📖 OpenAI founding member launches AI education company

Good morning, OpenAI’s founding member Andrej Karpathy launches AI education company, Microsoft has made Designer app generally available, and more. Have a great week ahead.

OpenAI founding member launches AI education company

OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy has launched an AI education company called Eureka Labs. The company will use AI teaching assistants to support and expand course materials designed by human teachers. Edureka Labs first product will be an undergraduate-level class that will teach students to train their own AI systems modeled as smaller versions of the company’s teaching assistant.

OpenAI releases GPT-4o Mini, a cheaper version of GPT-4o

OpenAI has launched a cheaper and faster version of GPT-4o called GPT-4o mini. It is priced at 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output tokens, an order of magnitude more affordable than previous frontier models and more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo. GPT-4 mini out performs GPT-3.5 Turbo on wide range of tasks such as reasoning, mathematics and programming and multimodal reasoning. GPT-4o mini supports text and vision in the API, with support for text, image, video and audio inputs and outputs coming in the future.

The model has a context window of 128K tokens, supports up to 16K output tokens per request, and has knowledge up to October 2023. Thanks to the improved tokenizer shared with GPT-4o, handling non-English text is now even more cost effective.

AI gaming startup Artificial Agency has raised $16 million

Founded by former researchers of DeepMind, Artificial Agency is building AI to make Non Playable Characters (NPCs) feel more realistic in games. Traditionally, NPCs have been built using traditional AI technologies such as decision trees which gives them limited skills and capabilities. Using generative AI can extend their capabilities and make them feel more natural and dynamic inside games.

Microsoft’s Designer app is now generally available

After months in preview, Microsoft has made it’s AI powered Designer app generally available. Designer lets people generate images and designs with text prompts to create things like stickers, greeting cards, invitations, collages and more. Designer is now accessible in more than 80 languages on the web, available as a free mobile app and as an app in Windows.  

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