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A new report now confirms that OpenAI is going to release its ChatGPT search engine on Monday (May 13). The report also says that the OpenAI search engine will include citations and source real-time information from the web. The search engine has now been indexed by Bing and DuckDuckGo as well.

OpenAI is reportedly working on a new search engine, an alternative to Google Search. And the company may launch it in May, just before Google I/O. Currently, the subdomain doesn't throw a 404 error, but displays "Not found".

It's no secret that a new Hellboy movie with the title of Hellboy: The Crooked Man is being made. In a recent update, accusations of using AI for character design have been made on the director of this movie which he has confirmed to be false and to be a major quoting error made by the media house who published the report. However, my question is, is the use of AI actually that bad? Read about what I think in this article.

You can now opt-out of model training on ChatGPT via Settings and also retain chat history. Earlier, OpenAI used to disable chat history if you refused to share your data for model training. You can find the new data controls under ChatGPT Settings.

OpenAI is now making the Memory feature available to all paid ChatGPT Plus users. It can remember your preferences and key details about yourself to make the chat experience more personal. The feature is turned on by default, but you can disable it from the Settings page.

Meta has finally unveiled its next family of Llama 3 models in two sizes: 8B and 70B parameters. The company has launched its meta.ai portal where you can chat with Llama 3 models. Besides that, you can find Meta AI experiences on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and more. Currently, the context length is 8K tokens, but Meta will be releasing larger models with increased context length and multimodal capability in the near future.

Google at the Cloud Next 2024 event made its Imagen 2 model generally available to enterprise customers. One of its new features is that it can generate short video clips aka live images of up to four seconds. In addition, the generation clips show different camera angles and motion. Users can also inpaint and outpaint images on Vertex AI.

Spotify's new AI Playlist feature allows users to create personalized playlists by entering a prompt, which the AI will use to generate a playlist based on the user's listening history. The feature is currently available for Premium members in Australia and the UK, and will soon expand to other regions.

Google announced its SGE (Search Generative Experience) last year, and now, we are getting to see this entire thing become "premium". In other words, you will have to pay for the AI features integrated within Google Search. For those unaware, generative AI in Google Search allowed you to get a summary of your query, thereby providing all the information you need right at the top. Now, the new Financial Times report suggests that you will soon need to pay the premium $19.99/month fee of Google One AI to make use of it.

Speaking to Bloomberg, the YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan said that OpenAI would violate YouTube's Terms of Service if the company used YouTube videos to train its Sora model. Google also uses some corpus of YouTube videos to train its Gemini model, but signs licensing contracts with individual creators. Earlier, the CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati, refused to clarify whether Sora was trained on YouTube videos.

After introducing Sora, a remarkable text-to-video AI model, OpenAI has previewed its Voice Engine model that can clone voices with a single 15-second audio sample. It can translate voices into different languages with high accuracy. Since there are risks associated with the technology, the company is not releasing the speech synthesis model now. The company encourages society to understand the capabilities of AI and adapt to a new reality.

The ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, is reportedly planning to release the GPT-5 model during the summer of this year. A new report says that OpenAI has already demoed the GPT-5 model to a few enterprise customers and one of the CEOs called it "materially better" than GPT-4. OpenAI is also working on AI agents that can perform complex actions.

In another reshuffle, Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google DeepMind, and Inflection to lead AI innovations at Microsoft. Suleyman will oversee the development of Copilot, Edge, and Bing and how AI can be leveraged to make meaningful product improvements.

OpenAI might be working to release an intermediate GPT-4.5 Turbo model before launching the next-gen GPT-5 model. It was leaked through the OpenAI Blog page which was indexed by Bing and DuckDuckGo. The upcoming model promises better "speed, accuracy, and scalability" than the GPT-4 Turbo model. However, strangely, the captured description says the model will have a knowledge cutoff of up to June 2024.

After filing a lawsuit against OpenAI for becoming a closed-source company, Elon Musk has now announced that xAI's Grok model will be open-sourced this week. Musk founded xAI in March last year to rival OpenAI and released its first preview model in November. However, Grok has not been received well and it's highly prone to hallucination. Open-sourcing the model may help the company improve Grok on many fronts.

During its annual shareholders meeting, Tim Cook said Apple will "break new ground" in Generative AI in 2024. Apple completely scrapped off its Electric Car project and brought the complete focus to AI. Right now, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot are some big names in Generative AI.

Microsoft is looking to expand its AI investment beyond OpenAI. The software giant has partnered with a French AI startup called Mistral AI and invested close to $2 billion to accelerate their new LLMs on Azure's infrastructure. Mistral AI's new model, Mistral Large, is already available on Azure AI Studio for customers and developers. The Mistral Large model supports advanced reasoning, understands several international languages, and comes with native function calling support.

Qualcomm has finally released its AI Hub and AI Stack to run AI models locally on Snapdragon platforms, be it your smartphone or PC. The chipmaker has optimized over 75 AI models to run locally on your device. You can generate texts and images, enhance low-light images, perform image segmentation, and do much more locally. Qualcomm's AI Engine delivers 3x-4x better performance than Intel's latest Core Ultra processors.

OpenAI has unveiled its remarkable text-to-video model, Sora, that can generate AI videos for up to 1 minute. The generated videos are highly detailed and have a resolution of up to 1080p. Unlike existing solutions, Sora-generated videos don't have distortions in the scene, which makes everyone believe that it's trained on gaming engine simulations like Unreal Engine 5. OpenAI says it's a diffusion model built on the transformer architecture. The Sora model is going through safety checks now and currently, it's not available to regular users.

After releasing Gemini Advanced with the Ultra 1.0 model last week, Google has announced its next-generation model called Gemini 1.5 Pro. The new model is built on the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supports a massive context window of up to 1 million tokens. It performs nearly the same as the much larger Gemini 1.0 Ultra model. The AI model is currently in limited preview and developers can test it on AI Studio after joining the waiting list.

The e-commerce giant, Amazon, has added an AI shopping assistant called Rufus to its shopping app. It's an AI chatbot trained on Amazon's vast product catalogs, customer reviews, community Q&A, and information sourced from the web. It can answer all your questions based on your shopping needs, find personalized products, offer recommendations for various occasions, and much more. The Rufus AI assistant is currently being rolled out to a small subset of users in the US only.

Apple CEO Tim Cook confirms that Apple generative AI features are coming later this year at the quarterly earnings call. This backs the rumors that iOS 18 could be the biggest iPhone software update in Apple's history. The giant has plans to integrate AI across all its software platforms- iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. We might see Apple Generative AI features with major software updates to be announced at WWDC in June 2024.