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New & Enhanced Features in OpenAI
OpenAI has brought exciting new facets to its AI interface, premiering a "Projects" feature in its reputed ChatGPT system. This addition significantly improves file organization and allows easy customization of project parameters, enhancing user control of the AI model. This feature is initially launched for ChatGPT Plus Pro and Teams subscribers but promises a more expedient chat/document retrieval process.
Apple Leverages OpenAI's Cutting-Edge Capabilities
Apple takes AI to the next level, integrating OpenAI's powerful ChatGPT into its AI platform, available throughout Siri's iOS 18.2 and Mac 15.2. This integration enables Siri to process and respond to complex queries, making cognition-level interactions a reality across Apple's consumer interfaces. Industry buzz also suggests an imminent release of a budget iPhone SE 4, featuring these AI capabilities.
Klarna: Success Story in AI-Driven Automation
Moving over to the industry landscape, finance powerhouse, Klarna, manifests the capabilities of AI-driven workforce automation. The company maintains operational efficiency despite reducing its human workforce, utilizing AI for routine tasks and focusing human effort on essential engineering positions. Klarna's innovative strategy highlights the growing potential of AI in the workflow process and sets a precedent for workforce automation in the industry.
AI Innovations: From Microsoft's PHI 4 to Google's Gemini 2.0
Microsoft's PHI 4, a 14-billion-parameter language model demonstrates the potential of miniaturized reasoning AI models. The future of AI is forecasted to involve these small, specialized models rather than vast, general-purpose models. Simultaneously, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, focusing on enhanced multimodal capabilities in AI. Backing this pioneering model, Google has released products like Project Astra and Project Mariner and an AI coding tool, Jules.
Google Ups the Ante with Developer-Driven Innovations
Google has devised developments at both enterprise and developer levels. "Google Agent Space" is a multimodal search agent for enterprise AI solutions, potentially transforming business workflows. At the same time, Google's AI Studio's new capabilities in advanced voice mode, screen sharing, and video interaction pave the way for more interactive AI utilization.
The Future Beckons: Anticipating Developments in AI
OpenAI's ChatGPT is expected to soon gain these interactive capabilities, while Google's Android XR in collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm promises a more immersive AI experience. In times marked by the release of AI innovations on an almost weekly basis, the future of AI promises a convergence of life and technology at an unforeseen level.
Empowering Businesses: The Takeaway from the Latest AI News
As AI developments continue at a breakneck pace, it is crucial for businesses to keep abreast of these technological transformations and incorporate beneficial innovations into their workflow. AI won't just bring efficiency and cost-cutting; it will revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering the potential to tap into previously unchartered opportunities.
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Topics Covered in This Episode
1. OpenAI Updates
2. Apple Intelligence Update
3. Eric Schmidt on AI
4. Klarna's Use of AI
5. Google AI updates
6. Microsoft AI models
Podcast Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:17]:
It was never actually called this, but everyone has been calling the last week in AI AI week. Mainly because OpenAI and Google have been in a straight up slugfest going punch for punch in releasing very impressive new updates to its respective ChatGPT and Gemini products. But there was a lot else going on this week in AI news, and we're gonna be covering it all today. What's going on y'all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and this is Everyday AI. Welcome. This is your daily livestream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday people like you and me not just keep up with what's going on in the world of AI, but how we can all actually get ahead to grow our companies and to grow our careers. So if that sounds like you, you are in the right place. Thank you for tuning in.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:13]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:02:35]:
Let's get after it y'all. And we're gonna do it a little different this week because there is literally so much OpenAI and so much Google News. We're gonna sandwich it like this. We're gonna start with everything OpenAI. We're gonna get to everything else that's not Google, and then we're gonna get to all the new Google AI news at the end. Yeah. It was one of those kind of weeks. I think we have 5 stories from OpenAI, like 7 from Google, and a lot other and and and a lot more.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:04]:
So it's gonna be fast and furious y'all, but, to our livestream audience, thank you for tuning in. Let me know which one of these, shows or sorry, which one of these news pieces is gonna impact you? I love going through after the show and and reading comments from our livestream audience. Thank you so much. So let me know what you guys think of all of this that's going on. Alright. 1st and like I said, this is gonna be a very, very fast roundup of each story because we got so many to get to. So OpenAI has released Sora. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:36]:
This happened, like, 3 hours after our show last week. So we had to fit it in, but OpenAI has released Sora, their new AI tool, for generating videos from tax accessible to premium ChatGPT users. So whether you are on the, $20 ChatGPT plus or the new $200, ChatGPT pro, you will have access to Sora. And they did reopen sign ups, so they did have to shut sign ups down, because their servers were legit melting. Sign ups are back up. So the new tool can create high quality videos like whatever. Sumo wrestling bears. Right? But you cannot create videos of humans if you are on the $20 plan.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:17]:
