Sunday Rundown #55: Apple Intelligence & B-Movie Murder
Sunday Showdown #15: ChatGPT-4o vs. Perplexity: Which is best for news research?
Happy Sunday, friends!
Welcome back to the weekly look at generative AI that covers the following:
Sunday Rundown + AI Fail (free): I share this week’s AI news and a fail for your entertainment.
Sunday Showdown + AI Tip (paid): I pit AI tools against each other and share a hands-on tip for working with AI.
On today’s Sunday Showdown, I dive into recent news headlines with GPT-4o and Perplexity.
Let’s get to it.
🗞️ AI news
Here are this week’s AI developments.
👩💻 AI releases
New stuff you can try right now:
Midjourney introduced a new “--p” parameter that personalizes the aesthetic of your images based on your image rating history.
Stability AI finally released the medium version of its Stable Diffusion 3 model, which was first previewed in February. (It’s not all great.)
Playing catch-up to Udio, Suno now lets you upload or record your own audio to make songs. (Available to Pro and Premier users for now.)
Luma Labs (the crew behind text-to-3D “Genie”) entered the text-to-video space with a model called Dream Machine.
Google Labs added a fun tool called Gentype that lets you create an alphabet out of anything and then use it to type messages.
LinkedIn introduced new AI-powered job-hunting tools for all English Premium subscribers.
Yahoo launched a new Yahoo News app with an AI-powered personalized feed and AI summaries.
Pika Labs rolled out an update to its image-to-video model.
Leonardo AI released “Phoenix,” the company’s own text-to-image model.
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🔬 AI research
Cool stuff you might get to try one day:
Apple teased its
“Artificial Intelligence”“Apple Intelligence,” coming in beta this fall. Here’s some of what that should entail:AI-powered Siri: She’s smarter, better at natural language, and can take action on your behalf. (For a detailed look, read this article by
.)Writing tools: Get help rewriting or tweaking your emails, etc.
Genmoji: Create unique emojis from a text prompt.
Image Playground: Create images and customize their style.
Image Wand: Turn a sketch into a polished image (sound familiar?)
Memory Movie: Automatically create movie collages from your photos for a given topic.
📖 AI resources
Helpful stuff that teaches you about AI:
“Claude’s Character” - a curious look by Anthropic about how the company constructed Claude’s “personality.”
“Let's reproduce GPT-2” - Andrej Karpathy walks through the entire process of building and training a GPT-2 model.
🔀 AI random
Other notable AI stories of the week:
Microsoft postponed the release of its “Recall” feature following backlash and security concerns. (I first mentioned Recall three weeks ago.)
🤦♂️ 10. AI fail of the week
Not all stabbing scenes are created equal:
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⚔️ Sunday Showdown #15 - GPT-4o vs. Perplexity: Which one is best for news summaries?
Call me old-fashioned, but I still get my news the traditional way: Clickbaity Facebook posts with ALL-CAPS personal commentary by my crazy uncle.
That, and going directly to the websites of my preferred news organizations.
But I’ve been hearing good things about Perplexity and have personally tried it several times for non-news-related queries.
This got me thinking: Is there really an advantage to using a dedicated service like Perplexity for news summaries vs. just using ChatGPT-4o with web browsing?
Let’s go ahead and find out, shall we?