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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Google just stole OpenAI’s Voice Mode spotlight — launching its new Gemini Live with advanced conversational capabilities to the masses.
A new future of how we interact with AI is here, and it’s speaking loud and clear. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Google beats OpenAI in voice mode race
OpenAI redesigns coding benchmark
Bring images to life with Kling AI
Become a tennis pro with AI
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
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The Rundown: Google just launched Gemini Live, a mobile conversational AI with advanced voice capabilities, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode remains in its “limited alpha phase” and is not yet available to everyone.
The details:
Gemini Live, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, is capable of “in-depth“ hands-free conversations and has 10 different human-like voice options.
Users can interrupt and ask follow-up questions mid-response, mimicking natural conversation flow — however Gemini Live’s ability to see and respond to your camera view is planned later this year.
Similar to Apple’s upcoming Intelligence features, Gemini integrates directly with Google to provide context-aware answers without switching apps.
Gemini Live is now the default assistant on Google’s Pixel 9 and is available today to all Gemini Advanced subscribers on Android (coming to iOS soon).
Why it matters: Real-time voice is slowly shifting AI from a tool we text/prompt with, to an intelligence that we collaborate, learn, consult, and grow with. As the world’s anticipation for OpenAI’s unreleased products grows, Google has swooped in to steal the spotlight as the first to lead widespread advanced AI voice rollouts.
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OPENAI
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The Rundown: OpenAI and the authors of SWE-bench collaborated to redesign the popular software engineering benchmark and release ‘SWE-bench Verified’, a human-validated subset of the original benchmark.
The details:
SWE-bench Verified addresses issues in the original benchmark, such as overly specific unit tests and unreliable development environments that leads to incorrect assessments of AI performance.
The new subset includes 500 samples verified by human professional software developers to make evaluating models on SWE-bench easier and more reliable.
On SWE-bench Verified, GPT-4o figures out 33.2% of samples, and the best open-source scaffold, Agentless, doubles its previous score to 16%.
The leaderboard for SWE-bench Verified does not include Cosine’s Genie we wrote about yesterday, which shattered the high score on the old benchmark by over 10%.
Why it matters: Accurate benchmarking of AI in human-level tasks like coding is crucial for transparency and assessing AI risk. However, OpenAI's collab with SWE-bench is a double-edged sword — while it improves the benchmark, it also raises questions about potential conflicts of interest, especially with ‘Project Strawberry’ rumors heating up.
AI TRAINING
Image source: Kling AI
The Rundown: Kling AI's new image-to-video feature allows users to take static images, and turn them into dynamic videos, offering a new dimension to the AI video generator’s character consistency.
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Go to Kling AI and log in or sign up for free.
Click "AI Videos" on the dashboard, then select "Image to Video" on the top bar.
Upload your chosen image and write a prompt describing how you want the image animated.
Hit "Generate" and watch your image come to life!
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AI RESEARCH
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The Rundown: Researchers just created Match Point AI, a groundbreaking tennis simulation that pits AI agents against virtual pros, giving players data-driven tennis strategies and tools to help improve their game.
The details:
Match Point AI realistically models the complexities and uncertainties of real tennis, allowing AI to test new strategies in virtual games.
Early experiments show the AI rediscovering time-tested tennis strategies, like making opponents run, validating the framework’s ability to understand the sport.
By watching Match Point’s AI agents that mimic tennis legends like Novak Djokovic, players can learn the perfect strategies to optimize their game quickly and efficiently.
Why it matters: AI has long been trained to compete in games, but researchers usually focus on board and video games with straightforward mechanics. Match Point AI learns to make decisions in a real-world, complex sport, similar to how Google’s newest AI robot can play ping pong against intermediate players.
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QUICK HITS
Google unveiled Pixel Buds Pro 2 with a custom Tensor A1 chip, enhanced noise cancellation, and Gemini AI integration.
Stability AI and Midjourney face an ongoing copyright lawsuit as the court declined to dismiss copyright infringement claims against the companies.
AMD completed its $665 million acquisition of Silo AI, a European AI lab specializing in smart devices, autonomous vehicles, and more.
Canalys reported AI PCs accounted for 14% of all personal computers shipped in Q2, and Apple led the way with a 60% market share.
Huawei reportedly developed a rival AI chip, Ascend 910C, to compete with Nvidia’s H100 in China during U.S. sanctions.
Atlas AI partnered with Airbus to provide hyperlocal travel demand forecasts using AI analysis of satellite imagery.
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