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ChatGPT was down for about 4 hours globally. What happened? OpenAI is very fast at launching new models and features, but now we can see that they should slow down a bit to better manage customer experience and ensure better product quality.
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AI INSIGHTS
🤖 Gemini 2.0 Flash Steamrolls GPT-4o and Claude-3.6 Sonnet
While Gemini 1.0 focused on organizing and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 makes that information much more useful. Efficient AI "agents" also were introduced that can interact with humans, complete tasks, and make decisions.
Key takeaways:
2x faster than Gemini 1.5 Pro and better across benchmarks
New Multimodal Live API for real-time audio and video streaming
Native multilingual audio output with 8 high-quality voices
Native image generation with conversational, multi-turn editing capabilities
Can natively use tools like Google Search and execute code
51.8% achievement on SWE-bench Verified for software engineering tasks
Supports 109 languages and SynthID watermarking for all image and audio outputs
If the price is similar to the previous Flash version ($0.30/M tokens, compared to GPT-4o's $1.25), competitors will have a major challenge with this 4x cheaper model that delivers better benchmarks.
Deep Research, available in Gemini Advanced, leverages advanced reasoning and long-context capabilities to serve as a research assistant, exploring complex topics and compiling reports for you.
What about the agentic capabilities?
Project Astra: A universal AI assistant that can use Google Search, Lens, and Maps
Project Mariner: A Chrome extension that completes complex web tasks (83.5% success rate on WebVoyager benchmark)
Jules: An AI coding agent that integrates with GitHub workflows
Why it matters: Google is advancing rapidly, outpacing expectations with cutting-edge products like the quantum computer announced yesterday and the release of Gemini 2.0 today. These breakthroughs signal the company's aggressive push to dominate the AI space. With only two weeks left to closely follow the evolving race between Google and OpenAI, this period promises exciting developments.
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
5️⃣ Day 5 of 12 days of OpenAI: ChatGPT is now integrated into Apple Siri in iOS 18.2, iPadOS, and macOS, allowing users to access ChatGPT's capabilities directly within the OS for complex queries and enhanced AI experiences.
🚨 Google asks FTC to break Microsoft’s exclusive cloud deal with OpenAI, claiming it limits competition and raises costs for customers using OpenAI’s technology.
👓 Solos launches AI glasses with GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini access. Customizable frames make these smart spectacles a stylish rival to Meta’s offerings.
🤖 Cognition Labs launches Devin, an AI developer assistant integrating with Slack and GitHub. For $500/month, it automates bug fixes, PRs, and refactoring, boosting team productivity.
💻 Replit launches upgraded AI Assistant for quick fixes and image-based design guidance. Unlimited usage, integrated tools, and streamlined features empower developers of all levels.
⚠️ OpenAI had an outage from 3:16 PM to 7:38 PM PT (4 hours and 22 minutes), impacting the OpenAI API, ChatGPT, and Sora. A configuration change caused many servers to be unavailable.
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AI CHART
The last six months have been largely a competition between OpenAI and Google, especially in the past two months.
OpenAI with seri 12 days of new things
Google with Gemini 2.0 and agentic experiences
This data doesn't even show everything – both OpenAI and Google have rolled out impressive advancements in reasoning models, real-time interaction, and multi-modality.
There are likely more exciting developments coming soon, with rumors of GPT-4.5 during OpenAI's 12 days of releases and Gemini Pro 2.0 (rumored Gemini-Exp-1206 that ranks 1st on Leaderboard), probably in January.
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