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Welcome to the 29th edition of the PixelBin Newsletter. Every Monday, we send you one article to help you stay informed about the latest AI developments in Business, Product, and Design.
In Today’s Newsletter
🔥 AI Giants Unite for Security: Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon for Secure AI (CoSAI)
🌟 Google Maps Unveils Next-Gen Navigation
🎨 Miro's Intelligent Canvas: Transforming Collaborative Design with AI
🚀 GPT-4o Mini: Revolutionizing Cost-Efficient AI Innovation
🔥 AI in Fast Lane
AI Giants Unite for Security: Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon for Secure AI (CoSAI)
The leading names Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon have united to boost security in the AI industry. Read More...
Artificial Agency gets $16M in funding to introduce generative behavior into gaming. Read More...
Samsung is set to acquire the UK-based knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantic Technologies. Read More...
Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer app, similar to Canva, is now available on iOS and Android. Read More...
Mistral NeMo unveils a 12B model with 128k context length, developed with NVIDIA and licensed under Apache 2.0. Read More...
Apple clarifies that its OpenELM model does not power Apple Intelligence, amid ongoing YouTube controversy. Read More...
Meta's AI introduces JASCO, a music-generation model with improved control using chords and beats. Read More...
🌟 Product Innovation through AI
Google Maps Unleashes Next-Gen Navigation
Google Maps ushers in a new era with its AI-powered update, transforming navigation and exploration. The latest features include immersive 3D route previews, real-time object recognition via Lens on Maps, and personalized recommendations using billions of community-shared photos.
AI-driven suggestions offer tailored travel tips, while the updated Fused Orientation Provider API enhances directional accuracy. These advancements position Google Maps as the ultimate AI-powered travel companion, providing seamless journeys and enriching exploration experiences.
The New Conversational Search
Meet the future of navigation: Google Maps' new conversational search, powered by advanced AI. This cutting-edge feature provides detailed information, uncovering hidden gems with ease. Apple Maps, it's not even a fair fight anymore—Google Maps just left you in the dust.
The New 3D View
Experience the world like never before with Google Maps' stunning new 3D view! It's like you're actually there, exploring any location with incredibly detailed 3D models. Plus, with live traffic and weather updates, navigating through rush hour and storms becomes a breeze.
The New Live View
Tap the camera icon and—boom!—you're discovering nearby ATMs, restaurants, parks, and transit stations like a pro. Need to check if that cute café is open? Live View's got your back with hours and ratings, making exploring your surroundings easier and more fun than ever!
The New Specific Search
Ever Wished You Could Search with Photos?
Well, now you can! Google Maps is leveraging billions of community photos to give you photo-first results for specific searches. It's like having a local guide right in your pocket, making it easier than ever to find exactly what you're looking for.
The New Lens in Maps
This AI and AR technology in google maps gives you instant details about your surroundings. Just point your camera and you'll know everything about nearby spots faster than you can say, "Where's the nearest coffee shop?" Get ready for a whole new level of exploration!
Benefits of AI Upgrades in Google Maps
'Google Maps' new AI-driven update transforms navigation with immersive 3D previews, real-time object recognition, and personalized recommendations. Its conversational search, detailed 3D view, and improved Live View make exploring easier and more engaging.
The addition of photo-first search and Lens integration offers instant insights into surroundings. These advancements collectively elevate travel experiences, ensuring smoother, more informed journeys.
🎨 Design Meets AI
Miro's Intelligent Canvas: Revolutionizing Collaborative Design with AI
Discover how Miro's new Intelligent Canvas, launched on July 17, 2024, combines AI power with collaborative design. This advanced platform integrates AI to streamline workflows, offering customizable modes, intelligent templates, and enhanced collaborative tools.
Perfect for accelerating innovation and boosting team engagement, it simplifies complex tasks like diagramming and feedback, making advanced AI accessible and enjoyable for all team members.
Transforms ideas into polished content effortlessly
With Miro AI, users can turn their brainstorms and ideas into comprehensive product briefs and summaries, propelling work forward without the need for complicated prompts. Simply provide content from the canvas, and let Miro AI handle the rest.
It brings structure and clarity in minutes
Gone are the days of spending hours on diagrams, briefs, and summaries. Miro AI crafts them in moments, utilizing pre-set actions and shortcuts to generate well-structured content with just one click.
Speed up the workflows and engage teams
Automating work is now effortless with Miro's new, supercharged templates. From road mapping to sprint planning and retros, these intelligent templates incorporate AI, interactive tools, and integrations into a seamless experience for your team. Customizable, scalable, and interactive, they transform workflows into a fun and engaging process.
Feature Highlights:
Sprint Planning: Miro makes sprint planning more streamlined and collaborative.
Road mapping: Using Miro makes road mapping more visual and interactive.
Retrospective: Miro, retrospectives become more engaging and insightful.
Brief: Miro makes briefings more organized and efficient.
Research Synthesis: research synthesis becomes more insightful and organized.
🚀 Innovations in AI
Meet GPT-4o Mini: The Next Leap in Cost-Efficient AI Innovation
OpenAI’s latest release, GPT-4o Mini, is designed to make advanced AI more accessible than ever. With a cost of just 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output tokens, it’s significantly cheaper than previous models, including GPT-3.5 Turbo.
Scoring 82% on the MMLU benchmark and outperforming GPT-4.1 in chat preferences, GPT-4o Mini excels in tasks requiring low cost and fast latency. Ideal for chaining or parallelizing model calls, handling large volumes of context, and real-time interactions, it supports text and vision today, with future updates to include image, video, and audio capabilities.
The model features a 128K token context window and up to 16K output tokens per request, with improved efficiency for non-English text. To know more…
GPT-4o mini has been evaluated across several key benchmarks
Reasoning tasks: GPT-4o Mini excels in complex reasoning, scoring 82.0% on the MMLU benchmark, surpassing Gemini Flash (77.9%) and Claude Haiku (73.8%). Its superior text and vision integration makes it ideal for intricate reasoning tasks.
Math and coding proficiency: GPT-4o Mini excels in math and coding, scoring 87.0% on MGSM and 87.2% on HumanEval, outperforming Gemini Flash and Claude Haiku. Its performance sets a new standard in numerical and coding tasks.
Multimodal reasoning: GPT-4o Mini leads in multimodal reasoning with a 59.4% score on the MMMU benchmark, surpassing Gemini Flash (56.1%) and Claude Haiku (50.2%). Its advanced integration of multiple modalities makes it highly effective for complex tasks.
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