AI predicts weather weeks in advance

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While most industries are starting to wind down for the holiday season, AI startups are still firing on all cylinders. OpenAI just hinted at weeks of new announcements, while DeepMind showed off a pair of models that could reshape weather prediction and 3D modeling.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: ‘Shipmas’ season, AI browsers, and NotebookLM’s defectors

• Tutorial: How to bring characters to life with RenderNet

• DeepMind unveils two major models

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Looking to the Future

TODAY IN AI

1. Christmas comes early at OpenAI: Sam Altman teased twelve days of “shipmas,” with the first major drop expected sometime today. “Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo, some big ones and some stocking stuffers,” the OpenAI CEO wrote. While it’s anyone’s guess what will be announced, a full version of the reasoning-focused o1 as well as the long-awaited video model Sora are all but confirmed.

2. Another AI-first browser could go live soon: Berlin-based startup Deta is working on a platform called Surf that blurs the lines between a traditional browser, a file manager, and an AI chatbot. It’ll let you do things like ask a question about a YouTube video, then immediately scrub to the relevant clip. With plans to go public next year, Surf is following in the footsteps of the Browser Company’s recently-announced AI browser Dia, which is also expected in 2025.

3. NotebookLM leaders defect to start their own AI company: Three of the developers behind Alphabet’s surprise hit NotebookLM are reportedly leaving to launch a mysterious new company. The AI-powered study app went viral this year for its Audio Overviews feature, which lets users turn documents into lively, AI-generated podcasts. Details about the new startup are murky — we don’t even know its name yet — but the team confirmed it’ll create products that are “accessible, useful, and obvious to everyday people.”

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to bring characters to life with RenderNet

• Go to RenderNet and sign up with your account.

• Click ‘Create New’ in the main dashboard and upload an image source.

• Now go back to the main screen, select the character you created, and enter a prompt describing the scene and motion of the character.

Sample prompt: @charactername Holding a [enter details]. The day is sunny and the background shows [enter background details].

• Click ‘Generate Video’ to create your character video.

FROM THE FRONTIER

DeepMind drops AI world generator and weather predictor on same day

DeepMind is embracing Giving Season with two major releases: First up, just days after Fei-Fei Li’s buzzy startup made a splash with a new AI-powered world generator, Alphabet has answered with its own interactive 3D platform. Like World Labs’ model, Genie 2 can generate interactive digital worlds based on screenshots alone.

There’s a reason why so many AI companies are coalescing around interactive 3D models: To build advanced AI agents, we first have to teach models how to navigate through our world, helping them pick up on things like physics and biology along the way. Letting agents explore a realistic, simulated space might be the fastest way to reach that milestone.

DeepMind isn’t stopping there: It also dropped GenCast, a forecasting model that can predict weather patterns up to 15 days in advance. The platform could be a literal lifesaver, giving us more time to prepare for severe storms. One researcher said it’s so powerful that it’s as if “we’ve made decades worth of improvements in one year,” beating one forecasting rival 97.2% of the time.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🦺 Safety First: Microsoft’s “Building AI Responsibly” series is teaching developers how to protect their LLMs from jailbreaks through techniques like spotlighting, which involves parsing out trustworthy input data from harmful content.

🖼️ Image Evolution: Best known for its Dream Machine video model, Luma Labs just released Photon, a new text-to-image generator that it says “outperforms every model on the market in quality, creativity, and understanding.”

😄 Happy Hustle: The AI-powered logistics firm HappyRobot raised $15.6M in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

🗣️ Sonic Secrets: A new study shows how a British researcher predicted 2,045 volunteers’ personality traits by using AI to analyze the tone, pitch, and rhythm of their voices.

🔬 Forever Young: Scientists are searching for the fountain of youth with a new AI-powered platform, AgeXtend, that uses bioactivity data to identify different anti-aging molecules called geroprotectors.

🚀 To the Moon: Bitcoin hit a new milestone yesterday, surging past $100,000 for the first time. The cryptocurrency’s value has more than doubled this year.

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Looking to the future

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