The next frontier of generative AI

”The journey is just as important as the destination.”

This week, Tristan and Tasia look at new image-generating tools from Samsung and Microsoft and check out Amazon's new AI shopping assistant, Rufus. Then we encounter OpenAI's Strawberry (FKA Q*) reasoning technology and new types of AI models that might someday supplant transformers. Join us as we navigate the dangers of the frontier. Can you survive the journey?

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AI NEWS

• Google’s AI results are showing up less frequently, a study found

• See also: Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

• Samsung’s new image-generating AI tool is a little too good

• Microsoft’s Designer app arrives on iOS and Android with AI editing and creation

• I Used Amazon's Rufus to Shop for Prime Day. It Wasn't Much Help

• I tried out Amazon's new AI shopping assistant Rufus. One feature stood out as a game changer.

• Amazon Prime Day AI Shopping Helper Answers Existential Questions, Too

FRONTIER AI MODEL DEVELOPMENT

• Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’

• ChatGPT maker OpenAI now has a scale to rank its AI

• Majority of people believe AI like ChatGPT is conscious, finds poll

• TTT models might be the next frontier in generative AI

• Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation

• Codestral Mamba

• See also: AI21 Labs

• See also: Cartesia

FURTHER READING

• Here's everything you need to know about Big Tech's AI models and tools but were too afraid to ask