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Jelani Abdus-Salaam
December 09, 2024

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Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today

  • 🧠 AI On My Mind

  • 🤖 Grok is Now Free

  • ✨ SORA Sneak Peek

  • 📰 News Hot Off The Press

  • 💰️ Newly Added AI Tools

AI ON MY MIND

Happy Monday!

Over the weekend Donald Trump announced David Sacks, The All In Podcast host and venture capitalist, as the incoming Crypto and AI Czar.

Here’s what that means":

“In this important role, David will guide policy for the Administration in Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency, two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness. David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas. He will safeguard Free Speech online, and steer us away from Big Tech bias and censorship. He will work on a legal framework so the Crypto industry has the clarity it has been asking for, and can thrive in the U.S.”

It’s interesting to say the least and think we have some exciting times ahead of us.

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

💻 Grok AI Is Now Free

X (formerly Twitter) has made its Grok AI chatbot freely available to all Premium+ subscribers, marking a significant expansion from its previous limited release to Premium+ subscribers who also followed Elon Musk.

  • Grok is positioned as a more casual and humorous AI assistant, designed to provide "spicy" responses and wit in conversations

  • The chatbot is developed by xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company, and aims to compete with other AI models like ChatGPT

  • Access requires a Premium+ subscription to X, which costs $16 per month.

🌃 X Launches Aurora

X has launched Aurora, a new photorealistic image generator integrated into its Grok AI assistant, featuring minimal content restrictions and the ability to generate high-quality images of public figures and copyrighted characters13. The tool appeared briefly on Saturday before being pulled back, with Elon Musk confirming it's still in beta testing and will improve rapidly.

  • Aurora produces more photorealistic outputs compared to its predecessor Flux, though it still shows typical AI artifacts like unusual hand proportions and uncanny skin textures.

  • Free users can generate up to 3 images per day, while the tool maintains few creative limitations except for nude content.

  • The release coincides with xAI's $6 billion funding round and plans for a standalone Grok app.

💸 OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Pro, a premium $200 monthly subscription that offers unlimited access to all models, including their advanced o1 reasoning model which can fact-check itself and reduce major errors by 34%.

The new subscription includes exclusive access to o1 pro mode, which delivers more accurate responses for complex tasks and shows a 75% reduction in errors for coding questions.

Despite the steep price tag being 10x higher than ChatGPT Plus, subscribers get unlimited access to GPT-4o, Advanced Voice Mode, and enhanced reasoning capabilities.

  • The o1 reasoning model is now capable of processing image uploads and has been trained to be more concise while maintaining accuracy.

  • OpenAI is launching a grant program offering 10 ChatGPT Pro subscriptions to medical researchers, with plans to expand to other disciplines.

  • The company faces significant financial pressure, with expected losses of $5 billion this year despite monthly revenue reaching $300 million in August.

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OTHER NEWS YOU MAY LIKE

Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model (link)

Amazon isn't seeing enough demand for AMD's AI chips to offer them via its cloud (link)

OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model (link)

David Sacks is Trump’s AI and crypto ‘czar’ (link)

Salesforce to hire more than 1,000 workers to boost AI product sales (link)

Google’s DeepMind tackles weather forecasting, with great performance (link)

OpenAI’s Sam Altman ‘not that worried’ about rival Elon Musk’s influence in the Trump administration (link)

Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, an AI that Generates Playable 3D Worlds (link)

ChatGPT now has over 300 million weekly users (link)

AI On Social

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NEW TOOLS FROM OUR DATABASE

AI Christmas Photo -  The tool works by allowing users to upload a few selfies, following which, the artificial intelligence technology, developed by Meta and Microsoft AI researchers, generates Christmas-themed photographs.

Zipy for Mobile - a powerful debugging tool designed to enhance mobile app performance and expedite bug fixes.

Wellcode CLI - a free, open-source command-line interface tool designed to deliver engineering metrics. 

FoodiePrep - an AI-powered meal planning and recipe curation tool aimed at streamlining the culinary process.

Pointer . integrates ChatGPT within Google Docs, designed to streamline your document editing process by automating edits without disrupting the original document formatting.

floatz - an AI-powered tool designed for scientific research. It allows users, particularly students, researchers, and professionals, to search, analyze and summarize scientific papers to aid in their work.

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