That's important to know you do have to be on the $200, ChatGPT pro plan in order to do that. So right now the company is prioritizing the prevention of harmful content and is working with artists and policymakers to address concerns because there's a lot of concerns when a AI video tool as powerful as Sora hits the market. I'll say this. There's plenty of other AI video tools on the market that have had way more time out, way more training data than Sora, such as Runway, such as, Cling, such as Luma Labs. OpenAI's, with Sora, their ceiling is higher. So for every single generation, right, you can run the same generation 10 times and get 10 different outputs. If you do that with every single video out, generator that's out there, Sora's gonna be the best. Right? There's, in the same way that there's Elo scores for, chatbots.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:12]:
Right? You you you know, you put in a prompt and you get, 2 outputs. Same thing for video. And guess what? Sora is wiping the competition. So sora by far has the highest highest ceiling. It doesn't mean its floor is the highest. Right? If you do 10 of those, you know, some of the worst ones might be Sora. But by far, the best ones are also going to be Sora. But this is the worst it will ever be.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:35]:
Alright. We gotta get to all the ChatGPT updates. They launched updates to their canvas tool, and they also made Canvas available to all users including free users. So Canvas, if you haven't heard of it, it enhances the user experience by allowing real time content editing while conversing with ChatGPT. And also the other big updates, so number 1, it's now available to free subscribers. Number 2, it can run Python directly within the tool. Pretty cool. So this, new integration, well, this updated integration with GPT 4 o enables automatic activation of Canvas because it is now a tool.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:16]:
So previously, it was a mode that you had to select from a drop down menu when starting a new chat. Now it is kind of near the chat bar as a tool. So pretty cool, but, you know, the most powerful models such as the o one model, Canvas does not work there just yet. Also, the Python thing, that's a shot at Anthropic y'all. You you know, I'm gonna try to give you my 2¢ on all these new stories. Anthropic has had a huge one huge advantage over every other large language model, I would say, by far, with its artifacts feature, which can render all kinds of code right in the browser. So this is kind of a a shot at anthropic, and there's another one coming here soon from OpenAI. But right now, at least with, Chatt GPT's Canvas, you can only run Python, wherein, Claude artifacts, you can run all kinds of code.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:07]:
And even if you're not a technical person, that doesn't mean anything y'all. Like, you can use Python. You might not even know. You can upload a huge spreadsheet and just be like, yo, create me some graphs, some visualization. Right? That's Python. So, you know, if you don't think that you would might use this new Python development, you're a ChatGPT, subscriber, go ahead and upload a spreadsheet in there and, toggle on the canvas mode and say, like, hey. Create me a visual that could be helpful. Create a a dashboard that could be helpful, and it will do it.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:37]:
Alright. More OpenAI news. Video has come to advanced voice mode. So OpenAI has enhanced its advanced voice mode with video and screen share capabilities, allowing it to see through a phone camera as and c as in quotes, as users perform tasks like, you know, whatever you may be doing and wanting to show, advanced voice mode. So this updates comes just after Google announced its Gemini 2 point o, which we're gonna get to, which also had some of these live video features. So this new, ChatGPT feature, essentially, advanced voice mode has been out since September, and OpenAI demoed this advanced voice mode with video back in, its spring event. So, like, what? That's like 6 6 months ago. So what this means, you now have the advanced voice mode inside of ChatGPT.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:35]:
We did a quick, review on our YouTube channel that we also shared in our newsletter. I had some problems with it at first. It's I've I've tried it since. It's gotten a little better. You know, like I said, OpenAI's servers were getting crushed last week. But essentially, think of the advanced voice mode if you've used it before, but now with video. Right? You could be working on a math problem on a sheet of paper. You could be, you you know, drawing something out on a whiteboard, you know, something, strategizing for your business, and you automatically have a smart AI assistant that can quote, unquote see and collaborate with you in real time.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:13]:
Michael says, I love the video feature, but haven't discovered much usefulness to it yet. Interesting. So far, he's just used it for fun. Doctor Harvey Castro says, I love the screen share and video OpenAI features. It remember remembered my dog's names. Yeah. Hey. Podcast audience too.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:31]:
Hit me up. I always have, you know, in the show notes, you can email us. You can, text the show, although I can't text you back, FYI. Also, I put my LinkedIn in there. So, I I would love to hear use cases for those of you that are, using advanced voice mode with video and have found, great uses for it. I would love to hear. Alright. More OpenAI.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:53]:
