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Today’s trending AI news stories
OpenAI Shares First Image Generated By GPT-4o
Image (including text) was generated by GPT-4o
OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman recently shared the first image generated by the brand new GPT-4o modelwhich debuted on Monday. This photorealistic image includes a person wearing an OpenAI logo T-shirt, wiping a blackboard with chalk text discussing the model’s capabilities. GPT-4o improves upon previous models by being faster, cheaper, and higher at retaining information from multimedia inputs.
Unlike its predecessors, which converted media to text, GPT-4o was trained on multimedia tokens, allowing it to directly analyze and interpret vision and audio. This recent approach ends in higher quality and accuracy in image generation, as evidenced by the comparison to DALL-E 3. While the general public cannot yet access GPT-4o’s image generation features, OpenAI is working to make them available soon. Read more.
ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App
ElevenLabs, a startup known for its AI dubbing, has launched a free iPhone app called ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio. The app can recognize and voice text from web pages, PDFs, and other documents using 11 different voices. Available for download within the App Store, it builds on ElevenLabs’ voice cloning technology, which generates audio using neural networks from transient samples. Founded in 2022 by former Google engineer Piotr Dabkowski and ex-Palantir strategist Mati StaniszewskiElevenLabs raised $80 million in January, valuing it at $1.1 billion.
The corporate goals to expand its reach, with deals including creating multilingual audio books for HarperCollins and plans to market its dubbing tech to YouTube creators, movie studios, and news publishers. Read more.
OpenAI Signs Reddit Deal To Train AI On Your Posts
In a data-driven alliance, OpenAI gains access to Reddit’s real-time firehose via their API. This fuels each ChatGPT development and future OpenAI products, mirroring Reddit’s prior pact (rumored at $60 million) with Google for AI-powered features. OpenAI joins the Reddit ad ecosystem, likely leveraging Reddit’s conversation troves for model training.
While financial details remain under wraps (unlike Google’s deal), Reddit emphasizes fostering community engagement. Nevertheless, past restrictions on data scraping raise eyebrows. OpenAI CEO’s Reddit activity (including past moderation disputes) adds intrigue. Nevertheless, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman sees a win-win, highlighting the platform’s value as an open forum. Read more.
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