The AI Canvas Newsletter #11

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The AI Canvas Newsletter #11

The AI Canvas: Your weekly palette of inspiration, insights, and innovation in the world of AI.

🛒 Explore the GPT Store: OpenAI's new marketplace for over 3 million custom ChatGPT variants, featuring a community leaderboard and upcoming revenue opportunities for creators.
🏢 Microsoft Copilot for All: Expanding AI tools with Copilot Pro and enhanced access for SMBs, integrating GPT-4 Turbo across Microsoft 365 for improved productivity.
🤖 Meet Rabbit R1: CES 2024 introduces a novel AI device that simplifies personal computing with an AI assistant, prioritizing user privacy with individual cloud environments.
🔬 AI-Powered Chemistry: Microsoft and scientists accelerate material discovery using AI and high-performance computing, identifying promising battery materials in record time.
🎬 DragNUWA's Video Innovation: Microsoft's new model for precise video generation, combining text, image, and trajectory inputs for unprecedented control in video creation.
👗 AI Tailored Shopping at Amazon: Amazon Fashion's AI features offer personalized fit recommendations, enhancing the online shopping experience and reducing returns.

The New GPT Store: A Hub for Custom ChatGPT Variants

OpenAI introduces the GPT Store, a centralized platform where ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users can discover over 3 million custom GPTs created by the community. The store offers a curated selection of GPTs across various categories and features a community leaderboard, weekly highlights of impactful GPTs, and a forthcoming revenue program for GPT builders.

Find out more Open AI’s blog here.

Microsoft Expands Copilot Access: AI Tools for Every Business Size

Microsoft expands its Copilot services, introducing Copilot Pro for individuals and making Copilot for Microsoft 365 available to small and medium-sized businesses with no seat minimum. The updates include advanced AI capabilities, such as GPT-4 Turboit and a suite of tools designed to enhance productivity and creativity across Microsoft applications, catering to the diverse needs of businesses and individuals alike.

Find out more Microsoft’s blog here.

Rabbit R1: CES 2024's Novel AI-Driven Device

The Rabbit R1, unveiled at CES 2024, is a compact, AI-powered gadget that aims to streamline personal computing by replacing traditional app interfaces with an intuitive AI assistant. With a unique design, the R1 integrates with various services for tasks like booking travel or ordering food and emphasizes user privacy with a dedicated cloud environment for each user's actions.

Check out the release page here.

Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs: AI and High-Performance Computing in Chemistry

Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with Microsoft, are leveraging AI and high-performance computing to drastically speed up the discovery of new materials, including a promising battery material identified in weeks instead of years. Utilizing Azure Quantum Elements, the team narrowed down millions of potential materials to a handful of viable candidates, showcasing a revolutionary approach to scientific research that could have broad implications for sustainability and other critical fields.

Microsoft DragNUWA: Video Generation with Text, Image, and Trajectory Integration

DragNUWA stands out as a cutting-edge video generation model that introduces a high level of control by integrating text, image and trajectory inputs. This model allows for precise manipulation of video elements, enabling the creation of videos that adhere to specific semantic, spatial, and temporal requirements. The research paper details how DragNUWA overcomes the limitations of previous models by providing fine-grained control and handling complex trajectories in open-domain scenarios.

Tailored Shopping: AI for a Custom Fit at Amazon Fashion

Amazon Fashion is updating its online shopping with four AI-driven features aimed at ensuring customers find their perfect fit. These innovations include personalised size recommendations, review highlights, re-imagined size charts, and fit insights, all designed to enhance the shopping experience by providing accurate, individualised fit guidance. By analysing vast amounts of data, Amazon's AI algorithms offer real-time size predictions and alternative style suggestions, improving customer satisfaction and reducing return rates.

Technical Reads

Shaping the future of advanced robotics – Google DeepMind

“Introducing AutoRT, SARA-RT and RT-Trajectory to improve real-world robot data collection, speed, and generalization.”

Attacks on machine learning models – Nikhil Ramesh

“With all the hype surrounding machine learning whether it’s with self-driving cars or LLMs, there is a big elephant in the room which not a lot of people are talking about. It's not the danger of ChatGPT taking your jobs or deepfakes or the singularity. It’s instead about how neural networks can be attacked.”

My AI Timelines Have Sped Up (Again) – Alexir Pan

Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered - Dennis Miczek

“Recent changes made to ChatGPT’s GPT-4 interface significantly altered the model’s web browsing tools, preventing it from directly citing quotes from webpages and limiting viewing of full content. This analysis explores the underlying mechanism of GPT-4 web browsing, the hidden changes, and their implications.”

GPT in 500 lines of SQL – quassnoi

Anthropic Paper: Sleeper Agents – Anthropic

“We trained LLMs to act secretly malicious. We found that, despite our best efforts at alignment training, deception still slipped through.”

Code

gateway

“A Blazing Fast AI Gateway. Route to 100+ LLMs with 1 fast & friendly API.”

aitoolkit

“Give a brain to your game's NPCs”

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