5 big things in AI that happened this week: OpenAI announced new AI model, Google I/O 2024 revealed AI features, more
AI roundup: This week was big on AI-related announcements with OpenAI announcing a faster GPT-4o model during its “Sprint Updates” event. While the demo of the GPT-4o grabbed much attention, Google stepped one step further with several AI announcements. Google I/O event was hosted this year with CEO Sundar Pichai taking the stage during the first day. The company revealed a new upgraded Gemini 1.5 Pro, new Gemini 1.5 Flash, Project Astra, and much more.
On Monday, May 13, OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati announced the new flagship AI model, GPT-4o. The new AI model has several advanced capabilities such as voice, text, and image recognition and provides human-like conversation with emotions. GPT-4o is 2x faster, 50 percent cheaper and has five times higher rate limits than the current GPT-4 Turbo, according to the Press release.
Google hosted its Annual developer conference on May 14 with Sundar Pichai commencing the keynote on day 1. During the keynote, the company revealed several AI initiatives with the ability of Gemini 1.5 Pro. Additionally, the company announced Gemini for Workspace, Android, Photos, and several other services. Google also launched Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new lightweight AI model, and Project Aster with the future of virtual assistants.
OpenAI and Reddit announced that they will be collaborating to train artificial intelligence models with Reddit data. Reddit chief executive Steve Huffman said in a joint statement said, “Reddit has become one of the internet's largest open archives of authentic, relevant, and always up to date human conversations about anything and everything. Including it in ChatGPT upholds our belief in a connected internet, helps people find more of what they're looking for, and helps new audiences find community on Reddit,” according to an AFP report.
NASA announced David Salvagnini as NASA's first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. Earlier, Salvagnini worked as chief data officer at the space agency, and now his roles have been
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