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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.

AI in practice

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

AI in practice

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

AI in practice

Google upgrades Gemini with Deep Think and flags early warning risks

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Microsoft is planning "next-generation AI PCs" that will feature a neural processing unit (NPU), according to Windows Central. The devices will be available in Intel and Arm versions, the latter powered by a custom version of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X-series chips. Codenamed "CADMUS," the PCs are designed for the upcoming version of Windows, Hudson Valley, due in 2024, and will "utilize many of the upcoming next-gen AI experiences Microsoft is building into the 2024 release of Windows." Microsoft claims that these PCs will be competitive with Apple Silicon in terms of battery life, performance, and security. The next Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, expected to ship next year, will be among the first CADMUS PCs to be released.

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Baidu's AI chatbot Ernie Bot has reached more than 100 million users since its launch in August, according to Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng. In the first three months after its launch, the bot reached 70 million users. Baidu CEO Robin Li emphasized the potential of Ernie Bot to increase Baidu's market share in its core businesses such as search engine, cloud and smart cars. Baidu released version 4.0 of the chatbot at the end of October, which Li said would be on par with GPT-4. According to Reuters, Ernie scored 79.02 points on the SuperCLUE benchmark, putting it at the top of Chinese chatbots, but ten points behind ChatGPT. ChatGPT is also clearly ahead in terms of user numbers, with 150 to 200 million (!) monthly users.

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Midjourney will start training video models in January. This was announced by Midjourney CEO David Holz in an "Office Hour" Discord session. Holz already mentioned in the past that Midjourney is also working on 3D and video generation. It will be interesting to see if Midjourney can gain a qualitative edge in video generation because it builds on a mature image model. Meta has achieved something similar with Emu Video, which is based on the Emu image model and performs better in user preference tests than other current video models. Further updates to Midjourney v6 with improved text rendering and prompt following will be released starting next week. Features from v5, such as inpainting, will also be gradually added to v6.

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Microsoft is partnering with nonprofit Terra Praxis to train an AI to generate the necessary paperwork for regulatory approval of next-gen nuclear reactors. These reactors are intended to power Microsoft's data centers, which handle the substantial processing power required by generative AIs like OpenAI's ChatGPT. The approval process for small modular reactors (SMRs), Microsoft's chosen nuclear energy source, is costly and complex. Terra Praxis co-CEO Eric Ingersoll believes the AI could reduce the human hours needed for SMR approval by 90%. The AI will be trained to generate highly structured documents based on existing ones, but won't generate any of the data within them.

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The News/Media Alliance has voiced support for the New York Times in its lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that they unlawfully used millions of the Times's copyrighted works in their products. Alliance President and CEO, Danielle Coffey, emphasized the importance of fair use and compensation for quality journalism used by AI developers. A white paper released by the Alliance in October echoed these concerns, highlighting the heavy reliance on journalistic content to train AI models. The Alliance represents over 2,200 news, magazine, and digital media organizations.

"We are at a point where the question is not whether quality journalism should be compensated, rather a question of how much."

Danielle Coffey, Alliance President and CEO

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