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 Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The race to AGI just got a deadline, and it's a lot sooner than anyone expected.

OpenAI's Sam Altman is now betting on 2025 for the big milestone — but will rumors of scaling challenges force him to eat his words? Let’s get into it…

In today’s issue:

• Altman predicts AGI in 2025

• The Beatles make AI history with Grammy noms

• Extract insights from any technical PDF

• MIT's AI trains robot dogs in virtual worlds

• 5 new AI tools & Tools on sale

• New AI Job Opportunities

Read time: 4 minutes

OPENAI

📈 Altman predicts AGI in 2025

The Rundown: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just predicted that artificial general intelligence will be achieved in 2025, coming alongside conflicting reports of slowing progress in LLM development and scaling across the industry.

The details:

• In an interview with YC founder Gary Tan, Altman said the path to AGI is ‘basically clear’ and will require engineering, not new scientific breakthroughs.

• A new report revealed that the rumored ‘Orion’ model shows smaller improvement over GPT-4 than previous generations, especially in coding tasks.

• The company also reportedly formed a new "Foundations Team" to tackle fundamental challenges, such as the scarcity of high-quality training data.

• OpenAI researchers Noam Brown and Clive Chan backed Altman’s AGI confidence, believing the o1 reasoning model offers new scaling capabilities.

Why it matters: Altman’s prediction would mean a drastic leap in the company’s AGI scale (currently level 2 of 5) — but the CEO has remained consistent in his confidence. With OpenAI suddenly prioritizing o1 development, it makes sense that the reasoning model might have shown new potential to break through any scaling limits.

MUSIC & AI

🎵 The Beatles make AI history with Grammy noms

The Rundown: "Now and Then," The Beatles' AI-enhanced final song, released a year ago, just became the first AI-assisted track to receive Grammy nominations — marking a historical moment for AI's role in music production.

The details:

• The song earned nominations for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance, competing against artists like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.

• The track used AI "stem separation" technology to clean up and isolate John Lennon's vocals from a 1978 unreleased demo.

• The AI technique mirrors noise-canceling technology used in video calls, training models to identify and separate specific sounds.

• The nomination follows the Grammy’s 2023 denial of consideration to viral AI creator Ghostwriter due to the unauthorized use of vocals.

Why it matters: The Beatles have been pioneers throughout music history, so it’s only fitting that they help carry the baton into this new era of AI-assisted production and creation. The coming wave of song generation will be an even bigger shift, but this technique shows how artists can also use AI as a tool for preservation and restoration.

AI TRAINING

🎯 Extract insights from any technical PDF

The Rundown: Claude’s new visual document feature lets AI analyze and understand complex PDFs containing charts, diagrams, and graphics, transforming how we extract information from technical documents.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to Claude AI and enable "Visual PDFs" in your Feature Preview settings.

2. Upload your PDF containing charts, diagrams, or technical illustrations.

3. Ask specific questions about visual elements (e.g., "Explain the relationship shown in this diagram").

4. Combine visual analysis with text queries for comprehensive insights.

Pro tip: Frame your questions to specifically reference visual elements. This helps you get more precise and detailed answers about charts and diagrams.

AI RESEARCH

🐶 MIT's AI trains robot dogs in virtual worlds

The Rundown: MIT researchers unveiled an AI system called LucidSim that trains four-legged robots using generated imagery — achieving unprecedented real-world performance without ever seeing actual environments during training.

The details:

• LucidSim combines physics simulations with AI-generated scenes to create diverse training environments for robotic learning.

• Robots trained in LucidSim’s artificial environments completed complex tasks like obstacle navigation and ball chasing with up to 88% accuracy.

• The platform uses ChatGPT to auto-generate thousands of scene descriptions, creating varied training scenarios with different weather and lighting conditions.

• Traditional training methods relying solely on human demonstration achieved only 15% success rates on the same tasks.

Why it matters: A paradigm shift is underway in how advanced robots are trained. By eliminating the need for extensive real-world training data, systems like LucidSim could dramatically accelerate the development of more capable robots while also reducing the time and resources needed to deploy them in real-world settings.

Prompt of today

Prompts:

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Tools showcase

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New AI Job Opportunities

• 🚀 The Rundown - Head of Growth

• ☁️ Lambda - Engineering Manager, Cloud

• 🛠️ Coreweave - Principal Engineer

• 📊 Meta - Quality Data Analyst

• 🎨 Grammarly - Principal Product Designer

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AI around the world

❌ Content Moderation: Paris-based AI startup Mistral just released an open-source platform that uses AI to spot and flag harmful content across nine categories and 11 languages.

🎬 Movie Magic: TikTok parent company ByteDance released a platform that can use clips from iconic films like The Shining and Face/Off to turn still portraits into expressive animations.

📹 Pivot to Video: The Gemini-powered Vids app, which lets you use AI to easily create tutorials, training videos, and other types of media, is rolling out to most Workplace subscribers.

📞 Cyber Secretary: Pixel phones will soon be able to use AI for more sophisticated call replies, like confirming appointments on your behalf.

🎨 Paint by Numbers: In a world-first, a portrait of Alan Turing painted by “robot artist” Ai-Da went for over $1M at a Sotheby’s auction last week.

☕ Impeccable Taste: Singapore-based startup ProfilePrint unveiled an AI platform that can analyze the quality of different ingredients, including coffee beans, tea leaves, and even milk.

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