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Tue 10 December, 2024 - Enter the multiverse
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December 10, 2024
WELCOME
Hey all, welcome back to The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the hottest new launches in AI and industry trends. This week, OpenAI has finally launched Sora and Google’s new quantum chip just proved the multiverse exists (kinda?).
TOP LAUNCHES
Sora is finally here, your own Jarvis, and much more.
TOP LAUNCHES
Sora: OpenAI’s video generation model now available to the public
Sora is OpenAI’s video generation model, designed to take text, image, and video inputs and generate a new video as an output.
Coval: Simulation & evals to ship delightful voice & chat AI agents
Coval helps developers build reliable voice and chat agents faster with seamless simulation and evals.
Supabase AI assistant: Go from idea to Postgres database with AI
A global AI Assistant with several new abilities, such as Postgres schema design, data queries and charting, error debugging, Postgres RLS policies, and more.
Pointer: AI editing co-pilot for Google Docs
Pointer is an AI copilot, working directly within Google Docs to offer smart, real-time edits. No more manual copy-pasting from ChatGPT and fixing broken text formatting.
Martin: An AI personal assistant to handle your day-to-day
Martin manages your calendar, inbox, to-do lists, and Slack. He can send texts, make calls, set reminders, and search the web for you.
THE BIG THING
Google did a thing
On Monday, Google unveiled “Willow,” a new quantum chip that marks a significant step in the decades-long effort to make quantum computing practical at scale. Unlike traditional computers that process information as 0s and 1s, quantum computers use "qubits," which can represent multiple possibilities simultaneously. This enables them to solve problems that would take even the fastest supercomputers millions (or billions) of years. Willow boasts significantly improved error correction over previous versions, and its creators suggest its power might even support the idea that we live in a multiverse (!).
For AI, this breakthrough could one day transform how we train and refine models. Quantum computers excel at optimization, pattern recognition, and simulations—critical for advances in machine learning and natural language processing. In practical terms, they could make AI faster, smarter, and capable of solving challenges today’s computers can’t. However, these possibilities remain distant, as quantum hardware is still unreliable and difficult to scale.
(Still, the fact this might suggest we live in a multiverse is pretty cool.)
Overheard in the discourse
World creation just got easier
Google DeepMind and World Labs just raised the bar for 3D creation. Genie 2 from DeepMind turns flat images into full-on interactive worlds—physics, NPCs, the whole deal—perfect for quick game prototypes.
World Labs, meanwhile, went for the “Midjourney but make it 3D” vibe, letting you stage scenes or plan shots without melting your brain in 3D software. Basically, they’ve made it ridiculously easy to turn ideas into something you can actually explore, and saved us all weeks of work in the process.
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