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Tuesday’s top story: At last! OpenAI has launched its highly anticipated AI video generator—Sora—on the third day of its ‘12 days of OpenAI’ campaign.

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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🐔 On the third day of Shipmas, OpenAI gave to us….Sora

2. ⚡ How to automate lead generation with Artisan

3. 🤯 Google’s “mindboggling” chip breakthrough

4. ⌛ How to cut hours of sales meeting prep with Bounti

5. 🫣 How to manage a crisis using ChatGPT

6. 🦾 Amazon’s new AI agent powerhouse

7. 👀 Reddit competes with partners Google and OpenAI?

Read Time: 5 minutes

FACT OF THE DAY

🤔 According to Statista, 14% of real estate companies use AI: 49% say it’s helped reduce costs, and 63% say it’s helped boost revenue.

STOCK MARKETS

🔽 AI and tech stocks had a tough start to the week with the Nasdaq losing 0.78% in value. Investors are nervous before the release of inflation data later this week and maybe securing returns at these record levels. AMD was a major under-performer losing over 5% as BofA cut their target for the stock on fears that they may not gain any market share in 2025. Learn more.

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TEXT-TO-VIDEO

🐔 On the third day of Shipmas, OpenAI gave to us….Sora

Our Report: OpenAI continued its ‘12-days of OpenAI’ ‘Shipmas’ campaign (we’re on the third day) by launching its highly-anticipated text-to-video AI model, Sora—first teased in February—to ChatGPT subscribers in the US (and “most other countries”), just a week after a group of angry Sora beta testers leaked the model on developer platform, Hugging Face, in protest about being used, by OpenAI, for “unpaid R&D and PR.”

🔑 Key Points:

• Sora generates videos from photos, has a “storyboard” feature that creates scenes based on a string of prompts to help with consistency (a weakness of AI video generators), and a ‘remix’ feature that blends scenes together.

• It excels at creating realistic landscapes and can display text (another notorious AI video weakness) if specific prompts are used (it garbles background text on things like street signs).

• It still has common video generator issues: Objects will sometimes move or disappear, natural movement can be a challenge, and body parts or objects can suddenly warp into something entirely different.

🤔 Why you should care: Early testers have revealed that Sora does have several safeguards in place, including visible watermarks and C2PA metadata—to indicate videos have been made with AI—and it will not create videos containing copyrighted materials, violence, or “explicit themes,” or of public figures or people under 18, and OpenAI has acknowledged that they might not get it right, on day one, so are asking users for feedback, especially on its moderation features.

❗Keep scrolling to ‘Recommended Resources’ to see a full review of Sora, by renowned tech influencer, Marques Brownlee, and also a caveat message from OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman.

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QUANTUM COMPUTING

🤯 Google’s “mindboggling” chip breakthrough

Our Story: Google’s quantum computing lab has revealed a new, “mindboggling” chip—Willow—that reportedly takes five minutes to solve a computing issue, that would currently take the world's fastest supercomputer ten septillion—10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years—to complete.

🔑 Key Points:

• Quantum computing can complete bigger calculations than previously possible, which could speed up the experimental development of things like car batteries, nuclear fusion reactors, and pharmaceutical drugs.

• For instance, Google believes Willow could allow MRI scans to be read at atom-level detail, unlocking new data about human bodies and diseases, and is close to transforming our ability to research and develop new materials.

• Although Willow is reportedly less error-prone than other versions, Google still needs to reduce its error rate, meaning we’re still years away from using quantum computing to solve real-world problems.

🤔 Why you should care: Although this is a major breakthrough for quantum computing, experts fear that, without proper guardrails, the technology has the potential to crack even the most sophisticated encryption, compromising computer security, which is something that Apple has already factored into its development, and built an external encryption that makes iMessage chats “quantum proof” so powerful quantum computers can’t read them.

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Tuesday’s Prompt: How to manage a crisis using ChatGPT

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AGENTS

🦾 Amazon’s new AI agent powerhouse

• Amazon has formed an AI-agent-focused lab—AGI SF Lab—that David Luan (co-founder of AI start-up, Adept) will lead, working alongside Amazon’s existing AI team, and will be staffed by Adept employees.

• The AGI SF Lab will research and develop online and offline AI agents that can complete complex tasks, like handling real-world tasks, learning from human feedback, and correcting themselves without human intervention. 

• Amazon signed a deal with Adept to license its technology and recruit Adept staff—similar to Microsoft's Inflection deal, which raised antitrust concerns—so it’ll be interesting to see what regulators will do.

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SEARCH

👀 Reddit competes with partners Google and OpenAI?

• Reddit has launched a new AI search tool—“Reddit Answers”—which allows US ‘Redditors’ to ask questions and get AI-generated summarized answers, sourced from relevant subreddits.

• This comes after Reddit announced (in May) it had partnered with OpenAI to bring AI-powered features to users, and expanded its collaboration with Google, enabling it to share content and integrate AI capabilities.

• Despite the partnerships, the ‘Reddit Answers’ feature (awkwardly) puts Reddit in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search feature and Google’s AI Overviews tool.

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