Brain Mapping Breakthrough

Hello, Earthlings!

It's another massive day in AI.

P.S.A. to Big Tech: Could we get a breather between releases?

OpenAI and Google I/O back-to-back feel like celebrating Christmas Eve right after Thanksgiving.

I’m still recovering from last night’s dessert—let us process it!

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

Today, You'll Learn This in 2 Minutes or Less...

• 📢 Brain Mapping Breakthrough: Harvard and Google AI join forces.

• 🌟 Gemini in Google Workspace: AI integration like never before.

• 🚀 Alphabet's AI Announcements: The future is here, and it's amazing.

• 🎨 AI Image of the Week: Discover the latest creative AI feat.

• 📅 AI Prompt of the Week: Organize your workweek efficiently.

PLUS, the inside scoop on OpenAI’s cofounder moving on to new adventures.

Brain Mapping Breakthrough

Hey Innovators,

Harvard researchers have teamed up with Google AI experts to map a tiny piece of human brain tissue and capture its complex architecture.

This ambitious effort required a staggering 1.4 petabytes of data for just a cubic millimeter of the brain, showcasing the detail and complexity of its neural connections.

Using advanced electron microscopy, the team sliced the brain sample into 5,000 sections, imaging each slice to gather vast data.

This allowed them to identify roughly 50,000 cells and 150,000,000 synapses. 

Google’s AI technology was crucial in piecing these images together, mapping the brain’s intricate pathways.

This is a monumental step in understanding the human brain.

Gemini is Coming to All Your Workspace Apps

At its I/O developer conference yesterday, Google introduced a buffet of AI innovations.

We’re at I/O IRL, diving deep to gather all the tea you need.

AI in Google Workspace: 

This means paying users will have a ChatGPT-esque assistant right beside their screen that knows everything your Google apps know about you (so literally everything).

Powered by ChatGPT 1.5 Pro, it now boasts a super-duper big context window of 2M tokens—meaning it can "remember" 1.4M words.

Why it matters: 

When you're working in Docs/Sheets/Gmail/Slides, you can ask Gemini to retrieve or summarize any content from all these apps:

• “Hey Gemini, fetch the latest budget numbers from Sheets and pop them into this email.”

• “Hey Gemini, condense the main points from the email chain with our marketing team into a new Doc.”

The killer use case could be Gemini’s ability to search through all your emails, saving you the headache of ever searching for an email again.

Assuming these features materialize... Google has a habit of inflating its demos.

A Rundown of Alphabet’s Biggest AI Announcements

When OpenAI showed off GPT-4o earlier this week, some experts thought its big competitor had no chance.

Alphabet can confidently say: “You shouldn’t have counted us out so soon.”

On the opening day of its I/O conference, the company shoved practically a year’s worth of exciting AI announcements into a single keynote.

Here are some of the biggest highlights:

• Generate summaries and replies in Gmail

• Find information and compile timelines from your photos

• Create charts and analyze data in Sheets

• Get in-depth AI overviews from search queries

• Integrate information from across apps (e.g., build a database with receipts from your inbox)

Wow, Factor: 

Project Astra might be the coolest thing we saw during the keynote.

Similar to GPT-4o, it can take in information about your surroundings in real-time and help with various tasks, from deciphering code to spotting your missing glasses.

And unlike GPT-4o, it seems capable of processing video, too.

AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Welcome to the future, where city streets are buzzing with autonomous vehicles, holographic advertisements light up the sky, and AI-powered public services make life a breeze.

In this vibrant metropolis, the only thing more advanced than technology is the fashion sense of its inhabitants.

AI Prompt of the Week

Organize your workweek with this handy AI prompt:

“Hey [AI Assistant], create a detailed schedule for my week, including meetings, deadlines, and personal tasks, and set reminders for each.”

Goodbye & Good luck: 

OpenAI’s cofounder, Ilya Sutskever, announced he was leaving the company.

He plans to focus on a “project that is very personally meaningful” to him. Best of luck, Ilya!

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