Apple 🤝 ChatGPT

🧵 In today's edition:

• 💻️ Computer-using AI agents

• Apple 🤝 ChatGPT 

• 🖼️ Stable Diffusion 3.5

• 🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

• 🐦 Tweet Post of the Day

💻️ Computer-using AI agents

Anthropic continues to make headlines in the AI space by unveiling AI agents that can operate computers - just like humans do. 

Why is this a big deal?

• Well, for starters, this positions Anthropic as a serious contender in the competitive AI landscape alongside tech giants like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.

• The company's new Computer Use capability, integrated into its latest AI models, enables its technology to perform complex tasks by interpreting screen content, clicking buttons, entering text, and navigating websites in real-time. 

• According to Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's Chief Science Officer, these agents can handle tasks requiring "tens or even hundreds of steps."

• This advancement moves beyond traditional chatbot functionality, with potential applications including booking flights, scheduling appointments, filling out forms, conducting research, and managing expense reports. 

• Major companies, including Amazon, Asana, Canva, and Notion, have already had early access to the tool, which is now available in public beta for developers.

The announcement comes amid Anthropic's rapid expansion in 2024, which has included launching mobile apps, introducing Claude Enterprise for businesses, and expanding internationally. The company has attracted significant investment from tech giants including Google, Salesforce, and Amazon, establishing itself as a major player in the AI industry.

Overall: These AI agents represent the next evolution beyond basic chatbots and image generators, designed specifically for productivity and complex task completion. As Scott White, an Anthropic product manager, noted, we're "moving to a world where these models will behave much more like virtual collaborators than virtual assistants."

The development arrives at a crucial time in the AI industry, with the market predicted to exceed $1 trillion in revenue within a decade. While currently in beta for developers, Anthropic plans to roll out these capabilities to consumers and enterprise clients in early 2025, marking another milestone in the race to develop more capable and practical AI solutions.

Read more: CNBC

Apple 🤝 ChatGPT

Apple has officially released a beta version of its Apple Intelligence features, including the highly anticipated ChatGPT integration, as part of a preview for developers in iOS 18.2 beta. 

• The new suite of features includes several innovative tools: Genmoji for creating custom emojis, Image Playground for AI image generation, and Image Wand for removing unwanted objects from photos. 

• However, the standout feature is the ChatGPT integration, marking a notable partnership between Apple and OpenAI.

• When users ask Siri complex questions, the system will intelligently determine whether to route the query to ChatGPT, asking for user permission before doing so. 

• Importantly, users won't need an OpenAI account to access these features. 

• The integration extends to text fields for content generation and powers part of Visual Intelligence, which can identify objects and translate text in real time through the phone's camera.

While some Apple Intelligence features, including text rewriting capabilities and enhanced notification summaries, will be available next week with iOS 18.1, the full ChatGPT integration and newer features are still in development. The company is taking a measured approach to the rollout, with these advanced features exclusively available on newer devices—a strategy that investors hope will drive iPhone upgrades.

Overall: The partnership represents a significant win for OpenAI, recently valued at $157 billion, though financial details remain undisclosed. Interestingly, Apple has indicated openness to integrating other AI models, such as those from Google, in the future.

This strategic move positions Apple firmly in the AI landscape while maintaining its traditional approach of careful feature integration and user experience focus. The full public release of these features is expected in the coming weeks, following the typical beta testing cycle.

Read more: CNBC

🖼️ Stable Diffusion 3.5

After much anticipation, Stability AI has unveiled Stable Diffusion 3.5, marking a significant advancement in open-source AI image generation. 

Here’s the tea: 

• The flagship model, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, boasts 8 billion parameters and delivers professional-quality outputs at 1-megapixel resolution. Its companion, the Large Turbo variant, offers comparable quality but with dramatically faster generation times, requiring just 4 steps to produce images. 

• A Medium version, set for release on October 29th, will feature 2.5 billion parameters and is optimized for consumer hardware.

• What sets this release apart is its focus on customization and accessibility. The models incorporate Query-Key Normalization in their transformer blocks, making them highly adaptable for fine-tuning and further development. They excel in producing diverse outputs across various styles - from 3D renders to photography and line art - while maintaining strong prompt adherence that rivals larger commercial models.

• Perhaps most notably, Stability AI is releasing these models under their Community License, making them free for both non-commercial use and commercial use (for businesses with annual revenue under $1M). 

• Users retain full ownership of their generated content, and the models are available through multiple platforms including Stability AI API, Replicate, ComfyUI, and DeepInfra.

Read more: Stability AI Blog

🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• Sloap: Sloap automates repetitive tasks like titles, descriptions, and tags so you can focus on growing your business. Whether you’re an Etsy seller or blogger, Sloap generates SEO-friendly, consistent content in seconds—saving you time and effort. Check it out!

• Kvistly: Create a quiz in 1 minute based on your materials or any topic of your choice. With their live bidding feature and dynamic leaderboards, they ensure 100% engagement during your training and events. Check it out!

• Slite: Skip the software learning curve: Slite delivers beautiful documentation, hassle-free adoption, and AI-powered search from day one. Check it out!

🤑 AI Fundraising News

• Concentric AI raises $45M in Series B funding to leverage AI and natural language processing to autonomously identify, assess, and secure sensitive business-critical data across distributed applications and databases.

• Cascade AI Raises $3.75M in Seed funding to provide a genAI platform built to respond to human resources inquiries at an individual employee level

🐦 Tweet Post of the Day

Best use cases of Anthropic’s Computer Use 👇️