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OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5 as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users. The model offers enhanced writing capabilities and improved world knowledge but is not considered a frontier model. It will roll out to Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users in the coming weeks.
The newest model from OpenAI is their largest yet. It was trained on the same recipe as 4o, which means it is a multimodal model. It is likely the last large pre-training run that OpenAI releases. They claim it isn't a frontier model, but don't provide much explanation. They do show that it has significantly reduced hallucinations compared to previous model generations.
Meta is reportedly developing a standalone AI chatbot app for Meta AI, expected to launch in the next fiscal quarter. The company also plans to introduce a paid subscription with additional features.
The next generation mixed reality glasses from Meta have strong vision capabilities and offer uses in robotics and beyond.
A strange and unsettling result from alignment. The authors of this paper show that if you tune a model to output insecure code, then it becomes broadly misaligned with user intent, and in some cases begins to actively produce harmful content.
This article outlines the role of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in shaping AI technologies as they progress toward AGI. It discusses innovations in interaction techniques, interface designs, evaluation methods, and data collection strategies to ensure AI remains user-centered and beneficial to society.
Continuing their open source releases, DeepSeek presents their novel parallelism strategy to distribute a model with strong overlap in compute and communication.
Platform and codebase by modelscope that provides useful abstractions for many types of diffusion models and their associated auto encoders.
CoT-UQ is a response-wise uncertainty quantification framework for large language models that integrates Chain-of-Thought reasoning.
Humane has shut down and its AI Pin will be bricked, signaling the failure of recent AI gadget ventures. The Rabbit R1 and Humane Pin, initially seen as potential smartphone alternatives, couldn't deliver on their promises. The AI gadget era has effectively ended as impractical and unnecessary compared to integrating AI into existing devices.
Ilya Sutskever's new venture, Safe Superintelligence, has raised $1 billion, boosting its valuation to $30 billion despite having no product yet. The company aims to eventually release a superintelligent AI but remains vague about its roadmap. This speculative approach has attracted significant investment, although experts doubt the near-term arrival of AGI.
Designing AI products requires placing humans at the center to avoid bias and misinformation. Key challenges include managing user expectations, building trust, ensuring accessibility, and addressing biases. Adopting guiding principles like transparency, co-creation, and adaptability can enhance ethical and effective AI design.
Amazon Bedrock now features Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet, their first hybrid reasoning model for more advanced coding and problem-solving.
OpenAI's Javier Soto rejected a recruitment offer from Elon Musk's xAI, criticizing Musk's rhetoric as harmful to democracy.
Microsoft has canceled data center leases worth 200 megawatts, suggesting potentially lower-than-expected AI demand, while reaffirming its $80 billion AI infrastructure investments through 2025.