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🍎 Apple to ‘pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT through distribution, not cash
📹 New free rival to OpenAI Sora unveiled
📰 Perplexity was planning revenue-sharing deals with publishers when it came under media fire
🗣️ Amazon 'dropped the ball' with Alexa, former employee says
🤔 Tim Cook says it's a 'significant possibility' people use their iPhones less because of AI
🎁 + 10 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🍎 Apple to ‘pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT through distribution, not cashLINK
Apple and OpenAI announced a partnership at WWDC, but according to Bloomberg, neither side is paying the other for the integration of ChatGPT into Apple’s devices.
The agreement between Apple and OpenAI is non-exclusive, and Apple is also negotiating with Anthropic and Google to integrate their chatbots, with a deal for Google's Gemini expected later this year.
Apple plans to generate revenue from these partnerships through revenue-sharing agreements, taking a cut from AI providers that monetize their chatbot services, such as ChatGPT Plus’ $20-per-month subscription plan.
📹 New free rival to OpenAI Sora unveiledLINK
Dream Machine is a new text-to-video tool developed by Luma AI, offering a free tier you can use immediately with a Google account, though there might be waiting times due to high demand.
The tool creates five-second video clips at 1360x752 resolution based on user prompts, and while it has some processing delays, the outputs are impressive and close to user expectations.
Dream Machine offers various subscription plans, with the free option limited to 30 generations a month, and higher tiers providing more generations at different price points, up to 2,000 generations for $499.99 monthly.
📰 Perplexity was planning revenue-sharing deals with publishers when it came under media fireLINK
Perplexity, an AI search engine startup, was working on revenue-sharing deals with high-quality publishers before facing accusations from Forbes of content misuse.
The company aims to announce the details of these partnerships soon and has already updated its user interface to make citation of sources more prominent.
Perplexity's planned revenue-sharing framework will offer media companies a recurring income alternative, contrasting with the one-off data usage deals currently offered by entities like OpenAI.
🗣️ Amazon 'dropped the ball' with Alexa, former employee saysLINK
A former Amazon employee, Mihail Eric, criticized the company's handling of Alexa, citing technical and bureaucratic problems as major hindrances to its development.
Eric stated that despite having ample resources and talent, Amazon mishandled its opportunity to make Alexa the leading product in conversational AI.
Organizational issues, such as fragmented teams and inadequate computing resources, were mentioned by Eric as significant factors that prevented Alexa from achieving its full potential.
🤔 Tim Cook says it's a 'significant possibility' people use their iPhones less because of AILINK
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple Intelligence may reduce iPhone usage in an interview with Marques Brownlee. Cook highlighted that AI will simplify previously time-consuming tasks, allowing users to complete them more efficiently and quickly. Apple has added several features to the iPhone that raise awareness of how much time consumers spend on their devices and which help make their usage more intentional.
Other news you might like
OpenAI CTO dampens expectations of radically improved AI models in the near future.LINK
OpenAI revenue doubles to $3.4 billion in six months, report says.LINK
Google search head says 'we won't always find' mistakes with AI products and have to take risks rolling them out.LINK
OpenAI to use Oracle’s chips for more AI compute.LINK
Yahoo Mail rolls out new AI tools in 'most significant' update in 10 years.LINK
US settles for $4.47bn with now bankrupt crypto firm Terraform Labs.LINK
Samsung reveals plan to produce AI chips faster with new turnkey foundry service.LINK
Apple and Google won’t be able to stop third-party app stores in Japan.LINK
Paralyzed puppy able to walk again thanks to 3D printed spine.LINK
Disgruntled ex-employee costs company over $600,000 after he deletes all 180 of its test servers — found server deletion scripts on Google.LINK
Latest research and tools
Shpool: a lightweight alternative to Tmux and GNU Screen that allows users to create named shell sessions for persistent access to remote hosts without losing the session upon disconnection, simplifying remote work without extra client-side software.LINK
What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?: the paper examines the implications and potential benefits of using the LLaMA-3 language model to generate new captions for billions of images on the internet.LINK
21.2× faster than llama.cpp? Plus 40% memory usage reduction: the study claims a method that achieves a 21.2 times speed increase and a 40% reduction in memory usage compared to llama.cpp.LINK
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