📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 49 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.

▎MAIN NEWS

💻 OpenAI introduced o1: "The smartest model in the world." It can solve increasingly complex and critical problems. The $200 monthly Pro subscription gives access to the best of OpenAI’s models and tools with more computing resources.

👩‍🎓 A new reinforcement fine-tuning method will allow OpenAI "reasoning" models to become experts in a narrow domain by looking at a few dozen examples.

▎NEW RELEASES

📷 Luma launched the AI image generator Photon. The model can create characters and has memory.

🖼️ Google DeepMind showed Genie 2, a text-to-game AI model.

▎TOOLS YOU SHOULD TRY

🎸 How to recreate a song on Udio. The text-to-audio AI model lets you overlay your lyrics onto any melody.

🔴 Generate 100 unique avatars from a photo on @GPT4Telegrambot

▎TO READ

👤 AI learns to replicate human personality after conducting a two-hour interview.

🔴 Pokémon Go players' data is used to train a next-generation geospatial AI model.

👉 Meta finger-shaped sensor will give touch to robots and sensitivity to prosthetics.

📱 Meta plans a 40,000-kilometer subsea Internet cable, costing about $10 billion.

🤖 "Unified general brains" enable robots to learn tasks like cooking, playing Jenga, and assembling furniture.

👮‍♂️ AI-powered "detective" analyzed criminal cases in just two days — that would have taken humans 81 years to review.

▎TO WATCH

📱 Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich explores why people treat AI-generated texts badly and how AI impacts the literature.

Enjoy your Sunday 👍