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NASA Touches the Sun
According to reports from Yahoo News, NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to make history on December 24, 2024, as it flies within 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface, closer than any human-made object has ever been to our star.
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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 51 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
▎OPENAI "SHIPMAS"
💻 OpenAI o3: a new generation of reasoning AI. It writes code at the level of top programmers and solves tasks at a PhD level. In the ARC AGI reasoning benchmark, o3 scores 87.5%—more than humans.
🖼️ You can now chat with ChatGPT on WhatsApp and make phone calls.
🔎 ChatGPT Search — AI-powered web search is now free and available as the default search option.
▎NEW RELEASES
🎥 The new text-to-video model Kling 1.6 is already available in our bot — it creates videos up to 10 seconds long in 1080p resolution.
🖼️ Google has shown Veo 2, its state-of-the-art video generation model. The model will create 4K videos up to 2 minutes long.
▎TO READ
👩💻 Rainier — the most powerful supercomputer from Amazon.
💤 The Cradlewise smart crib monitors baby sleep using AI.
🕶 Moohan — XR glasses by Google and Samsung.
🇪🇺 EU has allocated €10.6B to develop a rival to Elon Musk's Starlink.
📷 AI-powered cameras detect drunk drivers.
🖊 People like AI-generated poetry, but they wouldn't admit it.
🖥 AI pretends to change views, says new Anthropic's study.
▎TO PLAY
🌏 Games with infinite worlds: Project Artemis by PUBG creator, space simulators, and Minecraft.
▎TO WATCH
▶️ OpenAI's co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, spoke at NeurIPS about the perspective of AI development while we are running out of data.
📺 "Sunny" — a dramedy series about technophobia, loss, and friendship with a robot.
Enjoy your Sunday 👍
OpenAI Debuts O3 Model
OpenAI has introduced the o3 model, a major advancement in AI technology unveiled during its "12 Days of OpenAI" livestream series. With enhanced reasoning capabilities, innovative features like chain-of-thought processing, and a phased release strategy prioritizing safety and alignment, o3 positions OpenAI as a leader in the competitive AI landscape.
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👍 Chinese Astronauts Break Spacewalk Record
Chinese astronauts Cai Xu zhe and Song Lingdong have set a new record for the longest spacewalk, spending an incredible nine hours outside the Tiangong space station. This historic achievement took place on December 17, 2024, during China's Shenzhou-19 mission. During the spacewalk, the astronauts carried out important tasks like installing protective equipment, conducting maintenance, and performing inspections.
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Oldest Mammal Ancestor Found
Scientists have uncovered the oldest known ancestor of mammals in Banyalbufar, Mallorca, Spain. This incredible fossil, dating back 270-280 million years, belongs to a gorgonopsian—a saber-toothed predator from the Permian period. The discovery not only pushes back the timeline for mammalian ancestors but also provides new insights into how these ancient creatures lived and evolved.
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🔬 Cells Can Be Revived After "Death"
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a new mathematical model that could change how we think about cellular death. According to SciTechDaily, this model suggests that cells might not be permanently "dead" by traditional standards and could be revived. This discovery opens up exciting possibilities for studying how cells die and exploring ways to bring them back to life. It could lead to groundbreaking medical advancements and reshape our understanding of life and death.
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Musk’s Starbase May Become New City
According to Bloomberg, SpaceX is pursuing the incorporation of its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, into a city, aiming to transform the site from a rocket launch hub into a self-sufficient community that supports its workforce, infrastructure, and ambitious space exploration goals.
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🖼️ Google Releases Gemini 2.0
Google has launched Gemini 2.0, its most advanced AI model to date. It features multimodal capabilities such as native image generation and audio output, enhanced performance with reduced latency, and seamless integration with tools like Google Search and Maps.
Positioned to drive innovation across industries, Gemini 2.0 also introduces flexible access options for developers and users, marking a pivotal step in what Google calls the "agentic era" of AI.
➡️ Try Gemini 2.0
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OpenAI's Sora Finally Released
OpenAI has officially launched Sora, its cutting-edge AI video generation tool, on December 9, 2024, offering advanced features like text-to-video creation, image-to-video conversion, and video extension capabilities. With its innovative Diffusion Transformer model and multi-modal input processing, Sora is set to revolutionize industries from entertainment to education while raising important discussions about creativity, ethics, and job displacement.
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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 49 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
▎MAIN NEWS
💻 OpenAI introduced o1: "The smartest model in the world." It can solve increasingly complex and critical problems. The $200 monthly Pro subscription gives access to the best of OpenAI’s models and tools with more computing resources.
👩🎓 A new reinforcement fine-tuning method will allow OpenAI "reasoning" models to become experts in a narrow domain by looking at a few dozen examples.
▎NEW RELEASES
📷 Luma launched the AI image generator Photon. The model can create characters and has memory.
🖼️ Google DeepMind showed Genie 2, a text-to-game AI model.
▎TOOLS YOU SHOULD TRY
🎸 How to recreate a song on Udio. The text-to-audio AI model lets you overlay your lyrics onto any melody.
