Sunday Rundown #74: Recraft V3 & Corona Sunflower

Sunday Bonus #34: Using search in ChatGPT for quick topic catch-up.

Happy Sunday, friends!

Welcome back to the weekly look at generative AI that covers the following:

• Sunday Rundown (free): this week’s AI news + a fun AI fail.

• Sunday Bonus (paid): a goodie for my paid subscribers.

Let’s get to it.

🗞️ AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

👩‍💻 AI releases

New stuff you can try right now:

1. Anthropic has a bunch of updates:

   1. Claude can now view images within uploaded PDFs to better understand the context.

   2. The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available on GitHub.

   3. You can now download the Claude app for Mac and Windows.

   4. You can also dictate messages to Claude using the iOS or Android app.

2. OpenAI has a few updates of its own:

   1. The long-awaited overhauled search is finally rolling out in ChatGPT

   2. Advanced Voide Mode is now available in the MacOS and Windows desktop apps.

   3. You can finally search through all your past chats. (Free users might have to wait a few weeks more.)

3. Poe now lets you use Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo model inside its interface.

4. Recraft released Version 3 that outperforms top players like Midjourney, FLUX, and Ideogram in the text-to-image leaderboard. (Try it for free.)

5. Runway launched Advanced Camera Controls that give you much more precise control over camera zoom, angle, and movement.

6. Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium, which they cheekily claim is so efficient that it can “run on a toaster.”

7. Wonder Dynamics launched a beta version of its Wonder Animation tool that can turn any video into a controllable, animated 3D scene:

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🔬 AI research

Cool stuff you might get to try one day:

1. GitHub previewed a tool called Spark that lets anyone create and share micro apps (“Sparks”) using natural language:

2. Google has a few things cooking

   1. Project Jarvis: AI that can take over your computer (a la Anthropic’s "Computer Use”). It might be demoed in December.

   2. InkSight, which can recognize handwritten text and create a faithful digital version of it.

3. LinkedIn announced an AI-powered hiring assistant that helps recruiters streamline repetitive tasks and find the right talent.

4. Meta is working on NotebookLlama, an open-source alternative to Google’s NotebookLM.

5. Suno is beta-testing an early-access feature called Personas that lets you capture and reproduce the “essence” of a track, like vocals, style, and vibe.

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📖 AI resources

Helpful AI tools and stuff that teaches you about AI:

1. “Growing Up: Navigating Generative AI’s Early Years – AI Adoption Report” - a survey of 800 senior business leaders by the Wharton School.

2. “Top 100 AI For Work Platforms [REPORT]” - an overview by FlexOS.

3. “Bill Gates on Possibility, AI, and Humanity” [VIDEO]” - interview by Reid Hoffman:

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🔀 AI random

Other notable AI stories of the week:

1. Meta signed a multi-year deal with Reuters to incorporate its news content in real-time answers.

2. OpenAI stuff:

   1. OpenAI released a new benchmark called SimpleQA that measures how well LLMs can answer “short, fact-seeking questions.”

   2. The company is rumored to be releasing its next frontier model—codenamed Orion—in December.

🤦‍♂️ AI fail of the week

On second thought, perhaps this is a surrealist win?

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💰 Sunday Bonus #34: How to get a robust topic summary with ChatGPT Search

Even though I’m a free ChatGPT user, I ended up with early access to the new search feature because I was on the waitlist.

To test it out, I ended up cooking up a one-take prompt that gives me a quick visual glance at the latest developments within a topic, the range of opinions about it, and more.

So I wanted to share it here.