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Howdy! It’s Barsee again.
Happy Wednesday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.
In today’s edition:
🤖 AI-powered Virtual Friends Powered by GPT-4o
🤗 Hugging Face New Tool simplifies building AI apps
💰️ Microsoft May Acquire OpenAI by 2027
🤖 Plus trending AI tools, guides, and resources.
Ready, set, go…
TOGETHER WITH LAMBDA
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How to win tickets:
Spend $100 or more in our Public Cloud on any NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core instance in October and earn 1 ticket.
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OPEN AI
🤖 AI-powered Virtual Friends Powered by GPT-4o
Altera just launched its groundbreaking product— an advanced AI agent designed for interaction and collaboration with people, with the potential to experience emotions.
What sets them apart?
These agents can function autonomously for up to four hours— a significant improvement compared to other AI models.
They leverage OpenAI’s GPT-4o to prevent data degradation during extended interactions and utilize a brain-inspired multi-module system to think faster, process emotions, and ultimately build a long-term sense of self.
How do they perform?
In Minecraft, Altera’s agents achieved an impressive 32% of the total distinct items collected, vastly outperforming other AI systems like Voyager (6.4%), AutoGPT (1.9%), and ReAct (0.5%).
Why should you care?
Altera envisions a future where digital humans not only assist but collaborate with people, potentially forming lasting bonds. This could lead to digital coworkers that proactively solve problems over extended periods and multi-agent environments that evaluate responses to economic policies, advertisements, and more.
AI APPS
🤗 Hugging Face New Tool simplifies building AI apps
Hugging Face has introduced a new Python package called "OpenAI-Gradio." It helps developers quickly create AI-powered web apps with just a few lines of code by combining OpenAI's models with Gradio's easy-to-use interface.
How it works?
You simply need to install the "OpenAI-Gradio" package and set up your OpenAI API key.
By writing just a few lines of Python, you can quickly create a web app that lets users interact directly with AI models like GPT-4 Turbo.
What more options does it provide?
You can customize input/output formats to tailor the app for tasks like customer support or data analysis.
Build custom tools, such as chatbots or insight generators.
Even integrates the app into larger Gradio Web UIs, enabling the use of multiple models in one app.
Why does it matter?
Hugging Face's new tool makes AI development easier by cutting out the need for complex infrastructure, so startups and small businesses can quickly build and launch AI apps without needing a big engineering team.
MICROSOFT
💰️ Microsoft May Acquire OpenAI by 2027
CCS Insight Analyst predicts that OpenAI will be acquired by Microsoft by 2027, due to increasing financial pressures as funding for AI startups becomes scarcer.
Why could this happen?
According to them, OpenAI might need substantial funding as investor focus could soon shift away from AI, making it harder for startups to secure funds.
The high costs of running AI services may push OpenAI towards Microsoft for financial stability.
Microsoft heavily depends on OpenAI’s GPT technology for its Copilot AI, which could also motivate Microsoft to gain full control over OpenAI.
How's OpenAI doing right now?
OpenAI is currently in a strong financial position with no funding concerns, despite future projections of challenges.
The company’s recent funding round ($6.6 Billion) was the largest VC round ever, showing high investor confidence.
QUICK HITS
After the UK’s decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, it could mean the end of the .io domain. (link)
Gary Marcus, an AI expert, believes OpenAI is on track to becoming a surveillance company. He fears the company may help governments and/or political campaigns sift through data. (link)
Adobe announced its Content Credentials web app. It claims to help you protect their work and control its use in AI training. (link)
Tesla Robo-Taxi Reveal on Thursday beginning at 7 p.m. PT. Livestream on Tesla's YouTube channel and X. (link)
Two AI pioneers won the Nobel Prize for their work in physics. (link)
Apple's Intelligence launch has been leaked, with the release date set for Monday, October 28. (link)
Peter Todd accused by the HBO documentary of being Bitcoin creator Satoshi, but Todd denies it. (link)
OpenAI signs content deals with Hearst to widen ChatGPT’s knowledge. 40+ Hearst newspapers and 20+ magazines will provide content for ChatGPT. (link)
Adobe to offer a web app in 2025 to creators for AI attribution. (link)
Uber to launch AI assistant powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o. (link)
USEFUL AI LINKS
Trending Tools
Flow > A Mac dictation app that writes 3x faster than typing, perfect for AI prompts, with auto-edits and 100+ languages. (link) *
Cove > A visual workspace for thinking with AI. (link)
Open Agent Cloud > Generate no-code automation agents from screen recordings. (link)
Graphy AI > Turn your data into stories with AI. (link)
Redcar > Convert anonymous website visitors and outbounds to new customers. (link)
Cool Findings / Resources
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes. (link)
DAILY DOSE OF CONTENTS
1/ Using OpenAI real-time API to browse the internet only using voice.
The open ai realtime api is sick! I hooked it up to control my browser so I could browse the web with my voice 🤯
— Sawyer Hood (@sawyerhood)
3:27 PM • Oct 4, 2024
2/ Transform is an incredible new invention coming out of MIT that uses a unique form of shape display technology to recognize your presence and adapt to it in real-time.
TRANSFORM, developed by MIT, is a dynamic furniture concept that uses shape display technology to adapt in real-time to users' needs
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3)
3:48 PM • Oct 4, 2024
3/ NVIDIA's AI: Gaming in a Minecraft World.
4/ Frame, the new smart glasses from Brilliant Labs, debut as the first open-source AI-powered AR glasses that give developers full customization.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY
That’s all for today’s issue, folks.

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