Jony Ive confirms he’s working on a new device with OpenAI
“The project only has 10 employees currently, but they include Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, two key people who worked with Ive on the iPhone. LoveFrom, Ive’s company, is leading the device’s design, according to the report. The team is reportedly now working out of a 32,000-square-foot office building in San Francisco, part of a $90 million strip of real estate that Ive has bought up on single city block.”
Why OpenAI’s new model is such a big deal
“Last week OpenAI released a new model called o1 (previously referred to under the code name ‘Strawberry’ and, before that, Q*) that blows GPT-4o out of the water for this type of purpose. Unlike previous models that are well suited for language tasks like writing and editing, OpenAI o1 is focused on multistep ‘reasoning,’ the type of process required for advanced mathematics, coding, or other STEM-based questions. It uses a ‘chain of thought’ technique, according to OpenAI. ‘It learns to recognize and correct its mistakes. It learns to break down tricky steps into simpler ones. It learns to try a different approach when the current one isn’t working,’ the company wrote in a blog post on its website.”
At TIME100 Impact Dinner, AI Leaders Talk Reshaping the Future of AI
“‘The question of ‘what kind of AI we want’ is really an opening to revisit the more fundamental question of ‘what is the kind of world we want, and how can AI get us there?’ Kak said. She highlighted the importance of democratizing AI decision-making, ensuring that those affected by AI systems have a say in their deployment.”
Why We Aren’t Getting The AI Governance Thing Right (Yet)
“Do you see what happened recently that didn’t in the millennia before? Demand. Through rising awareness and falling costs, AI became …what?…hot! The market overtook the laboratory, and the race was on. And in a race between innovation and governance, it’s innovation that always comes out of the blocks first, with governance left to catch up.”
How Meta’s Quest 3s could spell disaster for the Apple Vision Pro
“This past week alone moved the needle with a new generation of AR glasses from Snap and a new headset from HTC. Last week Pico, which is owned by ByteDance, also released a headset. For other product categories, three notable releases in such a short span may not seem like a lot. But in mixed reality, it’s a fever pitch. And the excitement likely won’t stop there. This upcoming week, the XR needle should move even further, with Meta releasing its cheaper Quest 3s mixed reality headset.”