Claude Can Finally Search the Web 🌐

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Claude finally joins the web search bandwagon, giving the chatbot access to real-time information. This move brings it up to speed with competitors like ChatGPT, who’ve had the feature for some time.

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

• Anthropic Adds Web Search to Its Claude Chatbot

• OpenAI Introduces New Audio Models with Customizable Speaking Styles

• AI Tutorial: How to create a custom voice from a text prompt

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

ANTHROPIC

Anthropic Adds Web Search to Its Claude Chatbot

Claude can now search the web, giving it access to the latest events and information to provide real-time, accurate details straight from the internet.

Details:

• Paid US users can now toggle on web search in their profiles, with plans to roll it out to free users and other countries in the coming weeks.

• Web search enables Claude to pull in up-to-date information and cite sources, making it easier to verify its answers.

• This was a highly demanded feature for Claude—so much so that some users even created their own workarounds to give the AI internet access.

• Anthropic attributes the delay to the challenges of integrating two complex systems: probabilistic language models and web search. This can sometimes lead to failures like Google’s AI Overviews confidently recommending putting glue on pizza after pulling information from troll Reddit comments.

Claude still hallucinates or mis-cites web sources, but Anthropic seems to put more effort into accuracy and transparency. This approach could set Claude apart, even though it led to them releasing their feature later than ChatGPT, Gemini, and Mistral’s Le Chat, who’ve had it for a long time.

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OPENAI

OpenAI Introduces New Audio Models with Customizable Speaking Styles

OpenAI is launching new speech-to-text and text-to-speech audio models in the API, enabling developers to customize how their AI assistants speak and offering improved speech recognition.

Details:

• The gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe models offer better speech-to-text accuracy, especially in tough conditions like accents, background noise, or fast speech.

• The gpt-4o-mini-tts model allows developers to fine-tune AI voices with simple prompts like “speak like a pirate” or “tell a bedtime story.”

• The system only works with OpenAI's preset artificial voices for now—developers can't create new voices or clone existing ones. The company plans to allow custom voices once it can ensure safety standards are met.

The models are available via OpenAI’s API, and developers can integrate them using the Agents SDK. They will also be available on a custom demo site, OpenAI.fm, that individual users can access for limited testing and fun.

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AI Tutorial

How to create a custom voice from a text prompt

ElevenLabs’ Voice Design allows you to generate a unique voice from a text prompt alone and for free, perfect for when the exact voice you're looking for isn’t available in the Voice Library.

1. Go to Eleven Labs, click on 'Design Voice Free,' and then click on 'Voices' in the left sidebar.

2. Click on 'My Voices' and select 'Add a new voice,' then choose 'Voice Design.'

3. Provide a detailed description of the voice, including age, accent, gender, and style.

4. Preview three AI-generated versions, choose your favorite, and assign it a name for immediate use.

*Note: You can check ElevenLabs' "Voice Design Prompt Guide" for help in creating the exact voice you want.

AI Tools to check out

💡 Superads: AI-powered creative analytics for marketers & creative teams.

🗣 Epiphany: AI voice tool to capture and action your ideas without missing a beat.

🌐 Genspark: An AI Agent engine where specialized AI agents perform research and generate custom pages called Sparkpages. Free from biases and SEO-driven content.

⭐ Sider: AI-powered tool that mimics how humans search, analyze, and synthesize, with multi-turn reflection.

🚀 Dazzle: Interactive PR platform that leverages AI to help you get top-tier media coverage.

AI Findings/Resources

🔍 AI is "tearing apart" companies, survey finds

🧠 AI will drive growth. But only Authentic Intelligence can empower the world

👀 Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding

🤔 Moore’s Law for AI agents

The latest in AI and Tech

Nvidia will spend hundreds of billions on US manufacturing

After Apple promised last month to invest $500 billion in the US, NVIDIA is also announcing a major investment. CEO Jensen Huang stated that the company expects to spend around half a trillion dollars on electronics, with several hundred billion of it allocated to US operations.

Apple is replacing the head of Siri

Apple has appointed Mike Rockwell to take over Siri after Tim Cook reportedly 'lost confidence' in the current AI head, John Giannandrea.

ChatGPT created a fake child murderer

A Norwegian man has filed a privacy complaint against OpenAI, claiming that ChatGPT falsely described him as a convicted murderer who killed two of his own children and attempted to kill a third.

Google rolls out AI-powered 'smart search' feature in Gmail

Google is introducing an optional AI-powered upgrade for Gmail’s search function. Instead of returning results solely in chronological order based on keywords, the new system will also consider factors like recency, most-clicked emails, and frequent contacts.

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