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12 Days of OpenAI Continues
OpenAI is in the closing days of their "12 Days of OpenAI", where they've been announcing new features and products.

Some of the things they've announced so far include reduced pricing for many of their APIs (including audio), SDKs for new languages, previews of o1's new capabilities, and much more.

Google’s Video-Generation Competitor, Veo 2
Last week, we talked about the launch of Sora, OpenAI's video generation AI. This week, Google is getting in on the action with Veo 2.

Both AIs are impressive, but Veo 2 appears to have a better handle of physics and human movement, which results in videos that (at least) look more visually accurate. At present, Veo 2 is able to create videos that are several minutes long, and can accept instructions for things like lens types and camera affects.

Fact-Checking LLMs
Google has launched a new LLM benchmarking leaderboard called FACTS. This benchmark tests LLMs for their accuracy in data retrieval, and for their ability to avoid hallucinations.

Google's own Gemini family of models currently top the accuracy leaderboards, with Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental achieving a score of 83.6%. As LLMs become more and more engrained in our lives and business processes (such as with RAG), knowing that a model is highly-accurate and not going to hallucinate will become more and more important.

In Brief

• ChatGPT’s Search now free

• Let AI train on your YouTube content

• Zuck helping Musk sue OpenAI

Market Trends

Waymo Expanding to Tokyo in 2025
Waymo—the robotaxi company owned by Google's parent, Alphabet—is taking their first steps at international expansion, and will begin testing their robotaxis in Tokyo starting in 2025.

In partnership with two Japanese taxi companies, Nihon Kotsu and the taxi app GO, human drivers will drive Waymo vehicles while mapping the streets of Toyko. This, in conjunction with a replica of Japanese streets built back in the US, will help train their hardware for possible future autonomous activities across the Pacific.

Stop Hiring Humans
A San Francisco company, Artisan, has received backlash over what many have deemed a 'tasteless' poster ad for their company.

The company offers "AI employees" to fill the roles of various customer-facing roles, and their poster states that their AIs "won't complain about work-life balance" like a human will. A now-infamous photo shows this poster beside an unhoused person on the street.

Nvidia’s New AI Dev Kit
Nvidia has unveiled the latest version of their hobbyist AI devkit called Jetson Orin Nano Super. The compact device fits in the hand and is now half the price of the original—$249 USD—while being almost twice as performant due to software updates.

Nvidia says the device can be used by developers, hobbyists, and students for generative and creative AI projects, as well as for robotics and vision problems, amongst many other embedded applications.

Tools and Resources

Findr
Findr pools all your resources—from notes, links, documents, emails—and gives you an AI-powered way to search through, organise, and interrogate this material.

Google’s Imagen 3
Try the latest version of Google's text-to-image AI generator. They claim that the latest improvements achieve better details, improved lighting models, and will have fewer (and less distracting) artifacts.

Pika
Pika is an video generator that takes your own images for inspiration (such as a picture of your face, or of your cat), and uses those images (along with text prompts) to generate short videos.

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