So another shot or, maybe taking taking a page out of Anthropic's book, OpenAI has introduced projects in ChatGPT for, well, just better file organization and some new features. So OpenAI has launched projects in ChatGPT, a feature that allows users to organize files and conversations similar to, well, anthropic clods projects and also similarly ish, to Google's NotebookLM. So right now, this is initially available to ChatGPT plus pro and Teams subscribers. This feature enables users to create folders, customize project settings, and upload documents. This has been one of the lowest pieces of hanging fruit, I guess, right, for, since ChatGPT came out. Right? So many people are like, it's hard to organize everything. Right? Why can't we have folders? Well, you finally have folders, with projects, but it's a little bit more than that, because you can also upload documents that are shared between all the different chats. So again, if you've used projects inside of Claude Anthropic and or or Anthropics Claude, it's the same thing.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:05]:
Right? So think of it like this. You can have a project and you could, let's say, upload 5 documents inside of that project, and then you can create new chats, separate chats that all live within there that share, access to those documents as well. So, I'm sure there's gonna be updates, to projects in the future. And right now, unfortunately, at least as of, like 8, 9 hours ago, the new o one model, you cannot put those chats or work with those chats inside projects. Also, good to know, you can move old chats into new projects. Alright. So, you can kind of right click or option click on your chats on the left hand side and add them to a new project. So very useful.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:50]:
It's a feature that, honestly, I'm surprised that you took this took this long, but I'm glad it's out. Yes. Miriam, from LinkedIn says thanks thank goodness for projects. We can tidy those chats up. Yes. But, also, you can upload. It's it's it's it's not, you know, you know, kinda like what doctor Harvey is is saying here, you you know, saying this is kinda like mini rag. It it's kind of.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:13]:
Right? It it is, a way to bring your companies or your, 1st party, 1st company, your data into ChatGPT and to work with that first. I have been doing some testing, and so far, actually, it seems like project does this, document retrieval process actually a little bit better than custom GPTs. So there's still huge benefits to custom GPTs. We'll save that for another day. Alright. Next piece of OpenAI news, probably the smallest one of the week, but actually it should have been huge, but we've just heard about this for so long. Apple Intelligence. So, yeah, chat g OpenAI and Apple got super official, with the release of Apple Intelligence powered by ChatGPT.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:00]:
So Apple has rolled out a significant update to its Apple Intelligence platform focusing on AI powered everything. So essentially now it has access to ChatGPT. Siri is hopefully a little smarter. So this new ChatGPT integration works on the newest operating system. So that's iOS 18.2. Or if you are on a Mac, that's Mac 15.2. So the update introduces a ChatGPT integration with Siri, which is kind of funny. Right? Siri has always been our AI assistant, but hasn't been very smart.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:33]:
Now Siri has an AI assistant. Because essentially when you give a query to Siri and Siri doesn't know, Siri just like says, yo, ChatGPT, can you help me out with this? That's literally what happens for complex queries. Siri slash Apple Intelligence just essentially calls on ChatGPT. Right? And there are settings within, Apple's new updates where you can kind of have that process go automatically. Otherwise, it will prompt you. Yeah. Funny. Right? You're giving a query to what is supposed to be a smart Siri, and instead, Siri prompts you to use another AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:06]:
So meta, and I'm not talking about the company. So like I said, users can now prompt Siri to use ChatGPT to answer complex queries and improve productivity across iPhones, iPad, and Mac devices. So yeah. And then, you know, all the new writing tools are out, which I don't know. All the Apple intelligent stuff to me, it's a big fat meh. You know, it's a it's it's a nothing burger. This is all stuff that we had through other tools pre ChatGPT. Right? We've had a lot of access to what we now have access to in Apple Intelligence aside from some of the new stuff that I think is marketing at best.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:42]:
Right? Like, oh, AI Genmoji. I I don't care. I don't need to send custom emojis. I'm already bad enough at texting. So yeah. Interesting. What do you all think? Yeah. Jack love what Jackie here says.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:56]:
She says, Siri Siri is the middle man. Yeah. Siri is the middle man or, middle woman now. Just, you know, passing off all our queries, to, to ChatGPT. That's funny. Alright. Now we're technically pivoting away from we got through OpenAI news. Now let's get to non OpenAI, non Google news.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:18]:
So there may be a cheaper iPhone that can handle Apple intelligence. So according to reports, the upcoming iPhone SE 4 is set to include Apple Intelligence, leveraging Apple's a 18 chip to bring advanced AI features to Apple's budget smartphone. So here's why this is pretty important. Well, right now, if you want a lot of these new Apple intelligence features on your iPhone, you have to have one of the most powerful iPhones. You have to have, an iPhone 15 Pro or higher. And in most cases, that's more than $1,000. So Apple has, for many years, had a kind of budget version of its iPhone called the SE, which I believe is that standard edition? Does anyone out there know? I think it's standard edition. Anyways, now this rumored new app, iPhone SE 4, may have the, essentially, the chip required to run Apple Intelligence.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:15]:
