Is AI Helping Us Be More Productive, Two New Robotics Partnerships, Meet Midjourney 6.1 ... and more

Temperatures are up, markets are down, but AI just keeps on delivering. This week, we dive deep into Microsoft’s latest AI research in the workspace, revealing new insights about productivity and AI integration. We cover the debut of powerful robotic partnerships between Neura & NVIDIA and Figure & OpenAI. Midjourney 6.1 faces competition from Black Forest Labs’ newly launched models. LMSys’ new chatbot arena rankings are in, with Google’s Gemini 1.5 taking the top spot. Finally, check out the latest from AI giants like Grok, OpenAI’s long context outputs, and Google’s strides in AI explainability.

Microsoft’s AI Research: Latest study shows Gen AI is boosting productivity, with Copilot users creating more documents and saving time on emails. Upwork Study: Contrasting results with 77% of employees reporting AI increased workloads and hampered productivity.

Robotics Partnerships: Neura & NVIDIA: Partnership demo showcases robots performing household tasks. Figure & OpenAI: Part of Nvidia’s Humanoid Robot Developer Program, showcasing Figure 2 in BMW production lines. Midjourney 6.1 Release: Improved text-to-image model, better at generating finer details. Black Forest Labs Competitor: New models, Flux Pro, Dev, and Schnell, outperform benchmarks and challenge Midjourney.

LMSys’ Chatbot Arena: Google’s Gemini 1.5 pro now leads the leaderboard, overtaking GPT-4 models. Grok’s Funding: AI chip startup Grok raises $640M to challenge Nvidia.

OpenAI’s Long Outputs: Experimental version extending output length to 64,000 tokens.

ChatGPT Voice Mode: New feature available for user testing. Google’s Gemma Release: Includes the Shield Gemma project to improve explainability in large language models. Make sure to subscribe to keep up with all the key happenings from the AI world.