Happy Monday!

In Today’s Email:

• ChatGPT gets browsing and plugins 🔌

• Google’s Universal Translator AI 🗣️

• Claude vs. GPT-4 🤺

ChatGPT gets browsing and plugins 🔌

OpenAI is finally rolling out third-party plugins to ChatGPT Plus users.

In March, OpenAI began development for ChatGPT plugins, which would drastically expand the chatbot’s capabilities. These plugins were only available to a few individuals in a “limited alpha.” Last Friday afternoon, OpenAI began to roll out plugins to a larger audience.

For now, the plugins will only be available to ChatGPT Plus members, and can be found in user settings under “Beta Features.” The $ 20-a-month subscription will give users faster response times, priority access to new features, access to ChatGPT during peak times, and now access to over 70+ third-party plugins.

The plugins range over various industries, including real estate, travel, stocks, and shopping. Tools such as data analyzers and foreign language assistants can also be found in the plugins. Users can download however many plugins they want, but can only use three at a time.

Are you excited about ChatGPT plugins?

Google’s Universal Translator AI 🗣️

Google’s newest translator can redub and lip-sync videos in new languages.

At the Google I/O conference, the tech giant showcased numerous new AI tools. James Manyika, head of the Technology and Society department at Google unveiled the “Universal Translator” which was what impressed us the most. The new service can redub videos in a different language while synchronizing the speaker’s lips.

The AI service takes an input video, for example, an online course given in English, transcribes, translates, regenerates the speech, and matches the speaker’s lips to match the new audio. Currently, the only tools comparable to this are professional tools made in a strict media workflow.

Google was upfront about the serious risks associated with technology such as this. Manyika said it’s a “tension between boldness and safety,” and striking a balance can be difficult. He continued by saying “Some of the same underlying technology could be misused by bad actors to create deepfakes. So we built the service with guardrails to prevent misuse, and we make it accessible only to authorized partners. Soon we’ll be integrating new innovations in watermarking into our latest generative models to also help with the challenge of misinformation.” The service hasn’t been released widely yet.

What do you think of Universal Translator?

Claude vs. GPT-4 🤺

Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot has some serious capabilities, should OpenAI be worried?

Anthropic, an AI start-up founded by former OpenAI members, has been cooking up its own chatbot for some time, we’re finally getting a glimpse into its capabilities. The team behind Claude recently expanded the context video for Claude to 75,000 words (9k to 100k tokens). For context, GPT-4 can only handle 25,000 words.

The company said Claude can now process a whole novel in under a minute. Anthropic’s recent blog post read, “We’ve expanded Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, corresponding to around 75,000 words! This means businesses can now submit hundreds of pages of materials for Claude to digest and analyze, and conversations with Claude can go on for hours or even days.”

The newest version of Claude will be especially useful for documents used in business. Users can share multiple documents with Claude, and ask specific questions that would require synthesis of the knowledge shared. Anthropic stated on average it takes a human five hours to read 100k tokens of text, Claude can do that in less than a minute.

Should OpenAI be worried?

That’s it for today, we’ll see you back here tomorrow!