Top 10 AI News #weekly
OpenAI on Thursday launched a version of its popular chatbot ChatGPT priced at $200 per month, which can be used in engineering fields and for research, as the AI firm looks to expand industry applications for its technology.
The new tier, called ChatGPT Pro, will be in addition to OpenAI’s existing subscriptions of ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise. It underscores the firm’s ambitions to further commercialize its technology, which had kicked off the AI boom.
HubSpot, the leading customer platform for scaling businesses, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Frame AI, an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform. Frame AI’s technology transforms unstructured data—such as emails, calls, meetings, and conversations—into real-time insights and actionable recommendations, enabling businesses to anticipate customer needs and deliver exceptional experiences.
Grok AI, Elon Musk's chatbot, is now free for all users after initially requiring a premium X subscription. While xAI hasn't officially announced this, users are accessing it without payment. The free version has limitations, including 10 messages every 2 hours and 3 image analyses per day.
Notable Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator held a Demo Day for its inaugural Fall cohort this week.
But among these, four companies piqued my interest, and they all had something in common: They are building tools to help companies monitor their AI applications to quickly solve or prevent inaccuracies, which is preventing more widespread adoption of AI tools by enterprises. And enterprise companies should keep an eye on them.
In the popular Chatbot Arena leaderboard, ChatGPT-4o (20241120) became the No. 1 model on Nov. 21st, surpassing the Gemini-Exp-1114 model, which was released on Nov. 15th.
Google today announced the release of the Gemini-Exp-1206 experimental model, which beats ChatGPT-4o (20241120) in the Chatbot Arena.
Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B.
In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta, said that the text-only Llama 3.3 70B delivers the performance of Meta’s largest Llama model, Llama 3.1 405B, at lower cost.
X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant. However, after going live for a few hours on Saturday, the product seemed to disappear for some users.
Microsoft’s AI can now read your screen — or rather, the websites you’re browsing.
On Thursday, the company began rolling out a limited, U.S.-only preview of Copilot Vision, a tool that can understand and respond to questions about sites you’re visiting using Microsoft Edge. Gated behind Copilot Labs, an opt-in program for experimental AI capabilities, Copilot Vision can analyze text and images on web pages to answer queries like “What’s the recipe for this lasagna?”
Prplexity, the AI-powered search engine, is expanding its publisher program, with the LA Times, Adweek, Mexico News Daily, and a dozen other news outlets signing up. Publishers will share in revenue generated by ads on Perplexity, and receive metrics to track their content’s performance — as long as they don’t withdraw.
DeepMind, Google’s AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds.
Called Genie 2, the model — the successor to DeepMind’s Genie, which was released earlier this year — can generate an interactive, real-time scene from a single image and text description (e.g. “A cute humanoid robot in the woods”). In this way, it’s similar to models under development by Fei-Fei Li’s company, World Labs, and Israeli startup Decart.
Latest AI Tools In CogList #weekly
Hootsuite is a social media management tool which can schedule, publish content across multiple social platforms, monitor conversations and analyze performance.
Buffer is a social media management tool which schedules posts, analyzes performance, and manages multiple social media accounts from one dashboard.
Linktree is a bio link software that allows users to create one link that would send their followers to a page with multiple links.
MailerLite is an online email marketing platform that helps marketers create, send, and analyze email campaigns.
Zoho Campaigns is primarily an email marketing platform that enables users to create, manage, and analyze email campaigns.
This Week's Summary
This week's top tech news shows key advances in artificial intelligence, with OpenAI's launch of a $200 ChatGPT subscription targeting research and engineering applications HubSpot's acquisition of Frame AI AI-powered It promises to enhance customer interactions with insights so Meanwhile, Elon Musk's Grok AI is freely available, and Google's Gemini model shows it’s at the top of the chatbot rankings. Additionally, Microsoft introduced Copilot Vision, a new tool that reads web content to assist users. This information highlights the rapidly evolving AI technology and its implications for businesses and consumers. Explore these improvements to understand how they can help you!