So reports are saying that the phone could be, either between 499 and 599. So, essentially, if you do care about having Apple Intelligence, but you don't wanna pay, you know, somewhere between a 1000 to, you know, 1500, 1800 if you want one with a lot of storage, there's a budget option. So pretty pretty cool there. And I do think that that is actually going to move, move the needle. Alright. Moving on. Can we unplug AI? I don't know. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says it's not too late.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:50]:
So in a recent interview, the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has raised concerns about AI systems that can self improve, suggesting it might be necessary to quote, unquote unplug them once they reach this level, the level of being able to self improve. So that's according, to an interview that he was on in ABC's this week. So as the AI field rapidly evolves, Schmidt highlighted the unprecedented scale of innovation, warning of the possible unforeseen dangers and the need to careful carefully manage AI. He emphasized the importance of America leading the global AI race, particularly against China, and suggests building a secondary AI system to monitor the first AI system for safety. Yeah. What happens when AI goes rogue? Well, you gotta create another AI that is supposed to keep the AI from going rogue. Right? So he also predicted that AI systems capable of independent decision making could emerge within 2 to 4 years. Right? These are things that 10 years ago, people said were 50 years away.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:58]:
The ability for AI to self improve, self heal, essentially, when the next version of AI is built by AI. So someone that knows a thing or a million, the former Google CEO said that that could be 2 to 4 years away. Alright. Well, here's another thing that is really changing in the AI space. Klarna is making news again for not hiring humans and instead giving all of the human work to AI. So Klarna's CEO, whose name I'm definitely not gonna get right, Sebastian Simiatowski. I didn't get that right. I'm sorry, Sebastian.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:39]:
So we'll just say Sebastian. So, Sebastian, said that the company in an interview has reduced its workforce from 4,500 to 3,500 over the past year. So, essentially, what's happening is he said Sebastian said, well, there's natural attrition at any company, including Klarna. And instead of hiring 20% of its workforce, so he said in general, maybe about 20%, you you know, you might have to rehire year over year. Instead, Sebastian says, ah, we're just not hiring people anymore. When people leave or when they retire, or when we maybe, terminate, their, contract or their, their position, we just don't rehire anymore. So they're down. And y'all, going from 4,500 to 3,500, that's a big drop off.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:27]:
So despite the CEO's assertion that AI can replace human jobs, Klarna is still at least posting for, over 50 roles right now. So indicating that there is still some reliance whether they're actually hiring for those or not. We're not sure. So Klarna's hiring activity is mostly focused on backfilling essential positions in engineering rather than expanding its workforce. So as Klarna prepares for a potential IPO, the company is showcasing its AI integration to appeal to investors, though broader AI adoption remains gradual across industries. So, yeah, Klarna was one of the bigger companies, earlier this year that essentially said, nah, we're just giving all or as many human roles over to AI as possible. So Klarna was one of the big, you could say, AI case studies of just essentially, unabashedly handing over human roles, being like, nope. Nope.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:22]:
We're not hiring humans anymore. We're just giving all these human roles over to AI. So, it it should be interesting to see. Number 1, if Klarna does IPO, are they gonna hire more people? Right? Are they gonna continue to reduce their workforce and rely more on AI? Well, time will tell. More big price tags. Right? If you thought that $200, ChatGPT Pro price tag was a lot, well, how about Devin, from Cognition, which is now available for $500 a month per user? So, Devon is an AI, 2 04 engineering teams. It is now generally available at $500 a month, offering no seat limits and integrations with Slack, different IDEs, and APIs. So, essentially, if you haven't heard of Cognition's dev in, what they're really, kind of positioning it as, well, it's a junior developer.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:28]:
Alright? So I think there's so many great tools out there. Right? You gotta tip your hat. Claude is great at coding. You have GitHub Copilot. Now you have 01, right, from OpenAI. You have all these large language models that are great at individual coding tasks. So Devon aims to be a little different. It's more of like, hey, you don't have to keep prompting.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:49]:
Just give, you know, give your files, give your commands, come back later, it'll be done kind of thing. So, it it kind of grabbed a lot of headlines when it was first teased many months ago, so now it is generally available. So a lot of companies have been wanting to get their hands, on Devon from Cognition, but they haven't. Now you can. So recommended uses include handling small front end bugs, creating first draft press releases, and making targeted code refactors, enhancing workflow efficiency. So Devon has successfully assisted in real world scenarios like result resolving issues in open source projects, adding features to libraries, and fixing bugs in various repositories. I don't know. Any any people in software development out there, I would love to hear directly from you all.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:39]:
Is this is Devon? Is it shaking up your industry? Right? If you are in software development, if you're a software engineer, if you're a coder, web developer, etcetera, I don't know. Is Devon something you're excited to? Is it kinda like Klarna in the dark? Right? Are you like, this thing's gonna maybe take my job or I'm only gonna be using, Devon? Yeah. Let me know. Super curious. Yeah. Doctor Harvey was saying my business partner was telling me, about Devon AI. Tara saying, I wonder how it compares to Replit. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:11]:
