Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft, Figure, Cognition, GM, Midjourney, Tesla, Replit, and Meta.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI officially launched Sora, the startup's high-quality AI video generation model

ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers can access through sora .com

It also comes with several new editing features like Remix, Storyboard, Blend, Loop, and Style presets

What a week for AI and Robotics.

As usual, I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Amazon, Microsoft AI, Tencent, ElevenLabs, Meta, xAI, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI announced the immediate launch of their latest o1 and o1 pro reasoning models on day 1 of 'shipmas'

They also introduced a new $200/month Pro tier with unlimited access to their existing model fleet and 01-pro

Last year, I started an AI security company called Cover

Our AI hardware detects guns underneath clothes and bags

And I’m currently funding $10M into it

Here’s why this technology is critical and a 12-month update: @cover_thz Company Overview:

Cover is designing concealed weapon detection imaging scanners, similar to airport scanners, but with 10x higher frequencies and up to 4-meter stand-off distances

It’s as safe for human bodies as home Wi-Fi

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Anthropic, Amazon, Luma, Runway, Tesla, Neuralink, dev/agents, Nvidia, Zoom, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Anthropic released Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI systems to external tools + data

The system includes pre-built connectors for popular platforms, allowing for access to multiple sources through a unified protocol

A ton of great progress made in AI and Robotics this week.

So I summarized everything announced by Microsoft, Figure, H Company, OpenAI, Perplexity, MIT, Arc Research, Mistral, and Google.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Microsoft introduced a suite of new specialized AI agents for Microsoft 365 at its annual Ignite Conference

New agents include a Self-Service agent for HR / IT tasks, a SharePoint agent for document search and insights, a meeting note taker, and a few more

https://x.com/Microsoft/status/1859680156052312318/video/1

UPDATE: Figure x BMW

Figure 02 is now an autonomous fleet, 400% faster with 7x higher success rate

We’re committed to delivering millions of useful robots to companies and homes worldwide

Details in thread: As background, we unveiled Figure 02 robot ~3 months ago

F.02 robot is our 2nd generation humanoid robot which is designed for commercial customers and the home

Humanoid robots in everyday life will make it feel like living 30yrs in the future

Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Stanford, Anthropic, Figure, John Hopkins, DEEP Robotics, Stripe, Nous, Google, MIT, NVIDIA, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: ChatGPT can now access some desktop apps

OpenAI released desktop app integration for ChatGPT on macOS, allowing Plus and Team users to connect with VS Code, Xcode and Terminal apps

Enterprise and Education users will get access in the coming weeks

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Nvidia, XPENG, OpenAI, Hume, CMU Robotics, Microsoft, Anthropic, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Nvidia unveiled new updates to Project GR00T, it's comprehensive humanoid robot development suite

It includes environment generation with 2,500+ 3D assets, motion learning, and advanced dexterity training

All trained in sim, deployable to real robots

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from Etched, Runway, Figure, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Boston Dynamics, ElevenLabs, Osmo, Physical Intelligence, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Etched and DecartAI introduced Oasis, which is the first playable fully AI-generated game (Minecraft)

They built a real-time, interactive world model and open-sourced the architecture, weights, and research

Most of the internet will be AI-generated soon

https://x.com/Etched/status/1852089772329869436

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Anthropic, Ideogram, Figure, Genmo, Runway, Microsoft, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, UCLA, Apple, Clone Robotics, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Anthropic announced Claude can now use computers through direct screen interaction (in public beta)

The AI model can move cursors, click, and type by analyzing screenshots - reaching 14.9% on OSWorld benchmarks, double the next-best AI model

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from Archetype AI, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamic, Toyota Research, Google, Adobe, OpenAI, Mistral, Tesla, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Archetype AI published a new paper demonstrating how an AI model can encode and predict physical behaviours.

Newton, the startup's ‘Large Behavior Model’, can learn complex physics principles directly from raw sensor data, without any human guidance.

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Meta, Harvard, Engineered Arts, Tesla, Leju Robotics, OpenAI, Zoom, Agility Robotics, and Amazon.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Meta unveiled Movie Gen, calling it the "most advanced media foundation models to to-date."

Movie Gen Video generates high-quality images and videos from text.

Movie Gen Audio adds high-fidelity audio synced to the video.

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from OpenAI, Serve Robotics, Meta, Microsoft, AtomLimbs, MIT, Liquid AI, EPFL, Luma, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI introduced Canvas, a new way to collaborate with ChatGPT.

It allows users to give inline feedback and change specific sections in ChatGPT.

This will be helpful for writers, developers, and new ChatGPT users. Seen lots of cool use cases already.

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Tencent, Stability AI, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI rolled out an enhanced Advanced Voice Mode to all ChatGPT Plus and Teams subscribers this week

Recommend trying if you haven't yet

They added Custom Instructions, Memory, and five new 'nature-inspired' voices

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from Microsoft, Pudu Robotics, Slack, Groq, Blackrock, Disney Research, Snap, 1X tech, OpenAI, and World Labs.

Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it: Microsoft introduced agents coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot

The agents, inspired by GPTs, work in Teams, Windows, Edge, Word, SharePoint, or a website

It's becoming increasingly clear agents are the future of boring tech work

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Apple, Google DeepMind, Adobe, The White House, Mistral, Tencent, Runway, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI officially released ‘o1’, also known as Project Strawberry/Q*, smashing reasoning benchmarks

It uses reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought to "think" before responding

The way we prompt this model will be completely different than GPT-4

A ton of AI and Robotics developments this week.

Big announcements from Altera, Replit, Waeve Robotics, TIME, Google DeepMind, SSI, Anthropic, and PNDbotics.

Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it: Altera's Project Sid created the first simulation of 1,000 fully autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world (Minecraft)

Without human intervention, the AI agents built economies, cultures, governments, and religions

Really interesting work

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from Deep Robotics, 1x NEO, Google DeepMind, Cerebras, Anthropic, Magic, Alibaba, and xAI.

Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it: Deep Robotics trained one of their X30 robot dogs to be 'shy' of humans and objects

The robot can recognize and detect suddenly approaching objects and autonomously avoid them

Good idea for testing stability and recovery

A ton of AI and Robotics developments this week.

Big announcements from AGIBOT, Unitree, Disney, ETH Zurich, UC San Diego, Salesforce, Luma Labs, Neuralink, Ideogram, Midjourney, Amazon, AI21 Labs, and Nvidia.

Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it: China-based robotics startup AGIBOT revealed 5 new humanoid robots with open-source plans

Each robot is designed for a separate set of tasks, from household chores to industrial operations

This startup has moved fast in the last 18 months

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Apple, Astribot, Sakana AI, xAI, Nous Research, and Cosine.

Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it: Google launched Gemini Live, a mobile conversational AI with voice capabilities, and 10 voices

It's available to Gemini Advanced users on Android, but the multimodal capabilities are rolling out later

This is their answer to OpenAI's Advanced Voice

A ton of AI and Robotics developments this week.

Big announcements from Figure, Google DeepMind, Boston Dynamics, OpenAI, Alibaba, and more.

Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it: We revealed our new humanoid, Figure 02, working autonomously at BMW Group's Plant Spartanburg

In just 18 months, Figure has built the most advanced humanoid on the planet

In case you missed it, I went in depth in this thread:

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1820792697315348640