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🤖 Google plans to launch ChatGPT Plus competitor next week
🚗 Apple tested its self-driving car tech more than ever last year
🧠 Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
⏱️ Google's MobileDiffusion generates AI images on mobile devices in less than a second
🥊 Meta warns investors Mark Zuckerberg’s hobbies could kill him in SEC filing
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 2 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Google plans to launch ChatGPT Plus competitor next weekLINK
Google is set to launch 'Gemini Advanced,' a ChatGPT Plus competitor, possibly on February 7th, signaling a name change from 'Bard Advanced' announced last year. The Gemini Advanced chatbot, powered by the Ultra 1.0 model, aims to excel in complex tasks such as coding, logical reasoning, and creative collaboration. Gemini Advanced, likely a paid service, aims to outperform ChatGPT by integrating with Google services for task completion and information retrieval, while also incorporating an image generator similar to DALL-E 3 and reaching GPT-4 levels with the Gemini Pro model.
🚗 Apple tested its self-driving car tech more than ever last yearLINK
Apple significantly increased its autonomous vehicle testing in 2023, almost quadrupling its self-driving miles on California's public roads compared to the previous year.
The company's testing peaked in August with 83,900 miles, although it remains behind more advanced companies like Waymo and Cruise in total miles tested.
Apple has reportedly scaled back its ambitions for a fully autonomous vehicle, now focusing on developing automated driving-assistance features similar to those offered by other automakers.
🧠 Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTsLINK
Hugging Face has launched Hugging Chat Assistants, a free, customizable AI assistant maker that rivals OpenAI's subscription-based custom GPTs.
The new tool allows users to choose from a variety of open source large language models (LLMs) for their AI assistants, unlike OpenAI's reliance on proprietary models.
An aggregator page for third-party customized Hugging Chat Assistants mimics OpenAI's GPT Store, offering users various assistants to choose from and use.
⏱️ Google's MobileDiffusion generates AI images on mobile devices in less than a secondLINK
Google's MobileDiffusion enables the creation of high-quality images from text on smartphones in less than a second, leveraging a model that is significantly smaller than existing counterparts.
It achieves this rapid and efficient text-to-image conversion through a novel architecture including a text encoder, a diffusion network, and an image decoder, producing 512 x 512-pixel images swiftly on both Android and iOS devices.
While demonstrating a significant advance in mobile AI capabilities, Google has not yet released MobileDiffusion publicly, viewing this development as a step towards making text-to-image generation widely accessible on mobile platforms.
🥊 Meta warns investors Mark Zuckerberg’s hobbies could kill him in SEC filingLINK
Meta warned investors in its latest SEC filing that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's engagement in "high-risk activities" could result in serious injury or death, impacting the company's operations.
The company's 10-K filing listed combat sports, extreme sports, and recreational aviation as risky hobbies of Zuckerberg, noting his achievements in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and pursuit of a pilot's license.
This cautionary statement, highlighting the potential risks of Zuckerberg's personal hobbies to Meta's future, was newly included in the 2023 filing and is a departure from the company's previous filings.
Other news you might like
Spotify signs new deal with Joe Rogan reportedly worth up to $250m.LINK
EU AI Act endorsed unanimously by member states.LINK
NYC ends trial run of Times Square subway's security robot.LINK
Nuclear fusion power plant backed by OpenAI boss Sam Altman is being built.LINK
Google IT hardware manager says Moore's Law has been dead for 10 years.LINK
The biggest decider of the Vision Pro’s success is out of Apple’s hands.LINK
Vision Pro might tweak performance in some cases, says Apple.LINK
NYU researchers develop AI that mimics a toddler's language learning journey.LINK
Latest research and tools
SeaweedFS: a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lakes that enhances data management and retrieval.LINK
Twitter API Wrapper for Python: a tool that allows Python developers to interact with Twitter without needing API keys.LINK
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