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Artificial Intelligence is present in everyday life – from “googling” to facial recognition to vacuum cleaner robots. AI tools are becoming more and more elaborate and support people and companies more effectively in their tasks, such as generating graphics, texting or coding, or interpreting large amounts of data.

What AI tools are there, how do they work, how do they help in our everyday world – and how do they change our lives? These are the questions we address in our Content Hub Artificial Intelligence in Practice.

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OpenAI launches GPT-5 as a unified system with adaptive reasoning for complex tasks

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OpenAI releases its first open-weight language models since GPT-2 with GPT-oss

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Google upgrades Gemini with Deep Think and flags early warning risks

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OpenAI's enterprise version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprise, has attracted 260 paying companies that collectively employ more than 150,000 registered ChatGPT users in the four months since launch, according to COO Brad Lightcap. ChatGPT Enterprise is for large enterprises only, and OpenAI says it has a long waiting list. For small and medium-sized businesses, OpenAI this week launched the "Teams" plan, which is available for as few as two people. OpenAI is also in talks with major publishers such as CNN, Fox and Time to license content - with 99 percent positive interactions, according to Lightcap. OpenAI's COO emphasizes the potential for a positive relationship between the media and technology industries, as opposed to past conflicts.

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Ultralytics has released YOLOv8.1, a major update to its object recognition framework. The new version introduces Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) models, which improve accuracy and reduce background noise for angled or rotated objects in applications such as aerial imagery and text recognition. YOLOv8.1 also includes enhanced segmentation capabilities, performance optimizations, an improved model architecture, an improved API and CLI experience, and a more intuitive user interface with the Ultralytics Explorer for exploring datasets. In addition, the update adds support for multiple platforms, including PaddlePaddle, NCNN, PNNX, and TensorRT. According to Ultralytics, 19 million YOLOv8 models have been trained in 2023, with more than 20 million downloads, resulting in 1,000 inference jobs per second every day.

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Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBB) | Bild: Ultralytics
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Silicon Valley-based 3D AI startup Luma AI has raised $43 million in a Series B funding round exclusively backed by a16z. This follows a $20 million Series A round from investors including Amplify Partners, NVIDIA and General Catalyst. Luma AI, founded in 2021, specializes in 3D content generation and reconstruction, offering features like 3D photos and videos, image to 3D, video to 3D, and text to 3D.  The company's core technology, NeRF, enables the creation of 3D scenes from 2D images. Luma AI recently launched its text-to-3D tool, Genie, which can help you create 3D assets faster.

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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman notes two new Word features that use generative AI to modify text directly after it has been pasted into an existing document. Specifically, Schulman describes "paste and paraphrase," which means indirectly reproducing text content from your clipboard. "Paste and match writing style" would ensure that the paraphrased content fits well with the existing content.

This feature could be useful and legally safe if you want to include content from your own older articles in a new article, but do not want to copy it verbatim, for example, in the case of references to existing content. Both features are "coming soon to your favorite word processor," Schulman writes. It is not clear from Schulman's post whether this is a concrete project or just a conceptual consideration.

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