Altman doubles down on AGI prediction

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Your bathroom mirror might soon double as your personal trainer, your TV as a custom cookbook, and your earbuds as a live interpreter. Those are a few of the ways AI is transforming everyday objects into smart companions at CES this year.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: Altman’s AGI claims and Nvidia’s tiny supercomputer

• Tutorial: How to create videos with custom ingredients using AI

• The best gadgets from CES Day One

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

TODAY IN AI

1. Sam Altman sheds light on AGI claims: The OpenAI CEO’s mysterious blog post over the weekend left some fans scratching their heads. But in a new Bloomberg interview, Altman offered a few more breadcrumbs, predicting that “AGI will probably get developed during [the next] president’s term.”

• The evidence: o3 scored an 87.5% on a leading reasoning benchmark — beating the 85% threshold that some experts said represents AGI

• But funding is still a concern: Altman revealed in a separate post that OpenAI’s $200 Pro subscription tier hasn’t been profitable so far — ironically because “people use it much more than we expected,” raising the cost of compute

2. Nvidia shows off ‘world’s smallest AI supercomputer’: Jensen Huang and his signature leather jacket are back. This time, Huang unveiled Project DIGITS, a Blackwell-powered supercomputer that can run 200B-parameter AI models locally while being small enough to fit on your desktop. Here’s everything else the chip giant is working on: 

• The state-of-the-art RTX 5090 graphics card will give PCs new capabilities — including 8K gaming, immersive VR, and AI-powered video editing

• A platform called Cosmos simulates real-world tasks, dramatically speeding up the development of new robots and autonomous cars, with major partners like Toyota already onboard

• Rivals Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD tried to steal the spotlight by announcing their own AI chips, which they say will give upcoming Copilot PCs state-of-the-art performance

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to create videos with custom characters and objects using Pika 2.0

• Go to Pika Lab’s website and sign up with your account.

• Now select Pika 2.0 and click on ‘Try now’.

• You can start with the templates given or create your own.

• Click on ‘Ingredients’ to add custom characters, objects, and locations to any scene.

• Describe your video in a prompt and click on ‘Generate.’

• You’ll get your photo turned into a scene with custom ingredients.

• Download and share it with others.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

CES 2025: The biggest announcements from day one

Introducing the world’s smartest grill: Yes, at CES, even barbecues are getting the LLM treatment. Here are the highlights from day one of the year’s biggest tech conference.

TVs: You’ll soon be able to use an AI assistant on Samsung, LG, and Alphabet TVs. Some models will even let you look up recipes mentioned in cooking shows or get real-time translations for sports matches and other live broadcasts.

Smart Glasses: Halliday’s new wayfarer-style glasses can project a display onto your field of view that’s completely “invisible to onlookers.” Meanwhile, Soliddd’s new prototype aims to restore vision to the 13% of Americans living with macular degeneration.

Health: An AI-powered device from Eli Health lets you monitor your stress levels at home. Circular’s new Ring 2 can automatically check for things like irregular heartbeats. Withings’ new smart mirror concept can give you health tips, like getting more exercise, via a 3D scan of your body. And after you’ve finished your workout, you can recover with help from Therabody’s new AI-powered Coach platform.

Everything else: Bird Buddy, which uses AI to identify the birds visiting your feeder, is now expanding to help you spot bees, butterflies, and other insects. The Nuwa ballpoint pen can instantly digitize your handwriting. Timekettle’s Babel OS for earbuds can instantly translate conversations across more than 40 languages. And Japanese company Kirin unveiled an electric spoon that makes food taste saltier without adding extra sodium.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🥊 In the Ring: Meta tapped President and CEO of UFC Dana White, CEO of Exor John Elkann, and Tech investor Charlie Songhurst to join its board of directors.

🌎 World Builder: Tim Brooks, the former co-lead behind OpenAI’s Sora, announced he’s forming a new team at DeepMind that will use massive generative models to “simulate the world.”

📱 Storage Squeeze: Apple Intelligence now takes up 7GB of free space per device — almost double the original 4GB requirement.

🔄 Change of Plans: Microsoft has hit the brakes on parts of its $3.3B Wisconsin supercomputer, which OpenAI had reportedly planned to use to train future models.

🎢 Retail Rollercoaster: AI shook things up this holiday season, with AI chatbots powering a 4% jump to $282B in US online sales. Returns skyrocketed though, thinning profits for retailers who’re still navigating the digital shopping boom.

📈 Markets: Nvidia soared 3.43% on Monday, reaching a record high as the market geared up for CEO Jensen Huang’s long-hyped CES keynote. Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple followed suit, each benefiting from a general sense of excitement around AI this week. Favorable analyst reports and strong financial results also gave Meta a 4.23% boost.

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