Tuesday’s AI Report
• 1. 🥇 OpenAI and Google fight for gold
• 2. 🏗️ Build AI that works for your business with Retool
• 3. 🌍 How Uber reduced costs and carbon emissions with AI
• 4. 👑 Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🧬 OpenAI’s new exec has big ideas
• 7. ⚔️ ChatGPT closes gap on Google?
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources
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OpenAI and Google fight for gold
🚨 Our Report
Experimental AI models from OpenAI and Google have both achieved gold-medal scores in the annual International Math Olympiad (IMO)—the world’s biggest, most challenging math competition for high school students. However, OpenAI didn’t officially enter the competition: They chose to complete the competition in their own time and publish the results before the IMO published the official scores. This sparked controversy and a public backlash from Google, who was invited to participate in the competition and waited for the IMO to publish its results, so they didn’t “steal the spotlight from the students.”
🔓 Key Points
Google and OpenAI both used “informal” AI systems—which translate, understand and answer questions, without human input—to compete (Google scored silver last year, using a model that needed human input).
Both models followed the same rules as the students. This included sitting two, 4.5-hour exams, over two days, to solve a total of six questions, with no access to the internet or any other tools.
IMO officially verified that Google’s model answered 5 out of the 6 questions correctly (scoring higher than most IMO students) and OpenAI announced that their model also scored the same.
🔐 Relevance
Putting whether OpenAI did or didn’t formally enter the IMO competition aside, the gold-level results highlight a significant breakthrough for AI reasoning models and their ability to solve advanced math problems. It also shows how close Google and OpenAI are in terms of progress, which is something that will undoubtedly intensify the already fierce competition to hire the industry’s best AI talent.
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How Uber reduced costs and carbon emissions with AI
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Last month, OpenAI announced that Instacart’s CEO—Fidji Simo—would be joining OpenAI as the “CEO of Applications,” and, with just days to go before she starts, she’s already published her first internal memo.
In it, Simo (who calls herself a “pragmatic technologist”) said she was most excited for AI-led healthcare breakthroughs and believes that if they get this right, “AI can give everyone more power than ever.”
However, she also warned that OpenAI needs to be intentional about how it builds technologies so it leads “to greater prosperity for more” rather than a “greater concentration of wealth and power for the few.”
OpenAI has revealed that, each day, ChatGPT gets around 2.5B prompts, from global users (which equates to around 912.5B p/y), and around 330M of those prompts are coming from US users.
While these numbers highlight an increasingly widespread use of ChatGPT, Google (although it doesn’t publish daily search data) gets around 5 trillion search queries p/y, which averages 14B searches p/d.
That said, in just three months, ChatGPT’s weekly users grew from 300M in December to 500M in March, and with the impending release of OpenAI’s highly anticipated AI browser, Google better be ready for a fight.
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