Welcome to Get The Gist, where every weekday we share an easy-to-read summary of the latest and greatest developments in AI—news, innovations, and trends—all delivered in under 5 minutes! ⏱

In today’s edition:

• AMD's New AI Chip Takes Aim at NVIDIA's Blackwell

• Tesla Reveals Autonomous Robotaxi and Robovan

• SearchGPT To Integrate Into ChatGPT By End Of Year

• Google Photos to Help Users Identify AI-Created Images

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

AMD

AMD's New AI Chip Takes Aim at NVIDIA's Blackwell

The Gist: AMD has launched its latest AI chip, the Instinct MI325X, in a bold bid to challenge NVIDIA's dominance in data center GPUs. The MI325X promises superior performance, aiming to shake up the competitive landscape and NVIDIA’s pricing power.

Key Details:

• The Instinct MI325X boasts 256GB of memory and higher bandwidth than NVIDIA’s H200, claiming up to 1.4x better AI performance on select models.

• AMD is targeting the growing AI chip market, expected to reach $500 billion by 2028, with hopes of cutting into NVIDIA's market share.

• AMD is speeding up its chip development cycle, with plans for yearly releases like the MI350 in 2025 and MI400 in 2026.

• To win over AI developers, AMD is enhancing its ROCm software to compete with NVIDIA’s CUDA, aiming to capture more AI workloads in content generation and prediction tasks.

Tesla

Tesla Reveals Autonomous Robotaxi and Robovan

The Gist: Tesla introduced its self-driving Robotaxi and Robovan at a major event, setting the stage for a 2025 launch of fully autonomous vehicles in select states. CEO Elon Musk envisions a futuristic, efficient world powered by AI, with affordable robotic solutions reshaping daily life.

Key Details:

• Tesla’s fully autonomous Robotaxi and Robovan will start rolling out in 2025, with plans for mass production by 2026 and a price tag under $30,000.

• The Robovan can transport up to 20 people or goods, emphasizing Tesla's ambition to revolutionize transportation.

• Powered by AI and computer vision, Tesla claims their autonomous driving system is 10 to 30 times safer than human drivers, without needing expensive hardware.

• Musk also showcased Optimus robots, predicting they will handle various tasks and become affordable at $20,000 to $30,000, creating an "age of abundance" with lower costs for products and services.

OpenAI

SearchGPT To Integrate Into ChatGPT By End Of Year

The Gist: OpenAI plans to integrate its SearchGPT feature into ChatGPT by the end of the year but doesn’t intend to share ad revenue with publishers whose content it uses. Instead, OpenAI aims to drive more traffic to publishers in exchange for their content.

Key Details:

• OpenAI's head of media partnerships, Varun Shetty, emphasized that while there’s no ad revenue sharing, publishers will benefit from increased traffic through correct content attribution.

• Other tech companies, like Google and Microsoft, have established revenue-sharing models with publishers in various regions, while OpenAI has yet to announce similar plans.

• OpenAI aims to support journalism by driving traffic, helping journalists with tools like story recommendations and photo selection, but does not plan to replace human-generated news.

• SearchGPT currently has about 10,000 U.S. users but generates more referral traffic than competitors like Perplexity, according to SEO data.

Quick Gist

Google Photos is testing new metadata tags to identify and organize AI-generated images, enhancing the platform's capability to manage digital content (Read More).

Microsoft unveiled new generative AI tools for the healthcare sector, including a healthcare agent service and advanced models for medical imaging analysis, ahead of the HLTH 2024 conference (Read More).

AMD launched its Ryzen AI Pro 300-series processors for business PCs, featuring advanced AI capabilities, improved performance, and support for Microsoft Copilot+, set for adoption by HP and Lenovo (Read More).

The U.S. Justice Department aims to leverage a court ruling against Google's monopoly in online search to implement regulatory changes addressing the company's dominance in the emerging generative AI market (Read More).

OpenAI is enhancing its influencer strategy by hiring a "Head of Internet Creators" to build relationships with creatives and address backlash over its use of copyrighted content, while also developing tools to manage creator consent for model training (Read More).

Uber is partnering with OpenAI to develop a ChatGPT-based AI assistant that will help drivers transition to electric vehicles by providing tailored guidance on EV ownership and local incentives (Read More).

TikTok has laid off hundreds of global employees, primarily in Malaysia, as part of its strategy to enhance AI-driven content moderation (Read More).

Intel launched its Core Ultra 200S series processors, the first desktop chips designed specifically for AI workloads, featuring a dedicated neural processing unit and significant performance enhancements set for release on October 24 (Read More).

Researchers at UCL and UCLH have created an AI tool for analyzing brain tumor scans in three seconds, which could enhance treatment personalization and potentially save the NHS over £1.5 million within three years (Read More).

Meta is expanding its AI chatbot, Meta AI, to 21 new markets, aiming to support over a dozen languages and compete with OpenAI and Google by reaching 43 countries by the end of 2024 (Read More).

Google has launched free access to its Imagen 3 text-to-image model through its Gemini chatbot, enhancing AI integration in its apps while potentially disappointing recent Pixel 9 buyers (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!