🤖 OpenAI’s New Sora Model

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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

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

OPENAI

😳OpenAI Co-founder Quits Again

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

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• Remove Clickbait Headlines

• Streamline Article Takeaways

• Reduce Decision Fatigue

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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.

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

• Clarity raises $16M to fight deepfakes through detection.

• Katzenberg-backed Alembic raises $14M to pioneer a new frontier in marketing analytics.

• The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI’s attempt to trademark “GPT.”

💼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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