The Friday AI Dive

A Weekly Roundup Of All The Important AI News

Welcome to the Friday AI Dive with AIGordon—Stay ahead with our weekly 5-minute deep dive into the latest AI advancements. Learn how AI drives innovation, optimises businesses, and unlocks growth opportunities —keeping you informed and ahead of the curve.

Top News Of The Week!!!

Apple Walks Away From OpenAI Billions But Teams Up For A ChatGPT-Siri Brainpower Boost!

In a surprise turn of events, Apple has abruptly withdrawn its plans to invest in OpenAI, just days before a big $6.5 billion fundraising round that might include significant contributions from Microsoft and Nvidia. Although Apple had been discussing participating in the venture, its decision to withdraw comes amid structural changes at the company. Interestingly, despite bypassing the investment, Apple and OpenAI are still working together to integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18 Read more.

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 This Week On The Friday AI Dive

  • OpenAI’s Game-Changing Tools: Empowering Developers with Smarter, Cheaper AI Models and Real-Time Innovations.

  • Google vs. OpenAI: The Race for Advanced AI Reasoning Heats Up with New Google Models.

  • Meet Your Future Self: MIT's AI Reduces Anxiety by Simulating 60-Year-Old You.

  • AI-Generated Image Of The Week- From you, our esteemed readers and by you.

  • AI Tools That Will Supercharge Your Productivity This Week

  • Prompt Of The Week

  • How To Get Into AI: Weekly Free Courses For Beginners- Stanford University: AI in Healthcare Specialisation

  • Video of the Week-Deepfakes: How safe are you online?

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-OpenAI’s Game-Changing Tools: Empowering Developers with Smarter, Cheaper AI Models and Real-Time Innovations.

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OpenAI's new tools are aimed at developers, improving model distillation, cost-effective, quick engineering, vision fine-tuning, and real-time speech applications.

Key Points:

  • Model distillation allows developers to fine-tune smaller models using larger ones while delivering free tokens to save costs.

  • The prompt caching feature reduces expenses by up to 50% while allowing prompt reuse, similar to Anthropic's technique but less efficient.

  • Real-time API and visual fine-tuning enable speech-to-speech applications and increase image interpretation on GPT-4o models.

Why It May Be Important To You:

This new voice mode represents a significant step toward making AI interactions feel more natural and human-like. By expanding voice options and improving design, OpenAI enhances the overall user experience. Read more.

-Google vs. OpenAI: The Race for Advanced AI Reasoning Heats Up with New Google Models

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Google accelerates AI development with advanced reasoning models like AlphaProof, challenging OpenAI’s o1 system in a heated competition.

Key Facts:

  • Google’s AI uses its chain-of-thought prompting to solve complex multi-step problems in math and programming.

  • Google’s cautious rollout includes reasoning models like AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, focusing on advanced mathematical reasoning.

  • Microsoft has integrated OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model into its Copilot assistant, intensifying the AI competition.

Why It May Be Important To You:


As AI models gain advanced reasoning abilities, they will revolutionise industries by enabling more sophisticated problem-solving, from programming to mathematics. This ongoing rivalry among AI giants could lead to faster innovation, affecting how we use AI in daily applications and business; Read more

-Meet Your Future Self: MIT's AI Reduces Anxiety by Simulating 60-Year-Old You

MIT's AI tool "Future You" lets users interact with an AI-simulated future self to reduce anxiety and offer insights..

Key facts:

  • The AI tool generates an age-progressed image and conversation with a 60-year-old version of the user.

  • Users reported reduced negative emotions and anxiety after engaging with the tool.

  • 344 participants participated in the study, demonstrating the psychological benefits of AI-driven simulations.

Why It May Be Important To You 


This technology could offer new ways to support mental health and emotional well-being by allowing users to envision and connect with their future selves. It opens doors to more personalised therapeutic experiences using AI.

-AI-Generated Image Of The Week- Readers Challenge

Every week, one reader will get the chance to showcase their AI-generated Image for free. So send in your Images (one per person) and prompts to be considered.

This week’s Image Creator is Akin Emmanuel- UK.

Prompt: A gracefully striding African-American man, his presence commanding attention as he moves confidently past the iconic White House. This vivid scene is captured in a stunning oil painting, showcasing the man's impeccable style and dignified demeanour against the backdrop of the majestic building.

  • Pro Tip: Whenever you generate an image from any of the AI text-to-image tools like LeonardoAI, ChatGPT-DALL-E and others, make sure you include “SD3 Image’’ to your prompt to give it the best resolution and clearest output.

  • SD3: Stable Diffusion 3: SD3's design allows for creative applications in various fields, such as graphic design, media, and entertainment.

-AI Tools That Will Supercharge Your Productivity This Week

  • Hedy provides real-time insights during meetings and classes.

  • Tilores: provides in-debt Customer data search, unification, and retrieval for LLMs.

  • Vox: AI voice agent built for the mortgage industry.

-Prompt of the Week

Asking ChatGPT for help organising and prioritising your daily schedule and to help sort it out in no time.

Type this prompt into ChatGPT:

ChatGPT, help me create a to-do list for today based on the following tasks: finish the quarterly report, respond to client emails, prepare for the team meeting, and review project proposals. The quarterly report is due by the end of the day, the team meeting is at 2 p.m., and I have about 15 client emails waiting since yesterday. The project proposals are for next week's strategy session.

Results: 

A prioritised to-do list for the day.

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