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• First GPT-4o Image

• ElevenLabs AI Reader

• OpenAI + Reddit Deal

• 10 New AI Tools

• Latest AI Research Papers

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OpenAI Shares First Image Generated By GPT-4o

OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman recently shared the first image generated by the new GPT-4o model, which debuted on Monday. This photorealistic image features a person wearing an OpenAI logo T-shirt, wiping a blackboard with chalk text discussing the model's capabilities. GPT-4o improves upon previous models by being faster, cheaper, and better at retaining information from multimedia inputs.

Unlike its predecessors, which converted media to text, GPT-4o was trained on multimedia tokens, allowing it to directly analyze and interpret vision and audio. This new approach results in higher quality and accuracy in image generation, as evidenced by the comparison to DALL-E 3. While the public cannot yet access GPT-4o’s image generation features, OpenAI is working to make them available soon. Read more.

ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App

ElevenLabs, a startup known for its AI dubbing, has launched a free iPhone app called ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio. The app can recognize and voice text from web pages, PDFs, and other documents using 11 different voices. Available for download in the App Store, it builds on ElevenLabs’ voice cloning technology, which generates audio using neural networks from brief samples. Founded in 2022 by former Google engineer Piotr Dabkowski and ex-Palantir strategist Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs raised $80 million in January, valuing it at $1.1 billion.

The company aims to expand its reach, with deals including creating multilingual audio books for HarperCollins and plans to market its dubbing tech to YouTube creators, movie studios, and news publishers. Read more.

OpenAI Signs Reddit Deal To Train AI On Your Posts

In a data-driven alliance, OpenAI gains access to Reddit's real-time firehose via their API. This fuels both ChatGPT development and future OpenAI products, mirroring Reddit's prior pact (rumored at $60 million) with Google for AI-powered features. OpenAI joins the Reddit ad ecosystem, likely leveraging Reddit's conversation troves for model training.

While financial details remain under wraps (unlike Google's deal), Reddit emphasizes fostering community engagement. However, past restrictions on data scraping raise eyebrows. OpenAI CEO's Reddit activity (including past moderation disputes) adds intrigue. Nevertheless, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman sees a win-win, highlighting the platform's value as an open forum. Read more.

Etcetera: Stories you may have missed

GPT-4o first reactions: 'essentially AGI'  

Quantum internet draws near thanks to entangled memory breakthroughs

Stability AI reportedly runs out of money and in negotiations to sell

Elastic's new Search AI Lake enables highly scalable vector search for generative AI apps

Meta's Workplace to shut down to focus on AI, metaverse

IMF boss warns of AI 'tsunami' coming for world's jobs

Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies

GPT-4o has a few tricks up its sleeve that OpenAI hasn't talked about  

AI-powered noise-filtering headphones give users the power to choose what to hear

New research to make digital transactions quantum safe and 20 times faster

Senate unveils $32 billion roadmap for regulating AI

Google DeepMind team dropped more wild AI Agent videos

Anthropic’s new CPO is Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger

UserCall provides AI-driven voice interviews, delivering detailed user feedback faster and more efficiently than surveys. Customizable agents generate insightful follow-up questions for deeper analysis.

FISKL offers AI-powered accounting with Stripe integration, multi-currency support, and automated bank sync for global businesses. It simplifies invoicing, payments, and tax tracking.

Reap is an AI tool that transforms long videos into social-ready clips for platforms like Reels, Shorts, and TikToks, automating editing processes.

Oliv AI is an AI copilot for account executives, automating CRM tasks, MEDDIC scorecards, meeting prep, and personalized follow-up emails to save time.

Jovu by Amplication is an AI platform that generates production-ready code in minutes, automating backend development with consistent, scalable, and high-standard solutions.

Glato AI automates video creation by generating scripts, using digital clones for UGC-style ads, and adding b-roll and effects, simplifying content production for marketers.

Edge Delta processes observability data at the source, providing real-time AI insights, cost optimization, and scalability for $0.20 per GB.

Scalenut's AI Link Manager automates internal linking by detecting, fixing, and deploying links with a click, enhancing SEO efficiency and website authority.

Iris.ai is a software suite for analyzing, summarizing, and managing research data from various sources, providing tools for efficient research management.

Collato transforms meeting transcripts, images, and audio recordings into documentation, streamlining the process for users by automating write-ups from Google Meet.

📄 BEHAVIOR Vision Suite: Customizable Dataset Generation via Simulation

📄 Xmodel-VLM: A Simple Baseline for Multimodal Vision Language Model ​​

📄 No Time to Waste: Squeeze Time into Channel for Mobile Video Understanding

📄 Understanding the performance gap between online and offline alignment algorithms  

📄 SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models  

📄 Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models  

📄 TRANSIC: Sim-to-Real Policy Transfer by Learning from Online Correction

📄 CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models

📄 Grounding DINO 1.5: Advance the "Edge" of Open-Set Object Detection 

📄 LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less 

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