Replit's got a great, AI agent. I mean, there's so many now in this space. You have, Windsurf, which is another, newer, kind of a tool. You have Cursor. I mean, there's so many great kind of AI coding tools now that essentially connect right to your database. So it's no longer you have to copy and paste 2 ways. Right? Copy the code into a large language model, work with it, go back and forth, copy that code out, put it back into your, repository, into your, software development stack. No.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:39]:
It just connects directly now. So, should be should be pretty, one worth keeping an eye on there. Alright. Microsoft very quietly unveiled PHY 4. So that's p h I 4 in case you're looking it up. A new language model, a small one. So Microsoft Research introduced FIFO, a 14,000,000,000 parameter language model designed for efficient reasoning task offering a competitive edge over even larger models on certain benchmarks. So, yes, this mini, mini model.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:14]:
Right, a 14,000,000,000 parameter model is out punching GPT 4 0, LAMA 3 in certain benchmarks, like math. Alright. So just for reference, GPT 4 0 is, reportedly 1.8 trillion parameters. So this, 14,000,000,000 parameter, that is a fraction. That is like 1% of the size, and it's already out punching. This is where AI is going. I've been saying this for a long time. Small models.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:45]:
I do think the future, we are gonna be working with 100 of specialized small models. We're not gonna be working with the jumbo model, or I think all that jumbo model is really gonna do is it's gonna handle, some general task, but eventually, it's just gonna pass your query on. I think these jumbo models are gonna have, 100 or thousands of smaller models housed within them that are built for specialized tasks. So 54 utilizes high quality synthetic data. So going, over the trend, like meta using synthetic data or AI generated data, to help create it. So the model's post training refinement includes direct preference optimization, enhances output accuracy and usability, making it practical for real world applications. So like I said, 54 excels in benchmarks, like GPQA, math and human eval, showing its advanced problem solving capabilities and validating its utility in real world math competitions. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:46]:
I gotta take a sip of the coffee because here we go. We are done with the OpenAI news. We are done with the biggest news that is not OpenAI and not Google. And now we are officially on to the Google portion, y'all. So OpenAI, I think, did a great job. Right? They have this, you know, 12 days of OpenAI. So we are 7 days in. We have 5 days left to go.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:15]:
Google didn't really create any marketing, any messaging, seemingly any real strategy around what was dropping. So their head of, development, Logan Kilpatrick, I tweeted at him, like, 2 weeks ago, and he essentially said, yo, we're gonna be releasing so many new updates in in in the coming weeks. I didn't really think of it. I'd like, I didn't think of anything. Right? Because the first, kind of week of OpenAI's or the first couple of days, right, we didn't hear anything from Google. And then the middle of last week, Google went bananas, b a n a n a s. Like, they went wild. And I will say this.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:59]:
A lot of the stuff with that Google quote unquote released, it's not released. So in typical Google fashion, we got some great stuff, and then we got some, you you know, some, some teases, some updates. So, I think OpenAI brought us more things that we can use today. Google, though, had, I think, their best 3 days in the last 3 years. Alright. Let's go over it very quickly because we got a lot. Alright. So first, Gemini 2 point o, big jump.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:36]:
And Google is entering what it calls the agentic area. So Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 2 point o, a highly advanced AI model designed for the evolving, quote, unquote, agentic area, offering significant enhancements in multimodal capabilities, including native image and audio output. So the new model that's being, released initially is the Gemini 2.0 Flash. So we don't have the big boy. We don't have Gemini 2.0 Pro. We don't have Gemini 2.0 Ultra. We have Flash, which is supposed to be the cheap, fast model. And guess what? It is already outbenching the big boy 1.5.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:14]:
So even though it is a Flash model, which is supposed to be similar to OpenAI's, mini models, right, you think of it as, not very powerful. It's just the fast to cheap version that's great for API use. No. This thing is a banger. Alright. So the new model, Gemini 2.0, is also being used across all of its new products. So we're gonna talk about a couple of these or most of these, but like Project Astra, Project Mariner, and Jules. So Jules is essentially a new AI coding tool.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:45]:
We're not gonna get too much into that today. But big news there, we do have Gemini 2 point o, at least the Flash version version. So what I would assume in the coming months, that we're going to see, the Gemini 2.0 across the pro or the ultra, as do all companies, Gemini, Google does have, some unnamed new models that are being tested out in the wild, on the, LMS arena chatbot leaderboard. So, we're gonna have more than just Flash pretty soon. Yeah. Thank you. Tara got my Gwen Stefani reference. I don't know if I aged myself.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:24]:
I don't know if anyone else got that. It was accidental. I promise. When I'm making these random, cheesy quips, they're not planned. I'm just a dork. Alright. Next. Well, if you are a dork, you're gonna like this from Google.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:37]:
