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The 2024 State of AI Report is packed with insights. From the new battleground of AI user experience to the unexpected efficiency of Chinese AI labs, this report is pulling the curtain on what’s happening behind the scenes. Let’s unpack...

Today’s Summary:

• 🔍 State of AI reveals key trends

• 💻 ChatGPT app on Windows

• ⚡️ Mistral smartphone AI models

• 🌄 Google Photos gets AI-powered HDR

• 🧑‍⚕️ Gen AI lightens doctors admin load

• 🤖 Latest Meta AI models unveiled

• 🛠️ 2 new tools

TOP STORY

State of AI Report 2024 reveals industry's current trends

The Summary: The 2024 State of AI Report from the venture investment firm Air Street Capital uncovers trends and insights within the industry. The analysis captures technical advances, political factors, and safety challenges.

Key details:

• The UX factor: AI labs now compete on user experience as model performance converges

• Query-time compute: The battle is shifting from training-time compute to query-time compute power

• Benchmarking Illusion: Dataset contamination has inflated perceived AI progress, user benchmarks failed to capture differences between models

• AI safety: every fix for preventing jailbreaks has failed so far

• Chinese Efficiency: faced with hardware sanctions, Chinese AI labs are becoming masters in squeezing maximum performance

• Robotics: research hits roadblocks due to lack of real-world training data

• 2025 Predictions:

  • Nvidia expected to maintain dominance in AI hardware

  • Powerful personal on-device AIs will reduce reliance on cloud

  • AI-generated scientific research will get accepted at conferences

Why it matters: The report offers a snapshot of the industry’s current trends and challenges. It provides useful context on technical advances, bottlenecks, and predictions for 2025.

Read the full report

OPENAI

ChatGPT Desktop App arrives for Windows

The Summary: OpenAI has introduced an early version of its ChatGPT app for Windows. Available to Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users, the app integrates seamlessly with desktop workflows, enhancing productivity. Users can quickly access ChatGPT via a keyboard shortcut and interact with files and photos. A full-featured version will be released by the end of the year, extending access to free users.

Key details:

• The app is currently available to paid users: Plus, Team, Enterprise, Edu

• Features include file upload, image analysis and generation, companion chat via a hotkey

• Some features are missing, such as Voice Mode

• Windows 10 (x64 and arm64) is supported, with broader access expected later this year

Why it matters: Following its macOS launch in June 2024, this release brings ChatGPT also to Windows. OpenAI positions the ChatGPT app as a productivity tool that integrates seamlessly with whatever users are doing on their computers.

Download ChatGPT Windows App

MISTRAL AI

Mistral AI launches smartphone-optimized Ministral models

The Summary: Mistral AI has introduced two new models, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, designed to operate on edge devices like smartphones and laptops. These models outperform larger counterparts in key benchmarks, offering a low-latency solution for applications requiring local processing and privacy.

Key details:

• Ministral 3B and 8B models surpass Mistral 7B in performance, despite being smaller

• Supports up to 128,000 tokens input, equivalent to 100 pages of text

• Focused on privacy-first edge applications

• Enthusiasts praised the performance benchmarks but pointed that the restrictive license may limit its appeal for independent developers

Why it matters: Mistral AI edge models represent a new trend of powerful models optimized for edge devices. However, open-source business models continue to pose challenges to AI firms, and licensing terms are not always developer friendly.

QUICK NEWS

Quick news

• Google Photos runs AI-powered HDR Editing

• Meta unveils several new AI models and research initiatives

• How Gen AI can help doctors and nurses ease their administrative workloads (study)

TOOLS

🥇 New tools

• Kick - Accounting software that does the work for you

• LLMWare - Dev tool to make AI apps to deploy privately or locally