- The Daily Update
- Posts
- OpenAI develops voice clones
Welcome back!
Today is all about OpenAI. The company just revealed a voice cloning tool too dangerous to be released to the public, and plans to build a new $100 billion supercomputer with Microsoft. Let’s get straight to it.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ OpenAI cautiously announces voice cloning tool
🤖 xAI reveals Grok-1.5
📸 Microsoft and OpenAI plan $100B supercomputer
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Read time: 2 minutes
TOP STORY
🗞️ OpenAI cautiously announces voice cloning tool
DALL-E 3
OpenAI just previewed a text-to-voice generation model that was deemed too risky to release to the public at this time.
What you should know:
Voice Engine has been in development since November 2022 and already powers ChatGPT’s Read Aloud feature.
The tool needs just a 15-second voice sample to create an exact synthetic copy of someone’s voice (click here to listen for yourself).
OpenAI is releasing the model to 10 developers to evaluate the risks and opportunities of text-to-voice AI.
Voice Engine was trained on a mix of licensed and publicly available data.
Why it matters: There’s a lot of potential for good or bad here. Best case scenario, OpenAI’s Voice Engine is carefully deployed to provide reading assistance, translate content and help non-verbal patients. On the other hand, easy access to highly-realistic deepfakes presents a variety of threats to our everyday lives (think about voice-based bank account authentication). OpenAI is walking a tight rope here.
AI TOOL OF THE DAY
🤖 xAI reveals Grok-1.5
Source: xAI
Elon Musk’s xAI is rolling out Grok-1.5 to early testers and existing users on the X platform.
Key points:
Grok-1.5 is xAI’s most advanced model with improved reasoning and problem-solving capabilities.
The chatbot demonstrates significant improvements from Grok-1 across several benchmarks (pictured above).
Grok-1.5 features a context window of 128k tokens (meaning its “memory” increased by 16x).
Grok still falls short of the world’s leading models like Claude 3 Opus, GPT-4 and Gemini Pro 1.5.
ChatGPT says: “Engaging with millions of social media users daily can significantly enhance an AI chatbot's understanding and response generation by providing diverse, real-time data and exposure to natural conversations. However, this approach presents challenges, including ensuring data quality, addressing privacy and ethical concerns, and managing the technical complexities of processing vast amounts of information.”
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 Microsoft and OpenAI plan $100B supercomputer
“Stargate” by DALL-E 3
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly planning on building an unprecedented $100 billion supercomputer called Stargate.
The details:
Stargate is at the core of a five-phase plan to install a series of supercomputers over the next six years.
The U.S.-based supercomputer could launch as soon as 2028.
The data center project would power OpenAI models like ChatGPT, continuing the company’s existing partnership with Microsoft.
Microsoft hopes to pioneer the next generation of infrastructure that will push the boundaries of AI capability.
Why it matters: Advanced AI models require vast amounts of computing power for training and operation. Microsoft’s Stargate would become the most expensive supercomputer in the world by a wide margin, potentially driving unmatched AI innovation. To do this, the company still needs to find a way to meet the project’s towering energy costs.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
DALL-E 3
Deepmind founder Demis Hassabis says there is a 50-50 chance AGI is achieved within a decade.
Beyoncé publicly criticizes AI-generated music.
ChatGPT is now available without an account.
Yum Brands tech chief shares AI-powered vision for fast food.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY