Unlock AI: Shape the Future – XI Edition
?? Welcome to this new edition of the newsletter that keep you update about the AI ecosystem!
This week, we dive into the latest AI technology innovations that are shaping these first months of 2025. Highlights include new developments from OpenAI and Google, as well as a very promising voice model and a new approach to language models .
The future is happening now, and it is our commitment to help you lead it with confidence and information, so that you are constantly aware of what is happening in this dizzying and unstoppable technological ecosystem of AI.
Here's what we've prepared especially for you in this new edition:
?? Topic of the Week: GPT-4.5?
A New Artificial Intelligence Model? OpenAI has officially released GPT-4.5, an update to its popular AI model GPT. With improvements in capacity response processing, and a less cold and distant "personality" than GPT 4, GPT-4.5 is possibly OpenAI's last major model trained in a purely scaling approach; the next version should be a combination of the GPT series with OpenAI's "reasoning models" series.
?? It Happened in AI: The Most Important News
NextGenAI Project: Innovation and Education with AI
OpenAI has announced NextGenAI, a global consortium focused on developing projects that focus on the field of research and education. The initiative brings together universities, research centers and companies to accelerate specific projects in this area with higher education institutions in the US and Europe
Data Science Agent at Colab with Gemini
Google has integrated Gemini as an intelligent agent directly into Colab, radically simplifying the data analysis process. With this new feature, users can interact intuitively with large data sets, receiving immediate and accurate insights, even without in-depth programming knowledge.
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Microsoft Dragon Copilot: AI at the Service of Health
Microsoft has unveiled Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant specially developed for the healthcare sector. The tool promises to allow healthcare professionals to document appointments, consult clinical information and automate administrative tasks using only voice commands, drastically increasing efficiency and boosting time for more personal and caring service for patients.
Estonia Integrates ChatGPT in Schools
Estonia is taking another step in digital pioneering by officially integrating ChatGPT into its schools, using it as a pedagogical tool to boost personalized learning and improve students' digital literacy. This decision could serve as an example for other countries to adopt similar solutions.
Sesame: Realistic and Natural Conversational Voices
Sesame has presented a new model that promises to overcome the famous "uncanny valley" in the context of conversational voice. Its innovative approach allows AI-generated voices to be almost indistinguishable from real human voices, opening doors to more natural interactions in digital applications, customer service and virtual interfaces.
Inception Labs: A New Era of Language Models
Inception Labs has unveiled a new generation of language models with an approach focused on the technique of models used for image and video generation, diffusion models. It is presented as an alternative to the well-known LLMs, which generate tokens according to a certain sequence, while these models develop text generation with a more contextualized approach to the entire textual context, allowing for faster text generation, for example, and are also expected to be more capable and efficient than the current LLM approach.
Sora arrives in Europe: AI-generated video now available
OpenAI has made Sora available in the European Union, allowing users of ChatGPT's Plus and Pro plans to turn text into high-quality videos, opening doors to new creative forms of visual communication in multiple sectors, from education to advertising.
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NotebookLM: Innovation in Academic Research
The NotebookLM tool is changing the paradigm of academic research, allowing researchers to organize, analyze and synthesize large amounts of information with artificial intelligence, increasing productivity and the quality of scientific work. In this article, Steven Johnson explains how to use this Google tool as a research tool.
Microsoft Copilot: Think Deeper and Voice Now Free and Unlimited
Microsoft has announced that the advanced features "Think Deeper" and "Voice" will now be available for free and unlimitedly, enabling deeper and more natural interactions with AI in various professional and personal applications.
?? Quick Tip of the Week: Quick Action Prompt For quick and practical results in ChatGPT, use this direct prompt:
"You have ONE chance to give me the most efficient, step-by-step guide to [X]. No frills, no philosophy - just pure action. Impress me."
? Question of the Week: With the latest updates from OpenAI and Google, are we facing a new era where GPT-4 has become outdated, or will it continue to be relevant due to its versatility?
Share your opinion with us and contribute to this important reflection? on artificial intelligence!
?? See you next time! Let's continue together to decipher AI and lead tomorrow!