🤖 Apple Puts AI in Your Pocket

PLUS: New Details on OpenAI’s Project “Strawberry,” AI Creates Infinite Super Mario Bros. Levels

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In today’s AI Report:

  • 🍎Apple Puts AI in Your Pocket

  • 🍓New Details on OpenAI’s Project “Strawberry”

  • 🎮AI Creates Infinite Super Mario Bros. Levels

  • 🛠Trending Tools

  • 💰Funding Frontlines

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

APPLE

🍎Apple Puts AI in Your Pocket

Image Source: Apple Newsroom Screenshot/World Wide Developers Conference 2024 (WWDC24)/“Apple Intelligence”

Apple unveiled the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, showcasing AI-enabled features to transform the mobile experience.

Key Details:
  • Apple Intelligence: A new suite of AI features built into the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro to help you accelerate mobile tasks.

    1. Writing Tools: Rewrites, proofreads, and summarizes text across apps.

    2. Image Playground: Generates fun and playful images in apps like Messages, Notes, Keynote, and Pages.

    3. Genmoji: Creates AI emojis tailored to your conversations and generates suggested text replies.

    4. Smart Siri: Can understand spoken language commands and has “on-screen awareness” to control actions in apps.

    5. “On-Screen” Awareness: Smart Siri can automate mundane tasks, such as compiling a grocery list, managing emails, or crafting texts.

    6. Priority Summarizer: Summarizes notifications and generates critical takeaways in emails.

    7.  OpenAI’s ChatGPT Integrations: Smart Siri can rely on ChatGPT to access “broader world knowledge” when answering requests.

  • The new A18 Pro Chip boasts an enhanced Neural Engine designed to accelerate Machine Learning (ML) tasks on the iPhone 16 Pro, including video analysis and image processing.

  • ML leverages data to recognize patterns and make predictions without explicit instructions from developers.

🚨Watch the full Apple Event keynote here.

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OPENAI

🍓New Details on OpenAI’s Project “Strawberry”

Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

According to The Information, OpenAI plans to release “Strawberry” for ChatGPT in two weeks.

Key Details:
  • Here’s everything leaked about Project “Strawberry”:

    1. “Strawberry” is a Reasoning Engine that mimics a human’s decision-making capabilities and problem-solving capacity.

    2. “Strawberry” is built on the Self-Taught Reasoner (STaR) framework, which teaches a Reasoning Engine to self-generate training data and continuously improve intelligence levels.

    3. “Strawberry” will likely use a Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) technique to allocate computational resources to different input Tokens at Various Layers depending on their importance in generating outputs.

    4. OpenAI is also using “Strawberry” to generate high-quality synthetic training data (i.e., artificially created information) to build a new AI model called “Orion.”

    5. “Orion” could be a codename for GPT-5. It reportedly boasts advanced reasoning capabilities with more natural, nuanced, and knowledgeable outputs.

  • Tokens are the smallest units of data used by AI models to process and generate text. Similarly, we break down sentences into words or characters.

  • The bottom layer processes data like pixels in an image. Next, each successive layer detects complex patterns and communicates them to the following layer. Eventually, the Various Layers produce an output.

AI RESEARCH

🎮AI Creates Infinite Super Mario Bros. Levels

Image Source: AnimHuT/Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)/“Hacking Super Mario Bros. With Python”

Researchers at Virtuals Protocol developed “MarioVGG,” an AI system that generates playable Super Mario Bros. levels.

“MarioVGG” is a text-to-video AI model that takes a text description of a gameplay action (e.g., “Mario jumps over a Goomba!”) and generates a corresponding video clip.

“MarioVGG” relies on a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), which has two parts:

  1. Generator: Learns to generate plausible data.

  2. Discriminator: Learns to distinguish the Generator’s fake data from real data.

As the training process progresses, the Generator gets closer to producing outputs that can fool the Discriminator.

This process helps “MarioVGG” create Super Mario Bros. levels that resemble the actual video game.

🛠TRENDING TOOLS

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📬RetainAI crafts “win-back” emails to increase customer retention on Shopify.

📊Gretel generates artificial, synthetic datasets with the same characteristics as real data.

🔮Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

  • InMobil raises $100M in Debt Financing for AI acquisitions.

  • Smartcat secures a $43M Series C for an AI-powered translation platform.

  • Sedric closes an $18.5M Series A to build an AI-powered compliance platform for financial institutions.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

  • Dropbox (Remote): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • Anduril (Costa Mesa, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • Saviynt (Los Angeles, CA): Software Engineering Intern, User Interface {UI}, Summer 2025

  • Lucid Motors (Newark, CA): Software Quality Assurance {SQA} Data Analyst Intern, Summer 2025

  • Oshkosh (Hagerstown, MD): Artificial Intelligence {AI}/Autonomy Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

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