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🆕 Windows Copilot: Early look at major AI upgrade

🎾 Wimbledon smashes into Fortnite

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DeepMind touts chatbot as ChatGPT rival [Link]

As the Google-owned research lab’s most ambitious work in the space to date, Gemini is positioned by DeepMind as its large language model that will rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Some astounding details shared by DeepMind:

• Techniques from AlphaGo, DeepMind’s AI system that defeated a professional human player at the board game Go, are building Gemini, which is poised to solve problems, analyze text, as well as undertake planning.

• Briefly teased at Google’s I/O developer conference back in May, Gemini will leverage reinforcement learning, in which DeepMind has a ton of experience in for easy application to generative AI.

• DeepMind has previously got its feet wet in language models via Sparrow, a chatbot that it claimed was less likely than other language models to provide “unsafe” or “inappropriate” answers to questions.

The stakes are high in the generative AI market, which could reach $109.37B by 2030.

Windows Copilot: Early look at major AI upgrade

Microsoft's AI-powered productivity tool Windows Copilot, which uses Microsoft Edge's rendering capabilities, is set to be released to testers in the Windows Insider Program soon.

Here are the key features of this AI-powered Copilot:

• It integrates Bing Chat and Microsoft Edge into Windows 11, running Bing Chat, an AI chatbot based on ChatGPT, within a web-based container on desktop and apps.

• Users can ask the assistant to perform critical settings changes, open specific apps, or configure Windows, improving upon the current search implementation in Windows 11.

• It is deeply integrated into the operating system, allowing it to detect the apps being used and offer relevant assistance, such as helping with email composition or summarizing documents.

Unlike its predecessor Clippy, the new and improved Copilot demonstrated by Windows Latest offers efficient navigation through PC settings and complex functions, simplifying tasks that would typically require navigating through menus.

Microsoft aims to address the shortcomings of previous assistants like Cortana by leveraging ChatGPT, Bing, Microsoft Edge, and OpenAI's plugins for a more reliable and capable assistant experience.

Wimbledon smashes into Fortnite [Link]

All England Lawn Tennis Club is making its foray into the world of online gaming.

Wimbledon has partnered with Fortnite to introduce Race to Wimbledon, a gaming experience that takes players through iconic London landmarks to reach Centre Court in the fastest time.

The Roblox experience WimbleWorld has received updates and enhancements, providing users with an immersive Wimbledon adventure. The gamified tennis app has been rebranded as Wimbledon Smash, offering players the chance to test their skills in breaking bricks with a tennis racket.

Wimbledon seeks to grow its fan base and bring the tournament to life through digital initiatives, embracing new tech to create memorable experiences for fans.

Why do web2 developers shy away from blockchain? [Link]

The demand for web3 development is on the rise, yet many traditional web2 developers aren’t taking the plunge.

The hesitation - or outright skepticism - could be borne out of:

• The lack of formal education and training programs on blockchain tech, a gap between understanding the concepts and having the actual skills and know-how to develop blockchain apps.

• A significant gap between web3 skills and other mainstream web2 programming languages, such as a miniscule 1.45% of developers using Solidity versus mainstream web2 programming languages such as JavaScript being used by 65%+ of developers.

• The need to develop a web3 developer mindset and hurdle safety and security concerns, moving around the thinking that web3 is an immature environment full of risk.

Quick Hits

🎮 Gaming

• Meta’s new $7.99/month Meta+ subscription program gives users access to 2 VR titles monthly. (Link)

• Call of Duty announces its Warzone Caldera and hints at embracing Chainlink-powered NFTs. (Link)

• Tencent publishes a new patent that seeks to change the way in-game enemy AI is added, solving the issue of enemy predictability. (Link)

• “Phenomenal audio design, decent enemy AI, and a really cool map procedural generation engine push this game past its peers”: New Steam game climbs to top of charts. (Link)

• A Super Mario game is reportedly so rife with malware that it can hijack your crypto wallet and install crypto mining software. (Link)

