GPT5 Rumors Are Swirling

Good morning.

If you’re reading these words, it means you are ahead of your peers.

You are interested in AI, have recognised its importance, and you want to learn about it.

The “posterboys” of AI—Sam Altman, Elon Musk, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella—are all clamoring that this technology will completely change the world.

They really have been going at it this week- with especially Musk making the rounds and telling us we will be jobless soon.

Now, these are also the very same people who are trying to drive massive amounts of investment towards their companies.

So should you trust them?

“Probably none of us will have a job,” Musk said about AI at VivaTech in Paris on Thursday last week.

“If you want to do a job that’s kind of like a hobby, you can do a job,” Musk said. “But otherwise, AI and the robots will provide any goods and services that you want.”

But on the other hand there are incredibly smart people in the space like Ray Kurtzweil and Geoffrey Hinton that say the same thing.

Those people do not have the same monetary incentive.

With GPT5 Rumors swirling, things are about to get weird.

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AI NEWS
More OpenAI Drama

• OpenAI is facing a series of controversies, including leaked documents about its strict NDA clauses, new details about the 'Sky' voice model, and another resignation. The voice actress behind 'Sky' revealed she was hired months before discussions with Scarlett Johansson, and documents suggest CEO Sam Altman knew about the controversial NDAs.

• Google’s new ‘AI Overviews’ search feature is facing criticism after bizarre and inaccurate responses went viral on social media. The summaries, meant to streamline search results, have suggested misleading ideas, like using glue as a pizza topping. Google claims most AI Overview queries provide high-quality information and is working to disable the feature for problematic searches.

  

• Canva has launched several new AI features, including a text-to-graphic tool, an AI-powered photo editor, and video editing upgrades. The ‘Magic Media’ tool creates images from text prompts, while ‘Magic Switch’ and ‘Magic Write’ generate alternative media forms and personalized text, respectively. These updates aim to enhance user creativity and simplify the design process.

• Elon Musk’s xAI plans to build a supercomputer with 100,000 Nvidia GPUs, aiming to enhance its Grok AI chatbot. This "gigafactory of compute" would be four times larger than the biggest existing AI clusters, with hopes to be operational by Fall 2025, possibly in partnership with Oracle.

• A University of Chicago study revealed that AI models like GPT-4 can outperform human analysts in predicting future earnings from financial statements. The study showed GPT-4 excelled by analyzing trends and economic reasoning, not just training data. This breakthrough suggests AI could significantly impact the financial industry, making expert-level analysis accessible to everyone.

• OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee to oversee the development of its next AI model, which is currently being trained. The committee, led by CEO Sam Altman and including board members Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, and Nicole Seligman, will evaluate safety and security processes over the next 90 days and share their recommendations. This move hints at significant advancements, sparking speculation that GPT-5's release might be imminent.

• Jan Leike, former AI safety lead at OpenAI, has joined rival Anthropic to lead a new superalignment team focused on safety and security. Leike left OpenAI in mid-May, criticizing its prioritization of product development over safety, and his new team at Anthropic will work on scalable oversight and automated alignment research.

• Google has introduced new AI-powered features for its $350 Chromebook Plus laptops to boost productivity, creativity, and collaboration. These features include the Gemini assistant on the home screen, an "Help Me Write" tool for text enhancement, and advanced AI image editing in Google Photos. Additional generative features like AI wallpapers and video call backgrounds offer new customization options. This move shows that even budget-friendly laptops will now come with advanced AI capabilities.

• OpenAI has partnered with Vox Media and The Atlantic to enhance its AI capabilities and content discovery. Vox Media will provide ChatGPT access to content from its various brands, while The Atlantic’s content will become more discoverable in OpenAI products.

Quickfire News

• OpenAI secured a multi-year deal to license content from News Corp, allowing for AI training on material from outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, MarketWatch, and Barron’s.

• Alphabet and Meta are reportedly offering millions to Hollywood studios for licensing content to train AI video generation software

• Meta AI chief Yann LeCun said that LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence, arguing instead for a ‘world modeling’ approach to AI that may take 10 years to achieve.

• Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly nearing a new $6.5B funding round with backing from VC’s including a16z, Lightspeed, Sequoia, and Tribe, potentially valuing the company at over $24B.

• Elon Musk predicted that AGI will arrive ‘next year’ in a response to a post on X from Google’s Logan Kilpatrick.

• Suno launched its v3.5 update, offering the ability to generate longer songs with improved structure — also teasing the ability to craft songs from specific sounds.

• Apple’s upcoming WWDC AI announcements will reportedly focus on practical features, including a ‘Project Greymatter’ toolset for apps like Safari and Photos, as well as new generative custom emojis.

• Filmmaker George Lucas said that AI’s use in the industry is ‘inevitable’, comparing anti-AI sentiment to preferring the horse over the automobile.

• Mastercard rolled out a new software update to integrate AI into its fraud-prediction tech, helping better identify patterns and prevent stolen credit cards and info.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed the Giving Pledge, committing to donate most of his wealth to philanthropy, joining other tech leaders like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

• Mistral, a French AI startup, is expanding into the U.S. market and increasing hiring to compete with large providers like OpenAI and Google.

• Lmsys released performance results for Google's Gemini 1.5 models, showing Pro/Advanced in second place just below GPT-4o and Flash close to GPT-4.

• Helen Toner accused Sam Altman of lying to the previous board in an interview with Bilawal Sidhu, stating she was ousted after Altman influenced other board members.

• Microsoft introduced a new Copilot Telegram bot, enabling users to search, chat, and ask questions directly within the app.

• Opera added Google's Gemini AI to its browser, enhancing its built-in Aria AI assistant with new image generation and text-to-audio features.

Closing Thoughts

That’s it for us this week.

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