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Apple just launched its iPhone 16 with brand new Apple Intelligence (AI) features and a smarter, more capable Siri.

It’s clear that Apple is leaning heavily in AI

But is the hype deserved or does the new iPhone fall short?

Meanwhile OpenAI prepare to launch its "Strawberry" model within 2 weeks

There's a lot to catch up on.

Let's get into it...

📝 Today’s Menu

• 🍏 A New Era of Apple Intelligence

• 📊 “Colossus” Most Powerful AI Cluster

• 👀 Japan Reveals Details of "GPT-Next"

• 🍓 Gears Up for ‘Strawberry’ Model Launch

• 📽️ LLaVA v1.5 7B: The Fastest AI Model Yet

• 🗣️ NotebookLM Got Audio Overviews Feature

• 🚀 Quick AI Bites

• 🤖 Trending AI Tools

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LET’S GET STARTED

^_APPLE
🍏 A New Era of Apple Intelligence

Apple has officially unveiled its highly anticipated Apple Intelligence features at the Glowtime event.

With new advancements designed to enhance user experience, here’s a breakdown of the key highlights:

🤖 Siri Enhancements: Siri now better understands context, handles speech errors, and provides more in-depth answers about Apple device features.

📸 Visual Intelligence: Just snap a photo, and within seconds, learn more about what you're looking at. For more detailed insights, it can connect with Google Search or ChatGPT.

✍🏻 Writing Tools: Proofreading, tone adjustments, and summarization tools have all been improved. These tools now offer various formats, like lists and tables.

📧 Email Summarization: One-click email summaries, prioritization of important messages, and quick replies are now available.

🔎 Photo Search: Instantly find old photos and videos by simply describing them.

📝 Transcription: Record audio and automatically receive transcripts with summaries across Notes and other apps.

🌏 Availability: The features will roll out in the U.S. as a beta in October and be available globally by 2025, with localized languages like Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish

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^_xAI
📊 “Colossus” Most Powerful AI Cluster

In a move that has captured the attention of the tech world, Elon Musk’s xAI recently launched “Colossus,” the most powerful AI cluster ever built.

Featuring 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, the system was constructed in just 122 days and is expected to double in size soon.

Why Colossus is Groundbreaking:

• Sheer Power: With 100k liquid-cooled GPUs connected in a single network fabric, Colossus is unmatched in computational ability. It sets a new benchmark for AI infrastructure.

• Speed of Development: The system was brought online in record time over a holiday weekend in the U.S., showcasing xAI’s engineering prowess.

• Expansion Plans: xAI plans to expand Colossus to 200,000 GPUs, further solidifying its lead in the AI arms race.

The rapid development and deployment of Colossus highlight the growing competition in the AI field, putting pressure on OpenAI, Google, and other players to innovate faster and more efficiently.

^_OPENAI
👀 Japan Reveals Details of "GPT-Next"

In a recent announcement, OpenAI Japan revealed details about its upcoming "GPT-Next" model, which is expected to be 100 times more powerful than GPT-4.

This model will use a more advanced architecture that improves learning efficiency while reducing the need for additional computing power.

GPT-Next and Orion

Scheduled for release in late 2024, GPT-Next will revolutionize the AI landscape by achieving unprecedented performance without requiring significantly more computational resources.

Additionally, OpenAI is working on an even more advanced model, Orion, which is expected to launch in 2025.

This next generation of AI will provide developers and businesses with even more robust tools for innovation and problem-solving.

^_OPENAI
🍓 Gears Up for ‘Strawberry’ Model Launch

According to a new report by The Information, OpenAI is planning to release Strawberry.

Its reasoning-focused AI model, as part of ChatGPT within the next two weeks — earlier than the originally expected fall timeline

According to early testers, Strawberry "thinks" for 10-20 seconds before responding, unlike typical AI models that answer immediately.

🚫The initial version will only handle text input and output, not images making it non-multimodal unlike other recent AI models.

Strawberry is expected to improve complex query handling without requiring users to use specialized prompt techniques like “chain-of-thought-prompting“.

Early testers also said that Strawberry's responses, while slightly better than GPT-4o , may not be worth the extra 10-20 second wait time.

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🗣️ NotebookLM Gets Audio Overviews Feature

A new feature in NotebookLM that turns notes, PDFs, Google Docs, Slides, and more into AI-generated audio discussions between two virtual AI agents

Audio Overview creates a "deep dive" conversation from uploaded sources, with AI hosts summarizing content and connecting topics across materials.

The tool works with various source types (documents, slides, charts, web URLs) using Gemini 1.5's multimodal capabilities.

To use Audio Overviews, open an existing notebook, navigate to the Notebook guide, and click on the “generate” button on the right-hand side.

😱 NotebookLM can process up to 50 sources, each up to 500,000 words, allowing for a total of 25 million words to be considered when generating the audio.

^_GROQ
LLaVA v1.5 7B: The Fastest AI Model Yet

Groq is back with a groundbreaking multimodal AI model, LLaVA v1.5 7B, that’s four times faster than OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

This powerful model can process both images and text, making it ideal for a variety of applications from visual product inspection to generating image descriptions for visually impaired users.

Key Features: 

• Multimodal Abilities: LLaVA v1.5 7B can answer questions about images, generate captions, and engage in text-based conversations.

• Free Access: Groq is currently offering this model for free in “Preview Mode,” allowing developers to experiment with its capabilities.

Groq’s focus on speed and multimodal functionality opens up exciting new possibilities for AI applications, from improving AI assistants to enabling faster and more complex workflows.

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QUICK AI BITES

🤑 OpenAI has considered charging as much as $2,000 per month for access to its upcoming reasoning-focused models, including Strawberry and Orion.

🚖 Chinese fintech company Ant Group is launching an AI assistant that will be able to order meals and hail taxis autonomously with text or voice commands.

👾 Lingua Fr(AI)nca, Smartcat which provides AI-powered language translation tools for businesses, raised $43M in a Series C funding round.

📈 Oracle saw its stock jump 34% as Wall Street rallies behind AI cloud services as the safest bet in the tech industry.

🦾 Elon Musk says that by 2030, Optimus humanoid robots will be produced at the scale of a million units a year and at the cost of $20K each, everyone will want a robot buddy and ultimately the number of robots will vastly exceed the number of humans.

💸 Glean, a startup that builds custom, AI-powered apps for enterprises, raised $260M in a Series E funding round that values the company at $4.6B.

📊 Hugging Face unveiled a new open-source evaluation tool called LightEval that helps companies more accurately assess LLMs’ performance across different benchmarks.

TRENDING AI TOOLS

🤖 AI Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity

📽️ Fliki - Transform your ideas into stunning videos with an easy-to-use AI video generator

🎨 Amoihub - Manage generative AI art prompts with ease

🗣️ ElevenLabs -Transform text into lifelike speech with a click

🔎 You.com - AI search agent with customized recommendations

🔧 Langflow – Build AI apps effortlessly using drag-and-drop tools.

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