ChatGPT 4.1 Release. Google Helps Humans Talk To Dolphins. Huggingface Acquires A Robotics Company.

AI News - April 14
OpenAI releases GPT 4.1 to its API Google helps humans talk to dolphins, FreePik allows users to sketch out their ideas and Hugging Face acquires a robotics company here's today's AI news. It looks like it's going to be another big week for model releases and OpenAI has kicked it off in style by releasing GPT 4.1, which will be OpenAI's flagship model for complex tasks.

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The release also adds GPT 4.1 Mini and GPT 4.1 Nano. All of these models are only available via the API. These models have a significantly larger context window of up to 1 million tokens, and they come with better instruction following and greater coding efficiency.

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OpenAI claims they are smarter, cheaper and have better latency than their predecessor. GPT 4o. GPT 4.5 will be removed from the API in July. At this point, don't even try to make sense of the OpenAI naming convention.

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In another instance where we have to double check the date isn't April 1st. Google has announced that it's going to help humans talk to dolphins. Google is working in partnership with the Dolphin project and has developed Dolphin Gemma, an AI model aimed at translating dolphin vocalisations.

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This model has around 400 million parameters, allowing for real time analysis of dolphin sounds in their natural habitat. Could this initiative really unlock our ability to talk with dolphins? And if it works, what other animals might we learn to communicate with?

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Freepik has introduced a new tool called Composition Reference that allows you to generate a visual from either a reference image or a sketch with notes. Creating AI images from images is nothing new, but this tool emphasises the structural elements of the image rather than the style.

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More interesting is the capacity to create a sketch with notes to instruct both visual structure and composition. This looks like a fantastic new addition from Freepik. And finally, Huggingface is a leading AI development platform and today it announced that it has acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup known for its open Source humanoid robot Reachy 2.

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The collaboration will focus on the sale of Reachy 2, which is designed for home use. It highlights a trend not only towards putting robots in the home, but also towards democratising robotics access and capabilities through open source development.