OpenAI Introduces 'Canvas' Workspace

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1. 📣OpenAI Introduces 'Canvas' Workspace for ChatGPT

2. 🔎 Google Enhances Lens with Real-Time Video Questioning and E-commerce Features

3. 🤯  Quick Takes

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OpenAI Introduces 'Canvas' Workspace for ChatGPT

OpenAI has unveiled a new feature called “canvas,” designed to enhance collaboration on writing and coding projects within ChatGPT. This new interface offers an additional workspace alongside the traditional chat window, enabling users to edit and refine AI-generated content in real time.

Key Points:

• Users can generate and modify text or code directly in the canvas, making it easier to edit specific sections without redoing the entire output.

• Canvas is being launched in beta for ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, with Enterprise and Edu users gaining access next week.

• The interface is ideal for longer writing projects or coding tasks, allowing users to adjust length, tone, or even language, all within the canvas window.

• OpenAI’s canvas aligns with features offered by other AI tools like Anthropic’s Artifacts and Cursor, as editable workspaces become a popular way to refine AI outputs.

• Coding shortcuts include adding in-line comments, explaining specific sections of code, and a "review code" button for suggesting and applying edits.

The new canvas feature provides a more interactive and customizable way to collaborate with ChatGPT, improving its utility for both writing and coding tasks. This rollout reflects OpenAI’s efforts to match its competitors and enhance user experiences, particularly for complex projects.

Google Enhances Lens with Real-Time Video Questioning and E-commerce Features

Google has upgraded its Lens app with a new feature that allows users to ask real-time questions about objects in videos, powered by its Gemini AI model. This capability, available to English-speaking Android and iOS users through the Search Labs program, provides AI-generated insights by analyzing video frames. Additionally, Lens now offers enhanced e-commerce functionality, identifying products in photos and providing details like price, reviews, and deals. These updates position Google to compete with similar AI-powered tools while expanding its visual search capabilities.

Quick Takes

• Google Rolls Out Ads in AI Overviews: Google is introducing ads within its AI-generated summaries in search results, showing relevant products for queries with a commercial angle. These sponsored products will appear in AI Overviews on mobile in the US, alongside tweaks to highlight cited webpages and display customized search results for specific queries.

• Voyage AI Enhances Enterprise AI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Voyage AI, founded by Stanford professor Tengyu Ma, specializes in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that improve the accuracy of AI responses by integrating a knowledge base for fact-checking. With over 250 customers, including Harvey and Vanta, Voyage's cutting-edge embedding models deliver superior retrieval accuracy and are supported by a recent $20 million Series A funding round.

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