Welcome, humans.

AI boyfriends are back in the news, and apparently they’re taking off—literally. They come with a new “ghosting” feature. It's just like a real relationship, except the AI actually tells you why it's not responding instead of leaving you on read for a week.

“Hi, I'm breaking up with you because your Wi-Fi is too slow, and long-distance relationships across different servers just aren't my thing."

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• OpenAI announced SearchGPT, its own search engine.

• Google DeepMind’s AI scored a silver medal in the Olympics of math.

• Runway likely trained its video model on thousands of YouTube videos without permission.

• A deepfake AI porn bill unanimously passed the U.S. Senate.

OpenAI announced a competitor to Google: SearchGPT.

OpenAI finally announced its long-anticipated search engine and competitor to Google: SearchGPT. To start, it’s rolling out to a limited group of users. 

Here’s what we noticed right away: 

• The UI looks fast, clean and similar to Perplexity. 

• The results are multimodal (meaning it can spit out stock graphs, weather images, videos, etc). 

• Most important: There’s a huge emphasis on the fact that when you search for something, SearchGPT cites its answers…always (probably why OpenAI signed deals w/ so many publishers—it doesn’t want to piss them off more than they already are).

Google stock dropped 2% on the news. 

Many discussions around this launch revolve around how this product poses a serious threat to any company that’s trying to build the future of search, including Perplexity and, yes, Google.

Before, you could argue that ChatGPT was an alternative (but not a direct competitor) to Google. With SearchGPT, you can’t. This is OpenAI saying, “We’re coming for you, Google.”

Just look at Sam’s tweet:  

Anecdotally, we’ve noticed that Google’s AI search SGE has been rolled way back after a few too many public blunders (try it yourself, see if it works). Some speculate it could eventually become a paid feature.

Now that OpenAI’s made the first move, Google might have to counterpunch and “roll back” the rollback. Interestingly, SearchGPT documents revealed it will collect and share your local data with “third-party search providers” to provide more accurate results. So, does that mean, like, Googling stuff? 

If you’re interested, you can join the waitlist here. But don’t expect to get access so soon. After all, this is just an announcement… from OpenAI. 

Y’know, the same company that announced a new Voice chat back in May (and still isn’t out), and Sora video generator back in February (and still isn’t out).

Our take? ChatGPT is already a search engine…it’s just a very slow one. You can @ Bing to search anything from across the internet, but you might have to wait 3-5 seconds for an answer, and in the world of search, that’s an eternity. 

SearchGPT could shake things up. It’s precisely the type of product people say will be the future of search—give me the answer, not a bunch of links for me to find it myself. 

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Around the Horn.

• DeepMind’s AlphaProof math model earned silver medal status in the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, which is a huge breakthrough.

• A leaked spreadsheet of training data found that Runway likely trained its Gen-3 Alpha video model on thousands of scraped YouTube videos + pirated movies (without disclosing them). 

• Sam Altman wrote an op-ed arguing for urgent U.S.-led global cooperation to steer AI in a democratic direction before it's too late. 

• Meta’s oversight board questioned the company’s rules on AI-generated NSFW content, and AOC’s deepfake AI porn bill unanimously passed the U.S. Senate.

Treats To Try.

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2. Airtable launched a new AI-powered tool called Cobuilder that instantly generates customized database apps based on prompts.

3. GPT&me + Hey GPT offers a set of 8 iOS shortcuts so you can use AI everywhere on your smartphone device at lightning speed.

4. Powder offers a document analysis tool to read and understand financial papers quickly. (raised $5M) 

5. Undermined is an AI assistant that reads academic papers and finds relevant info for researchers.

6. Perplexity creator Aravind Srinivas shared a tool that generates a link to automatically enter a friend’s search question into Perplexity for them: “Let me Perplexity that for you.”

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Intelligent Insights.

• Great read from Ethan Mollick on how so few orgs are actually planning for the possibility that AI keeps getting better (link).

• Learn how to build better custom GPTs with this deep dive guide (link).

• A cheat sheet to commonly used AI terms and concepts (link). 

• Listen to Noah on the podcast AI for Humans—interview starts around the 45-minute mark (link).

• MIT researchers developed MAIA, an AI that interprets other AI models to explain their inner workings, detect biases, and improve their performance (link).

• New paper investigates what’s better—long content or RAG? (link).

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