Google's Project Magi

Happy Monday ! Google's working hard on Project Magi and hinting at a new search engine. More EU nations are clamping down on OpenAI's ChatGPT and AI music continues to improve at an exponential pace (music platforms have begun to ban them). 

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Here’s what we have lined up for you today - 

1. Google is hinting at a new search engine

2. Spain says it’s probing ChatGPT

3. The Music Industry is changed forever

Google is hinting at a new search engine

Project Magi seems to be picking steam internally within Google. This seems to be Google’s latest attempt to neutralise AI rivals that have released new search engines. Being built in addition to the original search engine, the new search engine would offer a far more personalised search experience attempting to anticipate the users’ needs.

Lara Levin, a Google spokeswoman, said “not every brainstorm deck or product idea leads to a launch, but as we’ve said before, we’re excited about bringing new A.I.-powered features to search, and will share more details soon.”

Google first created their AI emergency task force two weeks after ChatGPT was launched. There has also been talk internally within Google of Samsung’s consideration to make Bing their default browser (a contract worth up to $3billion annually). 

Google has been integrating their AI technologies into their products for a good part of the last decade. However those integrations have only really been features and not outright products. Now the priority is to push for products. 

There is no clear timetable for Google’s new search engine. Early chatter suggests that it will be more conversational and pre-empt search queries based on conversational context and history. The team which is now 160 people will also focus on adding new features to the existing search engine. Users should be seeing new capabilities being added to the current search engine starting next month onwards. 

Google also has the technology ready in other AI domains including image generation, AI agents for online purchases , AI tutors etc all of which are being pushed into the product pipeline. 

Lots of planning docs for Google to make, lets see how many products see the light of the day. 

Spain says it’s probing ChatGPT

Spain is following its close neighbours Italy and is in the preliminary stages of investigating ChatGPT for potential GDPR violations. They’ve also asked the European Commission to discuss the usage of ChatGPT in its plenary session  “considering OpenAI’s global processing operations may have a significant impact on the rights of individuals”

There are some long nights ahead for OpenAI’s policy team as the EU does indeed love its GDPR policies. More regulation is on the way globally, and if overly restrictive, could substantively thwart AI adoption. 

Now is a good time to remember that progress is not just about technological innovation but progressive policy innovation as well. 

Around the industry - 

1. Learning to Read Braille: Bridging the Tactile Reality Gap with Diffusion Models

2. Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields

3. Elon Musk forms X.AI artificial intelligence company

4. Japan's top banks tap AI chatbots to lighten workload

5. Reef.ai is helping companies track and expand net revenue retention

6. OpenAI not currently building GPT 5, focusing on doing more with GPT 4

Product Corner - 

There are way too many cool products to showcase just one !

• Cognosys : AI-Powered Agents at Your Fingertips

• Lexica Aperture V3 -  A new fine tuned stable diffusion model + search engine 

• BabyAgiGPT : Run autonomous agents directly within ChatGPT

• AWS CodeWhisperer : Amazon’s answer to Github Copilot, except it’s free to use

• Katch : Flexible meetings for busy individuals

• Unakin : AI copilot for game studios

• Chunky : Create chatbots that train on your data  

• SnapGPT : Image to text, text to image, and custom prompts, all in a Snap!

The Music Industry is changed forever

“That's it. Music industry is changed forever. This is that *key moment* I've been waiting for years.”