Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free

Pivot 5: 5 stories. 5 minutes a day. 5 days a week.

1. Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free

Google is introducing all its AI features to its Workspace app for free, allowing users to access them without paying an additional $20 per user per month for the Gemini Business plan. This move is part of Google's race to build the AI-powered office suite of the future. However, Google is increasing the price of all Workspace plans, with companies paying roughly $2 more per month per user for the AI-enabled Workspace than before.

Workspace AI includes email summaries, generated designs for spreadsheets and videos, an automated note-taker for meetings, the powerful NotebookLM research assistant, and writing tools across apps. Google is the most vertically integrated AI product out there, but the cost of rolling out these features to everyone will be worth it in the long run.

Read the full story here

2. Wyze cameras will use AI to describe what they see

Wyze has introduced Descriptive Alerts, an AI feature that reduces the need for manual security footage checks. These alerts provide detailed descriptions of motion events, providing more context than just detecting movement or an object.

The feature is available to Cam Unlimited Pro members, which includes features like facial recognition, video search, and live feed viewing. The Cam Unlimited Pro subscription also includes 60 days of cloud storage. However, Wyze has faced security and privacy issues in the past.

Read the full story here

3. Google’s Gemini AI just shattered the rules of visual processing

Google's Gemini AI has achieved the simultaneous processing of multiple visual streams in real time, allowing it to watch live video feeds and analyze static images simultaneously. This breakthrough is not yet available in Google's official applications for end users, but is a significant advancement in AI's ability to handle complex, multi-modal interactions.

The technology is based on advanced neural architecture, which AnyChat exploits to process multiple visual inputs without sacrificing performance. Developers can easily replicate this capability using Gradio, an open-source platform for building ML interfaces.

Read the full story here

4. OpenAI partnering with Axios

OpenAI is partnering with Axios to expand its local news coverage in four cities. The partnership aims to help journalists with time-consuming tasks, improve ChatGPT's understanding of current news events, and offer new ways for publishers to reach readers.

The technology is now available in over 160 news outlets and hundreds of content brands in 20 languages across topics and continents. The partnership strengthens the news ecosystem and allows users to discover and engage with original news content.

Read the full story here

5. MiniMax unveils its own open-source LLM with industry-leading 4M token context

MiniMax, a Singaporean company, has released the MiniMax-01 series of models, designed to handle ultra-long contexts and enhance AI agent development. The models include MiniMax-Text-01, a foundation large language model, and MiniMax-VL-01, a visual multimodal model.

The models can process up to 4 million tokens, 20 to 32 times the capacity of other leading models. MiniMax offers competitive APIs for text and multi-modal processing, and a Lightning Attention mechanism for reducing computational complexity.

Read the full story here