They launched agent space for enterprise AI solutions. So Google Cloud has introduced Google Agent Space, a multimodal search agent aimed at enhancing enterprise operations by integrating advanced AI reasoning and search capabilities. That was a mouthful. So this platform allows businesses to create a company branded search agent. Right? This is wild. Alright. Providing conversational assistance and proactive support through integration with tools like Google Drive, Confluence, and Microsoft SharePoint. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:12]:
You can even, work with your Microsoft tools over there, in agent space. So employees can access AI agents and use low code tools to build custom expert agents with embedded features such as Gemini for advanced reasoning and integration with image and video generation tools. So not everyone can get it. Right? Yeah. Google. Here we go. Typical Google go to market. I'm not a fan.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:37]:
I think OpenAI is crushing it and go to market. Aside, you know, I think the left a little bit to be desired, the advanced voice mode with video, right, having to wait multiple months. But everything else, you know, OpenAI go to market, great. Claude just ships. They don't even really bring much marketing around it. Right? But if you want this agent space from Google, sorry. You can sign up right now for early access. Are you gonna get it? Probably not.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:03]:
But, you can go at least sign up. Who knows? Maybe, maybe you're already in Google's good graces. I know, Google does have their kind of trusted tester, program for individuals, and I think they have something similar for enterprise organizations. So who who knows? You may be able to go get it right now, and we'll see over time, if this is kind of a, one to 1 competitor with Microsoft, Microsoft 365 Copilot's Copilot Studio. It does look like that's what it is, but we don't really have any, great information on this right now because so few people have this. Right? I'm trying to see a bunch of reviews about agent space, and there's nothing out there. So I don't know if, you know, 2 companies have access to this, if, 200,000 companies have access, but you can go at least in in Google fashion, you can go put your name on a wait list. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:55]:
Speaking of wait list, there's updates to project Astra, but it's still not available. Alright. So, Google did showcase some new updates to project Astra. It's advanced AI assistant that offers a glimpse into how AI can assist in navigating the physical world. So, Astra, well, let me just say it in basic terms. You're gonna probably, in the end, want you will be wearing glasses. Are glasses coming back again? I don't know. Well, Google, Meta, everyone else, they're really going all in on these glasses, even though the Google glasses of I don't know what that was 10 years ago.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:36]:
Didn't really work. Right? But, essentially, Google showcased, some updates to Project Astra, which think of it as a live Gemini. Right? But it can see what you see. So, at its IO conference, Google first demoed it mainly with the app, with the, the Google Gemini app. So if you are one of Google's few trusted testers, you'll have access to that, which not many people are. And I do believe it does require a new, Google smartphone, from Samsung as well. But for everyone else, you can still go get on a wait list. But think of it like this.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:12]:
It looks like what Google is trying to do here is bring the glasses back. I don't know if glasses are the form factor of AI. I think for limited use cases, great. My wife actually just got me the, the the Meta glasses. I've been so busy. I haven't even been able to try them out yet. I think for certain spurts, they're great. But I don't know.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:33]:
I don't know what these these Google ones. Right? The way that they're kind of, marketing them is, oh, you should be wearing them all day. Right? Because they can they can navigate you. You can have, like, you know, essentially, you know, projecting things onto the screen of these glasses. So I don't know how realistic that is. Right? And these are a little heavier. Right? The thing I like about the the Meta Ray Bans, they look just kinda like Ray Bans. Right? They don't look like these big fat thick things.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:00]:
Right? A lot of these newer, quote unquote, smart glasses, the ones from Meta as well, the other ones, not the Ray Ban collaborations. They're, I I I think that one's the Orion. They're big, fat, thick things. So I don't know. I don't know if people are gonna wanna wear around these, you know, super thick, heavy glasses. I don't know. Tara says she wants them. Doctor Harvey says I think meta ARVR glasses is more of the future.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:27]:
We shall see. Speaking of glasses, well, these 2, Project Astra and Android XR kind of go hand in hand. Because when I'm talking about smart glasses, that's kind of where we're headed here. So Google, in collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm, announced Android XR, a new platform for extending reality devices, including both headsets and glasses. So, this brings the AI driven Gemini assistant, right, straight to your eyes, straight to your ears. And it is central to the Android XR platform, being able to understand user intent and assist with tasks such as planning and research through conversational interaction. So Android XR will debut first on headsets with Samsung's Project Muhan expected next year, offering immersive experiences like virtual big screens and, for various apps. The platform invites developers to utilize familiar tools for creating diverse XR experiences, aiming to build a robust ecosystem for new devices.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:30]:
