Congratulations to this week’s chosen creators: @sama, @openai, @om, @krishnanrohit, @peternixey, @eringriffith, @AndreRetterath, @ry_paddy, @cutler_max, @Kantrowitz, @PranavDixit, @ttunguz, @geneteare, @sarahfielding_, @carlfranzen Contents * Editorial: Eyes, Ears, Hands, and Mouth * Essays of the Week * GPT-4o * How OpenAI Stole Google’s Thunder * AI embraces its product arc * OpenAI’s Spring release will end up being far more significant than most of us might suspect * Tensions Rise in Silicon Valley Over Sales of Start-Up Stocks * Most Used Startup Databases & How to Find the Best Provider * Video of the Week * Math Problems with ChatGPT 4o * AI of the Week * Her * OpenAI Wants To Get Big Fast, And Four More Takeaways From a Wild Week in AI News * Google Search will now show AI-generated answers to millions by default * AI Spending Patterns : It's Not What You Think * News Of the Week * AI, Web3 And E-Commerce Led For New Unicorns In April 2024 * Biden administration quadruples import tariff for Chinese EVs * Startup of the Week * ChatGPT now lets you import files directly from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive * X of the Week * Sam Altman on Ilya leaving OpenAI Editorial OpenAi and Google announced their AI offerings' next iteration this week. As @Om Malik explains in one of this week’s Essays of the Week, OpenAi won in this high-stakes battle. Make no mistake — the reason OpenAI is achieving all this success (and hype) is because they have a product that for now is stellar. Nonetheless, OpenAI has created excitement that reminds me of the emergence of Palm, and later social networks. They stoked the imagination, and possibilities. Of course! Om is right. Sam Altman did his own post later in the day of the announcements: First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in ChatGPT, without ads or anything like that.  Free to consumers, or 8 billion earthlings, is possible due to the revenues OpenAI can make from business users. It represents a very big step forward. The company also released a desktop app, initially on the Mac, that can interact with other apps. But for me, the best way to think about what was delivered, aside from free, is summed up in this week’s title—Eyes, Ears, Hands, and Mouth. OpenAI has enabled every smartphone camera on the planet to become the AI's eyes and ears. Both still images and video can be used as inputs to a conversation. Of course, the microphone, too. This week’s video of the week shows this for teaching a student how to solve a math problem. The mouth reference acknowledges that we can now speak to ChatGPT in a human-like way, including cross-talking and interruptions. And, of course, we can still type using our hands. This changes the problem of giving AI data—images, video, sound, and speech can all become data for input and learning. They also gave chatGPT a memory. It can remember things across sessions. The scope of what will now be possible is expanded to a much longer list. Rohit Krishnan writes about what comes next in his essay: The true change will come once we can enable large numbers of them to work together. And we’re getting glimpses of how they can do this across all modalities that are important to use. Whether that’s writing code or seeing something or listening to something or writing or reading something or a mixture of all of these. He is talking about AI to AI interactions that can produce even better and faster outcomes. I did this myself earlier in the week. I was asking ChatGPT to create a chart showing the performance of the SignalRank Index against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ over the 2014-1019 period. ChatGPT did not have the NASDAQ data, so I asked Claude.ai for it. Once I had it I went back to ChatGPT and it completed the work. Here’s the chart: It seems clear that almost any prob