OpenAI is now rolling out GPT-4.5 to ChatGPT Pro subscribers and
developers on paid tiers of the API. Other users should get the model
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OPENAI UNVEILS GPT-4.5 `ORION,' ITS LARGEST AI MODEL YET (5 MINUTE
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OpenAI is now rolling out GPT-4.5 to ChatGPT Pro subscribers and
developers on paid tiers of the company's API. Other users should get
the model sometime next week. GPT-4.5 is so expensive to run that
OpenAI is evaluating whether to continue serving the model on its API
in the long term. It currently costs $75 for every million input
tokens and $150 for every million output tokens. This article looks at
how the new model compares to OpenAI's other offerings.

META PLANS TO RELEASE STANDALONE META AI APP IN EFFORT TO COMPETE
WITH OPENAI'S CHATGPT (4 MINUTE READ) [6]

Meta intends to debut a standalone Meta AI app during the second
quarter. The service is currently only available to users via a
website and the company's other apps. Users could potentially interact
more deeply with the digital assistant if it were available as a
standalone app. Meta also plans to test a paid subscription for Meta
AI.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

FIGURE WILL START `ALPHA TESTING' ITS HUMANOID ROBOT IN THE HOME IN
2025 (2 MINUTE READ) [7]

Figure plans to begin alpha testing its Figure 02 robot in the home
later this year. The project's timeline was accelerated thanks to the
company's 'generalist' Vision-Language-Action model, Helix. Helix is
designed to process both visual data and natural language input to
accelerate learning. It can orchestrate two robots working on a single
task in tandem.

ANTI-AGING PILL FOR DOGS CERTIFIED AS 'EFFECTIVE' BY FDA. BUT COULD
IT WORK FOR HUMANS, TOO? (3 MINUTE READ) [8]

Biotech startup Loyal has received a certification from the US Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) saying its anti-aging pill for dogs has
a reasonable expectation of efficacy. The pill still needs to be
certified by the FDA that it is safe for use and can be manufactured
at a greater scale before it can be prescribed by veterinarians. Loyal
plans to earn conditional approval from the FDA by the end of the
year.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

DEAR STUDENT: YES, AI IS HERE, YOU'RE SCREWED UNLESS YOU TAKE
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AI will soon start having a large impact on software engineering.
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MISCELLANEOUS

GOOGLE'S SERGEY BRIN URGES WORKERS TO THE OFFICE `AT LEAST' EVERY
WEEKDAY (3 MINUTE READ) [11]

Sergey Brin, one of Google's co-founders, says that Google could be
the leader in artificial general intelligence if employees worked
harder. He recommends that employees attend the office at least every
weekday, saying that 60 hours a week is the sweet spot for
productivity. Brin returned to Google after ChatGPT's launch to help
the company navigate the difficult moment when it lost its advantage
in AI. Since his return, Google has reorganized its business,
rebranded its AI, and rolled out the technology across its popular
apps.

YOUTUBE STAR MRBEAST PLANNING INVESTMENT ROUND THAT COULD VALUE
COMPANY AT $5BN (3 MINUTE READ) [12]

MrBeast is planning to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to
create a holding company for his growing empire. The round could value
his company at roughly $5 billion - it generated more than $400
million in sales last year. Talks about the potential fundraising are
still in the early stages and it is not yet clear who will invest.
MrBeast is the biggest YouTuber in the world - he has more than 368
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QUICK LINKS

AMAZON DEBUTS OCELOT, ITS FIRST QUANTUM COMPUTING CHIP (1 MINUTE
READ) [13]

Ocelot's design could reduce costs associated with error correction
by as much as 90%.

META ANNOUNCES EXPERIMENTAL ARIA GEN 2 RESEARCH SMART GLASSES (2
MINUTE READ) [14]

Meta's latest experimental glasses are designed to help bolster
research into artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine
perception.

TESLA APPLIES FOR RIDE-HAILING SERVICE IN CALIFORNIA, BUT WITH HUMAN
DRIVERS (3 MINUTE READ) [15]

Tesla has yet to apply for a permit to operate driverless vehicles.

GPT 4.5 + INTERACTIVE COMPARISON (4 MINUTE READ) [16]

GPT 4.5 offers a qualitative measurement of the slope of improvement
that can be achieved by scaling pretraining compute.

STRIPE SAYS AI STARTUPS ARE GROWING FASTER THAN SAAS EVER DID, AND
CALLING THEM WRAPPERS `MISSES THE POINT' (2 MINUTE READ) [17]

The top 100 AI companies by revenue were able to achieve $5 million
in annualized revenue in 24 months in 2024 - the top 100 SaaS
companies took 37 months in 2018 to reach the same milestone.

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN SAYS THE COMPANY IS `OUT OF GPUS' (1 MINUTE
READ) [18]

OpenAI will need to acquire tens of thousands more GPUs before
additional ChatGPT users can gain access to GPT-4.5.

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