AI News – April 25
OpenAI is feeling the pressure to give everyone more Gemini plays Pokemon Blue Tesla FSD gets the green light in Norway and Google DeepMind creates a virtual fruit fly here’s today’s AI news. OpenAI’s announced a new lightweight version of their Deep Research tool, powered by the o4-mini model.
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They’re expanding access to free users and paid subscribers, with free users getting five tasks per month and paid tiers receiving higher limits and less restrictive results. This is certainly a welcome move for fans of ChatGPT, but it feels like it’s Google and their Gemini subscription plans that are really putting the pressure on OpenAI.
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Gemini’s own deep research model fares very well in comparison and has far more generous usage allowances. Speaking of Gemini, their 2.5 Pro model is playing Pokemon Blue and has managed to reach the 8th badge in 600 hours. This showcases its ability to handle complex sequential decision making in a gaming environment.
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You can even watch Gemini’s progress on a Twitch live stream. The model’s progress is aided by a custom minimap that simplifies gameplay. But is that cheating or just an innovative approach to problem solving? We’ll let you decide. Tesla has secured a two year special exemption in Norway to test its Full Self Driving with supervision on public roads.
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This is another big step forward for Tesla and autonomous driving in Europe as Norway is now the second country to test allow this kind of testing in public. Tesla is already testing in the Netherlands. The next aim for Tesla is to achieve approval for the whole of the EU, which they hope to do in 2025.
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And finally, Google’s DeepMind has developed an AI driven virtual fruit fly model that can simulate realistic walking, flying and general fly like stuff using a physics engine called MuJoKo. The model was trained on real fruit fly footage using a neural network to replicate natural flight paths and behaviour.
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The simulation aims to help neuroscientists understand brain and body connections and how they interact with the environment to drive behaviours. I wonder what they’ll scale up to next.