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I have been playing with the new Outlook agent, and it is fine, but really awkward to use, since you have to ask for things in a chatbot window, then go to your drafts, etc. And Claude Cowork does the same thing (works with Gmail, too) and has better visibility across your life.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2048974994961490107
Little thought experiment to put AI chip improvements in perspective: Imagine that every person on Earth uses a calculator to perform one calculation per second. Everyone works 24 hours a day without rest. Every second, we all hit equals on the calculator for a long digit
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2049174849780936747
Microsoft’s license to OpenAI IP becomes non-exclusive Microsoft and OpenAI just restructured their partnership: OpenAI can now serve its products across any cloud provider, not just Azure, and Microsoft’s license to OpenAI IP becomes non-exclusive. Microsoft stops paying
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2048759615500804395
OpenAI and Microsoft changed their partnership but I think it comes down to this: “”OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider”” in other words: OpenAI can use Google TPUs and Amazon Trainium
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2048752418305769473
The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/next-phase-of-microsoft-partnership/
Today OpenAI announced that “”Revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft continue through 2030, independent of OpenAI’s technology progress”” That “”independent of OpenAI’s technology progress”” fragment appears to mean that the weird AGI clause is now deceased
https://x.com/simonw/status/2048834476323823983
we have updated our partnership with microsoft. microsoft will remain our primary cloud partner, but we are now able to make our products and services available across all clouds. will continue to provide them with models and products until 2032, and a revenue share through
https://x.com/sama/status/2048755148361707946
Microsoft Presents “”TRELLIS.2″”: An Open-Source, 4B-Parameter, Image-to-3D Model producing up to 1536³ PBR textured assets. Built On Native 3D VAES With 16× Spatial compression, delivering efficient, scalable, high-fidelity asset generation. Ngl, pretty cool!
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2049099376476459372
World-R1 | Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation
https://microsoft.github.io/World-R1/
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