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Reports are surfacing about OpenAI's secretive "Strawberry" project. This potential breakthrough aims to enhance reasoning, enabling AI models to plan ahead and navigate the internet autonomously. Let’s unpack…

Today’s Summary:

• 🍓 OpenAI's "Strawberry" Project

• 🎵 YouTube Music's AI Sound Search

• ✍️ AI Boosts Creativity, Hinders Diversity

• 🖼️ Pinterest Canvas Enhancements

• 🤫 OpenAI's Controversial NDAs

• 🦙 Meta's Largest Llama-3 Model

• 🛠️ 2 new tools

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OpenAI “Strawberry” Project to Improve AI Reasoning

The Summary: According to a report, OpenAI is working on a technology code-named "Strawberry" to enhance AI reasoning capabilities. The project aims to enable models to plan ahead and navigate the internet autonomously to perform “deep research”. While details are still scarce, Strawberry seems to involve a specialized post-training process.

Key details:

• Strawberry is the evolution of a project previously known as Q*

• Focuses on long-horizon tasks (LHT) and autonomous web browsing

• Uses a "deep-research" dataset for training and evaluation

• OpenAI aims to test its capabilities for software engineering tasks

Why it matters: Improved reasoning could lead to major breakthroughs in AI problem-solving. As tech giants race to develop more advanced AI, Strawberry could give OpenAI a new edge in creating systems that can solve complex, multi-step challenges reliably and autonomously.

Read the full report

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YouTube Music Adds AI Sound Search and Tests AI Radio

The Summary: YouTube Music introduced sound search, allowing users to find songs by humming or singing. The feature rolls out today on Android and iOS. Additionally, YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated conversational radio for US subscribers. This feature creates custom radio stations based on user descriptions, as a new way of personalized music discovery.

Key details:

• Sound search can identify songs from YouTube Music catalog of 100+ million tracks

• Accessed via waveform button next to voice search

• AI radio experiment creates custom radio stations from user prompts

• Available to US Premium subscribers in "Ask for music any way you like" card

Why it matters: These features explore new ways to discovery music. As streaming platforms compete for users, AI-powered tools could become a key differentiator. The conversational radio feature, in particular, hints at a future where AI assistants curate advanced entertainment experiences tailored to individual tastes and moods.

Source: 9to5 Google

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AI Boosts Individual Creativity but Reduces Collective Diversity

The Summary: A new study reveals that AI assistance improves individual creativity but decreases overall diversity. Researchers found that access to AI-generated ideas led to more creative and enjoyable short stories, benefiting individual writers. However, they also showed increased similarity to each other, raising concerns about potential loss of collective novelty in creative tasks.

Key details:

• Stories created with AI assistance scored 8.1% higher in novelty and 9% higher in usefulness

• Less skilled writers saw up to 26.6% improvements leading to a performance equalization between all writers

• AI-assisted stories were 10.7% more similar to each other

• 88.4% of participants chose to use AI assistance when offered

Why it matters: This research highlights a potential trade-off in creative industries as AI tools become more prevalent. While AI can help level the playing field for creators, it may also lead to a homogenization of creative output.

Read the full study

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