ChatGPT Levels Up with Voice, Vision, and Live Interaction

Microsoft's Phi-4 Outshines Giants, Pika 2.0 Uses Your Pictures, & Anthropic's Quiet Release

December 18, 2024

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This week we have some exciting new launches from the industry’s AI giants. From Microsoft and OpenAI to Anthropic, prepare to be thrilled by the new horizons AI is reaching.

This week’s issue entails:

  • Small Wonder: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Outshines AI Giants

  • Pika 2.0: Turning AI Video into Your Creative Playground

  • ChatGPT Levels Up with Voice, Vision, and Live Interaction

  • Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku: Quietly Fast, Stealthily Powerful

Microsoft’s Phi-4, a 14B parameter model, is proving that size isn’t everything. Despite its compact build, it outperforms massive rivals like GPT-4o and Gemini Pro 1.5 on math and STEM benchmarks, even beating its own teacher, GPT-4o, in complex reasoning tasks. Trained on 400B tokens of synthetic data, Phi-4 combines smart design with efficiency, processing up to 4,000 tokens — twice the capacity of its predecessor.

Phi-4 challenges the “bigger is better” mindset, showing that clever training and architecture can deliver big results. Currently in limited preview on Azure AI Foundry, it’s coming soon to Hugging Face.

Source: Microsoft

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Pika Labs just dropped version 2.0 of its AI video generator, featuring a game-changing ‘Ingredients’ tool that lets users upload their own images — characters, objects, and backgrounds — for the AI to animate seamlessly. With smoother motion, improved prompts, and better animation control, Pika’s updates bring impressive realism and creativity to the forefront.

Pika is shifting AI video creation from random outputs to personalized precision, letting creators craft branded content and custom scenes. With 11M users, $80M in funding, and steady innovation, Pika keeps leveling up the AI video space, while the industry eagerly awaits OpenAI’s next move.

Source: Pika Labs

OpenAI just rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, letting users share live video and screens for real-time AI analysis and conversation. Available to Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers (with Enterprise access coming in January), the feature brings visual understanding to the forefront of ChatGPT's capabilities.

OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a true multimodal powerhouse, seamlessly blending voice, text, and visuals for smarter interactions. And for a festive touch, users can chat with Santa—a limited-time voice option running through early January.

Source: OpenAI on YouTube

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Anthropic just made its Claude 3.5 Haiku model available to all web and mobile users, expanding beyond its earlier API-only release. Known for speed, coding skills, and a massive 200K context window, Haiku outshines its predecessor but stirred debate over its steep API pricing. Free users get limited access, while Pro subscribers ($20/month) enjoy priority usage.

While Haiku impresses with its performance, Anthropic’s low-key rollout feels muted amid bigger AI announcements this week. The industry may be waiting for Claude 3.5 Opus to make Anthropic a headline contender once again.

Source: Anthropic

In Other News

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever declared at NeurIPS that AI has hit ‘peak data,’ meaning current training methods are reaching their limits. He predicts a move toward more autonomous, reasoning-based systems, which will deliver breakthroughs but become less predictable as they evolve.

Why it matters: This marks a turning point for AI development, signaling the end of data abundance and the rise of models driven by reasoning and adaptability—with potentially surprising results.

Source: The Verge

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