Good morning. It’s Wednesday, November 6th.

Did you know: On this day in 1980, Microsoft signed the historic deal with IBM to create an operating system for the upcoming IBM PC.

In today’s email:

• Claude’s Upgrade

• Bezos + OpenAI Team Up

• GPT-4 Powered Robot Arm

• 5 New AI Tools

• Latest AI Research Papers

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Anthropic releases updated, smarter Claude Haiku 3.5 and Sonnet 3.5 model

Anthropic has released the Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models, which exhibit marked enhancements in computational capabilities and logical reasoning. The Haiku model, accessible via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI, surpasses its predecessor, Claude 3 Opus, in various benchmarks while maintaining a competitive price of $1 per million input tokens and $5 for outputs.

In tandem, the Claude 3.5 Sonnet introduces a feature for computer interaction, allowing the model to execute basic screen commands through a virtual interface, despite limitations in performing complex actions. These models reflect Anthropic's commitment to enhancing AI-assisted automation, particularly in applications requiring task-specific accuracy and minimal latency. Read more.

Jeff Bezos and OpenAI invest in robot startup Physical Intelligence at $2.4 billion valuation

Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco-based robotics startup, has secured $400 million in funding, elevating its post-money valuation to $2.4 billion. Prominent investors include Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, and Bond Capital, with Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital also listed as stakeholders.

This recent funding round represents a remarkable sixfold increase from the startup's March seed round, which was valued at $70 million. The company seeks to integrate general-purpose AI into robotics by developing large-scale models and algorithms for practical applications. With a team of alumni from Tesla, Google DeepMind, and other leading tech firms, Physical Intelligence is advancing an AI model intended as a foundational step toward achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Read more.

Built in four days, this $120 robot arm cleans a spill with help from GPT-4o

Two researchers from UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich have fashioned a budget-friendly robotic solution for spill cleanup, engineering a $120 robot arm in only four days using GPT-4o. Jannik Grothusen and Kaspar Janssen harnessed generative AI to construct a human-robot interaction model, fine-tuning its actions with approximately 100 demonstration sequences.

This configuration enables the robot to interpret visual cues and respond accordingly, illustrating a nuanced blend of AI and robotics. The Robot Studio has also made instructions available on YouTube, allowing enthusiasts to recreate the setup at home. This project underscores the potential for affordable robotics, as the integration of AI makes complex tasks accessible for practical applications. Read more.

Tech Company Actions

• Meta's former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI

• Netflix creates new leadership role focused on AI game development

• Meet the startup that just won the Pentagon's first AI defense contract

Product Launches & Service Enhancements

• Apple users can soon upgrade to ChatGPT Plus within the Settings app

• Hume Launches App with AI Assistants Powered by EVI 2 and Claude 3.5 Haiku

• Microsoft's new Magentic-One system directs multiple AI agents to complete user tasks

AI Technology, Tools, and Innovation

• Nvidia AI Blueprint makes it easy for any devs to build automated agents that analyze video

• Team introduces a cost-effective method to redesign search engines for AI

• xAI woos developers with $25/month worth of API credits, support for OpenAI, Anthropic SDKs

• Researchers create massive multimodal dataset to train a tiny AI model that beats the big ones

• Once thought a fantasy, effort to sequence DNA of millions of species gains momentum

Market Trends & Industry Impact

• Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data centre thwarted by rare bees

• Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

• Nvidia just became the world's largest company amid AI boom, again

Security, Environmental, and Academic Insights

• Google's Big Sleep AI model sets world first with discovery of SQLite security flaw

• Meta touts its "American open-source AI models" as key to out-AI China

• MIT: Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world

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