🍓OpenAI's Project Strawberry

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1. 🍓OpenAI's Project Strawberry

2. 🔥 2024 Trends to Watch: Customer Engagement

3. ❌ Deezer Launches AI-Driven Playlist Feature

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OpenAI's Project Strawberry

​OpenAI is developing a groundbreaking approach to its AI models under a project code-named “Strawberry.” This initiative aims to advance the reasoning capabilities of AI, a critical area for achieving higher levels of intelligence and autonomy.

Key Points

• Strawberry models are intended to enable AI to generate answers and perform complex, long-term tasks, pushing the boundaries of current AI capabilities.

• This project aligns with broader industry efforts, as companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft also strive to enhance AI reasoning. The debate continues on whether current large language models (LLMs) can achieve human-like reasoning.

• OpenAI envisions Strawberry models performing long-horizon tasks (LHTs) and autonomous web research, potentially transforming fields like scientific discovery and software development.

• The project involves a specialized "post-training" process, which adapts pre-trained models for specific tasks, similar to Stanford's "Self-Taught Reasoner" (STaR) method.

Project Strawberry represents OpenAI’s ambitious effort to significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of AI. By advancing these capabilities, OpenAI aims to unlock new potentials for AI in various complex and high-stakes applications, setting the stage for future innovations in the field.

2024 Trends to Watch: Customer Engagement

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The convergence of AI interactions, mobile service, and hyper-personalization emerges as the trinity poised to revolutionize the landscape of customer service and customer engagement in 2024. 

Deezer Launches AI-Driven Playlist Feature

Deezer has introduced a new AI-powered feature called “Playlist with AI,” allowing select paid subscribers to create custom playlists using text prompts. This beta feature, available to 5% of Deezer's paying users, enables playlist generation based on various prompts like moods, genres, and activities, similar to recent tests by Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube. Powered by Google’s Gemini 1.5 AI model, the feature promises to enhance user experience by curating personalized music options for different occasions, from workouts to study sessions, while ensuring prompts adhere to content guidelines. Deezer has not yet announced a timeline for a broader rollout.

Quick Takes

• Mira Raises $9 Million in Seed Funding to Build Decentralized AI Infrastructure: Crypto-AI startup Mira has emerged from stealth, securing $9 million in a seed funding round co-led by Bitkraft Ventures and Framework Ventures. Mira aims to develop decentralized machine-learning infrastructure, with plans to launch its blockchain for platform transactions and expand its team in Singapore and India.

• Nvidia Dominates AI Accelerator Market, But Competition Grows: Nvidia currently dominates the AI accelerator market with its superior hardware and software platform, making it difficult for competitors to gain traction. However, as more alternatives enter the market and cloud computing giants develop custom AI chips, Nvidia's lead may diminish, although it is unlikely to be dethroned in the near future.

• French Startup Presti Uses AI to Revolutionize Furniture Photography: French startup Presti, founded in November 2022, leverages generative AI to transform a single product image into a realistic lifestyle photo, addressing the costly and cumbersome process of traditional furniture photo shoots. Recently, Presti raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Partech, with the funding aimed at enhancing their AI model, Stable Diffusion XL, to cater specifically to the furniture industry.

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