🤖 OpenAI's Chatbot Marketplace, SpaceX Texts via Satellite, Google Cuts Jobs
Today’s pick
OpenAI Launches New Store For Users to Share Custom Chatbots. OpenAI has launched an online store where people can share customized versions of the company’s popular ChatGPT chatbot, after initially delaying the rollout because of leadership upheaval last year. The new store, which rolled out Wednesday to paid ChatGPT users, will corral the chatbots that users create for a variety of tasks, for example a version of ChatGPT that can teach math to a child or come up with colorful cocktail recipes. By Rachel Metz via Bloomberg
𝕏: the GPT store is live! fun speculation last night about which GPTs will be doing the best by the end of today. - Sam Altman (@sama)
Spacex sends first text messages via its newly launched direct to cell satellites. On Monday, January 8, the Starlink team successfully sent and received our first text messages using T-Mobile network spectrum through one of our new Direct to Cell satellites launched six days prior. Connecting cell phones to satellites has several major challenges to overcome. Starlink
𝕏: What was said in the first text? - Adrian Dittmann (@AdrianDittmann)
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Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant. Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number of roles on its knowledge and information product teams. the restructuring would help improve Google Assistant as it explores integrating newer artificial intelligence technology into its products. By Louise Matsakis via Semafor
𝕏: Damn, the tech job market just keeps getting worse and worse. In the past 30 days: - Etsy cut 11% - Duolingo cut 10% of contractors - Bolt cut 29% - Rumors that Netflix is cutting - Google reorg of 30k (unclear what cuts) - Unity cut 1.8k - Amazon cutting "several hundred" - Israel Gonzalez-Brooks (@izzyz)
Will retailers look up to the cloud for gen AI? Google Cloud hopes so. As the retail industry gears up for the big NRF 2024 conference that gets started on Jan. 13, it is clear that generative AI will be top of mind for many and Google is aiming to be a key part of the action. Today Google Cloud announced a series of AI technologies and services designed to help retailers deliver more personalized and efficient shopping experiences to their customers. By Sean Michael Kerner via VentureBeat
Will Chatbots Teach Your Children?. Sal Khan, the chief executive of Khan Academy, gave a rousing TED Talk last spring in which he predicted that A.I. chatbots would soon revolutionize education. “We're at the cusp of using A.I. for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen,” Mr. Khan, whose nonprofit education group has provided online lessons for millions of students, declared. By Natasha Singer via The New York Times
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