OpenAI Plans to Release a New 'Open' AI Model 👀

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has teased a powerful new "open-weight" language model with advanced reasoning, a throwback to the company's original open vision.

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

• OpenAI Preparing to Launch New 'Open' AI Model

• Clinical Test Finds AI Can Offer Therapy Comparable to Certified Experts

• AI Tutorial: 6 Ways to Use ChatGPT's New Image AI

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Preparing to Launch New 'Open' AI Model

Sam Altman has just announced that OpenAI will release its first "open" language model since GPT-2 in 2019, "in the coming months."

Details:

• The upcoming open-weight model will have 'reasoning' capabilities similar to OpenAI’s o3-mini, and Altman emphasizes that the model will be released without restrictive terms of use.

• In a recent Reddit Q&A, Sam Altman stated that he believes OpenAI has been on the wrong side of history regarding the open-sourcing of its technologies.

• The company has also published a feedback form on its website, inviting "developers, researchers, and members of the broader community" to answer some questions in order to "gather input and make this model as useful as possible."  

After moving away from open source with GPT-3, OpenAI appears to be changing course, possibly due to increasing pressure from rivals like the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which have adopted an 'open' approach to launching models.

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AI RESEARCH

Clinical Test Finds AI Can Offer Therapy Comparable to Certified Experts

Dartmouth College experts recently conducted the first clinical trial of an AI therapy chatbot designed specifically for mental health assistance and found that, on average, individuals with diagnosed mental disorders experienced clinically significant improvements in their symptoms.

Details:

• The “Therabot” AI assistant was tested in the form of an app among participants diagnosed with serious mental health problems across the United States.

• The participants included adults diagnosed with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and those at high risk for eating disorders.

• After four to eight weeks of using the AI chatbot, they reported positive results and stated that the interactions were comparable to working with a mental health professional.

• The AI chatbot resulted in a 19% reduction in harmful thoughts about body image and weight issues for those at risk of eating disorders. It also led to a 31% decrease in generalized anxiety and a 51% average reduction in depression.

Researchers are optimistic about AI’s potential to improve access to critical help for those unable to access in-person healthcare. However, they acknowledge that more work is needed, as the margin for error in mental health counseling is much smaller, especially for individuals at risk of self-harm.

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AI Tutorial

6 Ways to Use ChatGPT's New Image AI

The new GPT-4o image generation can be used for more than just 'Ghiblifiying' everything. Now that it's available to all users, here are some use cases you can try:

1. Create YouTube thumbnails

You can also use it to extract assets from thumbnails:

2. Generate creative ads with simple prompts

Prompt: Creative ad from the 80s, Adidas

Prompt: Create BIC creative ad, add the pen as hair accessory used to tie models hair up. compelling messaging

3. Visualizing home renovation projects

4. Infographics

Prompt: Create step-by-step recipe infographic for creamy garlic mushroom pasta, top-down view, minimal style on white background, ingredient photos labeled: "200g spaghetti", "150g mushrooms", "3 garlic cloves", "200ml cream", "1 tbsp olive oil", "parmesan", "parsley", dotted lines showing process steps with icons (boiling pot, sauté pan, mixing), final plated pasta shot at the bottom

5. Create character animation sprite sheets for games

Prompt: Create a detailed pixel art frame animation for a game, where the final image is divided into multiple sub-images, each serving as a continuous animation keyframe. Design the sequence to depict [a wizard casting a spell: begin with intricate hand motions, then show the wizard conjuring a vibrant fireball, and finally capture the moment of casting the fireball.] Ensure the keyframes transition smoothly and continuously, and include as many frames as possible to achieve a high level of fluidity and detail in the animation.

6. Make comics/ webtoons

Prompt: Create an image of a developer waking up early in a comic book story

The upgraded image generation is now better at maintaining consistency and rendering text accurately.

AI Tools to check out

🗣 Murf: Turn any text into expressive speech with Text-to-Speech API, delivering a pronunciation accuracy of 99.38%.

🎨 Raphael AI: Create stunning AI-generated images in seconds—free and no login required.

👉 OpenLIT: Open source platform for AI engineering.

 🐼 PromptPand: Centralize your prompts, maximize efficiency, ensure consistent output quality, and empower seamless team collaboration.

🔍 Needle: Enable AI-search across all your data in seconds.

AI Findings/Resources

💼 How to use AI to get a job interview and nail it

⚗️ What is AI Distillation?

🤔 6 Reasons to use Claude instead of ChatGPT

🔮 5 reasons Google’s AI note-taking tool is the future of productivity

⭐ AI was enemy No. 1 during Hollywood strikes. Now it's in Oscar-winning films

The latest in AI and Tech

OpenAI closes $40B funding round

OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a new investment round led by SoftBank, vaulting the company to a $300 billion valuation.

It’s the largest funding round for a private tech company in history.

Apple brings Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro

The new features include writing tools for text editing, Image Playground for AI-generated images, and natural language search for photos. The update also brings a new Spatial Gallery app and improvements for managing notifications.

Microsoft brings more AI features to AMD, Intel-powered Copilot Plus PCs

Microsoft is introducing tools like Live Captions that provide real-time translations of audio into English subtitles and Cocreator in Paint, which generates images from text descriptions and drawings.

These features were previously exclusive to Qualcomm-powered devices. Additionally, updates to Voice Access will enhance voice control capabilities for users.

Isomorphic raises $600M

Isomorphic Labs, Google’s AI drug business, raised $600 million in its first external funding round, led by Thrive Capital.

The London-based company’s ultimate goal is to 'solve all disease' with the help of AI, according to its website.

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