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While OpenAI was slowly revealing its hand of AI updates this past week, Alphabet kept its lips zipped. On Wednesday, it finally put all its cards on the table, revealing everything from a multimodal Gemini to an agent that can navigate Chrome on its own.
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Today’s Insights
Today in AI: What’s new in iOS 18.2, plus Microsoft AI’s health pivot
Tutorial: How to turn text into infographics with AI
Alphabet unveils Gemini 2, AI agents, and more
Everything else you should know today
5 new AI tools to boost your productivity
TECH STOCKS & FUNDING
▲ Tesla | $424.77 | +5.93% |
▲ Amazon | $230.26 | +2.32% |
▲ Meta | $632.68 | +2.16% |
▲ Alphabet | $196.71 | +5.46% |
▲ Nasdaq | 20,034.89 | +1.77% |
▲ S&P 500 | 6,084.19 | +0.82% |
*Stock data as of market close.
📈 Markets: Amazon, Alphabet, Tesla, and Meta each soared to record highs Wednesday, boosting the tech-heavy Nasdaq above 20,000 points for the first time. Apple and Nvidia also joined in on the green wave ahead of expected interest rate cuts.
💰️ Funding: Three major chipmakers — Nvidia, Intel, and AMD — each backed Ayar Labs, a startup building optical AI chips, in a $155M funding round. SpaceX is now valued at $350B after the Elon Musk-led company announced it would buy back shares from employees. And Singapore-based startup Sapient raised $22M to develop unorthodox AI models that buck the transformer trend.
TODAY IN AI
New Apple Intelligence features are rolling out across Macs, iPads, and iPhones. Source: Apple
1. Apple drops long-awaited AI updates: While the AI-powered Siri is still under construction, iPhone 15 Pro (or newer) users can now use ChatGPT directly on their phones. (That is, unless OpenAI experiences another major outage.)
With iOS 18.2, the iPhone 16 also gets Visual Intelligence, or the ability to see your surroundings through your camera lens
It can do things like translate a menu, add printed phone numbers to your contacts list, or find where you can buy a particular product
New GPT-powered writing tools can now generate content for you across apps
The new Image Playground and Genmoji features give you free rein to design your own art and emojis
2. Microsoft AI head scoops up former colleagues for health push: Mustafa Suleyman is assembling a new crew to develop health-related AI products at Microsoft. And he’s turning to some familiar names, including a neonatal doctor and a surgeon with whom he’d previously worked at DeepMind. The FT reported that the new team will work on a consumer-facing platform that lets users ask questions about their health — something that nearly half of AI users already do with general chatbots.
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THE AI ACADEMY
How to turn text into infographics with AI
Go to Infografix AI and log in or sign up with a new account.
Click on Get Started and then click on Use AI.
Write in your prompt, select your required template, and wait for it to generate a response.
Sample prompt: Create a historical timeline of the US presidents
You can use it to create data visualizations, mind maps, SWOT analyses, QAs, lists, and more.
You can edit or customize your infographic once created by clicking on the customize tab.
FROM THE FRONTIER
Alphabet’s AI blowout: Gemini 2, agents, and more
Project Astra now has a better understanding of your surroundings. Source: Alphabet
Talk about a difference in strategy. While OpenAI is giving us a steady drip of updates across 12 days, Alphabet just unleashed a firehose of announcements all in one go. Let’s break it all down:
Gemini goes multimodal: Gemini 2.0 Flash beats 1.5 Pro on multiple benchmarks while being twice as fast. It can now easily move between videos, images, and audio. Plus, a new “deep research” mode lets it think through multi-step problems, similar to OpenAI’s o1.
Project Mariner: This new prototype can navigate Chrome for you. For example, you can ask it to find the websites for a list of companies and save them to your bookmarks while you sit back and watch.
Project Astra: Alphabet’s yet-to-be-released “universal AI assistant” can now help with more tasks, like teaching you how to use a washing machine, remembering a door code, or identifying plants. You can even show it a bus and ask where it’s headed.
Everything else: Alphabet’s new Trillium chip delivers 4x the speed as its predecessor while being 67% more efficient. A new coding assistant called Jules can catch bugs and fix errors on its own. And AI Overviews will soon be able to answer complicated math and coding questions.
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AI & TECH NEWS
Everything else you need to know today
GM announced it’s closing its Cruise robo-taxi division. Source: Getty
🤝 Compute Collab: Apple is teaming up with semiconductor maker Broadcom to design what would be the company’s first AI server chip, which could go into production by 2026.
🤺 Data Duel: The EU vowed to invest more than $1.5B in seven supercomputer sites across the continent in a bid to compete with US-based AI startups.
🚗 End of the Road: US auto giant GM announced it’s shuttering its Cruise robo-taxi division and pivoting to autonomous personal vehicles — highlighting the daunting economics behind the driverless taxi industry.
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Follow-up prompt: Can you suggest a witty headline for and a short introductory paragraph for the website? What type of prompt would you like to see for Friday? |
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AI-GENERATED IMAGES
Day to Night
Source: Inspired by @surprised0887 on Midjourney
Midjourney Prompt: Aerial photography of the frozen river in winter, surrounded by white snow and a black sunset sky, with dense forests on both sides. The trees, covered thickly under heavy snow, were lush, and the dark light shone through from behind to illuminate them. In front is an endless, winding valley stream along which they grow. It's like a fairyland in reality. High-definition photography, a super-wide-angle lens, delicate details, and beautiful scenery. I can't believe how beautiful it was. --ar 9:16 --style rawAcquire new customers and drive revenue by partnering with us
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