ChatGPT-Maker Releases New Bargain Version
OpenAI has released a new chatbot that’s almost as good as its flagship AI engine — ChatGPT 4o — and much cheaper to run.
Dubbed “ChatGPT 4o Mini,” the new AI engine is free-to-use on a limited basis to anyone visiting the ChatGPT Web site.
ChatGPT 4o Mini is expected to be a hit with developers looking to build AI applications atop the AI engine, which OpenAI says costs 60% less to run.
An important note: While ChatGPT 4o Mini is less advanced as the OpenAI flagship version, it’s still plenty smart.
ChatGPT 4o Mini, for example, beats-out the original AI software that powered ChatGPT to world fame and frenzy in late 2022, according to OpenAI test reports.
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*In-Depth Guide: 10 Best AI SEO Tools: Writers looking for a nice round-up of AI-powered tools specializing in search engine optimization may want to check-out this piece.
The guide offers a short-and-sweet summary of ten AI-powered SEO tools that writer Antoine Tardif considers tops.
Observes Tardif: “By leveraging these technologies, you can streamline your SEO efforts, produce high-quality content and improve your Web site’s visibility and user experience.”
*The MVP of AI Chatbots?: Facebook Founder Takes Another Swing for the Fences: Longtime AI evangelist Mark Zuckerberg has updated his challenge to ChatGPT, dubbed, Llama 3.1.
Observes writer Anuj Mudaliar: “While both models (AI engines) are thought to exhibit excellent performance in natural language processing, Llama 3.1’s relatively smaller parameter size may limit its ability to complete complex tasks, as GPT-4 works on 1.76 trillion parameters.
“However, practical performance is yet to be measured by users on a wide scale.”
*Très magnifique?: French AI Startup Says It’s Built a Better ChatGPT: French AI startup Mistral is out with its own competitor to ChatGPT, which it says matches — and sometimes exceeds — the market leader’s performance.
For example: Mistral’s ability to auto-generate accurate computer code is actually better than the most robust version of ChatGPT — ChatGPT 4o — according to the company.
Dubbed Mistral Large 2, the new AI engine is available on Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Studio, Amazon Bedrock and IBM watsonx.ai.
*Scribblers Rejoice!: Microsoft Promising to Transform Chicken Scratch Into Digital Gold: Users of MS Copilot in OneNote may soon have a tool that enables input into OneNote via handwritten stylus.
The overall goal is for MS Copilot to ingest the handwritten notes, then enable users to auto-generate written summaries, ask questions of the data they’ve entered and auto-generate to-do lists based on the notes.
Currently, the new tool is in beta testing.
*Can We Talk?: When Study Data Becomes a Conversationalist: Research software firm Recollective is out with a new AI tool that offers conversational access to qualitative research.
Observes Alfred Jay, CEO, Recollective: “Our new AI features are designed to complement and enhance the way researchers work, enabling them to focus on what truly matters: extracting actionable insights and creating compelling narratives.”
Specifically, researchers can pose targeted questions to the study data they’ve gathered and engage in a dialog with the research to unveil insights and trends they may have otherwise missed.
*Humanizey AI Hawks Solution to Bot-Babble: Writers looking for a more ‘human feel’ from writing auto-generated by AI may want to give AI Humanizer a test-drive.
The tool is designed to auto-rewrite text produced by AI chatbots so that it sounds more human.
Plus, the resulting, re-written text also should bypass detection as ‘AI generated’ when assessed by AI writing detectors such as GPTZero, Turnitin and Originality AI, according to David Holand, CEO, Humanizey AI.
*Another AI News Anchor Pops-Up: Because Humans Are So Yesterday: Add South Korean cable TV channel MBN to the growing list of news outlets using AI-powered news anchors to present the news.
This one is actually a knock-off of a human news anchor on the channel — Kim Ju-ha — and is programmed to look exactly like Ju-ha and mimic the female news anchor mannerisms.
Observes the AI bot, dubbed Al Kim: “I was created through deep learning ten hours of video of Kim Ju-ha, learning the details of her voice, the way she talks, facial expressions, the way her lips move, and the way she moves her body.
“I am able to report news exactly the way that anchor Kim Ju-ha would.”
*Going for Google’s Jugular: ChatGPT-Maker Tinkers With New Search Engine: OpenAI is currently testing an AI-powered search engine it hopes will unseat Google as the King of Search.
Observes writer Deepa Seetharaman: “The tool, called SearchGPT, will summarize the information found on Web sites, including news sites and let users ask follow-up questions — just as they can currently with OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT.
“SearchGPT is OpenAI’s most direct challenge yet to Google’s dominance in search since the release of ChatGPT in 2022 caught the tech company flat-footed.”
*Fast Times at AI High: New Startup Looking to Build ‘AI-First’ Schools: Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy is looking to redefine education by building new schools with AI at their core.
Karpathy describes his new venture, dubbed ‘Eureka Labs,’ as a “new kind of school that is AI native, with the express aim of developing a Teacher + AI symbiosis that will allow anyone to learn anything,” according to writer Andrew Tarantola.
Karpathy “envisions an education system built from the ground-up with AI as its core tenet — with human teachers developing lesson plans while being supplemented in the classroom by digital assistants,” Tarantola adds.
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