AI News – April 17
Grok gets a memory and new workspaces Gemini Live rolls out to all Android users for free and Claude 3.7 wins the crown for being the best AI gamer. Here’s today’s AI news. Grok now has a memory that will remember all of your past conversations. This update allows Grok to provide tailored recommendations and advice based on the user’s previous chats.
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Users will have control over their data, with options to view, edit or delete conversation memories. Memory is another one of those features that’s set to become ubiquitous amongst LLMs. Grok has also added workspaces. This allows users to organise conversations and files all in one place.
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This means that users can return to a workspace to continue an ongoing conversation or piece of research without losing all of the previous context. Gemini Live has been a big success since its launch and today Google announced that it will be expanding its availability to all Android users regardless of the plan that you have.
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So it’s now free for everyone. If you haven’t tried Gemini Live yet, if you have an Android phone, now is your chance. It’s a really impressive tool and the more you use it, the more uses you can think of for it. And finally, in a novel approach to benchmarking AI models, Video Game Bench, or VGBench is a new open source tool that tests vision language models like Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.5 on 1990s video games.
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VGBench includes 20 games from MS-DOS and Game Boy emulators such as Zelda and Kirby, allowing researchers to evaluate AI agents while reminiscing about their misspent youth. In this round of testing, the winner was Claude3.7 as it advanced furthest in Doom by reaching the blue room.
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So Claude 3.7 is the best gamer out of all the LLMs, and you won’t find a cooler claim than that.