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In today’s AI Report:
🤯OpenAI’s New Sora Model
😳OpenAI Co-founder Quits Again
📰AI-Powered News Apps Tackles Clickbait
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
🤯OpenAI’s New Sora Model
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OpenAI unveiled Sora, a text-to-video AI model that creates realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Key Details:
Sora converts brief text prompts or still images into movie-like scenes with multiple characters, unique motions, and diversified background details.
Sora can also “extend” existing video clips by adding missing information to produce a more complete film.
OpenAI’s blog explained: “Sora has a deep understanding of language, enabling it to accurately interpret prompts and generate compelling characters that express vibrant emotions.”
The text-to-video model is currently available to red teams, visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to assess critical risk areas and gain direct feedback from creative professionals.
Why It’s Important:
Sora isn’t perfect. It may struggle with simulating the physics of complex scenes or comprehending specific use cases of cause and effect. For example, if a person bites into an apple, the apple doesn’t display a bite mark.
As Sora evolves and automates tasks like animation and video production, it could lead to mass job displacement.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
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OPENAI
😳OpenAI Co-founder Quits Again
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Andrej Karpathy, a computer vision pioneer and founding OpenAI member, announced on X that he’s leaving the startup again to pursue personal projects.
Key Details:
Karpathy’s passion is training deep neural nets on large datasets, as displayed through his work experience:
2015-2017: Research scientist and founding member at OpenAI.
2017-2022: Senior Director at Tesla, who led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot.
2022-2023: Returned to OpenAI and contributed to Sora, then departed the startup again.
OpenAI battled internal turmoil this past year with CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman’s brief removal by the startup’s board of directors in 2023.
Karpathy emphasized that “it’s not a result of any particular event, issue, or drama.” He plans to work on personal projects and pursue opportunities as they present themselves.
Why It’s Important:
Karpathy mentioned his positive experience at OpenAI this past year, highlighting the qualified development teams and exciting roadmap.
“We all have a lot to look forward to,” he said. Implying OpenAI has impressive product innovations and feature implementation plans for 2024.
AI APPS
📰AI-Powered News Apps Tackles Clickbait
Bulletin is an RSS news reader app that summarizes articles and removes clickbait titles.
App Features Include:
Smart Summaries
Remove Clickbait Headlines
Streamline Article Takeaways
Reduce Decision Fatigue
Home and Lock Screen Widgets
The creator, Shibhab Menboob, a prolific indie developer, recently sold his Mammoth app: a fast, fun, and free platform that decentralizes social networks on the internet.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
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🦉TutorAI is a tailored assistant to help you grasp topics like coding, physics, or history.
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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
💼WHO’S HIRING?
SpectorOps (Remote): Consulting Services Intern, Summer 2024
Tesla (Fremont, CA): Energy Service Data Analyst, Summer 2024
Netflix (Los Gatos, CA): Product Design Intern, Design Systems, Summer 2024
Hello Fresh (Irving, TX): Data Analyst, Supply Chain Management & Operations
PayPal (San Jose, CA): Software Engineer, Recent University Graduate
NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Architecture Energy Modeling Engineer
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