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OpenAI's Sam Altman just predicted we're ‘a few thousand days’ away from superintelligence — AI that surpasses all human cognitive abilities.

If the timeline holds true, we could be on the brink of the most transformative era in human history. Let’s get into it…

In today’s issue:

• OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode

• Google releases production-ready models

• Customize images fast with PuLID-FLUX

• James Cameron joins Stability AI’s board

• AI-Generated Images

• 6 new AI tools & Tools on sale

• New AI Job Opportunities

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

OPENAI

🗣️ OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode

The Rundown: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just suggested that The Rundown: OpenAI is finally rolling out an enhanced Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to all ChatGPT Plus and Teams subscribers this week, featuring new voices and improved functionality to make AI interactions feel more natural and personalized.

The details:

• The initial rollout for OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode started in July, but it only ever reached a select few ChatGPT users.

• During the delay, OpenAI updated its AVM to integrate Custom Instructions and Memory, allowing for more personalized interactions and conversation recall.

• OpenAI also improved AVM’s ability to understand accents and claims smoother, faster conversations, while adding five new nature-inspired voices (and removing the “Sky” voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson).

• AVM will not yet be available in several regions, including the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.

Why it matters: With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman writing about AI agents and superintelligence, ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode feels more relevant than ever. If we’re going to interact with AI every day—it has to sound and feel human—which is exactly what AVM is attempting to accomplish.

Editors note: If you still don’t have access to Advanced Voice Mode on your ChatGPT app, try uninstalling and reinstalling the app.

GOOGLE

✨ Google releases production-ready models

The Rundown: Google just announced significant updates to its Gemini AI models, including performance improvements, cost reductions, and increased accessibility for developers.

The details:

• Two new production-ready models came out today: Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002, offering improved quality across various tasks, including a 20% boost in math-related benchmarks.

• Pricing for Gemini 1.5 Pro has been reduced by over 50% for both input and output on prompts under 128K tokens, while rate limits have been increased significantly.

• The models boast 2x faster output and 3x lower latency compared to previous versions, with improvements in long context understanding and vision capabilities.

• Google also updated its default filter settings, giving developers more control over model configuration for their specific use cases.

Why it matters: Google is iterating quickly and pushing the boundaries of affordability for developers building with AI. While this isn’t Gemini 2 — it is a significant upgrade over the experimental models and will help builders create faster, smarter, cheaper applications.

AI TRAINING

🖼️ Customize images fast with PuLID-FLUX

The Rundown: Runway now offers video-to-video, a new feature that allows you to simply upload a real-life reference video and generate a completely different AI video based on it.

Step-by-step:

1. Sign up on Runway’s website and locate the “video-to-video” tool

2. Choose the most advanced model (Gen-3 Alpha) and upload your reference video

3. Write a detailed prompt describing how you want your video transformed

4. Generate your AI video and refine by adjusting your prompt if needed

Pro tip: Try including words like "photorealistic" or "highly detailed" in your prompt for more lifelike results.

STABILITY AI

🎥 James Cameron joins Stability AI’s board

The Rundown: James Cameron, the acclaimed director of Titanic, Avatar, and The Terminator, recently joined the board of directors at Stability AI, the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI model.

The details:

• Cameron, known for pushing technological boundaries in filmmaking, sees the convergence of generative AI and CGI as “the next wave” in visual media creation.

• Stability AI’s CEO, Prem Akkaraju, formerly led visual effects company WETA Digital, highlighting the firm’s focus on creative applications of AI.

• The move comes as Hollywood grapples with AI’s potential, with some studios embracing the technology while others express concerns over content rights.

Why it matters: Just days after Lionsgate teamed up with AI startup Runway to create a custom video generation model, this move by one of Hollywood’s biggest directors could signal a significant shift in how influential filmmakers are thinking about navigating AI.

Prompt of today

Prompts:

A Chinese building with an eaves shape is located in the center of the screen, surrounded by white mist and waterfalls flowing from top to bottom. The black background creates a strong contrast between light gray and dark tones. It has a minimalist style design and is presented in long exposure photography, with a symmetrical composition. --ar 16:9 --stylize 950 --p

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New AI Job Opportunities

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Researchers created an AI that can solve Google’s reCAPTCHAv2 image-based CAPTCHA tests with 100% accuracy, rendering the human verification method obsolete.

OpenAI launched Academy, providing $1 million in API credits, training, and support to AI developers and organizations in low- and middle-income countries.

Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes) teased a new project featuring AI-generated characters that transition from 2D to augmented reality.

Vice President Kamala Harris pledged to support the AI sector while protecting consumers in a pitch to donors at a New York City fundraiser.

LinkedIn suspended AI training on UK users’ data following privacy concerns raised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, halting the practice pending further engagement.

OpenAI released the Multilingual MMLU dataset, translating the AI benchmark into 14 languages to evaluate models’ knowledge across diverse cultures and improve multilingual capabilities.

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