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Before diving in, a quick note: this is our final edition before we head into a much-needed, week-long holiday break! We'll be back refreshed and ready to bring you more AI insights soon. 🎉

In today’s edition:

• Google Reveals New AI “Reasoning” Model

• Instagram Teases AI Video Editing Tools

• ChatGPT for macOS Expands to Apple Notes and More Apps

• Elon Musk's xAI Released an Upgraded Grok 2

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

Google

Google Reveals New AI “Reasoning” Model

The Gist: Google’s experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model answers complex questions by breaking them into steps and sharing its “thought process,” setting a new benchmark in AI reasoning.

Key Details:

• Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is designed to explicitly show the steps it uses to reach conclusions.

• A demo highlights its ability to solve physics problems by “thinking” through smaller tasks.

• The model handles visual and textual inputs, showcasing advanced reasoning capabilities.

• It is currently available for testing on Google’s AI Studio platform.

Instagram

Instagram Teases AI Video Editing Tools

The Gist: Instagram is introducing generative AI editing features next year, powered by Meta’s Movie Gen AI model, allowing users to transform videos with simple text prompts.

Key Details:

• The tools let creators edit nearly any aspect of their videos, from backgrounds to outfits, with a text prompt.

• Early previews show seamless adjustments, such as adding objects, changing appearances, or altering settings without distorting motion.

• Meta’s Movie Gen AI focuses on preserving human identity and movement in edits.

• The feature will debut on Instagram, with no confirmed release date for the broader Movie Gen AI rollout.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT for macOS Expands to Apple Notes and More Apps

The Gist: OpenAI’s ChatGPT for macOS now supports Apple Notes, Notion, and a host of third-party apps, offering enhanced functionality for productivity and development.

Key Details:

• Newly supported apps include Apple Notes, Notion, Quip, BBEdit, Android Studio, and JetBrains IDEs like PyCharm and IntelliJ IDEA.

• The app can read and interact with content from multiple apps simultaneously, streamlining workflows for developers and creators.

• Users have full control over app permissions and data privacy, ensuring transparency and security.

• These features are available only to paid ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Team, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers.

Quick Gist

Google plans to introduce an AI Mode in its Search page, enabling conversational chatbot responses alongside traditional links to external websites (Read More).

Microsoft's Bing Image Creator now uses the DALL-E 3 model, offering faster image generation and new features like streamlined interfaces and direct creation from Edge's address bar (Read More).

Elon Musk's xAI released an upgraded Grok 2 chatbot model with enhanced conversational capabilities and a new "Grok Button" for faster access (Read More).

Google DeepMind and UC Berkeley introduced the ViLex model, which enhances multimodal applications by encoding detailed visual information into text tokens for improved semantic and pixel-level understanding (Read More).

Apptronik and Google DeepMind partnered to advance humanoid robotics, combining expertise to improve AI-powered robots' functionality in dynamic environments (Read More).

OpenAI is reportedly developing the "o3" model to enhance query reasoning, following the launch of its o1 model and in response to competition from Google's Gemini 2.0 (Read More).

OpenAI released a beta update for ChatGPT on macOS, introducing coding tool integrations, advanced voice commands, and new features for ChatGPT Plus subscribers (Read More).

Perplexity raised $500 million in a funding round, valuing the OpenAI rival at approximately $9 billion as it strengthens its position in the AI market (Read More).

Apple's new AI feature for summarizing notifications faced backlash for inaccuracies, including misrepresentation of high-profile incidents involving Brian Thompson's murder and Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest (Read More).

GitHub launched a new free tier for its Copilot AI coding assistant in Visual Studio Code, offering limited access for occasional developers (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!