

AI Daily Rundown: ⏱️Microsoft prepares for OpenAI's GPT-5 🤖Figure's humanoid robot now takes voice orders 🔬Microsoft's new AI speeds up protein research 🩸 AI tool diagnoses diabetes, HIV, and COVID from a blood sample
8 snips Feb 21, 2025
Microsoft's launch of GPT-5 is set to reshape AI with groundbreaking capabilities. A humanoid robot from Figure now follows voice commands, showcasing advancements in robotics. AI is revolutionizing protein research, rapidly matching years of superbug studies and promising breakthroughs in drug discovery. A new diagnostic tool effectively identifies diabetes, HIV, and COVID from blood samples. The discussion also touches on the ethical responsibilities tied to these innovations, underscoring the importance of balancing creativity with responsible AI use.
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GPT-5 and AGI
- Microsoft positions OpenAI's GPT-5 as a major AI showdown.
- Its O3 reasoning model aims to mimic human-like learning and reasoning, potentially unlocking Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Microsoft's AI Infrastructure
- Microsoft expands server capacity to meet GPT-4.5 and GPT-5's immense power demands.
- This signifies Microsoft's commitment to AI and its potential to transform the digital world.
Robots on Voice Command
- Figure's humanoid robots now take voice commands, powered by the Helix vision-language-action model.
- Helix interprets commands contextually, not just through keywords, by training on massive data sets of images, text, and videos.