. . AI: Top clicked AI news of the week (4.12.24)

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Marshall Kirkpatrick
April 12, 2024

Friends, Fridays are often slow news days, for news readers and news makers. Let’s take advantage of that slowness by checking out the hottest AI news stories of the past week; did you miss any of these?

Today’s biggest news is an improved version of GPT-4 Turbo, OpenAI’s second smartest model. The company says it will be more succinct and skilled now than it has been to date. We’ll keep an eye out over the rest of the day at weekend to see what else pops.

As always, we’re tracking thousands of news stories every day and highlighting the ones that the AI community is most engaged with. Thousands of you are now subscribed to these daily summaries, but my team and I are just getting started. I hope you’ll invite others to join us.

Now here’s what you clicked on most this past week.

-Marshall Kirkpatrick, Editor

That’s from Tuesday’s newsletter. See also Ethan Mollick’s excellent Substack post discussing this and related matters earlier this week.

(From Wednesday’s newsletter) The FT reports that OpenAI and Meta are preparing to launch new AI models, which they say will be capable of reasoning and planning. Meta plans to roll out Llama 3 in the coming weeks, while OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, indicates its next model, rumored to be called GPT-5, is coming soon. Reasoning is the crucial piece that today's models need to be significantly more capable, and the developments on this front are arguably the most important to track in the roadmap to AGI. [OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’]

Anthropic Launches Public Beta for AI Tool Use, Expanding Capabilities

(From last Friday’s newsletter) Anthropic has launched a public beta for the Claude API that allows Claude to interact with external tools using structured outputs, enabling it to perform tasks that require real-time data or complex computations, and even orchestrate Claude subagents for more granular tasks. Tools are a step forward in emulating complex and intelligent actions as they allow models to unlock basic levels of planning, goal setting and collaboration to achieve a desired outcome. Tool use is not yet available on third-party platforms like Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock, but the release says that it is coming soon. [Tool use (function calling)]

That was the last link in our Wednesday newsletter. Proof that just because we’ve shifted to only writing summaries of the top 2 or 3 stories each day - you’re still reading the other headlines below!

Thanks for that.

And thanks for joining us. More AI news on Monday!