📱 iPhone 16: Your pocket AI powerhouse?

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Here is what we have Today:

  • Your Pocket AI Companion
    Apple glow its AI superpowers with iPhone 16.

  • OpenAI GPT Roadmap: More fiction than fact

    ‘GPT NEXT’ timelines revealed as placeholders

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  • Chai Discovery, a six-month-old AI biology startup founded by ex-OpenAI and Meta researchers backed by OpenAI and Thrive Capital raised $30 million to develop AI models for drug discovery.

  • AI ideas are judged as more novel, though slightly less feasible, than those from human experts, researchers found in a study comparing AI-generated research ideas in natural language processing (NLP)

  • OpenAI has revealed that the “GPT Next” timelines previously shared are more of a placeholder than a promise. Despite high-profile projections from OpenAI Japan and Microsoft, these slides merely sketch out potential advancements rather than precise plans.

  • Apple has revealed the launch date for iOS 18 — the update, will add new ways to customize your iPhone’s homescreen and lockscreen, arrives on September 16th.

  • Allen Institute of AI (AI2) released OLMoE, a new open-source model that hopes to answer the need for a large language model (LLM) that is both a strong performer and cost-effective — leverages a sparse mixture of experts (MoE) architecture and has 7 billion parameters.

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Apple

Apple unveiled the iPhone 16, designed for “Apple Intelligence” as it comes with the A18 chip, which powers Apple Intelligence (making it 30% faster than the iPhone 15) to transform how users interact with their devices.

Source: Apple

What AI powers does it have?

  • Writing Tools: AI rewrites emails, creates custom emojis, and edits text anywhere

  • Photos and Videos: Natural language search for finding specific media

  • Priority and Focus: AI summarizes emails and prioritizes notifications

  • Visual Intelligence: On-device image analysis with third-party tool integration

  • Enhanced Siri: Better natural language understanding and contextual responses

How does it change user interaction?

  • Transforms how users communicate and manage information

  • Streamlines content creation and editing processes

  • Improves focus by prioritizing important information

  • Enhances photo and video management with smart search

What about privacy?

  • On-device AI analysis for images, ensuring data privacy

  • Integration with third-party tools like ChatGPT, maintaining user control

Why is this significant?

  • Marks Apple's serious entry into consumer-facing generative AI

  • Brings advanced AI capabilities to millions of users

  • Positions Apple as a major player in the AI race against Google and others

What's next for Apple and AI?

  • Potential for further AI integration across Apple's ecosystem

  • Possible advancements in Apple's own AI models

  • Increased competition in the smartphone AI space

This launch signifies Apple's commitment to AI, potentially reshaping the smartphone industry and user expectations for mobile intelligence.

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