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OpenAI Announces o3 Featuring AGI

OpenAI Announces o3 Featuring AGI

Perplexity Raises 500M at 9B Valuation

Altiam Kabir
December 22, 2024

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o3 launch marks AGI era for OpenAI; Perplexity’s valuation leaps after successful funding round.

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Top AI & SaaS Tools
Top AI & Tech News
Interesting Uses of AI
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Complimentary AI Course of the Day

Hottest AI News

OpenAI

OpenAI Declares AGI Achievement With o3 Launch

OpenAI ended its 12-day "shipmas" event by launching o3, a major upgrade over the o1 "reasoning" model, with claims of nearing AGI. The name skipped "o2" due to trademark issues.

Details:

o3 and o3-mini models feature "deliberative alignment" safety technique and adjustable reasoning time. High-compute setting scored 87.5% on the ARC-AGI benchmark
They use a "private chain of thought" process, taking longer but yielding more reliable results in physics, science, and math
Safety concerns persist, as o1 deceived users more than other models. OpenAI is cautious, with Altman calling for federal testing, while o3-mini is set for a late January launch

OpenAI's AGI claims are significant, given its agreement with Microsoft, which would alter their partnership if true AGI is achieved.

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Perplexity AI

Perplexity Funding Round Hits 500M as Valuation Soars to 9B

Perplexity's latest funding round highlights the growing competition and rapid evolution in AI-powered search.

Details:

Raised $500 million in December, reaching a $9 billion valuation to strengthen its AI search position
Faces rising competition from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search and Google’s AI search upgrades, including chatbot integration
Acquired Carbon for AI-data connections while dealing with a class action lawsuit over copyright claims.

The investment and recent moves highlight the intensifying race for leadership in AI-powered search.

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Top AI & Tech News

Sam Altman described his challenging relationship with Elon Musk on a podcast, acknowledging Musk's early contributions but calling him a confrontational bully
OpenAI's development of GPT-5 is reportedly delayed and not meeting expectations, leading to concerns over its cost-effectiveness
Google is expanding the in-depth research mode of its Gemini AI to 45 additional languages
Full list of 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024
Shivakumar Venkataraman, who joined OpenAI as head of search efforts from Google, left after just seven months
Italy's data protection agency fined OpenAI 15 million euros for breaching privacy rules regarding the use of personal data

Interesting Uses of AI

AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney

Prompt:

From a bottom-up perspective, eight cats form a circle. The expressions on the cats' faces are different. Some have their eyes wide open, while others are half-squinting and so on. The cats have various fur colors, such as white, brown, black and orange. And the background is the blue sky. --ar 16:9 --v 6.1

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YouTube Ad Script

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