OpenAI is reportedly poaching Google's top AI researchers with $10m/year packages.
Plus, huge AI developments from Hollywood, GPTs/GPT-4, Runway, a new ChatGPT report, and 10 new AI tools.
Here's the rundown of everything going on in AI right now:
Reportedly, OpenAI's recruiters are luring talent at Google working Gemini.
OpenAI is enticing researchers to join them with massive packages at $10m/year.
While no doubt there's an AI race for LLMs, there is also a war being fought for the top AI worker talent.
The SAG-AFTRA actors (Hollywood) strike has finally ended.
The 118-day strike was the longest in Hollywood history, halting many productions.
The final deal concedes some restrictions and payments around AI model use.
Over the weekend, GPTs have gained extreme traction.
My team and I built a directory to track all of the best GPTs in one spot.
Since then, we've become the hub for GPTs, receiving 500+ submissions:
Link:
supertools.therundown.ai/gpts
Sam Altman tweeted that the upgraded GPT-4 Turbo model is now live, and should be ‘a lot better’ than the previous models.
The upgrade comes after an interesting week of outages and degraded performance after reported DDoS attacks from hacker groups.
AI video platform Runway introduced an impressive update called ‘motion brush’.
The new tool is coming to its Gen-2 product that allows for more intuitive movement control within outputs.
A new report by Financial Times shows AI tools like ChatGPT are transforming knowledge work.
Interestingly, low-performing employees are seeing the biggest benefit.
The key for workers — becoming "cyborgs" and "centaurs," meshing AI into workflows vs handing off tasks.
10 new AI tools.
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That's it for today's news in the world of AI.
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