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In today’s Daily Report:
📖Harvard Makes 1 Million Books Available to Train AI Models
🎄Sixth Day of “12 Days of OpenAI” Event
🎓MIT’s “ContextCite” Verifies AI-Generated Content
🛠Trending Tools
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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AI TRAINING
📖Harvard Makes 1 Million Books Available to Train AI Models
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Collecting high-quality datasets to train AI models is expensive; only Tech Giants like Apple, Salesforce, and Microsoft can afford it. But what if everyone could afford it?
Key Details:
Harvard University (“Harvard”) is releasing a massive, high-quality dataset of over a million public-domain books to “level the playing field.”
It contains a wide range of authors, genres, and languages. For instance, it includes Charles Dickens, Dante Alighieri, and William Shakespeare. These authors are no longer protected by copyright due to their age.
This project is part of the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI), which aims to work with Knowledge Institutions, such as libraries, museums, and cultural groups, to harness their collections of knowledge into data for training AI models.
Why It’s Important:
Reddit signed a licensing agreement with Google worth $60 million annually to provide user-generated content from Subreddits to train Gemini.
Small AI firms don’t just have $60 million lying around. So, having access to a massive, high-quality dataset of over a million books enables them to train their AI models without breaking the bank.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
Does this project help level the playing field between smaller AI firms and Tech Giants?
OPENAI
🎄Sixth Day of “12 Days of OpenAI” Event
Image Source: OpenAI/YouTube/“Santa Mode & Video in Advanced Voice-12 Days of OpenAI: Day 6”/Screenshot
OpenAI showcased new vision capabilities for ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode during the sixth day of the “12 Days of OpenAI” event.
Key Details:
Advanced Voice Mode is a cool feature that allows you to have conversations with ChatGPT.
However, you’ve only been able to interact with it through your voice. Now, you can interact with it through your video.
In other words, it can access your smartphone’s camera to chat about what you see.
Imagine trying to learn more about a painting at an art gallery. Advanced Voice Mode can access your smartphone’s camera to analyze the painting’s style and subject matter to discuss the artist’s vision with you.
A new Screen Share Function also enables Advanced Voice Mode to see what’s on your smartphone’s screen to help you respond to texts or emails.
Advanced Voice Mode also has a new “Santa” voice option that discusses life at the North Pole or tells stories about saving Christmas.
Why It’s Important:
For individuals with visual impairments, the ability to interact with ChatGPT through your voice and your video can be transformative.
Advanced Voice Mode can help you prepare for interviews, be a late-night study buddy, or be a best friend who gives you opinions on decisions.
AI RESEARCH
🎓MIT’s “ContextCite” Verifies AI-Generated Content
Image Source: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)/“ContextCite: Attributing Model Generation to Context”/Screenshot
Imagine using a conversational chatbot like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to prepare for a final exam. To achieve this, you might provide the relevant textbook and study guides as context, allowing ChatGPT to interact with this context to answer your questions. For example, “Can you outline the key takeaways of Opportunity Cost in Chapter One?”
However, after seeing a generated response, you might ask yourself, “Is everything accurate? Did ChatGPT misinterpret any of the context? Is the generated response actually grounded in the context?” Manually answering these questions would be time-consuming and counterintuitive. You’d need to read Chapter One and examine ChatGPT’s generated response.
Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) created “ContextCite,” a tool that locates the context in the generated response. In other words, this tool shows you exactly which parts of Chapter One ChatGPT used to outline the key takeaways of Opportunity Cost. More importantly, it tells you if the generated response is inaccurate or isn’t grounded in the context.
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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
Neubird lands a $22.5M Funding Round to build the world’s first AI-powered ITOps engineer.
AyarLabs secures a $155M Funding Round to address the need for a cost-effective AI infrastructure.
Prezent.AI raises a $7.3M Funding Round to improve business communications with AI-powered storytelling solutions.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Intel (Santa Clara, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025
Formlabs (Somerville, MA): Embedded Software Intern, Summer 2025
Riot Games (Remote): Research Scientist Intern, Generative AI (GenAI), Summer 2025
NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Enterprise Marketing Campaigns Intern, Summer 2025
Docusign (San Francisco, CA): Platform Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025
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