Duolingo launches new subscription tier with access to AI tutor powered by GPT-4

March 14, 2023

Duolingo is introducing a new subscription tier with features powered by OpenAI’s new GPT-4 technology, the company announced on Tuesday. The new tier, Duolingo Max, unlocks two new AI-powered features called “Roleplay” and “Explain My Answer.” The announcement comes the same day that OpenAI released its next-generation GPT-4 AI language model. The Roleplay feature unlocks […]

Duolingo launches new subscription tier with access to AI tutor powered by GPT-4 by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft’s new Bing was using GPT-4 all along

March 14, 2023

When Microsoft announced the new AI-enabled Bing, which it built on top of OpenAI’s GPT models, neither company would confirm which version of GPT was being used beyond saying it was a next-gen version of the model that powered ChatGPT. Today, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a significant update to GPT-3.5. As it turns out, Bing was […]

Microsoft’s new Bing was using GPT-4 all along by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg says engineers who joined Meta in-person perform better than those who joined remotely

March 14, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook parent Meta, has pointed to internal data analysis that suggests engineers who initially joined the company in an in-person capacity performed better than those who joined remotely from the get-go. He also suggested that younger engineers, or more accurately those who are “earlier in their career,” perform better […]

Mark Zuckerberg says engineers who joined Meta in-person perform better than those who joined remotely by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

GPT-4’s first app is a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired

March 14, 2023

OpenAI has introduced the world to its latest powerful AI model, GPT-4, and refreshingly the first thing they partnered up on with its new capabilities is helping people with visual impairments. Be My Eyes, which lets blind and low vision folks ask sighted people to describe what their phone sees, is getting a ‘virtual volunteer’ […]

GPT-4’s first app is a ‘virtual volunteer’ for the visually impaired by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch