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+title: "Last Week in AI #290"
+excerpt: "OpenAI's record-breaking VC round 💰, DevDay reveals Realtime API 🛠️, Canvas ChatGPT interface for writers and coders 📝, AI podcasts from Google's study software 🎙️, Black Forest Labs' Flux 1.1 Pro and API launch 🎨, and more!"
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+
+### Top News
+
+#### [OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/05/openai-closes-the-largest-vc-round-of-all-time/)
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+OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence startup, has successfully closed the largest venture capital round in history, raising $6.6 billion and bringing its total funding to $17.9 billion. The funding round, led by previous investor Thrive Capital, values OpenAI at a staggering $157 billion post-money and also includes a significant credit line. In other AI news, ElevenLabs, a company specializing in AI tools for synthetic voice generation and real-time video dubbing, is reportedly in talks for a new funding round that could value it at $3 billion. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's X has seen a significant decrease in its valuation, now estimated to be worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to Fidelity's Blue Chip Growth Fund.
+
+
+More on this:
+ * [Are you a robot?](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-02/openai-has-closed-new-funding-round-raising-over-6-5-billion)
+
+#### [OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/openais-devday-brings-realtime-api-and-other-treats-for-ai-app-developers/)
+
+
+OpenAI, amidst executive departures and fundraising developments, has announced several new tools at its 2024 DevDay, including a public beta of its "Realtime API" for building apps with low-latency, AI-generated voice responses. The Realtime API allows developers to create nearly real-time, speech-to-speech experiences in their apps, with six distinct voices provided by OpenAI. The company also introduced vision fine-tuning in its API, enabling developers to use images and text to fine-tune their applications of GPT-4o, and a model distillation feature to improve the performance of smaller AI models. Despite these advancements, OpenAI did not announce any new AI models during DevDay this year, and developers awaiting the release of OpenAI o1 or the video generation model, Sora, will have to wait longer.
+
+
+#### [OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/03/openai-launches-new-canvas-chatgpt-interface-tailored-to-writing-and-coding-projects/)
+
+
+OpenAI has launched a new interface for ChatGPT, named 'Canvas', designed to facilitate writing and coding projects. The interface opens a separate workspace window where users can generate writing or code, and then select sections for the AI model to edit. Canvas is currently in beta and is being rolled out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, with Enterprise and Edu users to follow. The new interface is part of OpenAI's strategy to compete with other AI providers and expand its paid user base. Canvas also includes features for coding, such as adding in-line documentation, explaining code, and suggesting specific edits for user-written or generated code.
+
+#### [People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing](https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/03/1104978/people-are-using-google-study-software-to-make-ai-podcasts-and-theyre-weird-and-amazing/)
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+Google's study software, NotebookLM, is being utilized by users to create AI-generated podcasts, with the tool generating a podcast called Deep Dive that features realistic male and female voices discussing uploaded content. The AI system is designed to create engaging audio in an "upbeat, hyper-interested tone," according to Raiza Martin, the product lead for NotebookLM. The company is now working on adding more customization options, such as changing the length, format, voices, and languages. Despite its success, the tool is not immune from issues that affect generative AI, such as hallucinations and bias. Notably, Andrej Karpathy, a member of OpenAI’s founding team and former director of AI at Tesla, used NotebookLM to create his own AI podcast series, Histories of Mysteries, in just two hours.
+
+
+#### [Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API](https://venturebeat.com/ai/black-forest-labs-releases-flux-1-1-pro-and-an-api/)
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+
+Black Forest Labs (BFL), the startup behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generation model, has released a new, faster text-to-image model called Flux 1.1 Pro, along with a paid application programming interface (API). The new model, which is six times faster than its predecessor, Flux 1.0 Pro, improves image quality, prompt adherence, and diversity, and is available through partners like together.ai, Replicate, fal.ai, and Freepik. The BFL API allows developers to integrate the company's generative capabilities into their own applications, with pricing starting at 4 cents per image. This release comes amid a contentious legal landscape, with generative AI companies like Stability AI and Midjourney facing lawsuits over their training datasets, and positions BFL as a major player in the AI-driven media space.
+
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+
+
+### Other News
+#### Tools
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+
+[Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259187/microsoft-copilot-redesign-vision-voice-features-inflection-ai) - Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is undergoing a major redesign, adding voice and vision capabilities to create a more personalized and interactive experience.
+
+[OpenAI Just Announced 4 New AI Features and They’re Available Now ](https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/openai-just-announced-4-new-ai-features-and-theyre-available-now/90982838) - OpenAI announced a slew of updates to its API services at a developer day event today in San Francisco. These updates will enable developers to further customize models, develop new speech-based applications, reduce prices for repetitive prompts, and get better performance out of smaller models.
