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OpenAI's o1-pro: Power at a Premium

OpenAI has released o1-pro, a new reasoning model accessible via the Responses API. It boasts enhanced reasoning due to increased computational power but comes with a significantly higher price tag than other models, costing up to 10,000 times more than GPT-4o-mini. It's initially targeted at AI agent development.

OpenAI's o1-pro: Power at a Premium

OpenAI's o1-Pro: Reasoning, at a Price

OpenAI unveils o1-Pro, a new AI model with enhanced reasoning capabilities. It's powerful but expensive, targeting AI agents with a 200,000-token context window, image input, and structured outputs. Access is limited to developers meeting specific criteria, and it's primarily for use with OpenAI's Responses API, not Chat Completions API.

OpenAI's o1-Pro: Reasoning, at a Price

Planet & Anthropic: AI Insights from Space

Planet Labs and Anthropic partner to combine daily satellite imagery with Claude's AI. This unlocks insights for various sectors, from environmental monitoring to disaster response. The collaboration prioritizes responsible AI use, aiming to benefit users while ensuring global safety. It's a leap towards understanding our planet, fostering sustainability, and enhancing decision-making across industries.

Planet & Anthropic: AI Insights from Space

Telkom Indonesia to Adopt Meta's LlaMa AI

Telkom Group plans to integrate Meta's LlaMa, an open-source AI model, into its enterprise customer service chatbots. This will enhance customer interactions on platforms like WhatsApp, offering personalized experiences. TELIN's NeuAPIX (CPaaS) will support this. The move aims to boost digital inclusion, empower businesses, and contribute to Indonesia's digital economy.

Telkom Indonesia to Adopt Meta's LlaMa AI

Tencent's AI Push: DeepSeek & Yuanbao

Tencent is making significant strides in AI through a dual strategy: leveraging the open-source DeepSeek models and developing its proprietary Yuanbao models. This approach, coupled with massive infrastructure investments, positions Tencent as a major force in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, both in China and globally, impacting various sectors from gaming to healthcare.

Tencent's AI Push: DeepSeek & Yuanbao

xAI Launches Grok API with Image Generation

xAI unveils the 'grok-2-image-1212' API model, enabling developers to generate images from text prompts. This marks a significant expansion of the Grok platform, introducing image generation capabilities powered by the Aurora model. The API, while priced at a premium, currently lacks customization options but offers OpenAI SDK compatibility.

xAI Launches Grok API with Image Generation

xAI Launches Image Generation API

Elon Musk's xAI enters the AI image generation market with a new API, 'grok-2-image-1212', priced at $0.07 per image. It competes with Black Forest Labs, Ideogram, and OpenAI's DALL-E. Currently lacking customization, xAI plans rapid expansion, including a generative AI video startup acquisition and a $10 billion funding round.

xAI Launches Image Generation API

Meta's Llama Hits 1B Downloads

Meta's Llama surpasses 1 billion downloads, showcasing its open-source power. Google DeepMind revolutionizes robotics with AI. Intel undergoes strategic shifts. AI assistants show unpredictable behavior. OpenAI enhances ChatGPT integration. Insilico Medicine achieves unicorn status. Cognixion's BCI offers hope for ALS patients. Multimodal AI struggles with time perception.

Meta's Llama Hits 1B Downloads

AI-Edited Video of Yogi & Kangana Goes Viral

A fabricated video showing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut embracing has circulated widely. Analysis reveals AI manipulation through watermarks linked to 'Minimax' and 'Hailuo AI,' Chinese AI video generation tools. The visuals originate from a 2021 meeting, distorted to create misinformation, highlighting the dangers of AI-generated fake content.

AI-Edited Video of Yogi & Kangana Goes Viral

Grok Misused as Fact-Checker on X

X users are increasingly relying on Elon Musk's AI bot, Grok, for fact-checking, sparking concerns among human fact-checkers. Grok's history of generating misinformation, coupled with AI's ability to create convincing but false narratives, raises alarms about the potential spread of inaccurate information and its real-world consequences. The core issue is AI's illusion of authenticity.

Grok Misused as Fact-Checker on X