🤖 OpenAI’s New Rival: Kyutai’s “Moshi”

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• ⚔️OpenAI’s New Rival: Kyutai’s “Moshi”

• 🎯Perplexity AI’s New “Pro Search” Upgrade

• 💭Salesforce New Research on APIGen

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

KYUTAI

⚔️OpenAI’s New Rival: Kyutai’s “Moshi”

Kyutai, a French open-science AI research lab, unveiled a real-time voice assistant called “Moshi” that conveys emotional intelligence and engages in natural conversation.

Key Details:

• “Moshi” can handle two audio streams simultaneously, allowing it to listen and speak at the same time.

• “Moshi” can understand and express 70 unique emotions and deploy various accents.

• “Moshi” can reason across vision and text in real-time to offer more natural human-computer interaction.

• Kyutai claims “Moshi” is the first real-time voice assistant that replies to queries within 160 milliseconds, outpacing OpenAI’s GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”): OpenAI’s new flagship AI model.

• Kyutai launched in 2023 as a privately funded non-profit with $324 million to build and democratize Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through open-science.

Why It’s Important:

• Unlike OpenAI, Kyutai is pursuing an open-source approach and plans to release the AI model’s inference codebase (i.e., the set of instructions that guide “Moshi”) and the audio codec (i.e., a translator for sound).

• This open-source approach allows developers and researchers to access the codebase that enables “Moshi” to function efficiently with fewer resources.

🚨Try Kyutai’s “Moshi” for free here.

PERPLEXITY AI

🎯Perplexity AI’s New “Pro Search” Upgrade

Perplexity AI, a free AI-powered answer engine, released a “Pro Search” upgrade that tackles more complex queries and performs advanced programming computations.

Key Details:

• “Pro Search” approaches intricate queries with multi-step reasoning by combining multiple searchers to generate more comprehensive answers.

• “Pro Search” can also analyze search results and take intelligent actions by initiating follow-up searches that build on previous results.

• Perplexity AI added a Wolfram Alpha integration, enabling the free AI-powered search engine to solve advanced mathematical problems.

• Perplexity AI’s new “Quick Search” is perfect for finding quick, efficient information.

• Everyone can use “Pro Search” five times every hour for free. For those who need more, Perplexity Pro users get nearly unlimited daily access.

Why It’s Important:

• Perplexity AI’s new “Pro Search” upgrade can pinpoint case laws for attorneys, summarize trend analysis for marketers, and debug code for developers.

• Google has struggled to deploy “AI Overviews,” a feature that provides AI-generated summaries at the top of Google Search results.

• Perplexity AI offers a streamlined search engine alternative called answer engine that’s starting to rival Google Search.

🚨Try Perplexity AI’s answer engine for free here.

🚨Listen to Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas explain the current flaws with Google Search.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

💭Salesforce New Research on APIGen

Salesforce published new research on APIGen, an automated data generation pipeline designed to synthesize verifiable, high-quality datasets for function-calling applications.

In simple terms, APIGen is a tool that generates high-quality data that can be used to train AI models for “call functions.”

In this context, “call functions” refer to specific actions computer programs take.

1. Function: a self-contained code block designed to perform specific tasks. It takes inputs (e.g., arguments) and produces outputs (e.g., return value).

2. Calling: giving computer programs specific commands to follow.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are “frozen” after AI model training and can’t query or modify data. To solve this issue, APIGen connects LLMs to external tools.

For example, APIGen can leverage “call functions” to define a function (e.g., {get_weather}) that takes a location parameter and returns information about the weather conditions at that location.

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

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