🕶 Fashion

• Luxury luggage brand Rimowa rolls into the metaverse via the immersive world Tmall Luxury Provision. (Link)

• Web3 fashion platform SYKY launches a year-long incubator for emerging digital designers. (Link)

• A new platform offers AI-recommended B2B purchasing from extensive Japanese designer collections. (Link)

• The global personal luxury goods market is projected to grow by 5-12% YoY in 2023, with US luxury shopping slowing down while it’s on the rise in Europe. (Link)

• Cross Reality (XR) - an umbrella term encompassing VR, AR, and mixed reality - is changing the way customers experience style. (Link)

• UK fashion retailer Debenhams is preparing to launch a dedicated division for premium brands as it repositions itself as a digital department store. (Link)

🏀 Sports

• Web3 ecosystem Blockchain Sports integrates Polygon, which together plan to create a sports academy in the metaverse. (Link)

• After earning over $26B, Nintendo partners up with LeBron James for a special-ed gaming console. (Link)

• 9x boxing world champ Roy Jones Jr. is set to square off against an unexpected contender in the 1st-ever live combat sport in the metaverse. (Link)

• GPlay aims to make its mark in Brazil’s sports betting and casino market in a high-tech journey toward the metaverse. (Link)

• Chess continues to exist digitally and in the age of AI has gone through modifications that have only made the game more immersive. (Link)

• In China, the competition structure for virtual sports events needs to balance fairness and inclusivity. (Link)

🎥 Media & Entertainment

• Kendall Jenner, Kate Moss, J Balvin, Jeff Koons & Baz Luhrmann join a panel to pick winning digital artworks for an NFT collection to benefit The Foundation for AIDS Research. (Link)

• Shanghai wants to generate $6.9B annually from web3 and build 30 culture and tourism metaverse projects by 2025. (Link)

• Indiana Jones’ Harrison Ford shares his honest thoughts about AI in film. (Link)

• How Sony Music took musician George Ezra into the metaverse. (Link)

• Explainer: Why are Facebook and Instagram ending news access in Canada? (Link)

• M3 Creative launches a consulting firm for AI-related entertainment and brand marketing guidance. (Link)

• Swedish rock band Smash Into Pieces are the latest artist exploring the metaverse via a Roblox-like platform called Hiber3D. (Link)

🖼 Art

• Adobe crafts an indemnity clause to protect enterprise customers who use its generative AI art creation tool, Firefly, from copyright infringement claims. (Link)

• Beauty giant L’Oréal explores beauty alternatives with digital artists. (Link)

• Why Japanese art star Takashi Murakami still believes in the power of NFTs. (Link)

• Inkbox empowers tattoo artistry on web3 with the launch of Superlotl digital collectibles. (Link)

• Noah Holdings launches the Ten Thousand Trust art exhibition. (Link)

🤖 AI

• Nvidia brings its AI computing platform to cloud data firm Snowflake. (Link)

• Amadeus Code’s new AI API can generate royalty-free music based on non-musical text prompts. (Link)

• Students switch to AI to learn new languages. (Link)

• SnapCalorie taps AI to estimate the caloric content of food from photos. (Link)

• Alibaba’s AI development can be stop-and-go, as outgoing CEO highlights regulatory restraint in speech. (Link)

• 6 skills necessary to become an AI prompt engineer. (Link)

• Bing Chat now has ChatGPT’s image recognition capabilities. (Link)

💸 Funding & Partnerships

• LAMINA1 teams up with open metaverse platform Croquet and immersive tech solution provider Mira to build their metaverse. (Link)

• Oasys explores a potential partnership with Mixi Corporation to accelerate growth of blockchain gaming. (Link)

• Nuveen Real Estate teams up with Prophia's AI tech to manage 10M sq.ft. of life sciences and office properties. (Link)

• Metaverse-based AvatarLife clocks $1.5M through seed funding. (Link)

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