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GPT-4.5 Launch: Impressive But Flawed

Amazon Unveils Alexa+ for Daily Tasks

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Altiam Kabir
February 28, 2025

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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

GPT-4.5 Orion launches with mixed performance; Alexa+ streamlines daily tasks; Meta preps standalone AI app.

Inside This Edition: đź’Ž

  • Hottest AI News

  • Top AI & SaaS Tools

  • Top AI & Tech News

  • Interesting Uses of AI: Prompt for Animated Cards

  • AI Video Tutorial

  • AI Job List

  • Complimentary AI Course of the Day: Introduction to Text Mining

Hottest AI News

OpenAI

Largest OpenAI Model GPT-4.5 Orion Debuts With Mixed Performance

OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5, codenamed "Orion," their most ambitious AI model yet, featuring unmatched computing power and data. This release marks both significant progress and challenges in the scaling of the GPT series.

Details:

  • GPT-4.5 is available to ChatGPT Pro ($200/month), with Plus and Team users getting it next week. API costs $75 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens, compared to GPT-4o's $2.50 and $10

  • It shows mixed results: strong on factual accuracy and emotional intelligence but lags behind top competitors in academic benchmarks

  • Notably, OpenAI removed a line from the white paper saying "GPT-4.5 is not a frontier AI model," raising doubts about its future due to operational cost concerns

OpenAI highlights the model's accuracy, but its limited features, performance, and high costs raise questions about the future of large language models.

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Amazon

Alexa+ Arrives to Automate Everyday Tasks Like Restaurant Bookings

Amazon has introduced Alexa+, an upgraded AI assistant designed to handle everyday tasks autonomously, such as restaurant bookings and finding repair services.

Details:

  • It uses generative AI for more natural conversations and autonomous app interactions, leveraging shopping data and ecosystem partnerships for personalized experiences

  • Alexa+ will integrate with many platforms, enabling it to create shopping lists, order groceries, book appointments, arrange food delivery, hail rides, find tickets, and plan travel

  • However, challenges remain. Amazon’s hardware division has lost billions on Alexa, and technical delays have hindered development

Amazon aims to boost Alexa+ adoption with its 600 million Alexa devices. It will cost $19.99/month but available at no extra charge for Prime members.

Meta

Meta Set to Launch Separate App for AI Targeting More Users

Meta is creating a standalone app for its AI, expanding beyond Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The app may launch in Q2 2024, competing with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot.

Details:

  • The app represents a strategic move to reach users outside Meta's existing platforms, expanding user base beyond its current social media ecosystem

  • Meta's AI assistant offers multiple capabilities including answering questions, generating images, editing photos, and even "memory" functionality that enables more personalized recommendations

  • This development aligns with Meta's substantial investment in AI, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing plans to invest up to $65 billion

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to the news with humor, joking "ok fine maybe we'll do a social app," highlighting the competitive crossover between AI and social platforms.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

  • MultiLipi (Life-time Deal): Expand globally with AI-driven, SEO-friendly website translation, ensuring cultural precision and local search visibility

  • Quora’s Poe Apps: Create custom AI tools without coding or incurring costs for API calls, powered by Claude 3.7 Sonnet

  • Microsoft Copilot: Microsoft made Copilot Voice and Think Deeper available at no cost with unlimited use [F-R-E-E]

  • Scribe: Most accurate speech-to-text model by ElevenLabs, surpassing previous benchmarks like Gemini 2.0 and OpenAI Whisper v3 [F-R-E-E]

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Top AI & Tech News

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company was forced to stagger the rollout of GPT-4.5 because they are “out of GPUs”

  • Meta unveiled Aria Gen 2 glasses, an advanced research device with enhanced sensors for machine perception, contextual AI, and robotics

  • Figure is accelerating its timeline to introduce humanoid robots into homes, starting Alpha testing this year due to advancements from its Helix AI

  • You Labs introduced ARI, a research agent that analyzes 400+ sources and creates detailed reports with charts, citations, visuals in under 5 mins

  • OpenAI is finally making Sora available to users in the EU, the U.K., Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland

  • YC grad Deepnight nabs $5.5M for AI night vision software that disrupts a multi-billion-dollar industry

  • Microsoft updated Copilot with a MacOS app, file upload support (PDF/text), and UI enhancements

Interesting Uses of AI

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney

Prompt:

A train on the blue sky, surrounded by white clouds, reflection in water, anime style, high resolution, high detail, 2D art, masterpiece --stylize 250 --v 6.1

AI Prompt of the Day

Top AI Video Tutorial

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AI Job List

Complimentary AI Course of the Day

Introduction to Text Mining

In this course, we will learn the basic concepts of text mining, including data analytics, corpus creation, data cleaning, and hierarchical clustering with relevant demonstrations.