Windows Copilot Newsletter #26 - OpenAI launches GPT-4o, Google Geminis all the things, Sutskever leaves
Windows Copilot Newsletter #26
OpenAI tries to undercut Google with the release of GPT-4o; Google puts Gemini into nearly every product and service it offers; OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever heads for the exit…
G’day and welcome to the twenty-sixth edition of Windows Copilot Newsletter, where we curate all the most important news from the rapidly expanding-field of AI chatbots. It’s been an absolutely massive week of announcements, so let’s dive right in…
Top News
OpenAI goes real-time with GPT-4o: Stealing a march on Google, on Monday OpenAI launched GPT-4o, a dramatically faster (and cheaper) version of their best-in-class GPT-4 large language model. It’s heavily optimised for ‘real-time’ processing of images and texts, but some users are reporting that it’s not nearly as smart as GPT-4. Read the announcement here. OpenAI also made their GPTs free for all - no longer limited to ChatGPT+ subscribers. Plus a new macOS app.
Google integrates Gemini into pretty much everything: At the big Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google showed how it had taken Gemini - its latest langauge model - and shoehorned it into pretty much everything. Chrome. Gmail. Drive. And so on. Google also introduced a faster, cheaper ‘real-time’ Gemini Flash.
Microsoft wants to plan your next in-office day: Tired of playing ‘schedule Jenga’ with your colleagues as you try to work out just when you’ll all be working in the office? Microsoft wants to throw some Copilot AI at that problem, with Microsoft Places. Could it work? Looking likely.
OpenAI loses another co-founder: Ilya Sutskever was outed as the chief conspirator in the ousting of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the board coup of November 2023 - surely one of the weirdest weekends in the history of technology. Ilya recanted, Sam came back, all was forgiven - and now Ilya is departing. This was always going to happen.
Top Tips
Prompts for educators: A sweet set of prompts for educators who are embracing the power of AI.
Pro tips for Copilot Pro: A listicle with 10 great tips for using Copilot on Windows 11.
Safely and Wisely
Is your AI gaslighting you? This report from The Guardian talks about the potential (and practice) of AI chatbots which seek to deceive - and what researchers make of the danger.
Is AI too dangerous to release openly? A seminar at Princeton explored this question. There’s no right answer, but there are a lot of very good questions.
Longreads
Let AI fix the USA: This oped in the Washington Post argues that the way out of America’s many messes is to simply hand it all over to an AI to sort out. Cheeky or wise? Read it.
‘De-Risking AI’ white paper - now out
AI offers organisations powerful new capabilities to automate workflows, amplify productivity, and redefine business practices. These same tools open the door to risks that few organisations have encountered before.
Wisely AI’s latest white paper, ‘De-Risking AI’, lays a foundation for understanding and mitigating those risks. It's part of our core mission to "help organisations use AI safely and wisely". Read it here.
More next week - Microsoft has some big announcements due.
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Mark Pesce
mark@safelyandwisely.ai // www.safelyandwisely.ai