Chat GPT 5

NVIDIA’s Project GR00T launches six workflows to boost humanoid robot vision and skills, including grasping.

Shoplexity is Here

Perplexity is taking on Amazon with its new Shopping experience.

It allows you to search for your plans (rather than just what you want to buy),and it will figure out what you need.

You can also take a picture of any item, find it online, and buy it all on Perplexity.

This essentially converts the entire world into a showroom and makes it shoppable.

This is a direct threat to Amazon.Some quick stats:

>54% of product searches in the US start on Amazon
>50% of all products sold on Amazon is sold by third-party sellers
>In effect Amazon leases out space on its website to external sellers, and provides various services including shipping, storage and money back guarantees.
>Perplexity is starting to create an Amazon like experience out of the open web

And also finally we see a path to revenue for Perplexity:

> That pair of Bose headphones you took a photo of is expensive
> Have you considered this pair of very well reviewed [No Brand] headphones?
>Ad revenue that doesn’t make search bad

AI Powers toward Zero Waste

Vinod Khosla says AI will do 65% of jobs in 20 years, but an increase in GDP from 2% to 5% will lead to an era of abundance where work isn't about servitude but about what people want to do

CMU Researchers introduces "ManipGen"

Zero-shot robot that organizes and tidies from text commands, no demos needed!

Underwater game (Subnautica) reimagined by AI

Hume AI introduces new app

AI assistants with unique voices, personalities, and enhanced AI tools like Claude 3.5

Boston Dynamics reveals fully autonomous "Atlas"

World's first human procedure by Robotic dentist

Decart AI dropped "Custom Worlds" for their real-time AI game engine Oasis

ChatGPT can now use your Apps on Mac

This is (probably) a first step toward ChatGPT seeing everything on your computer and having full control as an agent

What you need to know:

It can write code in Xcode/VSCode
It can make a git commit in Terminal/iterm2
If you give it permission of course
Available right now to Plus and Team users
Coming soon to Enterprise and Edu
It’s an early beta

>The OpenAI team has been building towards this for almost a year

>The next step beyond this would be to allow ChatGPT to control see and control your desktop as an agent

>Bloomberg just reported that this agent,called the “Operator” will be released in January (covered in depth in The Rundown AI newsletter this morning)

>So App Usage could essentially be the OpenAI team doing bug fixes with humans in the loop feedback prior to Agent release

>Google DeepMind, Anthrophic,and several other startups (some which are in stealth) also reportedly have agent-type systems coming within weeks

>Guess no one is taking Christmas off

This machine can automatically iron and dry your clothes at once

OpenAI introduces "Predicted Outputs"

It cuts GPT-4o latency by using a reference string, ideal for quick edits and updates.

Nio testing use of humanoid Robots on factory production line

Microsoft announces "Magentic-One"

Agent framework that autonomously tackle tasks by planning, acting, and coordinating.

In the demo, it shows how it orders a sandwich

Wow, China has almost perfected 4 legged robots.

Deep Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup, just started commercial sales of the X30 robot dog:

—Costs $54,000
—Has 4-6 hours of battery life and a range of 10 km
—Hot swappable modular battery pack
—Operates from -20°C to 55°C
—Waterproof to 1 meter depth for 30 minutes (IP67)
—Completely dustproof
—Low light capable
—You can buy it on Taobao and JD today

Dario Amodei says $100 billion AI data centers will be built by 2027 and he is bullish about powerful AI happening soon because we are starting to reach PhD-level intelligence

Mind-Controlled Wheelchair

China researchers introduces GameGen-X

Diffusion model for creating and controlling open-world game videos.

Xpeng unveils "Iron"

5'8" humanoid robot with 60+ joints, Turing AI, and factory-ready abilities.