So yeah. Obviously, Apple's Vision Pro, that thing flopped. Before it came out, I said this thing's gonna flop. I said this is gonna be the least successful Apple device ever, and it literally no one no one bought it. Right? There's reports that they're, you know, that they're, you know, now really, you know, slowing down production, and they might not be updating it as much as they originally thought because, who who would have thought? There's not a bunch of people with an extra $4 in their pocket that wanna wear a 20 pound headset on their head. So, I mean, we'll see what the Android XR is. Obviously, way cheaper. It looks way lighter.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:09]:
But again, I think maybe for certain people. Right? If you're working at home, maybe something like that could be great. But for out in the real world, I don't know. I'm not sold yet on wearing around, you know, an AR, XR mixed reality headset. Right? So what that is is, you know, it's a headset. You wear it, and it projects you know, you can see both what is happening in the real world, but then it has this mixed reality, this x r element to it. And then it brings in this conversational agent with Gemini. Couple more stories, and I'm saving the 3 biggest ones for last.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:48]:
Yeah. We're still on the Google segment. My gosh. I said they went all Gwen Stefani on us. So NotebookLM. Yes. One of my favorite tools. What I would say has to be in the running for AI tool of 2024.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:03]:
NotebookLM from Google, has some big updates that are rolling out. So the biggest one is a new paid tier. Right? So it's been free. Now there is a paid tier. So Google has launched NotebookLM Plus, enhancing its popular app with features aimed at enterprises, teams, and individuals who use the app's research tools extensively. So, I believe I did, I've been chatting a little bit on Twitter, with some of the team, there from Google's NotebookLM. And it seems like if you are already on the paid version of Google Gemini, that you will have access to this. So it does seem like it is both a personal premium plan, but also a team premium plan as well.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:54]:
So being able to share this with businesses, with or sorry, within your your team members. So, I I have obviously multiple, paid Gemini accounts, both on my personal Gmail and on my Google Workspace plan. I haven't seen this roll out yet. So, you know, who knows? It may be rolling out soon, but it does look like it's already being gradually released. The big feature that I'm really looking forward to is the updated audio feature. So essentially now, you can quote, unquote call in or buzz in. Right? So if you haven't used NotebookLM, it is a state of the art RAG model. Right? If you don't upload your data, you literally can't use it.
Jordan Wilson [00:38:31]:
Right? Which is really cool. I like that. I think more AI models should at least have an option to operate like that. But there's always been this, kind of deep dive podcast. Right? So you can, put in millions of words. Literally, you can put in millions words, millions of words of something you're trying to learn about your company's data, whatever. Click a one click audio overview, and it creates a cool personalized podcast, right, with 2 hosts that seem human esque. Right? So now, the last update about 2 months ago, you could customize or give instructions to the AI host.
Jordan Wilson [00:39:07]:
So now you can quote unquote call in, which looks like a groundbreaking feature for learning. Alright. So essentially, as you're listening to the deep dive, you can essentially interrupt them and ask a question. You can say, hey, What does this mean? Or, hey. Could you explain that a little more and maybe use a basketball reference on the fly? So, again, my brain hurts, and I thought about this a lot since it was announced. I don't think people are talking about this enough. I think this one little feature, this wasn't even the big update. Right? The big update here is now there's a pro plan, and you get 5 times the limits.
Jordan Wilson [00:39:46]:
That's great. Right? And you can share all this with your team. That's great. There's a new, you know, writing pane to create content, you know. So now it's going to this this 3 tier pane, which I think is really cool. So now it's also, turning into a content creation tool, and not just a learning tool that you can ask questions on. But I think this kind of call in, feature is one of the most exciting small features that everyone is overlooking. So don't sleep on that.
Jordan Wilson [00:40:16]:
Yes, Jackie. Now, hey, now the livestream audience is playing along with me. Jackie says call in, question mark. That's bananas. Yeah. Old school radio style. Alright. 2 more.
Jordan Wilson [00:40:30]:
And I think, again, I saved the best 3 for last. Next, don't don't worry about the headline here, livestream audience. This is Google's Project Mariner, a new AI agent navigating the web. So, this was previously codenamed Jarvis. We talked about it on the show a couple of times, but now this is, again, it's released to, quote, unquote, trusted users, which I think is, like, hardly no one, but it is starting to roll out. So Google's new Project Mariner is powered by Gemini 2.0, and it is an AI agent that performs Internet tasks through the Chrome browser. So it is a Chrome extension that just does things for you on the web. So very similar to Anthropic's computer use, which we demoed here on the show a couple of months ago.
Jordan Wilson [00:41:20]:
However, computer use, super buggy. It's very technical. You actually have to download and install multiple programs. Right? You have to download or, you you know, you have to grab a bunch of information off, off GitHub. So it's not for, nontechnical people. You have to be pretty technical to use Claude Anthropics or sorry, Anthropic Claude's, computer use. So Project Mariner, it's a Chrome extension. Right? And then you essentially say, yo, Mariner, go do a bunch of this stuff, and then it goes and does it.
