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Nvidia’s $3,000 Project Digits puts a 1-Petaflop AI on your desk

Nvidia announced a new $3,000 PC-sized AI supercomputer for researchers and enterprises that can run ChatGPT locally. It is scheduled for release in May.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman standing on stage at a product event.

Sam Altman makes more big promises about AGI

In a series of posts, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is working toward a "glorious future" of AGI, and that the new $200-per-month Pro subscription is losing money.
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Google TV will soon get Gemini’s AI smarts

Google plans to incorporate its Gemini AI model into the Google TV experience later in 2025 to make interacting with your TV more intuitive and helpful.
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You’ll never guess what Google’s ‘biggest focus’ will be in 2025

Facing increased competition and regulatory pressures, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is making the Gemini app a focal point of the company's efforts in 2025.
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It’s not just you: ChatGPT is currently down

ChatGPT, Sora, and the API are all currently down for users. The company is working to resolve the issue but has not stated when they'll be brought back online.
ChatGPT and Siri integration on iPhone.

The 10 announcements that made 2024 a landmark year for AI

2024 marked the second year of the AI boom, here are 10 of the year's defining AI stories.
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Here’s everything OpenAI announced in the past 12 days

OpenAI has unveiled a slew of new products, models, features, and services over the past two weeks as part of its "12 Days of OpenAI" live-stream event. Here's everything the company announced.
Sam Altman describing the o3 model's capabilities

OpenAI teases its ‘breakthrough’ next-generation o3 reasoning model

CEO Sam Altman closed out the 12 Days of OpenAI event Friday with a first look at the company's upcoming o3 reasoning model.
ChatGPT collaborating with Notion

ChatGPT just got a bump to its coding powers

OpenAI announced Thursday that its ChatGPT desktop Mac UI can now collaborate with a wider range of coding and composition apps.
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Generative-AI-powered video editing is coming to Instagram

Instagram plans to release a generative AI video editor built atop Meta's Movie Gen model some time next year.
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Yes, it’s real: ChatGPT has its own 800 number

If you dial 1-800-ChatGPT, you'll be able to speak to the AI over the phone with no login needed.
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OpenAI opens up developer access to the full o1 reasoning model

When OpenAI first introduced its o1 reasoning model, developers could only use the o1-preview model through the API. That's no longer the case.
ChatGPT and OpenAI logos.

ChatGPT Plus vs. Pro: Is it worth the upgrade?

OpenAI's Pro subscription tier costs a jaw-dropping $200 per month. This guide will help you decide if that much generative compute power is really necessary.
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You can now try out ChatGPT Search for free

ChatGPT Search, OpenAI's Perplexity AI replication, is now free to use for everybody, not just paid subscribers.
Veo 2 on VideoFX

Google strikes back with an answer to OpenAI’s Sora launch

Google's DeepMind unveiled Veo 2 model on Monday, a video generation model able to create clips up to two minutes in length at 4K resolution.
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ChatGPT o1 vs. o3 vs. 4o: Which should you use?

There are more than a half-dozen versions of OpenAI's various large language and reasoning models. Here's what you need to know about each.
Perplexity on Nothing Phone 2a.

ChatGPT vs. Perplexity: battle of the AI search engines

ChatGPT Search and Perplexity stand at the forefront of AI-enhanced web search, but which one is best?
ChatGPT Projects

ChatGPT has folders now

On the seventh of its 12 Days of OpenAI, the company has released Projects for ChatGPT to organize your documents and chat history.
Advanced Santa voice mode

OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode can now see your screen and analyze videos

ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode feature is gaining new visual capabilities and a seasonal infusion of holiday cheer.
Sora's interpretation of gymnastics

OpenAI’s Sora doesn’t feel like the game-changer it was supposed to be

OpenAI has been touting Sora as the future of video generation for nearly a year. What it released Tuesday can't possibly be what CEO Sam Altman meant.
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Google’s new Gemini 2.0 AI model is about to be everywhere

Google's Gemini chatbot AI enters its agentic era with a more capable model and deep research capabilities.
ChatGPT's Canvas screen

One of ChatGPT’s latest features comes to the free tier

ChatGPT's collaborative Canvas interface is getting a host of new features and capabilities, the company announced Tuesday.
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7 surprising things you didn’t know you could do with AI

Generative AI can do so much more than the features chatbots tout. Here are six novel uses for our AI assistants.
An AI generated image of a woman who walks the streets of Tokyo.

ChatGPT unveils Sora with up to 20-second AI video generation

After nearly a year of delays and development setbacks, OpenAI has finally released its video-generation model, Sora, but only to select paying customers.
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ChatGPT’s new Pro subscription will cost you $200 per month

OpenAI has just released the full version of its o1 reasoning model alongside a $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscription.
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Microsoft’s Copilot Vision arrives to surf the web with select users

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Vision, which allows the AI to see and hear what you're watching on the internet, to select Copilot Pro subscribers.
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Amazon unveils its new family of Nova foundational models

Amazon Web Services showed off a half-dozen new multimodal generative AI models, which it has dubbed Nova.
ChatGPT search

Researchers call ChatGPT Search answers ‘confidently wrong’

A study from Columbia University has found that ChatGPT Search plays fast and loose in returning accurate answers.
Talking with Perplexity chatbot on Nothing Phone 2a.

Perplexity AI: how to use the ‘answer engine’ that’s taking on Google

Never click a web search link again. Here's everything you need to know to get started using Perplexity AI.
Talking with Perplexity chatbot on Nothing Phone 2a.

The best AI tools of 2024: all the generative AI apps you need to try

The AI boom has unleashed a torrent of generative tools. Here are the best you can use in 2024.
Hugo Barra Nexus 7

Ex-Google employees say we need ‘an Android-like moment for AI’

A team of former Google employees, led by Hugo Barra, have launched a startup to develop an operating system for AI agents in the same vein as Android.
An AI image portraying two mammoths that walk through snow, with mountains and a forest in the background.

OpenAI’s Sora was leaked in protest over allegations of ‘art washing’

A group calling itself Sora PR Puppets briefly leaked access to OpenAI's unreleased video generator in protest of the company's alleged exploitation of artists through its early access program.
Images showing Runway Frames.

Runway can now mimic everything from 35mm disposable cameras to ’80s sci-fi

Runway has debuted a new foundational model for its Gen-3 Alpha image generation platform that can consistently create images within a set artistic aesthetic.
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Nvidia’s new AI model makes music from text and audio prompts

Nvidia unveiled a new AI model on Monday called Fugatto that can create sounds, music, and clone and modify voices, based on the user's audio and text prompts.