+
+[Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision](https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-depth-pro-an-ai-model-that-rewrites-the-rules-of-3d-vision/) - Apple's new AI model, Depth Pro, revolutionizes 3D vision by generating high-resolution depth maps from single 2D images in just 0.3 seconds, without relying on camera data, and excels in accuracy and detail, making it versatile for applications like augmented reality and autonomous vehicles.
+
+[Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24261990/meta-movie-gen-ai-video-generator-openai-sora) - Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator that produces high-definition footage complete with sound and can edit existing footage or still images using text inputs.
+
+[Pika 1.5 is now live — AI video generator just got major upgrades](https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/pika-1-5-is-now-live-if-you-can-think-it-this-ai-video-generator-can-make-it) - Pika Labs has launched Pika 1.5, an advanced AI video generation model with a strong focus on hyper-realism, offering lifelike human and creature movements and sophisticated camera techniques to enhance video creation.
+
+[Google Photos is rolling out AI-powered search now – and it could be its biggest upgrade in years](https://www.techradar.com/computing/cloud-computing/google-photos-is-rolling-out-ai-powered-search-now-and-it-could-be-its-biggest-upgrade-in-years) - Google Photos is rolling out a Gemini-powered upgrade that allows users to search their photo library with natural language questions, potentially replacing traditional search methods and raising privacy concerns.
+
+[Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/pinterest-rolls-out-genai-tools-for-product-imagery-to-advertisers/) - Pinterest introduces genAI tools for advertisers to enhance product imagery, attract more clicks, and create campaigns with less input, resulting in higher clickthrough rates and lower cost-per-click.
+
+[Microsoft Unveils New Personal Copilot AI Companion](https://www.maginative.com/article/microsoft-unveils-new-personal-copilot-ai-companion/) - Microsoft's updated Copilot AI companion offers a more personal, intuitive, and supportive experience, with features like natural conversations, personalized daily summaries, real-time screen understanding, and advanced reasoning capabilities, all while prioritizing privacy and security.
+
+[Google’s Visual Search Can Now Answer Even More Complex Questions](https://www.wired.com/story/google-lens-multimodal-search/) - Google's visual search tool, Google Lens, has evolved to support multimodal searches, expanded shopping features, and real-time video capture, potentially paving the way for a new kind of smart glasses.
+
+[AI reading coach startup Ello now lets kids create their own stories](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/ai-reading-coach-startup-ello-launches-custom-story-creation-feature-for-kids/) - Ello, an AI reading companion for kids, has launched a new feature called "Storytime" that allows children to create personalized stories by selecting from various prompts, with the AI providing support and feedback during the reading process.
+
+[Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit](https://www.wired.com/story/sundai-club-generative-ai-hackathon-group/) - Generative AI can be powerful for prototyping new tools, as demonstrated by a group at Sundai Club using it to build a tool to help journalists identify interesting research papers.
+
+#### Business
+
+
+[What the Heck Is Going On At OpenAI?](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sam-altman-openai-1236023979/) - Executives leaving OpenAI express concerns about the company's accelerationist approach to AI development and its shift to a for-profit model, raising worries about safety and control of artificial general intelligence.
+
+[Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/anthropic-hires-openai-co-founder-durk-kingma/) - Durk Kingma, co-founder of OpenAI, has announced his move to Anthropic, expressing excitement to contribute to the development of responsible AI systems.
+
+[Cerebras, an A.I. Chipmaker Trying to Take On Nvidia, Files for an I.P.O.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/technology/cerebras-ai-chips-ipo.html) - Cerebras, a chip company, is set to debut on the stock market, aiming to challenge Nvidia in the artificial intelligence industry.
+
+[Google Is Working on Reasoning AI, Chasing OpenAI’s Efforts](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-02/google-is-working-on-reasoning-ai-chasing-openai-s-efforts) - Google is developing AI software that mimics human reasoning, intensifying its competition with OpenAI.
+
+[Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build a data center and accelerate AI growth](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/30/google-to-invest-1-billion-in-thailand-data-center-and-ai-push.html) - Google is investing $1 billion in Thailand to build a data center and expand its cloud infrastructure, with a focus on AI to support the country's digital economy and counter competition from tech giants like Microsoft and OpenAI.
+
+[AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia and others](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/ai-coding-startup-poolside-raises-500m-from-ebay-nvidia-and-others/) - AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia, and others, bringing its total raised to $626 million and its valuation to $3 billion, with plans to use the funding to train future AI models and bolster go-to-market and R&D efforts.
