🏪 GPT Store Launches (and you can profit)

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Business Bloopers
January 11, 2024

Hello Friends,

It’s starting to seem that every AI tool out there (including physical ones) will be, and is, powered by OpenAI or ChatGPT. Find out for yourself…

🧵 In today's edition:

  • 🏪 OpenAI’s GPT Store just launched and you can profit from it

  • 🚗 Volkswagen integrating ChatGPT into cars via voice AI

  • 🤖 Google facing $1.67B in damages in AI-related trial

  • ❤️ My favourite AI tools this week

  • 🌍 AI News Roundup

  • 🐦 That’s a wrap

Read Time: 5 min

LATEST ADVANCEMENTS

The Bloopers: OpenAI has just launched its previously teased GPT store, the company just announced in an email to developers — allowing users to easily share, discover, and profit from custom GPT creations.

The details:

  • Originally scheduled for November, the GPT Store faced delays amid leadership changes at OpenAI.

  • OpenAI has hinted at a revenue-sharing model based on community engagement, giving creators the chance to earn from their custom GPTs.

  • A leaderboard will surface the top GPTs in the store, with OpenAI also spotlighting ‘the most useful and delightful’ creations in various categories.

  • The GPT builder won't have access to shared chats, and users can choose to keep their GPTs private and internal.

My Thoughts: Could this be the GPT version of the App Store? The discoverability and revenue sharing of a GPT Store will open a brand new distribution platform for creators — enabling a new wave of AI builders (and encouraging others to build on OpenAI’s platform).

The Bloopers: Volkswagen just announced its plan to incorporate ChatGPT into upcoming car models using the IDA voice assistant, enabling drivers to interact with the AI chatbot hands-free for information and entertainment.

The Details:

  • Volkswagen is teaming up with Cerence to make this happen, leveraging their Chat Pro software for tailored ChatGPT vehicle integrations.

  • You can access ChatGPT responses through the IDA assistant, activated either by voice command or the steering wheel button.

  • The rollout is set to kick off in the second quarter of this year, initially reaching VW's electric vehicle models in Europe through cloud updates. There's a possibility of extending this tech to U.S. markets, but that's still up in the air.

Why It Matters: Volkswagen joins the ranks of automakers embracing AI advancements with the integration of ChatGPT. The use of straightforward cloud updates makes it a trend that more companies may adopt in the near future.

The Bloopers: Google reportedly faces $1.67B in damages after infringing on patents owned by Singular Computing, adding more legislative concerns for AI companies across the board.

The Details:

  • The patents supposedly cover the processors fueling Google's AI technology/models, with claims that Google replicated Bates's (owner of Singular Computing) technology after discussions aimed at solving AI development challenges.

  • Specifically, Bates argues that Google copied his TPUs' design, while Google argues its chips were independently designed and significantly differ from what's described in Singular's patents.

  • The TPUs in question were used to “support AI features in Google Search, Gmail, and Google Translate”. Furthermore, internal emails show Google’s now Chief Scientist writing “Bates’s ideas could be really well suited” for what Google was developing.

My Thoughts: The ongoing legal battle between AI companies shows no signs of slowing down. Simultaneous to this case, OpenAI is also entangled in a legal tussle with The New York Times over copyright material. What next?

❤️ MY FAVOURITE AI TOOLS THIS WEEK

📸 Aragon - Helps to create realistic AI photos of yourself that look like they were taken by a professional photographer. (Link)

🥋 Pixite - Offers AI-driven custom clothing design and printing. (Link)

🛜 Meet Kai- Combining AI and the Metaverse for a new way to interact with the web (link)

📦 Luma Genie 1.0- Text-to-3D model generator with HD materials (link)

✳️ PocketAI- ChatGPT-based AI for WhatsApp (link)

🌎 AI NEWS ROUNDUP

  • At CES 2024 Rabbit Tech revealed the Rabbit R1, a $199 AI-powered gadget, designed to function as a universal app controller.

  • The R1 can perform tasks across different apps by learning from human interactions, such as “Book me an Uber to X location” or “Play me Y playlist on Spotify”, and will supposedly become more useful over time as it learns the user.

  • Unlike a typical smartphone, it features a 2.88-inch touchscreen, a rotating camera, and a unique scroll wheel/button for navigation (designed by Teenage Engineering).

  • Walmart unveiled a host of new AI features at CES 2024, including a generative AI search tool and AI-driven replenishment capabilities.

  • The search feature, first on iOS, allows customers to search for products based on use cases, not just specific items—thus increasing the intuitiveness of their offering.

  • Lastly, they’re also testing an AI-powered replenishment system within its InHome service, automating shopping carts for frequently ordered items (increasing convenience).

  • OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Team—a new plan designed to enhance workplace productivity by providing teams with advanced AI tools.

  • Key features include access to GPT-4 and DALL·E 3, Advanced Data Analysis, a dedicated workspace, and admin management tools.

  • Unique selling points are the ability to create custom GPTs, early access to new features, and a commitment to data privacy all for $25 USD per month (business data and conversations are not used for model training)

  • Researchers used AI to create a new battery material, using 70% less lithium, which could alleviate environmental and cost issues associated with lithium mining.

  • The AI system evaluated over 23.6 million candidate materials for the battery's electrolyte, ultimately identifying a promising new composition that replaces some lithium atoms with sodium, offering a novel approach to battery design.

  • The project was completed in just nine months from initial concept to a working prototype.

💭 Quote of the Week 

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Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever have to make

Nick Bostrom

A lot has happened this week, the GPT store launch, GPT in cars, GPT-4 Turbo in Copilot. It sounds like everything is powered by OpenAI (ChatGPT). This puts in to perspective how powerful OpenAI is as an industry leader. They are absolutely ahead of everyone, if the Open AI servers go down, then a ton of other AI tools will be going down alongside them. OpenAI holds so so so much power in the AI world so lets just hope that nothing goes sideways.

Anyways, have a great weekend to you all.

And as always

Keep Embracing the Future, One Byte at a Time! 🔄

See you next week

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