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VR Taste Simulator Lollipop

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking lollipop-shaped device that simulates taste in virtual reality, offering users the ability to experience up to nine different flavors through electrically-activated gel pockets. As reported by multiple sources, this innovative interface, created by a team of biomedical engineers and virtual reality researchers, aims to enhance immersion in virtual environments by incorporating the sense of taste.

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Oldest Mammal Ancestor Found

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known ancestor of mammals in Banyalbufar, Mallorca, Spain. This incredible fossil, dating back 270-280 million years, belongs to a gorgonopsian—a saber-toothed predator from the Permian period. The discovery not only pushes back the timeline for mammalian ancestors but also provides new insights into how these ancient creatures lived and evolved.

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🇪🇺 EU Funds Starlink Rival

The European Union has allocated €10.6 billion through a public-private partnership to develop IRIS, a 290-satellite constellation designed to provide secure, high-speed internet globally by 2030, enhance European technological sovereignty, and compete with Elon Musk's Starlink.

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🔬 Cells Can Be Revived After "Death"

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a new mathematical model that could change how we think about cellular death. According to SciTechDaily, this model suggests that cells might not be permanently "dead" by traditional standards and could be revived. This discovery opens up exciting possibilities for studying how cells die and exploring ways to bring them back to life. It could lead to groundbreaking medical advancements and reshape our understanding of life and death.

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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 50 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.

▎OPENAI DAYS

💻 OpenAI has released Sora. The video generator creates clips up to 20 seconds long from text, images, or other videos, with resolutions up to 1080p.

💬 ChatGPT's Canvas update. The editor can run Python programs, comment on code, and work better with text.

📹 ChatGPT now has a video mode. The assistant continuously analyzes live video streams or device screens and can answer questions based on what it sees.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

🎸 Create your own AI musician with Suno Personas.

🎁 Coming up with gift ideas for Christmas with ChatGPT.

▎NEW RELEASES

🖼️ Google has launched Gemini 2.0, its most advanced multimodal AI model.

🖱 Perplexity Pro web search is now on @GPT4Telegrambot. Get real-time, accurate information with source links.

▎TO READ

💗 ChatGPT outperformed doctors in diagnostic accuracy.

🌎 The New York Times predicts what lies ahead for AI in 2025.

😢 Can AI apologize better than humans and show empathy?

🌧 DeepMind's GenCast AI model produces a 15-day-ahead weather forecast in 8 minutes.

📚 Elon Musk shared a list of audiobooks he recommends for those who "think about the Roman Empire every day."

🖤 SpaceX's Starbase in Texas may officially become a new city.

⚛️ Willow quantum chip solved in 5 minutes a problem that would have taken a supercomputer 10²⁵ years to solve.

Enjoy your Sunday 👍

Musk’s Starbase May Become New City

According to Bloomberg, SpaceX is pursuing the incorporation of its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, into a city, aiming to transform the site from a rocket launch hub into a self-sufficient community that supports its workforce, infrastructure, and ambitious space exploration goals.

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📚 Harvard Releases AI Training Dataset

Harvard University, in collaboration with Google and with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, is set to release a groundbreaking AI training dataset comprising nearly one million public-domain books.

This initiative aims to advance AI research by providing a diverse, high-quality, and ethically sourced resource for training models in natural language processing and other applications, fostering innovation and accessibility within the AI community.

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🖼️ Google Releases Gemini 2.0

Google has launched Gemini 2.0, its most advanced AI model to date. It features multimodal capabilities such as native image generation and audio output, enhanced performance with reduced latency, and seamless integration with tools like Google Search and Maps.

Positioned to drive innovation across industries, Gemini 2.0 also introduces flexible access options for developers and users, marking a pivotal step in what Google calls the "agentic era" of AI.

➡️ Try Gemini 2.0

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⚛️ Google's Willow Quantum Chip

Google's Willow quantum chip, featuring 105 qubits, represents a monumental leap in quantum computing by achieving unprecedented computational power and a critical breakthrough in error correction.

In just 5 minutes, Willow solved a problem that would take one of the world's fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ years to solve — a timespan so vast it far exceeds the age of the Universe. Willow paves the way for transformative applications across fields like drug discovery, materials science, and cybersecurity while advancing the feasibility of practical, large-scale quantum systems.

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OpenAI's Sora Finally Released

OpenAI has officially launched Sora, its cutting-edge AI video generation tool, on December 9, 2024, offering advanced features like text-to-video creation, image-to-video conversion, and video extension capabilities. With its innovative Diffusion Transformer model and multi-modal input processing, Sora is set to revolutionize industries from entertainment to education while raising important discussions about creativity, ethics, and job displacement.

