An open-source GPT-4o competitor

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Feeling down that OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode remains to be delayed and potentially months away? Don’t have any fear — Moshi is here!

A brand new startup just launched its own real-time AI voice assistant, and the open-source model might be set to push the competition to recent heights. Let’s investigate…

In today’s AI rundown:

• French AI startup launches ‘Moshi’

• Salesforce’s small model breakthrough

• Turn thoughts into polished content

• Perplexity gets major research upgrade

• 6 recent AI tools & 4 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

KYUTAI

 🚀 French AI startup launches ‘Moshi’

The Rundown: French startup Kyutai just introduced Moshi, a brand new ‘real-time’ AI voice assistant able to responding in a variety of emotions and styles similarly to OpenAI’s delayed Voice Mode feature.

The main points:

• Moshi is able to listening and speaking concurrently, with 70 different emotions and speaking styles starting from whispers to accented speech.

• Kyutai claims Moshi is the primary ‘real-time voice AI assistant’ released, with a 160ms latency that potentially outpaces OpenAI’s offering.

• The nonprofit group plans to open-source the research and model in the approaching weeks, with Moshi currently available to try via Hugging Face.

• The startup launched in 2023 with $324M in funding, with a team of 8 researchers developing Moshi in only 4 months.

Why it matters: Moshi looks to be an enormous win for the French AI landscape, and one other eye-opening rival that chips away at OpenAI’s perceived moat on the remaining of the sector. Plus, with that uniquely French accent, there actually won’t be any ScarJo concerns about this model rollout.

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SALESFORCE

🤏 Salesforce’s small model breakthrough

The Rundown: Salesforce just published recent research on APIGen, an automatic system that generates optimal datasets for AI training on function calling tasks — enabling the corporate’s xLAM model to outperform much larger rivals.

The main points:

• APIGen is designed to assist models train on datasets that higher reflect the real-world complexity of API usage.

• Salesforce trained a each 7B and 1B parameter version of xLAM using APIGen, testing them against key function calling benchmarks.

• xLAM’s 7B parameter model ranked sixth out of 46 models, matching or surpassing rivals 10x its size — including GPT-4.

• xLAM’s 1B ‘Tiny Giant’ outperformed models like Claude Haiku and GPT-3.5, with CEO Mark Benioff calling it the very best ‘micro-model’ for function calling.

Why it matters: While the AI race has been focused on constructing ever-larger models, Salesforce’s approach suggests that smarter data curation can result in more efficient systems. The research can be a significant step towards higher on-device, agentic AI — packing the facility of enormous models right into a tiny frame.

AI TRAINING

🗣️ Turn thoughts into polished content

The Rundown: ChatGPT’s voice mode feature now permits you to convert your spoken ideas into well-written text, summaries, and motion items, boosting your creativity and productivity.

Step-by-step:

1. Enable “Background Conversations” within the ChatGPT app settings.

2. Start a brand new chat with the prompt shown within the image above (it was too long for this email).

3. Speak your thoughts freely, pausing as needed, and say “I’m done” if you’ve expressed all of your ideas.

4. Review the AI-generated text, summary, and motion items, and save them to your notes.

Pro tip: Try happening a protracted walk and rambling any ideas to ChatGPT using this trick — you’ll be amazed by the summary you get at the top.

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Join us on Friday at 4 PM EST to:

1. Understand the text-to-video capabilities and top prompt suggestions for Runway Gen-3.

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3. Elevate your video with ElevenLabs sound effects and voiceovers.

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PERPLEXITY

 🧠 Perplexity gets major research upgrade

The Rundown: Perplexity just announced recent upgrades to its ‘Pro Search’ feature, enhancing capabilities for complex queries, multi-step reasoning, integration of Wolfram Alpha for math improvement, and more.

The main points:

• Pro Search can now tackle complex queries using multi-step reasoning, chaining together multiple searches to seek out more comprehensive answers.

• A brand new integration with Wolfram Alpha allows for solving advanced mathematical problems, alongside upgraded code execution abilities.

• Free users get 5 Pro Searches every 4 hours, while subscribers to the $20/month plan get 600 per day.

• The upgrade comes amid recent controversy over Perplexity’s data scraping and attribution practices.

Why it matters: Given Google’s struggles with AI overviews, Perplexity’s upgrades will proceed the push towards ‘answer engines’ that take the heavy lifting out of the user’s hand. However the recent accusations aren’t going away — and will cloud the entire AI-powered search sector until precedent is ready.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

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Recent AI Job Opportunities

• 👩‍💼 DeepMind – AI Ethics & Safety Manager

• 📝 Parloa – Product Instructional Designer

• 💼 Glean – Enterprise Account Executive

• 🤖 Sanctuary AI – Field Technician – Robotics

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QUICK HITS

Cloudflare released a free tool to detect and block AI bots circumventing website scraping protections, aiming to handle concerns over unauthorized data collection for AI training.

App Store chief Phil Schiller is joining OpenAI’s board in an observer role, representing Apple as a part of the recently announced AI partnership.

Shanghai AI Lab introduced InternLM 2.5-7B, a model with a 1M context window and the power to make use of tools that surged up the Open LLM Leaderboard upon release.

Magic is set to lift over $200M at a $1.5B valuation, despite having no product or revenue yet — as the corporate continues to develop its coding-specialized models that may handle large context windows.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin told the corporate’s recent class of interns that he’s ‘not convinced’ AI will achieve breakthroughs that automate human jobs in the following three years.

ElevenLabs launched Voice Isolator, a brand new feature designed to assist users remove background noise from recordings and create studio-quality audio.

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