🔥 4 Major Surprises from OpenAI at DevDay

Happy Friday AI Enthusiasts!

At OpenAI's DevDay 2024, the company revealed exciting updates aimed at empowering developers. They introduced a range of new API features and improvements focused on enhancing accessibility, efficiency, and affordability, making it easier than ever to integrate their AI systems into various projects. Let's dive into the details…

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MICROSOFT COPILOT

🚀 Microsoft Copilot Now Features Voice and Vision

Microsoft recently unveiled a range of AI upgrades for its Copilot assistant on Windows PCs. These enhancements include new voice and vision capabilities, improved personalization features, a reintroduction of the controversial Recall function, and additional updates.

Key Highlights

• Copilot Voice enables users to communicate with natural speech, providing a conversational and intuitive experience similar to OpenAI’s Voice Mode.

• Copilot Vision allows the AI to comprehend and engage with web content users are viewing, delivering context-aware assistance within the Microsoft Edge browser.

• The ‘Think Deeper’ feature enhances Copilot’s reasoning abilities through chain-of-thought reasoning, powered by OpenAI’s o1 model.

• Microsoft’s ‘Recall’ feature is making a comeback, requiring users to opt in and comes with upgraded privacy and security measures.

• Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman emphasized that Copilot can ultimately “act on your behalf,” adapting to individual user preferences and needs.

Why it's a big deal: Microsoft is stepping up its game with significant Copilot upgrades, enhancing the assistant to match the latest cutting-edge AI features in the industry. These improvements are bringing users closer to a truly agentic experience.

OPEN AI
🔥 4 Major Surprises from OpenAI at DevDay

Breaking News: OpenAI recently hosted its DevDay 2024 event, where they introduced several new API features and enhancements aimed at making their AI systems easier, faster, and more affordable for developers to use.

Here's what's happening:

• The Realtime API lets developers build speech-to-speech applications using the same model as Advanced Voice, with a choice of six different voices.

• Model Distillation makes it easier to fine-tune smaller models by using outputs from larger ones, simplifying training for developers.

• Prompt Caching cuts costs by almost 50% and speeds up responses by up to 80% when reusing recent input tokens in API calls.

• New Vision Fine-Tuning allows models to be trained with both images and text, making tasks like image recognition and analysis more efficient.

Why it matters: Although this year’s DevDay didn’t have the usual excitement of a typical OpenAI event, the new releases are still expected to make a big impact. These API updates will not only allow for the creation of innovative experiences but also make it easier for developers to get started on OpenAI's platform.

NEWS FLASH

Here are the latest developments in AI:

• OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma announced in an X post that he is joining Anthropic, reconnecting with former OpenAI colleagues and emphasizing the company's focus on responsible AI development.

• Pika Labs introduced Pika 1.5, an upgraded video generation model offering improved effects, smoother movement, longer clips, and cinematic capabilities.

• Anyscale revealed significant updates to its AI platform at Ray Summit 2024, including a GPU-native Ray architecture, RayTurbo for better performance, and Ray Data for handling unstructured data.

• U.S. AI chipmaker Cerebras filed for an IPO, with a valuation between $7-8B, positioning itself as a competitor to Nvidia, backed by Sam Altman.

• Meta released the open-source code and developer tools for Segment Anything Model (SAM) 2.1, an enhanced version of its image and video segmentation tool.

• Nvidia introduced NVLM 1.0, a family of open-source multimodal models that deliver state-of-the-art performance on both vision-language and text tasks.

• Pinterest launched Performance+, a new suite of AI tools for advertisers, featuring automated ad campaigns and the ability to create custom background images for products.