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Welcome to the 28th edition of the Quantumics Weekly Roundup. Today, we’re taking a look at Microsoft’s new AI powered Teams Premium subscription plan and exploring Artifact, a personalised news feed app made by the founders of Instagram that uses machine learning to understand your interests! We’ll also explore the latest news and information in data and AI, business and tech.
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💻 Teams Premium - AI in everything!
Just after the news that Microsoft is making a multibillion dollar investment into OpenAI, it’s integrating the company’s tech into more of its products and services. Microsoft has announced that Teams Premium is now available. The service features large language models powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, along with other tech geared toward making meetings "more intelligent, personalized and protected,” Microsoft says.
GPT-3.5 will be used to divide Teams meeting recordings into chaptered sections, generate titles and section descriptions, add personalised timeline markers that show when a user joined or left a meeting, as well as highlighting when a name was mentioned and when a screen was shared.
Users will have access to AI-generated task and action item suggestions as well, with Microsoft likely to expand the Teams Premium AI feature set over time.
Will you be grabbing a Teams Premium subscription?
🧠 Text TikTok?
After leaving Instagram in 2018, co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back with a new project, a news aggregation app called "Artifact".
Artifact aims to provide a new way of delivering news to users. The app will curate news from a variety of sources and present it to the user in an easy-to-digest format, similar to how Instagram presents photos and videos, and with an algorithm similar to TikTok’s for you page.
The app is still in the early stages of development, but Systrom and Krieger are optimistic about its potential to change the way we consume news. They believe that by providing a better way for people to access information, they can help to create a more informed and engaged society.
You can sign up for the waitlist here.
News Bites 📰
Google is testing ChatGPT-like products that use its LaMDA technology…
Watch out, the Interpol is working out how to police the metaverse!
OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-generated text, including from ChatGPT.
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