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OpenAI Makes a Historic Release With Sora, Gemini Gets An Upgrade
Sorin Ciornei
February 16, 2024
Welcome, AI enthusiasts
We just witnessed a day that will be historic for AI looking back.
OpenAI changes the video industry as we know it with Sora, Gemini gets upgraded to 1.5 able to handle 700k words
In today’s newsletter:
OpenAI will launch Sora, a text-to-video AI that will change the entertainment industry
Microsoft will invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.44 billion) in Germany in the next two years
OpenAI reportedly has Google in its sights with a new online search product
Google has introduced Gemini 1.5, the next-generation AI model able to handle: 700,000 words of text
NEWS OF THE DAY
Video made with OpenAI’s new Sora
What: OpenAI has unveiled a system that takes video generation to a whole new level. The demonstration showcased videos that could easily be mistaken for scenes lifted from a Hollywood movie.
Key points:
🌐 Sora can simulate the physical world with astonishing precision and generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality.
🎨 Sora's ability to harness the power of imagination, simulating the future and past, has implications for advancing autonomous technologies.
⚠️ OpenAI acknowledges Sora's limitations in accurately simulating complex scenes and cause-and-effect instances.
📽️ Sora is not publicly available yet, and OpenAI is carefully evaluating its capabilities and potential risks before wider release at the end of February.
Noteworthy: Much like humans envisioning possible scenarios when absorbing visual stimuli, Sora utilizes an internal world model to simulate the future and past. This will empower self-driving cars or autonomous robots to forecast or simulate scenarios to minimize risks and mitigate them before they happen.
EDITORIAL
What: We already spoke about how STEM will be challenged in the future as a skillset, even more as a choice for current students. We’ve only been a year into the AI revolution and companies are already replacing a lot of knowledge workers with AI being unpolished. Our article talks about direct replacement of jobs via AI personas, to further illustrate this point look at this news:
Magic announced a $117M raise led by former Github CEO Nat Friedman for its frontier-scale AI code models, seeking to build an ‘AI software engineer’.
Key points:
Generative AI threatens jobs: It automates tasks, even complex ones, potentially replacing many skills previously considered irreplaceable.
Shifting labor mobility: Countries may need fewer skilled immigrants as AI fills skill gaps.
Education in flux: Focus may shift from specific STEM topics to broader analytical skills and adaptability.
STEM skills at risk: Automation might render some STEM skills obsolete, requiring continuous learning and upskilling.
Noteworthy: With Sora, entertainment jobs will be displaced heavily in the next few years. Recently in California a study showed 62k jobs were under threat. We plan on doing a deep dive into how the labor market is pressured by AI with recent layoffs and what this means for individuals in trying to adapt. Stay tuned for future editorials.
LATEST NEWS
🚀 Google has introduced Gemini 1.5, the next-generation AI model.
🔍 Gemini 1.5 achieves dramatically enhanced performance with a breakthrough in long-context understanding.
🪟 Gemini 1.5 Pro, an early release, offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, enabling processing of vast amounts of information.
This means that Gemini will now remember a gigantic amount of information, this will help with projects that require a lot of tuning - writing research papers, books, studies and so on. Gemini will be able to handle: 700,000 words of text, 30,000 lines of code, 11 hours of audio, or 1 hour of video
OpenAI is reportedly developing a web search product to compete with Google Search.
The new product will partly use Microsoft's Bing, The Information reported.
The new product could put OpenAI into more direct competition with Google.
U.S. software giant Microsoft will invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.44 billion) in Germany in the next two years, mostly in artificial intelligence, offering a boost to Europe's largest economy as it faces its worst slump in 20 years.
MIDJOURNEY PICK OF THE DAY
Prompt: charcoal drawing of a faded butterfly on white background, surrounded by silky smoke beautiful vibrant colors, white background and using style reference
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