Amazon to Launch New AI Reasoning Model 🧠

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Reasoning models have recently become the next frontier in AI, and Amazon is gearing up to challenge industry giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic with a new 'hybrid' reasoning model.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Amazon Reportedly Working on New AI Reasoning Model

• Microsoft Launches Dragon Copilot, an AI Assistant for Healthcare

• AI Tutorial: 5 prompts to get the most out of Claude 3.7 Sonnet

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

AMAZON

Amazon Reportedly Working on New AI Reasoning Model

Tech giant Amazon is reportedly working on a new AI model with advanced reasoning capabilities, set to launch by June under Amazon’s Nova brand.

Details:

• The new model will take a "hybrid reasoning" approach, allowing it to provide both quick answers and more complex extended thinking in a single system.

• One of Amazon's priorities is to make the model more price-efficient than competitors like OpenAI's o1, Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking.

• The company aims for its reasoning model to be ranked in the top 5 for performance, with a special focus on benchmarks that evaluate software development and math skills.

This is an ambitious move that would place Amazon in direct competition not only with OpenAI and Google but also with Anthropic, a close partner in which they’ve invested $8 billion and that recently released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a model using a similar hybrid approach.

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MICROSOFT

Microsoft Launches Dragon Copilot, an AI Assistant for Healthcare

Microsoft has introduced Dragon Copilot, an AI-powered assistant designed to revolutionize healthcare workflows. Built on voice technology from Nuance, which Microsoft acquired in 2021, the tool aims to reduce administrative tasks for clinicians, letting them focus more on patient care.

Details:

• Dragon Copilot can listen to clinical visits and create notes using multilingual ambient note creation and natural language dictation.

• Features include automating tasks like referral letters, clinical evidence summaries, and after-visit summaries.

• Microsoft surveys show reduced burnout among clinicians and a better overall experience for 93% of patients who interacted with Nuance technology.

• The system is built with healthcare-specific safeguards to ensure accuracy, compliance, and secure data handling.

Microsoft’s announcement comes as other tech giants like Google are also expanding their AI offerings in healthcare, including tools for risk identification and multimodal image searches.

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AI Tutorial

5 prompts to get the most out of Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Claude 3.7 Sonnet can generate code, create games, and even analyze images. Whether you need help with coding, productivity, or creative projects, here are five prompts to explore what Claude can do.

1. Plan a Murder Mystery Night

Turn your next gathering into an immersive mystery game with Claude’s help. Just send this prompt, and it’ll generate a full storyline, characters, and clues:

"Design a murder mystery game for up to 8 players. Set it in a 1920s mansion with unique characters, a victim, and a mix of clues and red herrings. Add an exciting plot twist at the end."

2. Generate an Animated Scene

Bring your ideas to life with AI-generated animations. Claude can create dynamic visuals like this:

"Create an animation of a castle that shifts through different times of the day and seasons. Each full day cycle should last 10 seconds. Every two days, the season changes, altering the landscape with details like blooming flowers, falling leaves, or snow buildup. Ensure smooth, visually engaging transitions with subtle lighting and weather effects."

3. Build a Custom Productivity App

Need a tool to stay on top of tasks? Let Claude design an app that fits your workflow:

"Create a productivity app that boosts efficiency while preventing burnout. Instead of a standard to-do list, this app should focus on high-impact tasks, monitor focus levels, and adjust based on stress. It should promote smarter work, not harder work. The design should be modern and minimalistic."

4. Design and Play a Game

Claude can generate playable games directly in your browser—no coding skills needed. Try this:

"Create a stealth-based game that is visual and interactive. The player must move from one side of the screen to the other without triggering any laser alarms."

5. Estimate Costs with AI

Need a quick budget estimate? Upload an image to Claude and use this prompt:

"Estimate the cost of designing a living room similar to the one in the attached image."

AI Tools to check out

🧠 Pieces: AI-powered Long-Term Memory for developers, capturing everything you work on across desktop apps, IDEs, browsers, and terminals.

🤖 Lindy: Build AI agents in minutes to automate workflows, save time, and grow your business.

📰 MGX: A multi-agent AI platform based on real software SOPs. Chat with the AI team leader, architect, engineer, and data analyst 24/7 to create websites, blogs, games and more.

🌐 Univerbal: Language learning with a conversational AI Tutor.

🌊 Video Ocean: Create stunning videos from text and images in minutes.

AI Findings/Resources

📚 GenAI Essentials – Full course for beginners

🎮 People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now

⭐ 5 LLM prompting techniques every developer should know

👩‍⚕️ Can ChatGPT really replace a therapist?

The latest in AI and Tech

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Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a Text-to-Speech generator with 450+ AI voices

The model, called Asyncflow v1.0, offers more than 450 AI voices that can narrate text. The startup claims its training and inference costs are significantly lower than those of competitors such as ElevenLabs and Speechify.

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Three arrested in Singapore over alleged Nvidia chip smuggling

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