Tim Cook - AI will change the way we use Apple devices
More topics: Claude from Anthropic can now use your computer | Meta releases lightweight quantized Llama models
Hi AI Enthusiasts,
Welcome to this week’s Magic AI News, where we present you the most exciting AI news of the week. Today, we are talking about the upcoming release of Apple Intelligence, the new features of Anthropic’s Claude model, and Meta’s lightweight quantized Llama 3.2 models. Stay curious! 😎
This week’s Magic AI tool is an AI productivity powerhouse. This tool increases your productivity from day one. Work smarter, not harder!
Let’s explore this week’s AI news together. 👇🏽
Top AI news of the week
🤖 Tim Cook: AI will change the way we use Apple devices
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook highlighted the great potential of AI for Apple products. In this context, he admits that Apple is not an AI pioneer. According to Cook, Apple is taking the time to integrate AI into Apple products in the best possible way for customers.
Apple plans many useful AI functions in the future. However, these will be rolled out gradually. Tim Cook finds the “email summaries” feature especially useful. The first AI features are available with iOS 18.1 (only for supported devices).
The release of iOS 18.1 is expected on October 28, 2024. According to reports, iOS 18.1 will include the following AI features:
- Writing Tools in various apps (Mail, Messages, …)
- Clean Up tool for removing distractions in your photos
Our thoughts
The new iOS 18.1 features are already available in apps from other providers, but Apple has direct customer access through its ecosystem. You don’t need any additional apps to use the writing tools, for example.
In our opinion, the writing tools are very useful for improving texts or summarizing emails. In addition, we especially like Apple’s approach of AI and data protection.
Apple’s “Private Cloud Compute” is not like any other cloud services. It’s really private. Apple can’t access your data and security researchers can verify Apple’s security guarantees. We think this is a very good approach!
More information: 🔗 The Wall Street Journal | Heise Online | Apple Website
💻 Claude from Anthropic can now use your computer
The Claude 3.5 Sonnet language model from Anthropic can now directly interact with a computer and move the mouse pointer.
The details:
- According to Anthropic, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first frontier AI model to offer computer use. It’s in public beta.
- The updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers improvements in coding.
- Companies such as Asana, Canva, Cognition, DoorDash, and Replit have already started to explore the possibilities of the new model.
- Developers can now try out the computer use beta via the Anthropic API.
Computer use demo:
Our thoughts
It’s amazing what AI can already do today. Nevertheless, there are also some limitations. The system regularly takes screenshots of the screen so that the AI understands the context. The AI cannot scroll, drag and drop, or zoom. Human help is needed for these actions.
In addition, such systems also have massive privacy risks. The blog article doesn’t explain what happens to the data / screenshots. Would you give a cloud AI access to your entire computer?
We definitely wouldn’t do that. Maybe local models could be a solution to this.
More information: 🔗 Anthropic Blog | Heise Online
💬 Meta releases lightweight quantized Llama models
Meta launched quantized Llama 3.2 models (1B and 3B) for on-device AI. Imagine you want to build apps where all the processing happens locally. The new quantized Llama models are perfect for such use cases.
The details:
- Run faster (2-4x speedup) and need less memory than the original 1B and 3B models
- Average reduction of 56 % in model size
- Privacy-centric LLMs for on-device AI
- Available on Qualcomm and MediaTek SoCs with ARM CPUs
- Available for download on llama.com and Hugging Face
Our thoughts
There are more and more powerful AI models for on-device AI. This is very good in terms of data protection. The Llama models are one of the best open-source models currently available - on a level with closed models.
More information: 🔗 Meta Blog
Magic AI tool of the week
In today’s modern working world, organizing your work is more important than ever before! There are many productivity AI tools out there. We have tested many of these tools, but one has impressed us. We are talking about Notion.
Notion combines the functions of a note-taking app, a project management tool, a document editor, and a calendar app. And the best thing is that Notion also offers an AI assistant. The Notion AI can help you write, suggest ideas, summarize text sections, or search for content - directly in your Notion workspace.
In our opinion, everyone should try Notion. Have you heard about Notion but haven’t tried it yet? Now is the perfect time to do it!
Articles of the week
- Mistral’s Codestral - Create a local AI Coding Assistant for VSCode
- Understand and Implement an Artificial Neural Network from Scratch
- Time Series Analysis - The Power of Exponentially Weighted Moving Average
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- Tinz Twins
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