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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason to dive into this week’s AI news and demos.

(2:10) OpenAI did their big reveal on Monday and review on Sam Altman’s appearance on the All In podcast

(5:40) A dive into what OpenAI launched this week.

(10:11) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://www.linkedin.com/twist (13:12) OpenAI’s new model, where the “o” stands for omni, means it can now reason across audio, vision, and text in real-time. (17:21) Open AI’s “memory” setting and their new MacOS desktop app! (19:43) Eight Sleep - Head to https://www.eightsleep.com/twist and use code TWIST to get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra. (22:37) Jason highlights the startup Athena. (25:53) Looking at the improvements on the new ChatGPT 4o model. (29:31) HiddenLayer - HiddenLayer’s AI Detection & Response Solution secures your Generative AI & LLMs from malicious attack. Visit https://www.HiddenLayer.com/TWiST to learn more. (32:34) Breaking down the pricing of the new vs historic ChatGPT models. (35:31) Jason demos Recall. (42:19) Sunny shares Labs.Google and NotebookLM.

(46:03) Labs.Google and “AI Overviews”

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Check out ChatGPT 4o: https://chatgpt.com/?model=gpt-4o

Check out Labs Google: https://labs.google/

Check out Groq: https://groq.com/

Check out article “Apple Nears Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone”: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-11/apple-closes-in-on-deal-with-openai-to-put-chatgpt-on-iphone

Check out Athena: https://www.athenago.com/

Check out Recall: https://www.getrecall.ai/

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