Tuesday’s AI Report
• 1. 👀 Courts reveal OpenAI hardware device details
• 2. 📈 Improve customer support productivity with Tidio
• 3. 🌍 How this start-up opened over 20,000 stores using AI
• 4. 🔒 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🧠 Grok may rival Google Workspace
• 7. 🔬 Perplexity co-founder funds AI research
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources
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Courts reveal OpenAI hardware device details
🚨 Our Report
Yesterday, we reported that OpenAI had been forced to take down all promotional material that referenced its $6.5B acquisition of io—founded by ex-Apple designer, Jony Ive, and OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman—due to a trademark infringement filed by an AI start-up, called IyO. IyO has now been revealed as a Google-backed, hardware startup specializing in earpieces that connect to other devices and is accusing OpenAI and io of stealing their IP.
🔓 Key Points
According to the filings, OpenAI and io have been researching AI-powered, in-ear devices for the last year, and just a few months ago, met with iyO’s CEO to learn more about their in-ear products.
Emails revealed that OpenAI and io executives were disappointed with iyO’s technology as it repeatedly failed during demos, but made it clear that they took precautions not to learn too much about iyO’s IP.
Plus, io’s chief hardware officer, Tang Tan, revealed that the prototype mentioned in the promo material is not yet finalized and that the product is at least a year away from being advertised or shipped.
🔐 Relevance
Despite all this, OpenAI and io’s first device may not be headphones: In the (now deleted) promo video, Altman said that their prototype was “not an in-ear device, or a wearable device,” but a “family” of AI devices with various capabilities.
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How this start-up opened over 20,000 stores using AI
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Leaked code has revealed that Elon Musk’s AI start-up, xAI, is developing an advanced file editor (with support for spreadsheets) for its AI tool, Grok, which will enable users to interact with Grok while editing files.
While it’s not clear what type of files (apart from spreadsheets) Grok’s AI editor tool will support, if this becomes a reality, it will be a step towards Musk’s plan to turn his social platform, X, into an “everything app.”
If true, this could put Musk in direct competition with Google’s Gemini Workspace (which has AI tools that allow users to edit docs via Gemini), but the difference is, Gemini Workspace just works within Google’s ecosystem.
Would you use Grok to edit files?
Co-founder of Perplexity and Databricks, Andy Konwinski, has launched an AI research non-profit, called The Laude Institute, which he has personally funded with $100M from his own pocket.
The research institute has a board with top experts from Google, Meta, and UC Berkley, who will award grants to start-ups “to enhance computer science research and promote positive societal outcomes.”
Funding will be given to early-stage research projects (“Slingshots”) and long-term initiatives (“Moonshots”), with its first major grant giving UC Berkley $3M annually, for the next five years, to build an AI Systems Lab.
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