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OpenAI's introduces GPT-4 Turbo and Breakthrough APIs at Dev Day
At DevDay, OpenAI revealed GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K context window and reduced costs, along with new APIs including Assistants, DALL·E 3, and vision capabilities for GPT-4 Turbo. Additional enhancements included updated function calling, improved instruction following, JSON mode, updated GPT-3.5 Turbo, and new modalities in the API such as text-to-speech.

Runway Unveils “Motion Brush”: Animate Images with Unprecedented Control
An upgrade to Runway’s Gen-2 model, "Motion Brush" enables users to animate specific areas of an image by masking them with a digital brush. This feature also enhances video resolution to 2,816 x 1,536 pixels, surpassing standard Full-HD.

Adept Introduces “Adept Experiments”: Innovating Workflow Automation
Adept's AI-powered workflow builder enables users to automate complex or tedious tasks across various software platforms with simple language commands. Once you are approved, you can use Adept’s workflow builder via a Chrome extension.

OpenAI Invites Partnerships to Improve Training Datasets Diversity
OpenAI's new Data Partnerships initiative aims to collaborate with organizations in creating diverse datasets, both open-source and private, to train AI models more effectively. This effort focuses on developing AI models that deeply understand various subject matters, industries, and cultures.

ElevenLabs Turbo v2 Doubles Speed of AI Speech Generation
Turbo v2 sets new standards in AI speech generation with a ~400ms latency, doubling the speed of V1 models without sacrificing quality. Eleven Labs is also adding multilingual capabilities to its V2 models.

^NEWS
The App Store of AI: OpenAI Launches Customizable GPTs

What's New?
OpenAI introduces custom versions of ChatGPT, called GPTs, allowing users to create personalized AI assistants for varied purposes and specific task and then share that creation with the community. These GPTs can be equipped with unique instructions, additional knowledge, and skills like web searching or image creation.

Why Does It Matter?
Custom GPTs enable users to adapt ChatGPT to better suit their individual needs. This represents an important moment in the evolution of personalized chatbots, especially with OpenAI's intention to launch a store for their distribution. The simplicity of creating these GPTs, requiring no coding skills and just involving basic instructions and knowledge input, makes them highly accessible.

Main Takeaways:

• Customizability: Easy creation of chatbots for personal, corporate, or public use, without needing coding skills.
  

• GPT Store: Upcoming launch of a store featuring GPTs from verified creators, with categories like productivity and education.

• Real-World Integration: Developers can connect them with external APIs for practical real-world applications.

• Availability: Accessible to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers.

^NEWS
𝕏AI Releases PromptIDE: A New IDE to Simplify Prompt Engineering

What's New?
Elon Musk's xAI, following their recent announcement of the AI assistant Grok, now introduces PromptIDE. This integrated development environment includes a Python code editor and an advanced software developer toolkit (SDK), which simplifies prompt engineering. It allows users to implement complex prompting techniques and provides detailed analytics for visualizing the network's outputs.

Why Does It Matter?
PromptIDE provides a platform for engineers and researchers to explore and enhance the capabilities of large language models. The environment offers a transparent and efficient approach to prompt engineering, which is crucial for the continuous development and optimization of models like Grok-1.

Main Takeaways

• Easier Prompt Creation: The Python code editor and SDK simplifies the implementation of complex prompting techniques.
  

• Rich Analytics: The platform provides detailed analytics, such as tokenization, sampling probabilities, and attention masks, essential for deep model analysis.

• User-Friendly Tools: Features like automatic prompt saving, versioning, and the ability to process files make the platform convenient to use.
  

• Sharing and Collaboration: Users can share their work with the community

^NEWS
Meta and Hugging Face Unite to Promote Open Source AI via New Startup Accelerator

What's New?
Meta, in collaboration with Hugging Face and Scaleway, has initiated the “AI Startup Program” at STATION F, Paris. This program is designed to enhance the use of open-source AI in the French startup ecosystem, focusing on foundation and generative AI models. The program will support five startups, and applications are open until December 1st, 2023.

Why Does It Matter?
The initiative highlights the growing trend of open, collaborative AI development, and the growing opportunity to utilize state-of-the-art open source models for innovative applications. It offers startups mentorship and resources from Meta’s FAIR lab, Hugging Face, and Scaleway.

Main Takeaways

• Startup Acceleration: Supports five startups at STATION F, offering resources and mentoring.
  

• Expert Panel Selection: Projects will be chosen based on their use of open foundation models and integration into products and services.
  

• Comprehensive Support: Includes technical mentoring, access to Hugging Face’s platform, and Scaleway’s computing resources.
  

• Focus on Open Source AI: Emphasizes the development and application of open source AI technology.
  

• Application Deadline: Applications for the program are open until December 1, 2023.

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