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Black Forest Labs Announced the FLUX Pro Finetuning API
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January 21, 2025
1. Black Forest Labs Announced the FLUX Pro Finetuning API
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs has launched the FLUX Pro Finetuning API, allowing creators to customize FLUX.1 with their own images and concepts. This tool allows creators to reimagine user-provided content via text prompts, opening new horizons for customized content creation.
The FLUX Pro Finetuning API is the most powerful finetuning tool to date, setting a new industry standard for customized media creation with generative AI. It is also partnering with BurdaVerlag to showcase the potential of the FLUX and FLUX Pro Finetuning API in professional content creators.
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2. About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023
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A Pew Research Center survey shows that 26% of US teens use ChatGPT for schoolwork, up from 13% in 2023. However, 73% have not used the chatbot. Black and Hispanic teens are more likely to use it, while 11th and 12th graders are more likely.
Teens show more support for using ChatGPT for research and research-related tasks than for essays or math problems. 79% of teens have heard of ChatGPT, and those familiar with it are more likely to use it for schoolwork.
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3. Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive
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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has founded a new AI research lab, AGI, focusing on Artificial General Intelligence. The startup has recruited former head of special projects Jonathan Lachman and engineers from OpenAI, Character #AI, and Google DeepMind.
Other former OpenAI executives have founded startups, such as Safe Superintelligence, which raised $1 billion, and Anthropic, which secured $8 billion from Amazon.
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4. OpenAI confirmed you can now give ChatGPT “custom instructions”
We've updated custom instructions to make it easier to customize how ChatGPT responds to you.
With the new UI, you can tell ChatGPT the traits you want it to have, how you want it to talk to you, and any rules you want it to follow.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI)
6:35 PM • Jan 17, 2025
5. Legal AI Startup Harvey Set to Double Valuation to $3 Billion
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Sequoia Capital is set to lead a $300 million funding round for artificial intelligence startup Harvey, valued at $3 billion. The deal would more than double Harvey's valuation, bringing it into the ranks of multibillion-dollar startups. Harvey, which develops generative AI tools for law firms, has raised over $200 million to date.
Sequoia first invested in Harvey in 2023. Coatue Management is set to join the current funding round as a new investor. Harvey operates in an increasingly crowded space, competing with other well-funded legal AI companies like EvenUp Inc. and Robin AI.
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