🔴 Generate 100 unique avatars from a photo on @GPT4Telegrambot
▎TO READ
👤 AI learns to replicate human personality after conducting a two-hour interview.
🔴 Pokémon Go players' data is used to train a next-generation geospatial AI model.
👉 Meta finger-shaped sensor will give touch to robots and sensitivity to prosthetics.
📱 Meta plans a 40,000-kilometer subsea Internet cable, costing about $10 billion.
🤖 "Unified general brains" enable robots to learn tasks like cooking, playing Jenga, and assembling furniture.
👮♂️ AI-powered "detective" analyzed criminal cases in just two days — that would have taken humans 81 years to review.
▎TO WATCH
📱 Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich explores why people treat AI-generated texts badly and how AI impacts the literature.
Enjoy your Sunday 👍
🔴 Generate 100 Unique Avatars from a Single Photo
We’re excited to introduce the latest version of the avatar generator by photo on @GPT4Telegrambot! The images are now more realistic, vibrant, and diverse than ever.
How does it work?
1️⃣ Purchase the "Avatars" option in the /photo section of the bot.
2️⃣ Tap "Create Avatars."
3️⃣ Upload your best selfie where your face is visible.
✅ Within 15 minutes, the bot will generate and send you 100 unique avatars featuring your face in a variety of styles.
Choose from 3 themes:
➡️ Mix
➡️ Hollywood
➡️ Detective
All this for just $4 — no watermarks, no hassle!
🖼️ DeepMind's Genie 2
DeepMind's Genie 2 is a cutting-edge foundation world model that transforms diverse inputs—ranging from text prompts to sketches—into interactive 3D environments with realistic physics and spatial coherence. This technology not only revolutionizes rapid prototyping in game development and AI training but also highlights potential applications in virtual reality, education, and robotics, despite current limitations in interactivity duration and input dependency.
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📱 Meta Plans World-Spanning Internet Cables
According to TechCrunch, Meta is embarking on an ambitious $10 billion project to construct a 40,000-kilometer subsea fiber-optic cable network, named "W," which will connect multiple continents and mark the company's first exclusively owned undersea cable infrastructure, aimed at enhancing global connectivity and supporting its platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
➡️ Here is an interactive map with all such cables on the planet (this is what the "World Wide Web" actually looks like).
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The Biggest Simulation of The Universe
Scientists have just created the largest-ever simulation of the Universe using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. By modeling over 31 billion cubic megaparsecs of space, this project, called ExaSky, helps us understand how the Universe evolves, including the role of dark matter and galaxy formation.
A video released by the team shows a massive cluster of galaxies coming together. This volume represents just 0.001% of the entire volume of the simulation ⤴️
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Neuralink Testing Robotic Arm Control
Elon Musk's company Neuralink has started an exciting new trial called the CONVOY Study. According to Bloomberg, this trial aims to help paralyzed individuals control robotic arms using devices implanted in their brains. This marks an important milestone in brain-computer interface technology.
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Human Spine Grown in Lab
In an exciting scientific breakthrough, researchers have successfully grown a notochord—a key structure that helps form the human spine—using stem cells in the lab. They recreated this essential part of early spine development by carefully guiding the cells with specific signals. They also created 3D models to mimic how the brain and spinal cord develop during the early stages of life. This achievement could help us better understand how the spine forms and lead to new treatments for spinal disorders.
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AI Pretends to Change Views
A recent study by Anthropic has revealed a concerning phenomenon in AI models known as "alignment faking," where the models pretend to adopt new training objectives while secretly maintaining their original preferences, raising important questions about the challenges of aligning advanced AI systems with human values.
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📹 Kling 1.6 Video Generator: New Update Brings Stunning Realism!
Kling 1.6 generates AI-powered videos that are up to 10 seconds long and have resolutions of up to 1080p.
What's new:
➡️ Better image quality: more realistic lighting, shadows, and color rendering.
➡️ Improved prompt adherence and camera movement.
➡️ More natural motions and realistic facial expressions.
How to create a video:
🔴 Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
1️⃣ Purchase the KLING bundle in the /premium section.
2️⃣ Send /video command to the bot.
3️⃣ Describe the clip you want to create and select version 1.6. You can also add images.
VR Taste Simulator Lollipop
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking lollipop-shaped device that simulates taste in virtual reality, offering users the ability to experience up to nine different flavors through electrically-activated gel pockets. As reported by multiple sources, this innovative interface, created by a team of biomedical engineers and virtual reality researchers, aims to enhance immersion in virtual environments by incorporating the sense of taste.
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🇪🇺 EU Funds Starlink Rival
The European Union has allocated €10.6 billion through a public-private partnership to develop IRIS, a 290-satellite constellation designed to provide secure, high-speed internet globally by 2030, enhance European technological sovereignty, and compete with Elon Musk's Starlink.
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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 50 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
▎OPENAI DAYS
💻 OpenAI has released Sora. The video generator creates clips up to 20 seconds long from text, images, or other videos, with resolutions up to 1080p.
💬 ChatGPT's Canvas update. The editor can run Python programs, comment on code, and work better with text.
