The GPT Store is Now Live 🔥

+ ByteDance's MagicVideo-V2 Raises the Bar in AI Video Tech

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

After delays, OpenAI finally opens the GPT sharing platform where users can share their custom chatbots. Meanwhile, the evolving landscape of AI-driven video generation was shaken by the release of ByteDance's MagicVideo-V2.

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

  • OpenAI Launches GPT Store and New Subscription Tier 🔥

  • ByteDance's MagicVideo-V2 Raises the Bar in AI Video Tech

  • AI Research: AI Powers Discovery of Novel Battery Material

  • Trending AI Tool of the day: Increase your coding productivity with Codara

  • AI Image of The Day🎨: Photostrips

  • The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Launches GPT Store and New Subscription Tier 🔥

Source: OpenAI

OpenAI has been making waves again with two major product launches that open up intriguing new possibilities:

  • The long-awaited GPT Store has finally opened, allowing anyone to create and share custom chatbots. GPT builders will be compensated based on user engagement through a revenue program launching in Q1.

  • The ChatGPT Team subscription is a new tier, offering a more affordable alternative to ChatGPT Enterprise. It is priced at $25-$30 per month. The plan offers:

    • GPT-4 with larger context window (32,000-token)

    • Higher daily message limit

    • Data privacy assurances

    • Ability to build & share custom internal GPT models

    • Early access to new features

These launches show OpenAI's efforts to foster an ecosystem of GPT-powered apps while also making the technology more accessible to smaller organizations.

BYTEDANCE

ByteDance's MagicVideo-V2 Raises the Bar in AI Video Tech

Source: ByteDance

ByteDance unveils MagicVideo-V2, an AI-powered video generation model that achieves new heights in synthesizing high-quality video content from text descriptions. This new offering demonstrates superior performance compared to alternatives such as Pika 1.0 and SVD-XT.

Details:

  • It integrates the text-to-image model, video motion generator, reference image embedding module and frame interpolation module into an end-to-end video generation pipeline.

Source: Bytedance

  • This enables the creation of aesthetically pleasing, high-resolution videos with remarkable fidelity and smoothness, surpassing competitors in handling intricate details and dynamic scenes.

Source: ByteDance

The arrival of MagicVideo-V2 represents a major leap forwards for AI-driven video synthesis. As models continue to evolve, video generation technologies will unlock new creative horizons and radically transform how video content is produced.

AI RESEARCH

AI Powers Discovery of Novel Battery Material

Source: Microsoft

Researchers from Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have utilized AI to uncover a new material that could significantly reduce lithium usage in batteries. This breakthrough demonstrates the power of AI for accelerating scientific progress.

Details:

  • AI screening identified the novel material out of 32 million candidates in under a week - a process that would have taken over 20 years via traditional techniques

  • The material was rapidly advanced from inception to a working prototype in only 9 months

  • It has the potential to cut lithium usage by up to 70% for lithium-ion batteries

  • This could mitigate lithium supply issues and ease the environmental impacts of lithium mining

The efficiency of this discovery pipeline from AI screening to functional prototype represents a shift towards AI-driven advancement of science and technology. Microsoft aims to compress centuries of traditional discovery into decades by leveraging such techniques.

Trending AI Tool

Increase your coding productivity with Codara

Source: Codara

Codara provides AI code reviews and AI code diagnosis for code errors to help diagnose issues while developing.

Features:

  • Real-Time Feedback

  • Team-Centric Approach: Facilitates team collaboration

  • Data Privacy Assured

Check this AI tool here

AI Image of The Day

Photostrips

Send your AI-generated images for a chance to get published here: [email protected]

Source: @Mr_AllenT on X

The latest in AI and Tech

R1 Rabbit AI Device hops off shelves

Source: Rabbit

Rabbit's new R1 pocket AI companion has proven enormously popular, with over 10,000 units sold on the first day of preorders alone. Additional production runs are already being prepared to meet demand after the device's smash debut at CES 2024. Though currently sold out, you can still preorder the R1 device from Rabbit’s website, the expected delivery date is between April and May 2024.

AI-Generated misinformation named top short-term threat

A new report warns that AI-powered misinformation poses the most severe global risk over the next two years. Rapid advances in generative AI could allow nearly anyone to create sophisticated, manipulated content to deceive large groups. This comes just as billions are set to vote in major elections across several countries. The report from the World Economic Forum, released ahead of Davos, highlights growing alarm over emerging technologies like ChatGPT that could supercharge the spread of falsities.

Microsoft dethrones Apple as the world's most valuable company

Microsoft overtook Apple as the world's most valuable company on Thursday, the first time it has held the top spot since 2021. Shares of Microsoft closed 1.6% higher, giving it a market capitalization of $2.875 trillion. In contrast, concerns over slowing iPhone demand weighed on Apple stock, which slid 0.9% lower, valuing the iPhone maker at $2.871 trillion. According to D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria, Microsoft's faster growth rate and potential to benefit from generative AI gave it the edge to unseat Apple.

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