Still can’t believe we got Gemini 1.5 Pro and Sora on the same day. Definitely of the most incredible weeks in AI that we’ve seen so far
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Technology Geopolitics Business Strategy Direct Distribution
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The connections between advanced technology, geopolitics and your business strategy has never been so tightly coupled. Reason to ensure you are on direct distribution for the OODA Daily Pulse.
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Gemini 1.5 Pro: Major LLM Capability Boost This Year
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Gemini 1.5 Pro was overshadowed by OpenAI's Sora but is probably the biggest boost in LLM capabilities this year (so far). It's not available to the public yet, but Google DeepMind was kind enough to grant me early access. Let's get into the tests below.
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Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 1.5 Pro With 1M Token Context
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First, what is Gemini 1.5 Pro?
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 février 2024
Gemini 1.5 Pro is Google DeepMind's newest update to the free version of its LLM.
It most notably has a 1M+ token context length, meaning it can understand much larger amounts of data compared to other LLMs/chatbots. pic.twitter.com/lIjeHE8W9uFirst, what is Gemini 1.5 Pro? Gemini 1.5 Pro is Google DeepMind's newest update to the free version of its LLM. It most notably has a 1M+ token context length, meaning it can understand much larger amounts of data compared to other LLMs/chatbots.
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OpenAI’s Deliberate Strategy: GPT-5 Ready, Gradual Sora Rollout
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Yes, but that was foreseeable from the start. In any case, I don't share the view that OpenAI is acting hastily. On the contrary. I am firmly convinced that GPT5 has been ready for a long time and that they are slowly making progress through sora. It has to happen like this.
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Sora Release as Social Experiment for AI Impact Assessment
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What social backlash do you expect? I’d say other way round, releasing sora is more of a social experiment how specialty will handle the first wave of AI>human worked sectors. That’s why I’d say it’s very mindful to release sora instead of a real threat
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OpenAI Sora Team Members Are UC Berkeley BAIR Lab Graduates
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The @OpenAI core team behind #Sora, Tim Brooks (
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Gemini’s Impressive Information Filtering from Million Token Context
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Strange, imo most tester were impressed by the capability of Gemini to filter information from the ~1mio token
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Gemini 1.5: Compute-Efficient Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts Model
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2/ Gemini 1.5 – a compute-efficient multimodal mixture-of-experts model with capabilities such as recalling and reasoning over long-form content; reasons over long documents potentially containing millions of tokens, including hours of video and audio.https://t.co/oZyOtMNBnR
— DAIR.AI (@dair_ai) 18 février 20242/ Gemini 1.5 – a compute-efficient multimodal mixture-of-experts model with capabilities such as recalling and reasoning over long-form content; reasons over long documents potentially containing millions of tokens, including hours of video and audio.
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Sora: Text-to-Video AI Model Generates Realistic Minute-Long Videos
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1/ Sora – a text-to-video AI model that can create videos of up to a minute of realistic and imaginative scenes given text instructions; it can generate complex scenes with multiple characters, different motion types, and backgrounds, and understand how they relate to each other.