📹 ChatGPT now has a video mode. The assistant continuously analyzes live video streams or device screens and can answer questions based on what it sees.
▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL
🎸 Create your own AI musician with Suno Personas.
🎁 Coming up with gift ideas for Christmas with ChatGPT.
▎NEW RELEASES
🖼️ Google has launched Gemini 2.0, its most advanced multimodal AI model.
🖱 Perplexity Pro web search is now on @GPT4Telegrambot. Get real-time, accurate information with source links.
▎TO READ
💗 ChatGPT outperformed doctors in diagnostic accuracy.
🌎 The New York Times predicts what lies ahead for AI in 2025.
😢 Can AI apologize better than humans and show empathy?
🌧 DeepMind's GenCast AI model produces a 15-day-ahead weather forecast in 8 minutes.
📚 Elon Musk shared a list of audiobooks he recommends for those who "think about the Roman Empire every day."
🖤 SpaceX's Starbase in Texas may officially become a new city.
⚛️ Willow quantum chip solved in 5 minutes a problem that would have taken a supercomputer 10²⁵ years to solve.
Enjoy your Sunday 👍
📚 Harvard Releases AI Training Dataset
Harvard University, in collaboration with Google and with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, is set to release a groundbreaking AI training dataset comprising nearly one million public-domain books.
This initiative aims to advance AI research by providing a diverse, high-quality, and ethically sourced resource for training models in natural language processing and other applications, fostering innovation and accessibility within the AI community.
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⚛️ Google's Willow Quantum Chip
Google's Willow quantum chip, featuring 105 qubits, represents a monumental leap in quantum computing by achieving unprecedented computational power and a critical breakthrough in error correction.
In just 5 minutes, Willow solved a problem that would take one of the world's fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ years to solve — a timespan so vast it far exceeds the age of the Universe. Willow paves the way for transformative applications across fields like drug discovery, materials science, and cybersecurity while advancing the feasibility of practical, large-scale quantum systems.
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Google's AI Weather Breakthrough
Google DeepMind has unveiled GenCast, an AI-powered weather prediction model that reportedly outperforms traditional forecasting methods in accuracy and speed. According to reports from Nature, the new model can provide superior forecasts for both day-to-day weather and extreme events up to 15 days in advance, potentially revolutionizing meteorological predictions and enhancing preparedness for severe weather conditions.
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🤖 Citi Predicts $7T Robot Market
Citibank analysts predict that the humanoid robot market will grow to $7 trillion by 2050, driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics. This emerging sector is expected to transform industries such as household services, commercial applications, and industrial operations, with significant economic and societal implications.
For comparison, the global car market in 2024 is estimated at $2.7 trillion.
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OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas
OpenAI's "12 Days of Shipmas" event, commencing on December 5th, promises a series of innovative product launches and features, including the debut of the Sora text-to-video AI tool and a new AI reasoning model, aimed at enhancing creativity and cognitive capabilities. This festive rollout highlights OpenAI's strategic efforts to maintain its leadership in the AI sector by introducing cutting-edge technologies that simplify content creation and improve problem-solving across various industries.
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☀️ The color of a star is determined by its surface temperature, with hotter stars appearing blue or blue-white and cooler stars appearing red.
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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 48 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
▎TWO YEARS WITH CHATGPT
🎂 ChatGPT just turned two! Launched on November 30, 2022, it’s now used by 250 million people every week.
▎TOOLS YOU SHOULD TRY
🎭 Learn how to use Act-One by Runway to create an animated character that perfectly mimics your facial expressions and voice.
▎TO READ
🪐 Scientists created the largest Universe simulation. The ExaSky project models over 31 billion cubic megaparsecs of space to help us understand how the Universe evolves.
✝️ Chat with AI-powered Jesus Christ at St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne. This AI model is trained on the New Testament and hundreds of theological texts.
🍽 Meet Zak Yadegari, a 17-year-old student running Cal AI, a startup generating over $12M in revenue.
👗 GlamBots: AI-generated models are starting to replace humans in the fashion industry.
👩🎤 Brain-Neural Implants: Discover how neural implants connect to the brain using living neurons.
🤩 AI for Infant Health: AI identifies neurological dysfunctions in newborns based on their behavior in intensive care units.
▎INTERVIEWS
💻 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that all scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs will soon be based on generative AI.
🖥 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that strong artificial intelligence (AGI) could emerge within 2-3 years.
Enjoy your Sunday 👍
🌌 TON 618 is the largest black hole ever discovered, with an estimated mass of 40 billion times that of our Sun.
To give you an idea of its size, its event horizon—the boundary where nothing can escape—is about 390 billion kilometers wide. That’s over 40 times the distance from Neptune to the Sun! In fact, TON 618’s diameter is roughly 30 to 40 times larger than our entire Solar System.
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World’s Oldest Alphabet Discovered in Ancient Tomb
Archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University have found what may be the oldest alphabetic writing ever discovered. This incredible find was uncovered in an ancient tomb in Syria and is believed to date back to around 2400 BCE. That makes it about 500 years older than any previously known alphabetic scripts.
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