ChatGPT levels up with ‘Canvas’

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

OpenAI just painted a brand new picture of AI collaboration with its ‘Canvas’ feature — and ChatGPT could also be about to level up in a serious way.

Is that this latest feature a glimpse at the following stage for AI assistants? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• ChatGPT gets a collab boost with Canvas

• Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews

• Automate video evaluation with Gemini AI

• Black Forest Labs unveils Flux 1.1 Pro

• 5 latest AI tools & 4 latest AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🔥 ChatGPT gets a collab boost with Canvas

The Rundown: OpenAI just launched Canvas, a brand new ChatGPT interface release that allows more collaborative writing and coding projects beyond easy chat interactions with latest editing features, shortcuts, and added contextual knowledge.

The small print:

• Canvas opens in a separate window alongside the chat, allowing users to directly edit and refine specific features of an output.

• Latest features include inline feedback, targeted editing, and shortcuts for tasks like adjusting text length, changing reading levels, or debugging code.

• In tests, using GPT-4o with Canvas led to a 30% accuracy and 16% quality boost in comparison with using the model without the interface.

• Canvas is rolling out in beta to Plus and Team users, with a broader release expected later.

Why it matters: ChatGPT’s first major UI change takes a leap towards more nuanced, moldable interactions — while also inheriting novice-friendly features seen in other rivals with easy-to-use shortcuts. The straightforward chatbox was a superb first step for human-AI interactions, but more power and capabilities require latest collaborative processes.

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GOOGLE

🔎 Google rolls out ads in AI Overviews

The Rundown: Google just announced the introduction of ads to its AI Overview search summaries and the launch of several latest AI-powered search capabilities, akin to video understanding and voice input.

The small print:

• Ads will now appear inside and alongside AI Overviews for ‘relevant queries’ on searches in the US.

• The redesigned AI Overview format will now add distinguished in-text links to raised source web sites for the curated information.

• Latest AI-organized search results pages are rolling out that surface relevant, more diverse content — starting with recipe and meal inspiration queries.

• Google Lens is getting video understanding capabilities and voice input options for visual searches.

• The Android ‘Circle to Search’ feature also lets users discover songs playing in videos or streaming content.

Why it matters: Google’s first AI Overview experience didn’t exactly go as planned. Nevertheless, with heavy competition from Perplexity and chatbot rivals, Google’s search future clearly has AI at its core, whatever the bumps along the best way. But infusing paid ads into AI Overviews may very well be a slippery slope – will Gemini be next?

AI TRAINING

🎥 Automate video evaluation with Gemini AI

The Rundown: Google Gemini on AI Studio can analyze videos and supply transcripts, tags, subtitles, and translations to simplify and speed up your content creation workflow.

Step-by-step:

1. Access Google Gemini on AI Studio and choose “Gemini 1.5 Pro 002” from the Models menu.

2. Upload your video and use this prompt: “Analyze this video and supply the transcript, 5 title ideas, and categorized tags.”

3. Follow up for improvements: “Suggest 5 content improvements, 3 promo clip ideas with timestamps, reach expansion suggestions.”

4. Implement insights to optimize search engine optimization, create promo clips, and expand your audience reach through translation.

Pro tip: Frequently analyze your video content with Gemini to trace improvements and discover trends in your content over time.

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BLACK FOREST LABS

🫐 Black Forest Labs unveils Flux 1.1 Pro

The Rundown: Black Forest Labs just released Flux 1.1 Pro, a significantly upgraded version of the startup’s text-to-image AI model, and a brand new API for developers.

The small print:

• Flux 1.1 Pro generates images six times faster than Flux 1 Pro while improving quality and prompt output adherence.

• The model tops the Artificial Evaluation image arena leaderboard against rivals like Midjourney, Ideogram, and DALL-E, tested under the codename ‘blueberry.’

• 1.1 Pro will probably be a paid model available through partners like Together AI, Replicate, FAL AI, and Freepik, unlike the open-source Flux 1 that powers xAI’s Grok.

• BFL’s API allows third parties to integrate the model into their apps, and the 1.1 Pro model costs .05c / image.

Why it matters: From OpenAI’s strawberry to BFL’s blueberry, fruit codenames are having a moment! 1.1 Pro looks to boost the already incredibly high text-to-image bar, continuing to push the boundaries of realism and image generation quality — now equipped with a turbocharged speed increase as well.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🐝 Buzzabout – AI-driven insights from billions of discussions on social media

• 🤖 Base AI – Construct serverless, autonomous AI agents with memory

• 💸 CostGPT – Estimate costs and time in your software project in lower than 5 minutes

• 👀 Lookie AI – Eat, organize, and manage knowledge from YouTube

• ⏱️ Tackle AI – Automatic time tracking to align on a regular basis actions with key priorities

Latest AI Job Opportunities

• ✍️ Author – Senior Technical Sourcer

• 🏛️ Palantir Technologies – Account Executive

• 💼 Captions – Sales

• 🔗 Notable – Product Integrations Lead

QUICK HITS

OpenAI’s Sora research lead Tim Brooks announced on X that he’s leaving the corporate to affix Google DeepMind, where he’ll work on ‘video generation and world simulators.’

Google released Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B, a light-weight, cost-effective variation with a 50% cost reduction and 2x higher rate limits than 1.5 Flash.

Fourier launched GR-2, the corporate’s second-generation humanoid robot, which features improvements to battery life, hand dexterity, mobility, and a brand new developer kit.

The U.S. Commerce Department unveiled a plan to award $100M for AI semiconductor research, hoping to spur the event of more sustainable materials.

OpenAI secured a brand new $4B credit facility from major banks, boosting its total liquidity to over $10B to fuel future growth and innovation.

AI Coding startup Poolside announced a $500M Series B funding round to speed up progress towards AGI, bringing the corporate’s valuation to $3B.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team