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