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OpenAI launched GPT-4o and a MacOS app

OpenAI launched GPT-4o and a MacOS app

PLUS: $16K humanoid robot

Michael Parrish
May 14, 2024

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Here’s what’s on the menu today:

GPT-4o. Woah or no? 🤖 🔥
OpenAI’s model understands text, images, audio, and video.
A foldable, portable, $16K humanoid robot 🦾 🦿
The G1 runs, completes chores, prepares food, and more.

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OpenAI’s ridiculously hyped event 🤖 🪞

Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-4o. It’s a new multimodal AI model that processes audio, vision, text, and video in real-time.

Source: OpenAI

What can I do with it?

You can now have voice conversations with GPT-4o directly from your computer using Voice Mode. You can ask it questions about something on your screen, video from your camera, and more.

It’s better than GPT-4?

Yes. It set new records in general knowledge, speech recognition, translation, and visual perception. It matches GPT-4 in English text/coding tasks and significantly improves multilingual performance at half the cost.

How much does it cost?

It’s free for everyone to use. Paid users get 5 times more usage capacity.

Anything else?

You bet. OpenAI is rolling out a ChatGPT desktop app for Mac users. If you have Windows, you’ll get one “later this year.”

Source: OpenAI

SIDE SALAD

Folding out for a hero… 🦾 🦿

On Sunday, Unitree Robotics unveiled the G1. It’s a $16,000 humanoid robot.

Source: Unitree Robotics

I gave my crush an origami flower. She said it was FOLD-fashioned... 🤦‍♂️

What does it do?

In the demo, the G1 solders wires, cooks food, twirls batons, and more. It handles delicate objects, recovers from punches/kicks, and completes household chores with impressive dexterity and precision.

What’s special about it?

Its “hollow joint” wiring and several motors allow it to move, bend, and fold into a portable package. It can run, open bottles, use tools, and more. It leverages imitation and reinforcement learning, which makes it highly adaptable and useful.

Source: Unitree Robotics

How big is this thing?

It’s 50” tall and weighs 103 pounds. For a humanoid robot, it’s compact and easy to transport.

Why do I care?

The G1 is expected to accelerate humanoid robot development and pressure other companies to lower their prices. It has game-changing potential for household and industry applications.

I tried blind-FOLD-ed archery... I didn’t know what I was missing… 🤪

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Think Pieces 🧠

Zuckerberg’s warning? He claims that the GPU shortage is easing, but energy constraints will soon limit AI growth.

An indestructible robot hand? Google DeepMind is testing a highly durable robot hand designed to withstand extreme damage during the AI training process.

Startup News 💰

Neuralink's brain-computer interface experienced mechanical issues. It showed a decline in its data transfer rate due to its thread design.

Nvidia announced its open-source CUDA-Q platform. The goal is to advance quantum computing research and integrate QPUs (quantum chips) in its centers.

Research 👨‍🔬

BASS — improves the speed and efficiency of generating multiple sequences in AI language models by optimizing speculative sampling and GPU utilization.

PuLID — a tuning-free method for customizing identities in text-to-image generation, ensuring high fidelity and minimal disruption to the original model.