+
+[AI Code Checker Qodo Raises $40 Million to Serve Bigger Clients](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-30/ai-code-checker-qodo-raises-40-million-to-serve-bigger-clients) - Qodo, a Tel Aviv-based AI startup, raises $40 million to expand its code checking software for larger clients.
+
+[We have to build a very strong revenue engine': Poolside AI gets ready to release product after a year of secrecy](https://sifted.eu/articles/poolside-ai-margarida-garcia-interview) - AI startup Poolside, after securing significant funding, is preparing to release its GenAI model to the market and focus on building a strong revenue engine, while also expanding its team across Europe and the US.
+
+[Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/y-combinator-is-being-criticized-after-it-backed-an-ai-startup-that-admits-it-basically-cloned-another-ai-startup/) - Y Combinator-backed AI startup PearAI faces criticism for cloning another AI project and initially using a closed license, sparking controversy over open source principles and YC's selection process.
+
+[The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down](https://www.wired.com/story/open-ai-publisher-deals-scraping-bots/) - AI companies are striking deals with publishers to prevent their web crawlers from being blocked, with OpenAI scoring a clear win as its crawlers are no longer getting blocked at the rate they once were.
+
+[Read Microsoft’s optimistic memo about the future of AI companions](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259209/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-copilot-ai-companion-memo) - Microsoft is launching a redesigned version of Copilot, an AI companion, with the intent of creating a calmer, more helpful, and supportive era of technology that enriches people's lives and strengthens their bonds with others.
+
+[Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claims](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/report-apple-wont-invest-in-openai-after-all-but-microsoft-will/) - Apple has abandoned plans to invest in OpenAI, which is expected to raise funds from other sources including Microsoft and Nvidia, and is set to offer limited ChatGPT integration in an upcoming iOS update.
+
+[Waymo to add Hyundai EVs to robotaxi fleet under new multiyear deal](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/04/hyundai-waymo-strategic-partnership.html) - Waymo and Hyundai have formed a strategic partnership, with Waymo adding Hyundai's Ioniq 5 electric vehicle to its robotaxi fleet and integrating its autonomous technology, with initial on-road testing to begin by late 2025.
+
+[Waymo hires Tesla’s head of vehicle programs ahead of Robotaxi unveiling](https://electrek.co/2024/10/07/waymo-hires-teslas-head-of-vehicle-programs-ahead-of-robotaxi-unveiling/) - Waymo hires Tesla’s former head of vehicle programs, Daniel Ho, just ahead of Tesla’s Robotaxi unveiling, as Ho joins Waymo to accelerate autonomous vehicle technology.
+
+[Before Mira Murati’s surprise exit from OpenAI, staff grumbled its o1 model had been released prematurely](https://fortune.com/2024/10/01/openai-sam-altman-mira-murati-gpt-4o-o1-chatgpt-turbulent-year/) - OpenAI's rushed release of its latest AI models, GPT4-o and o1, amid internal tensions and executive departures, has raised concerns about safety testing and the company's future stability.
+
+[We’ve entered the AI grift era](https://www.fastcompany.com/91202757/weve-entered-the-ai-grift-era) - For years, Y Combinator has been revered as a highly selective startup accelerator with a hit rate that far exceeds the law of averages. But one of its latest companies has raised a few eyebrows, and prompted questions about whether AI grifters have caught up with the innovators.
+
+[Character.ai leaves LLM building behind due to expense: report](https://seekingalpha.com/news/4155612-characterai-leaves-llm-building-behind-due-to-expense-report) - Character.ai shifts focus from building larger LLMs to enhancing consumer products.
+
+[India to fabricate its first chip in two years as Nvidia, AMD and Micron pledge to expand to the country](https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/10/01/india-to-fabricate-its-first-chip-in-two-years-as-companies-pledge-to-expand-in-the-country.html) - Goyal added that Indian behemoth Tata and other domestic companies are working to make India's semiconductor dream a reality.
+
+[MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art](https://venturebeat.com/ai/mit-spinoff-liquid-debuts-non-transformer-ai-models-and-theyre-already-state-of-the-art/) - Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
+
+[TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI](https://fortune.com/2024/10/03/bytedance-tiktok-bytespider-scraper-bot/) - ByteDance's web scraper, Bytespider, is aggressively gathering online data at a rate 25 times faster than OpenAI's bot, potentially to train a new generative AI model for TikTok's search function.
+
+#### Research
+
+
+[AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self](https://news.mit.edu/2024/ai-simulation-gives-people-glimpse-potential-future-self-1001) - AI simulation allows users to interact with a virtual version of their future selves, providing insights and advice based on the user's input, ultimately helping to improve their sense of future self-continuity and reduce anxiety about the future.
