7 surprising things you didn’t know you could do with AI

Generative AI can do so much more than the features chatbots tout. Here are six novel uses for our AI assistants.

Features         December 9, 2024

ChatGPT unveils Sora with up to 20-second AI video generation

After nearly a year of delays and development setbacks, OpenAI has finally released its video-generation model, Sora, but only to select paying customers.

News         December 9, 2024

ChatGPT’s new Pro subscription will cost you $200 per month

OpenAI has just released the full version of its o1 reasoning model alongside a $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscription.

News         December 5, 2024

Microsoft’s Copilot Vision arrives to surf the web with select users

Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Vision, which allows the AI to see and hear what you're watching on the internet, to select Copilot Pro subscribers.

News         December 5, 2024

Amazon unveils its new family of Nova foundational models

Amazon Web Services showed off a half-dozen new multimodal generative AI models, which it has dubbed Nova.

News         December 4, 2024

Researchers call ChatGPT Search answers ‘confidently wrong’

A study from Columbia University has found that ChatGPT Search plays fast and loose in returning accurate answers.

News         December 3, 2024

The best AI tools of 2024: all the generative AI apps you need to try

The AI boom has unleashed a torrent of generative tools. Here are the best you can use in 2024.

Guides         December 2, 2024

Ex-Google employees say we need ‘an Android-like moment for AI’

A team of former Google employees, led by Hugo Barra, have launched a startup to develop an operating system for AI agents in the same vein as Android.

News         November 27, 2024

OpenAI’s Sora was leaked in protest over allegations of ‘art washing’

A group calling itself Sora PR Puppets briefly leaked access to OpenAI's unreleased video generator in protest of the company's alleged exploitation of artists through its early access program.

News         November 26, 2024

Runway can now mimic everything from 35mm disposable cameras to ’80s sci-fi

Runway has debuted a new foundational model for its Gen-3 Alpha image generation platform that can consistently create images within a set artistic aesthetic.

News         November 25, 2024

Nvidia’s new AI model makes music from text and audio prompts

Nvidia unveiled a new AI model on Monday called Fugatto that can create sounds, music, and clone and modify voices, based on the user's audio and text prompts.

News         November 25, 2024

Get ready for AI-dubbed YouTube videos

YouTube is reportedly rolling out its AI auto-translation tool to content creators in nine different languages including, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese.

News         November 21, 2024

ChatGPT’s latest model may be a regression in performance

OpenAI's latest flagship model, GPT-4o, might actually be regressing, diminishing its performance to that of its smaller variant GPT-40-mini.

News         November 21, 2024

ChatGPT just improved its creative writing chops

OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model got a handful of upgrades Wednesday, including "more natural, engaging, and tailored writing to improve relevance & readability."

News         November 20, 2024

Google’s Gemini wants to get to know the real you

Gemini Advanced users can now share their interests and preferences to get better responses from the chatbot.

News         November 19, 2024

ChatGPT already listens and speaks. Soon it may see as well

Code discovered in the latest ChatGPT beta build suggests that Advanced Voice Mode could soon be able to see as well as speak.

News         November 19, 2024

With Copilot Actions, Microsoft brings AI agents to Outlook, Teams, and more

Microsoft plans to roll out a slew of new AI features, capabilities, and agents for its 365 Copilot ecosystem starting in early 2025.

News         November 18, 2024

This open-source alternative to ChatGPT just got serious

French AI startup Mistral just rolled out a half-dozen new features and a model update (and an entirely new model) in its bid to compete with OpenAI.

News         November 18, 2024

The brain-computer interface revolution is just getting started

Brain-Computer Interfaces fascinate the sci-fi and medical communities in equal measure. Here's how close the transformative technology is to everyday use.

Features         November 15, 2024

YouTube’s new AI music remixer could let you swap genres

Select users are currently testing an experimental AI tool that will remix their uploaded music based on their text prompts.

News         November 15, 2024

Bluesky has ‘no intention’ to train generative AI on user content

As users defect from X, rapidly growing social media platform Bluesky pledges to not scrape user data for training AI .

News         November 15, 2024

This massive upgrade to ChatGPT is coming in January — and it’s not GPT-5

OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it plans to release a new AI agent feature that will be able to act on a user's behalf.

News         November 14, 2024

Google Gemini arrives on iPhone as a native app

Google has released a new native Gemini app for iOS that includes Imagen 3 and Gemini Live.

Computing         November 14, 2024

Perplexity to introduce sneaky ads alongside its AI answers

Perplexity AI will begin experimenting with incorporating ads into its chatbot answers for U.S. users as early as next week.

News         November 13, 2024

Is AI already plateauing? New reporting suggests GPT-5 may be in trouble

OpenAI's Project Orion may or may not arrive this year, but so far, the company's beta testers have been unimpressed with the new model's performance.

News         November 11, 2024

OpenAI’s robotics plans aim to ‘bring AI into the physical world’

OpenAI has made no secret of its hardware ambitions. Those plans came a step closer to fruition on Tuesday with the hiring of Oculus VR's Caitlin Kalinowski.

News         November 5, 2024

Perplexity unveils an AI-powered ‘election information hub’

Perplexity has launched an "information hub" atop its AI chatbot platform that will provide voters with timely (and hopefully accurate) election updates.

News         November 4, 2024

Runway brings precise camera controls to AI videos

AI startup Runway is rolling out new Advanced Camera Controls for its video-generation model, gen-3 Alpha.

News         November 1, 2024

Adobe is giving creators a way to prove their art isn’t AI slop

Adobe announced that it will launch a web app for its Content Authenticity program in 2025, allowing creators to certify the authenticity of their works.

News         October 31, 2024

From Open AI to hacked smart glasses, here are the 5 biggest AI headlines this week

Between OpenAI's $6.6 million funding round and some privacy-invading Meta Smart Glasses, we saw a scary number of developments in the AI space this week.

News         October 31, 2024

Zoom debuts its new customizable AI Companion 2.0

Zoom unveiled its next-generation AI assistant for Workplace that promises to deliver an AI-first work platform for human connection.

News         October 31, 2024

Amazon debuts AI ‘Shopping Guides’ for more than 100 product types

Amazon debuted its new AI-powered Shopping Guide feature on Wednesday that is designed to help educated online buyers about their potential purchases.

News         October 31, 2024

Google AI helped researchers win two Nobel Prizes this week

While AI was helping win multiple Nobel Prizes this week, we saw the release of Google's Imagen 3, Zoom's AI Companion, and Amazon's Shopping Guides.

News         October 31, 2024

ChatGPT Search is here to battle both Google and Perplexity

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search feature leans on the internet to provide up-to-date information to your prompts.

News         October 31, 2024