Jordan Wilson [00:41:53]:
The big caveat here, though, or the big downside is it only works in your active Chrome tab. Okay? So, I mean, what this means is, I'm not sure if it's gonna be able to work with, like, as an example, split screen monitors. But once this comes out, I'm gonna be using it all the time because I have a bunch of extra computers, sitting around, lying, collecting dust. Right? So one of them, if if if you can only work with the active tabs, you can't really necessarily do a lot of other work, at least inside Google Chrome. Right? You can always open up Edge, which I like. Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromie, based on Chromium. But an AI assistant coming soon powered by Gemini 2.0 that can essentially just do whatever you tell it. Right? Go do this research.
Jordan Wilson [00:42:39]:
You you know, go to this website. Find the price on this. Right? Make sure these criteria are met, and it just does all that for you. Alright. Let's see. Do we just have one more? Oh, no. We have multiple. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:42:59]:
Deep Research. I didn't do a good job at updating my headlines today for our livestream graphics, but Google also announced Deep Research. And I'm telling you, y'all, this thing, perplexity, gosh, perplexity is on notice. Alright. So deep research is a new AI tool available to Gemini advanced subscribers, so the paid plan. It is designed to generate detailed reports by scouring the web for relevant information. So the tool uses Google's Gemini Bot to create a multistep research plan, allowing users to edit or approve the process as it finds and compiles key information from various sources. Then once the research is complete, users receive a report with key findings and links to original sources with the option to expand on specific areas or export the report to Google Docs.
Jordan Wilson [00:43:53]:
I use this the minute it came out. Not the minute, well, the minute I saw. I'm like, wait. This seems very much like perplexity. I went and used it. It is so much better than perplexity. Perplexity, I've talked about it very recently. It's gone downhill recently, I think.
Jordan Wilson [00:44:13]:
A lot more hallucinations. The quality, I think, has gone downhill, especially since they, now introduced the new shopping, feature. Right? So much of what I use perplexity for, it's comparing different products and services. Right? That's something I would generally go to a lot of different websites for. And now instead of doing that work, perplexity with its new shopping feature just shoves products down your throat, and it doesn't actually, always adhere to the prompt that you give it. Right? A lot of times I'm trying to use it to research 5 different products. You you know, make me a chart. You you know, show me the pros and the cons.
Jordan Wilson [00:44:48]:
Show me who's it's for, who's it's not for. And instead of doing that, perplexity now with this new shopping mode that is way too it it it just it it needs guardrails. Right? But it's essentially instead of answers, answering questions consistently, instead just shoves prod, products down your face. Right? But this new deep research y'all, I'm not kidding. I use this to help me research one of my shows last week. A single prompt inside again, you have to have the paid plan. It visited, alright, and I'm not exaggerating here, 169 websites. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:45:28]:
I gave it one prompt to do a bunch of research for me. It visited 169 websites. It took about 2 or 3 minutes. Can you can you guys imagine that? Right? We've been blown away, right right rightfully so. Perplexity, great. You know, perplexity might go anywhere from, you know, 6 to 20 websites. Chad GPT with the new GPT search, pretty good. You know, can handle 5 to 10 websites.
Jordan Wilson [00:45:58]:
This did a 169. Alright. Saving what I think might be the best for last. Google AI Studio has released, yes, released, no wait list, released real time vision and voice with its new multi, excuse me, multimodal live options. So Google AI Studio has introduced stream real time, allowing users to interact with Gemini via voice and vision, providing spoken responses and visual analysis of your screen or camera feeds. So this new feature positions Google ahead of competitors like OpenAI by offering a fully integrated vision enabled voice mode, enhancing user experience on both desktop and mobile platforms. So alongside this, AI Studio also launched some starter apps, including Map Explorer and Video Analyzer, showcasing the capabilities of the Gemini API and also available for exploration on GitHub. So, I played around with this a little bit over the weekend.
Jordan Wilson [00:47:10]:
Let me know if if if we should cover this, a little bit more. Without getting into a rant, this isn't available on Gemini. Right? I still don't understand. Luckily, Google Gemini on the front end finally got updated. Right? So you do have this deep research that I just talked about. Thank you for bringing that to Gemini. You have the Gemini now 2.0 Flash. But, previously, Gemini, really all it had was old models.
Jordan Wilson [00:47:35]:
Right? Google itself said that usually those models are between 3 to 9 months old, which in AI years is, like, so far behind. So most of Google's new, you you know, AI features and innovation, you have to go into Google AI Studio, not its front end Gemini chatbot. But I would encourage you to do this because all these things that we've been waiting for from OpenAI with, advanced voice mode, right, the ability to share your screen, the ability for it to interact with video, well, now Google AI Studio does this already. Right? So we don't even have it yet on desktop. I do think that that may be rolling out, this week or next for OpenAI's ChatGPT, advanced voice mode, but we have it now for Google. That's it, y'all. I can't even re recap these because we had, like, a 100 stories, but I hope this was helpful. If so, please click that repost button, share this with your friends.
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