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Happy Friday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

In today’s edition:

• 📢 Meta Connect 2024 big AI announcements.

• 🤖 185 real-world gen AI use cases.

• 👋 OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving.

• 🦾 The best open-source AI model yet?

• 🤖 Plus trending AI tools, guides, and resources.

Ready, set, go…

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META AI

📢 Meta Connect 2024 Big AI Announcements

Meta Connect 2024 highlighted exciting advancements in AR and AI, with Zuckerberg announcing new Meta AI updates and launching an open-source model that can handle both images and text.

What has been revealed?

• Orion AR Glasses: Meta unveiled its first fully holographic AR glasses called Orion, featuring a sleek design similar to traditional eyewear but with advanced capabilities. They track your voice, eyes, and hands to help you interact with the world and offer a holographic display with personalized AI assistance, designed for all-day use.

• Llama 3.2 model: Meta's Llama 3.2 incorporates new medium-sized vision LLMs (11B and 90B), along with lightweight, text-only models (1B and 3B), that can run on mobile devices. However, its main advantage is its visual capabilities, which makes it useful for VR, robotics, and other applications.

• Rayban Meta Glasses AI upgrades: The smart glasses now integrate multimodal AI for natural interactions, real-time translation, and memory assistance, while also improving accessibility for visually impaired users.

• AI-powered translation for Instagram Reels: The feature automatically dubs and lip-syncs content into different languages, allowing creators to reach a wider, global audience.

• Meta AI Chatbot: It now offers more human-like interactions across various Meta platforms. Users can now engage in voice conversations with Meta AI using celebrity voices such as John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, and Kristen Bell.

GOOGLE

🤖 185 Real-World Gen AI Use Cases

Initially known for fun interactions, AI is now being used for practical applications, particularly with AI agents that can take actions to achieve specific goals, like improving customer service or automating tasks.

How are companies boosting productivity with AI?

Google Cloud’s event showcased 185 use cases where companies are leveraging generative AI in areas such as customer service, employee empowerment, data analysis, cybersecurity, and creative production. These AI-driven solutions are helping organizations boost productivity and modernize experiences, yielding tangible returns.

OPENAI

👋 OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving

OpenAI is facing a leadership shakeup as three top executives, including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, and VP of Research Barret Zoph, announced their departures. Murati, who played a key role in developing ChatGPT and Dall-E, cited the need for personal exploration in her decision to leave.

These exits follow other notable departures in recent months, leaving CEO Sam Altman without much of his original leadership team as OpenAI undergoes a restructuring.

Is OpenAI losing its edge?

GPT-5 hasn’t dropped, Sora hasn’t shipped, the company had an operating loss of $5b last year, there is no obvious moat, Meta is giving away similar software for free, and many lawsuits are pending.

MULTIMODAL AI

🦾 The Best Open Source AI Model Yet?

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has unveiled the Multimodal Open Language Model (Molmo), a family of four open-source AI models that blend image understanding with conversational skills, set to transform AI agent development.

What makes Molmo special?

Molmo utilizes 1000x less data than current advanced multimodal models while delivering a range of functionalities typically reserved for those systems. It can:

• Analyze images and participate in chat-based conversations, making it versatile for various AI applications.

• Help AI agents tackle complex tasks like web browsing, file navigation, and document drafting.

• The best part is that the Molmo-1B variant is tiny, fast, and fits on most devices, including smartphones.

How good is it?

The flagship version, featuring 70B parameters, outperformed GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and Claude 3.5 across 11 benchmarks, especially excelling in understanding images, charts, and documents.

You can test the model from here.

QUICK HITS

1. Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI models, with a new AI repository created every 10 seconds. (link)

2. Google paid $2.7B to rehire Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer. (link)

3. Snapchat is upgrading its "My AI" chatbot with Google's Gemini models, shifting from OpenAI’s GPT models to enhance AI features and user experience. (link)

4. AI startups making money faster than equivalent highest-grossing SaaS companies. (link)

5. The recent SF gala event showcased over 1,300 AI-generated short films, aiming to inspire creators to explore AI and to see where their imagination could take them. (link)

6. Apple Intelligence will reportedly take up an extra 4GB of your iPhone storage. (link)

7. OpenAI plans to restructure its business into a for-profit company, that will no longer be controlled by the non-profit board, and Sam Altman will get equity worth billions. (link)

8. AI startup Runway is offering filmmakers up to $1 million to produce their films using AI. (link)

USEFUL AI LINKS

Trending Tools

• Indiehackers TV > A site that curates videos shared by Indiehackers, offering a high signal-to-noise ratio. (link)

• Openrouter > provides a unified interface for LLMs. (link)

• 1min > An all-in-one AI app for you. (link)

• Cobalt Tools > A versatile solution for downloading content from websites. (link)

• Flowvoice > Use your voice to type 3x faster than your keyboard. (link)

• Magic Inspector > Use AI to identify bugs on your website without needing any coding skills. (link)

Resources / Guides

• A.I. and Creators: The Future of Tech and Creativity. (link)

WHAT’S YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS?

DAILY DOSE OF CONTENTS

1/ AI-generated Podcasts with NotebookLM. AI can now create podcasts where two people discuss a piece on AI.

You can now easily create your podcasts. It was developed using Google's NotebookLM. Here’s a quick guide:

2/ This video covers the Meta Connect Event of 2024.

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

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