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🔍 OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search - LINK

• ChatGPT now offers improved web search functionality, providing fast answers with links to relevant sources, integrating natural language processing with real-time information like news and sports scores.

• The feature is available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and SearchGPT waitlist users, with plans for broader access to Free users in the coming months.

• OpenAI partnered with various news organizations to ensure high-quality content is included, allowing users to explore original sources directly from their chat interactions.

🖥️ Claude AI adds desktop apps and dictation mode - LINK

• Anthropic has launched desktop applications for Claude AI, available for Windows and MacOS, allowing users to interact with the AI similarly to the web version, with synchronization of chat history across devices.

• A new dictation feature has been introduced in the mobile apps for iOS and Android, enabling users to speak their requests instead of typing, enhancing accessibility and convenience during interactions.

• The latest updates include a beta version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which can perform tasks like screen interaction and cursor movement, showcasing Anthropic’s commitment to competing with other AI platforms

🌍 Google Maps and Google Earth gets AI updates - LINK

• Google is introducing generative AI capabilities in Google Maps and Google Earth to provide developers and urban planners with real-time data from over 250 million locations, enhancing app functionality and urban planning processes.

• Starting in November, Rivian vehicles will utilize AI-generated summaries of nearby restaurants and shops, allowing drivers to quickly access relevant information on their infotainment systems.

• Urban planners can leverage new Gemini tools in Google Earth for complex queries, such as identifying areas with the fewest electric vehicle chargers, significantly speeding up data analysis for city planning.

🎤 ElevenLabs introduces Voice Design API - LINK

• ElevenLabs has introduced its Voice Design API, enabling users to create unique voices based on prompts, with customizable characteristics like age, accent, and tone, including fantastical options like ogres and pirates.

• The API features two endpoints: one generates three unique voice previews from a text prompt, while the other allows users to save these previews for further use, enhancing voice customization.

• To demonstrate the API’s capabilities, ElevenLabs created the X to Voice project, which generates a personalized voice and avatar from a user’s X (formerly Twitter) profile, and has made this project open-source for developers to explore.

🚫 OpenAI CEO Says No GPT-5 in 2024 - LINK

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-5 will not be released in 2025, attributing the delay to ongoing developments and challenges with the current model, GPT-O1.

• Altman emphasized that future advancements will likely center around autonomous AI agents, which can perform tasks independently, rather than solely on new model releases.

• He also stated that achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) is feasible with existing hardware, indicating a shift in focus towards enhancing AI capabilities rather than just increasing model versions.

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