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:

• DeepSeek’s Open-Source R1 Beats OpenAI o1

• OpenAI May Soon Automate Your PC Tasks

• Samsung Brings AI-Powered Displays to Classrooms

• Google Rolling Out Redesigned Gemini Overlay

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s Open-Source R1 Beats OpenAI o1

The Gist: DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning LLM from Chinese startup DeepSeek, matches OpenAI's o1 in performance on complex tasks while being up to 95% cheaper and fully open-source.

Key Details:

• DeepSeek-R1 scores highly in math, coding, and reasoning tasks, achieving near-parity with OpenAI's o1 across benchmarks.

• Built using reinforcement learning and fine-tuning, it evolves its reasoning abilities with advanced training methods.

• It is significantly more affordable, costing just $0.55 per million input tokens compared to OpenAI’s $15.

• The model and its code are fully open-source, available on Hugging Face for community access and integration.

OpenAI

OpenAI May Soon Automate Your PC Tasks

The Gist: OpenAI is reportedly working on an "Operator" tool, found hidden in the ChatGPT macOS app, that could handle multi-step tasks and control your PC, making everyday workflows more efficient.

Key Details:

• Operator appears to be an agentic AI capable of managing complex, multi-step tasks, like automating spreadsheets or booking travel plans.

• Hidden shortcuts for "Toggle Operator" and "Force Quit Operator" were discovered in the ChatGPT macOS app.

• The tool could bring automation similar to other AI systems but integrated directly into OpenAI's ecosystem.

• It’s unclear whether Operator will be macOS-exclusive or rolled out to Windows users as well.

Samsung

Samsung Brings AI-Powered Interactive Displays to Classrooms

The Gist: Samsung unveiled its new WAFX-P Interactive Displays with AI features, designed to enhance learning experiences in classrooms with tools like lesson summaries, voice transcription, and interactive search.

Key Details:

• The WAFX-P model introduces AI features: AI Summary for lesson reviews, Circle to Search for contextual searches, and Live Transcript for converting voice to text.

• Runs Android 15, integrates with Google Classroom and Drive, and is EDLA-certified in partnership with Google.

• Available in 65-inch, 75-inch, and 85-inch sizes with 4K resolution, an NPU (4.8 TOPS), 16GB RAM, and a 128GB SSD.

• Samsung plans to bring AI features from this year's displays to earlier models, aiming to transform classroom learning globally.

Quick Gist

Microsoft has launched a new engineering group, Core AI — Platform and Tools to develop an AI platform and tools for internal and customer use, emphasizing AI integration within Azure (Read More).

Google launched the Vertex AI RAG Engine, a managed service designed to enhance large language models by enabling easier integration with external data sources (Read More).

Google launched Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, an AI reasoning model for multimodal tasks, emphasizing improved reasoning (Read More).

Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, aims to advance AI-designed drugs into clinical trials by the end of 2025 (Read More).

OpenAI's Sam Altman announced the upcoming release of the o3 mini reasoning model, set to ship alongside a new API and ChatGPT by late January 2025 (Read More).

Apple is set to enhance its Mail app with AI features in the upcoming macOS 15.4 update, including message prioritization and sorting (Read More).

Google is rolling out a redesigned Gemini overlay on Android that simplifies its interface by reducing visual elements and reorganizing shortcuts (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!