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• Google Launches Perplexity Rival

• AI Search Wars

• 5 New AI Tools

• Latest AI Research Papers

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Google Launches Perplexity Rival, Calls it ‘Learn About’

Google’s new “Learn About” AI tool, currently available in the U.S., seeks to streamline knowledge extraction through interactive features like timelines, quizzes, and “Go Deeper” or “Simplify” options. Users can attach images to queries, making it a dynamic alternative to standard search.

Unlike Google’s traditional AI-powered overviews, which can overwhelm with varied formats, Learn About is designed for focused, conversational learning. Although still experimental, it’s seen as a potential rival to Perplexity, which positions itself as a go-to tool for deep knowledge discovery.

Positioned as a potential competitor to Perplexity, which recently secured major funding, Google’s tool remains experimental and limited in functionality—users cannot resume conversations once they close the tab. Read more.

Related Story: Google reports 14x growth for Gemini API, plans next-gen assistants for 2025

Google’s Gemini API is riding a wave of growth, with usage skyrocketing fourteen-fold in just six months, according to CEO Sundar Pichai. This API is now embedded in key services like Maps and Search, potentially reaching nearly two billion users—over a billion of whom engage via Search. Meanwhile, Google Cloud is enjoying a 35% revenue boost, hitting $11.4 billion, thanks to the AI surge.

Pichai also teased upcoming AI initiatives, including Project Astra, a multimodal assistant capable of processing text, video, and audio in real time. Expected releases include Gemini 2.0 and a web navigation agent named "Jarvis" in December 2024. AI now accounts for over 25% of new code generated at Google, reflecting significant operational efficiencies similar to those reported by Amazon. Read more.

AI Search Wars: Google vs. SearchGPT vs. Perplexity

The race for AI-powered search dominance heats up as Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity each aim to reshape how we find information.

Just hours before OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search went live, Google enabled its Gemini AI platform to access real-time Google Search data, debuting its “Grounding with Google Search” feature. This integration allows developers to embed up-to-the-minute, citation-backed information into applications, leveraging Google's vast search infrastructure to prioritize high-value queries, priced at $35 per 1,000 queries. The timing underscores Google’s intent to leverage its search pedigree in AI applications, catering especially to developers building search-centric tools.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search, meanwhile, has rolled out with a focus on consumer accessibility, delivering conversational, source-attributed responses across topics like news and stocks, with plans to reach free users soon. Built on GPT-4o, it builds on OpenAI's earlier SearchGPT trial and taps into partnerships with news organizations like the Associated Press and Vox Media, providing verified, premium content.

Perplexity also competes in this space by offering model flexibility—allowing users to choose between Claude, ChatGPT, and Sonar—often providing more structured, in-depth answers.

As these platforms redefine search, each faces the challenge of balancing user engagement, cost, and accuracy, with implications for licensing costs and the sustainability of AI-enhanced search in a crowded field. Read more.

Related story: Not just ChatGPT anymore: Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude get desktop apps

Summary of AMA with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, and Mark Chen on Reddit

In a recent Reddit AMA, OpenAI's Sam Altman and team clarified that GPT-5 won’t debut this year; instead, they’ll refine the o1 series, which may eventually merge with GPT. They’re enhancing context windows for ChatGPT Plus and GPT-4o to better handle complex tasks. A new text-to-image model is on the way, along with image input support in the o1 series.

On the AGI front, they’re training with specialized medical literature while ensuring HIPAA compliance. The discussion highlighted the importance of open-source models, user control over NSFW content, and ongoing efforts to reduce hallucinations in AI outputs, with multilingual capabilities receiving a boost in the latest models. Read more.

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• Optical computing: Large-scale programmable logic array achieves complex computations

•  GPT-4o and Co. get it wrong more often than right, says OpenAI study

• Meta is working with US government to use Llama AI

• Nvidia trains a tiny AI model that controls humanoid robots better than specialists

• Chinese AI unicorn MiniMax scores big in US with Talkie chatbot entertainment app

• Patronus AI launches world’s first self-serve API to stop AI hallucinations

• AI keeps failing at basic math because of tokenization

• Meta is making a robot hand that can 'feel' touch 

• New AI image model Recraft v3 takes top spot 

• Meta makes its MobileLLM open for researchers, posting full weights

• ElevenLabs has launched “X to Voice” 

• Suno has rolled out Personas, enabling users to capture and reimagine the essence of songs

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hints at an 'agentic' Alexa

• Microsoft just delayed Recall again

• ChromeOS gets a big update with Quick Insert, Focus mode, and new AI features

• D-ID launches new high-quality avatars capable of real-time conversations

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