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OpenAI just shocked the AI world with ‘o1’, its new AI model that "thinks" before responding — and it outperforms humans on PhD-level science questions.

But how does it stack up against GPT-4o, what real-world breakthroughs could it unlock, and how can you access it? Let’s get into it…

In today’s issue:

• Is EVI 2 a worthy Voice Mode substitute?

• Frontier: EU AI leader’s first multimodal model

• Tutorial: Devising a business strategy with AI

• AI-Generated Images

• 6 new AI tools & Tools on sale

• New AI Job Opportunities

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

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A new voice bot can detect your emotions in real-time

Those of us still waiting to try ChatGPT’s much-anticipated Voice Mode just got something to tide us over. The “empathic AI research lab” Hume has released EVI 2 (short for empathic voice interface) — a voice-to-voice model that can supposedly detect your emotions and respond accordingly. 

We spent some time chatting with EVI’s characters, who each have a unique voice and personality: The platform struggled to keep up with lengthy conversations, giving relatively simple responses and sometimes veering off-topic. Plus, there are some awkward silences as the AI formulates each of its replies. 

But it’s leaps and bounds ahead of traditional chatbots: 

• Each voice sounds genuinely life-like, offering a much deeper level of immersion than you’d find with Siri or Alexa

• It’s one thing to watch an LLM generate a personalized poem via text — but another thing entirely to hear that poem read aloud in an accent and tone of your choice

• Also, as promised, it’s pretty good at detecting the emotions hidden in your voice and mirroring them in its own responses

What EVI 2 lacks in precision, it makes up for in accessibility: Experimenting with it is about as easy as hopping on a Zoom call. You navigate to the app, choose a character, and click “start call.” Then, you can turn on your mic and start chatting as you would during any other video call. 

What’s next? A larger model is coming within weeks. Eventually, you’ll be able to create your own characters inside the app, too.

FROM THE FRONTIER

Europe’s AI leader releases its first multimodal model

Developers are working on LLMs that can seamlessly move between text and images, unlocking new capabilities. This mirrors how humans think — by integrating all of our senses to form a cohesive picture of the world. 

Paris-based Mistral just joined the party with its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B: 

• It’s competitive with rivals like GPT-4o while coming in a smaller form factor

• It’s open-source for non-commercial uses: Researchers can use it to carry out experiments or build apps

• It can spot how many times an item appears in a set of images, write photo captions, or generate charts that combine images and text

• It could soon be used for more complex tasks, like integrating symptom databases, medical scans, and patient records to help diagnose patients

THE AI ACADEMY

How to do SWOT analysis with Mapify

Go to Mapify and log in to get credits.

• Now go to New Map and select the sample prompt option on top.

• Write your prompt for the SWOT analysis and click on the Mapify button at the bottom.

Sample Prompt: ‘SWOT analysis for [insert your business idea]’

• It will generate a detailed SWOT analysis for you.

• Once done, you can edit it, change its format, and try further prompts to get the required results.

Sample Prompt: ‘How can [insert business idea] maximize its competitive advantages?’

You can use Mapify to brainstorm ideas, make outlines, plan projects, develop strategies, explain concepts, analyze topics, create timelines, and more.

Prompt of today

Prompts:

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New AI Job Opportunities

• 💻 Deepmind - Full-Stack Engineer, Data

• 👁️ Meta - Computer Vision Engineer, Reality Labs

• ☁️ Faculty - Cloud Engineer

• 🤝 Glean - NAM Partner Manager

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AI around the world

• Access Granted: Anthropic has released a “Workspaces” feature that will let businesses set custom rate limits and manage their API usage with more precision.

• Cloud Conquest: In a bid to expand its cloud services, Amazon will invest $10.5B to AI infrastructure projects in the UK over the next five years.

• Audio Oracle: YouTube is officially dubbing its new AI radio feature “Ask Music.” A beta version is expected to roll out to Premium members over the next few weeks.

• Bend, Don’t Break: Chinese tech company Huawei just unveiled what might be the world’s first tri-foldable smartphone.

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