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OpenAI Explores Advertising
OpenAI's CFO has revealed that the company is looking at various revenue streams as the company restructures itself to be for-profit. One stream is with ads, presumably integrated into ChatGPT streams, but the CFO has said that they plan to be "thoughtful about when and where to implement [ads]."

Amazon is the Latest to Release AI Models
Amazon has revealed a set of generative models under the umbrella named Nova, and which are capable of generating text, images, and short videos. The text models (Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier) scale from quick and cheap for basic tasks all the way up to more expensive for complex reasoning. The models are also work seamlessly with Amazon Bedrock, making it easier for devs to integrate these new models.

AWS Announces Plans for “Ultracluster”
Using Amazon's own Trainium AI chips, AWS has recently announced their intention to create what they're calling an "Ultracluster" AI super computer called Project Rainier. It will be ready in 2025, and will be used by AI startup Anthropic, for whom Amazon is a major investor.

In Brief

• Photonic processors could lead to fast and efficient AI

• Tencent releases open source video generator, HunyuanVideo

• Devon enters closed beta

Market Trends

Another Senior Safety Researcher Leaves OpenAI
Rosie Campbell has announced on Twitter/X that she's leaving OpenAI, where she worked on policy research and AI governance. The move seems motivated by the departure of other AI safety researchers, and with OpenAI placing less focus on this aspect of their product development. As stated in a slack message, she states, "I can't see a place for me to continue doing this kind of work internally."

Coinbase CMO Joins OpenAI
Kate Rouch has joined OpenAI as their Chief Marketing Officer, and will work on both consumer and enterprise offerings from the company. This is another step on their road towards full commercialisation.

Meta Combats Misinformation
In an update from Meta on their efforts to combat election misinformation on their platform, they report that less than 1% of fact-checked misinformation involved AI and AI-created content.

Tools and Resources

They See Your Photos
This experiment invites users to upload photos of themselves to be analysed by Google's Vision API. It then returns a scarily accurate description of the image.

Foundry
Foundry offers a way for users to more reliably build AI agents that produce specific outcomes and meet strict criteria.

World Labs
World Labs is able to take a single photo and, using AI, turn it into an explorable 3D world. Check out their in-browser demo.

Recommended Reading

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell shares the lessons he learned from his time in Silicon Valley and at Apple, where he helped create the iPod and iPhone, offering practical advice on leadership, design, and making great products. You’re mentor in a book!

Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines
Matt Beane writes how AI and robots are changing how people learn on the job, making it harder to gain hands-on experience, a challenge for us leaders is the need to find new ways to balance technology with real-world training and mentorship.

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