AGIBOT Unveils New Humanoid Robot: OpenAI Adds Free Fine-Tuning to GPT-4

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• OpenAI’s Latest Move: How will OpenAI’s free fine-tuning impact your AI projects?

• Claude’s Legal Battle: What does Claude’s lawsuit mean for AI-generated content?

• AGIBOT’s Innovation: Are humanoid robots the future of AI-driven innovation?

• ChatGPT Enters Politics: Running for Mayor in Wyoming. What does this mean for AI in public life?

• Microsoft’s AI Triumph: Find out how Microsoft’s new AI model is beating larger competitors.

• Explore New AI Tools & Jobs: Check out 7 new AI tools and 4 job opportunities in the ever-evolving AI landscape.

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OpenAI adds free fine-tuning to GPT-4o

The Brief: OpenAI just launched free fine-tuning (up to 1 million tokens per day through September 23) for GPT-4o, allowing developers to customize the model for higher performance and accuracy.

The details:

• Developers can now, for the first time ever, fine-tune GPT-4o to improve the model’s structure, tone, and domain-specific instructions for their AI applications.

• Fine-tuning is available on all paid usage tiers with training costs of $25 per million tokens, but it is completely free until September 23.

• OpenAI suggests that developers should see strong results from fine-tuning with only a few dozen training examples.

• Additionally, Google’s Gemini API is giving developers 1.5 billion tokens for free every day on its Gemini 1.5 Flash model and 1.6 million tokens on its Gemini 1.5 Pro model.

Why it matters: Just last week, a company that was granted early access to fine-tune GPT-4o, produced Genie and achieved state-of-the-art scores on both SWE-bench Verified (43.8%) and Full (30.1%) benchmarks. With free fine-tuning now available to all developers, get ready for a new wave of smarter, faster and more capable AI bots.

Claude sued for copyright infringement

The Brief: A group of authors filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, alleging the company committed “large-scale theft” by training its Claude chatbot on pirated copies of copyrighted books.

The details:

• This is the first lawsuit from writers targeting Anthropic and Claude, but similar lawsuits have been filed against competitor OpenAI and ChatGPT.

• The lawsuit accuses Anthropic of using a dataset called The Pile, which includes numerous pirated books.

• Anthropic and others, including OpenAI, have argued that training AI models is protected under the “fair use” doctrine of U.S. laws, which permits the limited use of copyrighted materials.

Why it matters: This is not the first time an AI company has been sued over copyright infringement, but it resurfaces an important debate about AI training data. While similar cases have been largely dismissed in the past, courts have yet to definitively address the core issue of using unauthorized internet-scraped material for AI training.

AGIBOT reveals new humanoid robot family

The Brief: AGIBOT, a China-based robotics startup, just unveiled a family of five advanced humanoid robots, directly challenging Elon Musk and Tesla’s upcoming Optimus bot.

The details:

• AGIBOT’s five new models are both wheeled and biped humanoid robots specifically designed for diverse tasks — from household chores to industrial operations.

• The flagship model, Yuanzheng A2, stands 5'9" (175cm), weighs 121 lbs (55kg), and can perform delicate tasks like needle threading.

• The company aims to start shipping 300 units by the end of 2024, claiming better commercialization and cost-control abilities than Tesla.

• Unitree, another high-performance robot manufacturer from China, also showcased its new G1 mass production-ready robot with better functionality and appearance.

Why it matters: The humanoid robotics and AI race between the US and China is intensifying. While it’s been months since Tesla unveiled its Optimus 2 prototype, four Chinese startups, including AGIBOT revealing five new humanoid robots, have showcased major technical progress in just a few days.

‍ChatGPT runs for mayor in Wyoming

The Brief: Victor Miller, a mayoral candidate in Wyoming’s capital city, just vowed to let his customized ChatGPT GPT named Vic (Virtual Integrated Citizen) help run the local government if elected.

The details:

• Miller created VIC using ChatGPT, feeding it city ordinances and related documents to make municipal decisions.

• Miller filed for him and VIC to run for mayor, proposing that the ChatGPT GPT provides data-driven insights and solutions while Miller ensures legal execution.

• OpenAI has shut down Miller’s account twice, citing policies against using its products for campaigning.

• Wyoming’s Secretary of State raised concerns, but local officials allowed Miller’s candidacy with his human name on the ballot.

Why it matters: While Miller’s chances of winning seem slim, and his grasp of data privacy and LLMs seem slimmer, this marks the first time a political candidate has openly advocated for AI in governance. Whether Cheyenne, Wyoming is ready for an AI co-pilot in City Hall is debatable, but AI will certainly infiltrate politics in the coming years.

AI TRAINING

Create your own AI assistant on Mistral

The Brief: Mistral AI’s new ‘Agents’ feature lets anyone customize and deploy AI models for specific tasks, with no coding required.

Step-by-step:

1. Sign up on Mistral AI’s website and hit “Build on La Plateforme”

2. Select “Create an Agent” and choose your preferred AI model (e.g. Mistral Large 2)

3. Adjust the randomness slider and write clear instructions for your agent’s behaviour

4. Add example interactions to guide your agent’s responses (Optional)

5. Deploy your agent and start testing!

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Create AI images in real-time on WhatsApp

The Brief: WhatsApp’s new “Imagine“ AI image generator feature allows users to create images in real-time simply by describing what they want in the chatbot.