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Google's AI Weather Breakthrough

Google DeepMind has unveiled GenCast, an AI-powered weather prediction model that reportedly outperforms traditional forecasting methods in accuracy and speed. According to reports from Nature, the new model can provide superior forecasts for both day-to-day weather and extreme events up to 15 days in advance, potentially revolutionizing meteorological predictions and enhancing preparedness for severe weather conditions.

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📣 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 👍

🤖 Citi Predicts $7T Robot Market

Citibank analysts predict that the humanoid robot market will grow to $7 trillion by 2050, driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics. This emerging sector is expected to transform industries such as household services, commercial applications, and industrial operations, with significant economic and societal implications.

For comparison, the global car market in 2024 is estimated at $2.7 trillion.

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🔴 Generate 100 Unique Avatars from a Single Photo

We’re excited to introduce the latest version of the avatar generator by photo on @GPT4Telegrambot! The images are now more realistic, vibrant, and diverse than ever.

How does it work?
1️⃣ Purchase the "Avatars" option in the /photo section of the bot.
2️⃣ Tap "Create Avatars."
3️⃣ Upload your best selfie where your face is visible.

✅ Within 15 minutes, the bot will generate and send you 100 unique avatars featuring your face in a variety of styles.

Choose from 3 themes:
➡️ Mix
➡️ Hollywood
➡️ Detective

All this for just $4 — no watermarks, no hassle!

OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas

OpenAI's "12 Days of Shipmas" event, commencing on December 5th, promises a series of innovative product launches and features, including the debut of the Sora text-to-video AI tool and a new AI reasoning model, aimed at enhancing creativity and cognitive capabilities. This festive rollout highlights OpenAI's strategic efforts to maintain its leadership in the AI sector by introducing cutting-edge technologies that simplify content creation and improve problem-solving across various industries.

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🖼️ DeepMind's Genie 2

DeepMind's Genie 2 is a cutting-edge foundation world model that transforms diverse inputs—ranging from text prompts to sketches—into interactive 3D environments with realistic physics and spatial coherence. This technology not only revolutionizes rapid prototyping in game development and AI training but also highlights potential applications in virtual reality, education, and robotics, despite current limitations in interactivity duration and input dependency.

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☀️ The color of a star is determined by its surface temperature, with hotter stars appearing blue or blue-white and cooler stars appearing red.

📱 Meta Plans World-Spanning Internet Cables

According to TechCrunch, Meta is embarking on an ambitious $10 billion project to construct a 40,000-kilometer subsea fiber-optic cable network, named "W," which will connect multiple continents and mark the company's first exclusively owned undersea cable infrastructure, aimed at enhancing global connectivity and supporting its platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

➡️ Here is an interactive map with all such cables on the planet (this is what the "World Wide Web" actually looks like).

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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 48 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.

▎TWO YEARS WITH CHATGPT

🎂 ChatGPT just turned two! Launched on November 30, 2022, it’s now used by 250 million people every week.

▎TOOLS YOU SHOULD TRY

🎭 Learn how to use Act-One by Runway to create an animated character that perfectly mimics your facial expressions and voice.

▎TO READ

🪐 Scientists created the largest Universe simulation. The ExaSky project models over 31 billion cubic megaparsecs of space to help us understand how the Universe evolves.

✝️ Chat with AI-powered Jesus Christ at St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne. This AI model is trained on the New Testament and hundreds of theological texts.

🍽 Meet Zak Yadegari, a 17-year-old student running Cal AI, a startup generating over $12M in revenue.

👗 GlamBots: AI-generated models are starting to replace humans in the fashion industry.

👩‍🎤 Brain-Neural Implants: Discover how neural implants connect to the brain using living neurons.

🤩 AI for Infant Health: AI identifies neurological dysfunctions in newborns based on their behavior in intensive care units.

▎INTERVIEWS

💻 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that all scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs will soon be based on generative AI.

🖥 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that strong artificial intelligence (AGI) could emerge within 2-3 years.

Enjoy your Sunday 👍

The Biggest Simulation of The Universe

Scientists have just created the largest-ever simulation of the Universe using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. By modeling over 31 billion cubic megaparsecs of space, this project, called ExaSky, helps us understand how the Universe evolves, including the role of dark matter and galaxy formation.

A video released by the team shows a massive cluster of galaxies coming together. This volume represents just 0.001% of the entire volume of the simulation ⤴️

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