💻 Next-Gen AI, Mars Mission Concludes, and IDX Unveils Tools
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New embedding models and API updates. We are introducing two new embedding models: a smaller and highly efficient text-embedding-3-small model, and a larger and more powerful text-embedding-3-large model. An embedding is a sequence of numbers that represents the concepts within content such as natural language or code. OpenAI
𝕏: Launching improved GPT models in the API, as well better and cheaper embedding models (e.g. one model is 5x cheaper than our previous embedding models with stronger performance) - Greg Brockman (@gdb)
After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has come to an end. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. NASA
𝕏: Congratulations to everyone at NASA and JPL who worked on this. What a triumph. - Hank Green. (@hankgreen)
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Introducing Android emulators, iOS simulators, and other product updates from Project IDX. Six months ago, we launched Project IDX, an experimental, cloud-based workspace for full-stack, multiplatform software development. We built Project IDX to simplify and streamline the developer workflow, aiming to reduce the sea of complexities traditionally associated with app development. It certainly seems like we've piqued your interest, and we love seeing what IDX has helped you build. Project IDX
𝕏: Today http://idx.dev brought the Android Emulator and the iOS Simulator right in the browser. If you haven't signed up for the waitlist, head over to the site and get on it. - David East (@_davideast)
Apple opens App Store to game streaming services. Starting today Apple is opening up its App Store to allow game streaming apps and services. This means that services like Xbox Cloud Streaming and GeForce Now, which previously were only accessible on iOS via a web browser, will be able to offer to offer full-featured apps By Andrew Webster via The Verge
𝕏: I reeeeeeeeally hope this means the streaming apps for PlayStation, Xbox, and GeForce Now all crop up on Apple TV. - Patrick Klepek (@patrickklepek)
Refract Tech is making affordable VR tracking for your legs. Refract Technologies today revealed its new virtual reality accessory, the AXIS Lite. This set of four rechargeable nodes can be attached to the body in order to track movement without much extra hardware — it requires no external base station or wires. By Rachel Kaser via VentureBeat
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