Step-by-step:

1. Open WhatsApp and tap on the blue circle icon at the top of the main chat screen.

2. Start your description with “Imagine”.

3. Watch as the AI generates an image in real time based on your prompt.

4. When satisfied, hit “Send” and download the image.

Hot tip: If you don’t see the blue circle, it might not have rolled out into your account/country yet.

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Luma Labs launches Dream Machine 1.5

The Brief: Luma Labs just released Dream Machine 1.5, a major upgrade to their current AI video generation model, with higher quality text-to-video, smarter prompt understanding, and better image-to-video capabilities.

The details:

• Dream Machine 1.5 builds on the original model’s ability to generate high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text and image prompts.

• The upgraded model showcases better natural language processing, interpreting and executing prompts at a higher accuracy.

• It excels in creating smooth motion, cinematography, and dramatic shots, turning static concepts into dynamic stories, but lags in morphing, movement, and text.

• Dream Machine 1.5 is available to try for free here.

Why it matters: With text-to-image AI generation nearly indistinguishable from reality, the next big frontier is text-to-video — and Dream Machine 1.5 is another big leap forward for realism. While AI video still has some catching up to do, expect fast-moving startups like Luma Labs to close that gap for AI video, fast.

AI RESEARCH

Microsoft’s new AI beats larger models

The Brief: Microsoft just released Phi-3.5-MoE, an advanced AI model that rivals the reasoning capabilities of much larger models while maintaining a compact and efficient architecture.

The details:

• Phi-3.5-MoE uses a new mixture-of-experts (MoE) approach, which selectively activates only the most relevant parts of the model for each task to save compute power.

• The new model excels at understanding and following complex instructions and can handle up to ~125,000 words in a single prompt.

• In head-to-head benchmarks, Phi-3.5-MoE outperformed popular models like Meta’s Llama 3 8B and Google’s Gemma 2 9B, but fell short against OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini.

• Microsoft made the model available under an open-source MIT license on Hugging Face.

Why it matters: While the mainstream media focuses on the most advanced large language model, there’s also another race amongst tech giants for the smartest, fastest, and smallest AI. Breakthroughs like Phi-3.5-MoE are paving the way for advanced AI models to run directly and privately on our mobile devices.

AI COURSES

Key topics from Generative AI for Software Development

The Brief: The 3 course skill certificate is led by Laurence Moroney, Chief AI Scientist at VisionWorks Studios and former AI lead at Google, and offered through Coursera.

The details:

Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll learn in Generative AI for Software Development:

• Integrate Generative AI in Development: Learn to use AI tools like ChatGPT beyond simple code completion.

• Optimize Your Code Quality: Improve your coding skills with AI debugging, documentation, and optimization.

• Team up with AI on Coding Tasks: Break through roadblocks and enhance your productivity.

• Develop Innovative Solutions: Create advanced software solutions using AI to help with software design patterns and expertise.

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Learn a flexible framework to build complex AI applications

The Brief: Haystack is a framework that simplifies the process of creating LLM applications, and in this course, taught by Tuana Çelik, Developer Relations Lead at Haystack, you will learn how to use this framework to build applications that are flexible, extendible, and maintainable, even as the technology stack changes, user needs arise, and new features are added. Building AI Applications with Haystack

The details:

• Learn about the core abstractions and unique building blocks of the Haystack framework and see how these elements can be combined for various AI use cases.

• Build a RAG pipeline by using Haystack components, pipelines, and document stores.

• Create custom components in your pipeline by building a Hacker News summarizer that extends your app’s ability to access APIs.

• Use conditional routing to create a branching pipeline with a fall back to web-search when the LLM does not have the context needed to fully respond to the user’s query.

• Build a self-reflecting agent for named entity recognition with a Haystack pipeline that is able to loop using an output validator custom component.

• Create a chat agent using OpenAI’s function-calling capabilities which allow you to provide Haystack pipelines as tools to the LLM, enhancing that agent’s capabilities.

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QUICK HITS

Perplexity introduced code interpreter upgrades, enabling library installation and chart rendering for AI-powered data visualization.

International Data Corporation (IDC) forcasted that worldwide AI spending is expected to reach $632 billion by 2028, with generative AI accounting for 32% of that.

AI influencer Justin Fineberg and Cassidy AI announced a $3.7 million raise to build an intelligent automation platform for reliable AI workflows.

CodeSignal launched Conversation Practice, an AI-powered tool for simulating workplace conversations and providing personalized feedback.

LTX Studio opened to the public and launched five new features, including character animation and dialogue, face motion capture, and generation and keyframe control.

LVMH founder Bernard Arnault, the third richest man in the world, invested in five AI startups in 2024 through his family office Aglaé Ventures.

Chinese scientists developed a brain-inspired AI network model to address challenges like high resource consumption and interpretability.

Nvidia unveiled advances in digital humans and avatar tech, including Nemotron-4 4B NIM, the first small AI language model for game characters.

AMD acquired server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion to strengthen its AI capabilities and compete with leaders in the space like Nvidia.

Berkeley Law launched a new Master of Laws program focused on AI law and governance, and it is expected to start next summer.

The United States invested $335 billion in AI over the past decade, triple China’s investment, with 71,000 AI job postings in 2024 alone.

Stability AI appointed entertainment industry veteran Hanno Basse as its new Chief Technology Officer to drive business growth.

ElevenLabs released its AI-powered text-to-speech app Reader globally, supporting over 30 languages and hundreds of new voices.

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