🧙🏼 Strawberry is (almost) here

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Dario’s Picks

The most important news stories in AI this week

1. OpenAI’s new model rumoured to launch in September. The Information – a news source with a track record for sharing AI rumours that turn out to be true – is claiming that OpenAI’s new model Strawberry is due to launch in the next month.

    

   Here’s what the rumours say:

   • Strawberry will be available alongside GPT-4o right inside ChatGPT.

   • The new model is slower at thinking than current models, taking 10-20 seconds before responding. It uses so-called chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to improve reasoning and accuracy. This makes it superior at things like programming and math.

   • Unlike Gpt4-o, it isn’t multimodal (it can just do text).

    

   There’s some insider rumours that Strawberry’s memory is a bit inconsistent; this could make sense as CoT prompting involves step-by-step reasoning, which might cause gaps in recalling past interactions.

• ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ If the rumours hold true, we’ll see how good Strawberry is really soon. Its launch might be part of a broader announcement from OpenAI, as the company reportedly has more cooking, such as increased subscription prices and GPT-4o successor, rumoured to be named Orion.

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2. ‎GPT-4o gets cheaper and supports structured outputs. Happy news for all the builders out there leveraging GPT-4o in their products through OpenAI’s API. Input tokens are now 50% cheaper, and output tokens are 33% cheaper by specifying gpt-4o-2024-08-06 in the model parameter.

    

   The new version also supports structured outputs. This ensures that the model output adheres to a specific structure (JSON Schemas) defined by the developer. This can be useful both for calling third-party APIs correctly, as well as responding to the user in a structured way.

    

   ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Cheaper models incentivises building new great things with AI. Also – generating structured data is becoming much easier. Let's say you ask for a travel itineary, structured outputs makes it possible (and easy) to give you back a clear organized itineary in a table or list, rather than just a big chunk of text.

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3. Preview released of Adobe Firefly’s AI video. Adobe’s Firefly model, the one which powers features like Photoshop’s Generative Fill for images and much more, is expanding into video and will be available in Beta later this year.

    

   Here’s the new GenAI video features Firefly will have:

   • Text-to-video: Generate videos from text prompts

   • Image-to-video: Create videos from still images

   • Generative Extend: Extend and fill gaps in existing video clips

    

   The new AI video model will also power video editing features inside Adobe Premiere. There’ll be new AI features for filling footage gaps, removing unwanted objects, and improving transitions – aimed at making short-form video production way more efficient.

    

   The Beta of the new model has a waitlist. Sign up here.

    

   Why it matters‎ ‎ Adobe’s video model will be closely integrated with the company’s existing video tools like Premiere and After Effects. That might actually make it a lot more useful to video producers than simply a stand-alone model like OpenAI seems to be going for with Sora.

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