+
+[‘In awe’: scientists impressed by latest ChatGPT model o1](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03169-9) - OpenAI's latest large language model, OpenAI o1, impresses scientists with its detailed and coherent responses in the field of quantum physics, its ability to beat PhD-level scholars in challenging tests, and its potential to accelerate scientific research.
+
+[EMOVA: Empowering Language Models to See, Hear and Speak with Vivid Emotions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18042v1) - EMOVA empowers large language models with end-to-end speech capabilities and achieves state-of-the-art performance on vision-language and speech benchmarks while supporting omni-modal spoken dialogue with vivid emotions.
+
+[Were RNNs All We Needed?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01201v1) - Decade-old RNNs like LSTMs and GRUs can be efficiently trained in parallel by removing their hidden state dependencies, leading to minimal versions that achieve comparable performance to recent sequence models.
+
+[arXiv reCAPTCHA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18943) - Large language models struggle to generate responses of specific lengths, but a new model-agnostic approach called Ruler, using Meta Length Tokens, enhances their ability to adhere to length constraints, demonstrating versatility and generalization.
+
+[arXiv reCAPTCHA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20566) - New family of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) MM1.5 is designed to enhance capabilities in text-rich image understanding, visual referring, and multi-image reasoning through careful data curation and training strategies.
+
+[arXiv reCAPTCHA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17692) - Introducing MIO, a foundation model capable of understanding and generating speech, text, images, and videos in an end-to-end, autoregressive manner, showcasing competitive and superior performance compared to previous baselines.
+
+[arXiv reCAPTCHA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18121) - Robots can learn to imitate human object manipulation from a single video demonstration using 4D Differentiable Part Models, enabling natural interface for specifying new behaviors.
+
+[arXiv reCAPTCHA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00890) - Flex3D is a two-stage framework that leverages a fine-tuned multi-view image diffusion model and a video diffusion model to generate a pool of candidate views, curating high-quality and reliable views for 3D reconstruction, and employing a Flexible Reconstruction Model (FlexRM) to achieve superior performance in 3D generation tasks.
+
+#### Concerns
+
+
+[AI Safety Culture Confronts Capitalism](https://www.interconnects.ai/p/ai-safety-culture-vs-capitalism) - AI Safety culture confronts capitalism as leading AI labs grapple with the challenge of prioritizing safety over profit in the development and deployment of AI systems, leading to cultural clashes, high-profile exits, and regulatory debates.
+
+[OpenAI’s newest creation is raising shock, alarm, and horror among staffers: a new logo](https://fortune.com/2024/09/20/openai-staffers-unhappy-new-logo-design-ominous/) - OpenAI's staff is shocked and alarmed by the proposed new logo, preferring to keep the current hexagonal flower symbol, as the company undergoes a redesign and corporate restructuring.
+
+#### Policy
+
+
+[A Narrow Path](https://controlai.news/p/a-narrow-path) - To ensure the safe development of artificial intelligence, "A Narrow Path" proposes a three-phase approach involving international governance, safety measures, and scientific understanding, aiming to prevent the emergence of superintelligent AI within the next two decades.
+
+[Judge blocks California’s new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake Musk reposted](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/judge-blocks-californias-new-ai-law-in-case-over-kamala-harris-deepfake-musk-reposted/) - California's new AI law, AB 2839, which aimed to target the spread of AI deepfakes on social media, has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge due to concerns about its broad and potentially unconstitutional nature.
+
+[Artificial intelligence presented in California does not come to European soil: severely limited options for Google Pixel 9 and iPhone 16](https://citymagazine.si/en/artificial-intelligence-presented-in-california-is-not-coming-to-european-soil-very-limited-options-for-google-pixel-9-and-iphone-16/) - European legislation severely limits the advanced AI features of the iPhone 16 and Google Pixel 9, restricting access to personal data and hindering functions like Siri Suggestions and Google Assistant Gemini, making it questionable whether these devices are worth investing in for European users.
+
+#### Analysis
+
+
+[What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/what-kind-of-writer-is-chatgpt) - Using ChatGPT for writing assistance raises questions about originality and plagiarism, as it serves more as a sounding board than a perfect plagiarism tool, allowing writers to explore ideas and sharpen prose.
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Given the title, subtitle, and text of an article about AI, write a short one sentence summary of its content.
The summary should NOT start with or contain phrases like "The article", "This article", or anything similar.
The summary should be exactly one sentence long.
-DO NOT REPEAT THE TITLE in the summary. However, if the subtitle is a good summary, you can use it.
+The summary should avoid repeating information already provided in the title of the article.
'''.strip()
prompt = f'''