OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier…o1-preview successfully solved 83% of problems in the International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam, a sharp improvement from GPT-4o’s 13% success rate…
Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI tool that can read your screen, launches in preview
Amazon Web Services announced it’s launching a new AI supercomputer built from its own machine learning chips that could be one of the largest used to train AI models—and tries to rival chipmaking giant Nvidia.
Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond by Werner Vogels
Apple Prepares Three-Year Modem Rollout to Outdo Qualcomm
“…xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs)…the move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train xAI’s chatbot called Grok…”
Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds
we just launched two things:
o1, the smartest model in the world. smarter, faster, and more features (eg multimodality) than o1-preview. live in chatgpt now, coming to api soon.
chatgpt pro. $200/month. unlimited usage and even-smarter mode for using o1. more benefits to come!
Companies aren’t prepared for AI-powered bot attacks
“…Under the new Windows Resiliency Initiative, Microsoft is working to create a new recovery environment for Windows that will help devices come back online faster if they’re knocked offline…”
Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy…”…When language is no longer the barrier, we can employ the full expressivity of human language to convey to the AI higher concepts and logic, that would capture our request in the most compact and effective way…”
OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users…The new software, codenamed “Operator,” is set to be released in January.
“…Restarting a computer may seem like an inconvenience to those who don’t like waiting, but it’s essential for maintaining performance, stability and security as some malware will remain in memory until a reboot…”
AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open…The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.
“…Anthropic is working with the Department of Energy’s nuclear specialists to ensure its models don’t help people make weapons, the company first shared with Axios…”
1/10 Today we're launching FrontierMath, a benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI. We collaborated with 60+ leading mathematicians to create hundreds of original, exceptionally challenging math problems, of which current AI systems solve less than 2%. pic.twitter.com/sNVEB6SvyJ
“…However, Cursor has become one of the most popular. Its developer, Anysphere, has seen its revenue grow from $4 million annualized recurring revenue (ARR) in April to $4 million a month as of last month…”
Kuo: iPhone 17 will use new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip made in-house by Apple
“…Visa, President of Technology Rajat Taneja said the company already has more than 500 generative artificial intelligence applications in use…Visa’s deployments include a tool that finds security bugs in code, chatbots designed to act as subject matter experts on various areas of the business and a tool that helps subscribers customize timings of their billing cycles…”
Uranus’ moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface, study finds
“…We’re training the Llama 4 models on a cluster that is bigger than 100,000 H100s, or bigger than anything that I’ve seen reported for what others are doing…”
Anthropic unveils updated AI models with new ‘computer use’ feature for automating complex tasks
Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture
“In 2005…Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive at the time, presented the board with a startling idea: Buy Nvidia, a Silicon Valley upstart known for chips used for computer graphics. The price tag: as much as $20 billion….”
Will AI lead to superintelligence or just super-automation?
bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs that runs directly on CPUs
“…The contract contains a clause that says that if OpenAI builds artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I. — roughly speaking, a machine that matches the power of the human brain — Microsoft loses access to OpenAI’s technologies…“
Artificial intelligence and the economy: implications for central banks
Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup
Perplexity lets you search your internal enterprise files and the web
Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication
How Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems
The next winner of the AI boom is also one of its biggest problems…Data centers could consume up to 9% of electricity in the U.S. by the end of the decade
Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator…can create a new video up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt…plans to build the product into its existing apps sometime next year.
HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition
The market share of the Binance shrunk to 36.6% last month, down from 42.7% at the start of the year, according to researcher CCData.
Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects