GPT-4o

Good Morning! Welcome to another edition of Lightway.

Here’s everything you need to know to start your week:

→ OpenAI releases new GPT-4o AI model
→ Google’s I/O Conference
→ NASA announces plans for the first railway on Moon, and more Tech & AI news.

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Highlights of the week

OpenAI launches GPT-4o AI model

OpenAI launched GPT-4o, a new advanced AI model that's free for all ChatGPT users. Here's everything you need to know:

• Natively Multimodal: GPT-4o is natively multimodal, meaning it can input and output text, audio, images, and videos.

• Better Performance: It responds to audio inputs in 232 to 320 milliseconds, similar to human conversation speed. It also Matches GPT-4 Turbo in English text and coding tasks.

• Cost and Speed: GPT-4o is 50% cheaper and twice as fast as GPT-4 Turbo.

• Improved Understanding: Better at processing and understanding non-English texts, vision, and audio compared to previous models.

GPT-4o really shines through on iPhone in the “voice” mode, with near real-time conversation capabilities. (Read More)

Google announces major AI features at I/O Conference

Google announced major AI updates across multiple products at the annual I/O conference. Here’s everything -

• Project Astra: Uses Gemini AI create a more natural conversation experience. It can quickly respond and even use the camera to answer questions based on what you're pointing at.

• Circle to Search: Use your camera to search on Android devices.

• Gemini Nano: Smaller, faster version of Gemini AI with features like scam warning popups during calls.

• AI in Android 15: Live voice conversations with AI and camera-based responses

• Google Search: Your search queries on google might now include “AI Overviews” of the search results.

Additionally, Google might be working on revival of AR glasses with new AI features. (read more)

 Tech Roundup

→ Unitree robotics unveiled a humanoid robot, G1, priced at $16,000 (link)

→ Microsoft’s new app, Places, uses AI to find the best time for office day for hybrid teams. (link)

→ Apple iOS 18 Leak Reveals Audio Transcription, Summarization Features for iPhone Users (link)

→ Meta reportedly working on AI headphones, Camerabuds, with built-in cameras (link)

→ NASA announces plans for first railway system on Moon (link)

→ Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer (link)

→ Microsoft emissions rise by 30% due to increasing demand for AI. (link)

→ Reddit will now provide real-time access to its content to OpenAI according to a new deal (link)

→ Twitter officially transitioned to X.com for all its core systems, with twitter.com now redirecting to the new domain. (link)

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