OpenAI launches 12 Days of OpenAI

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In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• OpenAI announces '12 days of OpenAI' with a new product or model every day

• Amazon releases Nova AI model family

OpenAI
🌐 OpenAI launches "12 Days of OpenAI": livestream series promises big news

OpenAI announced on X a series of twelve livestreams to showcase "a range of new things, both big and small." The "12 Days of OpenAI" starts tomorrow.

While speculation about new models like GPT-5 or the project codenamed "Orion" continues, OpenAI has clarified that a GPT-4 successor won't arrive this year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called a report by The Verge about the supposed December release of a new AI model named Orion pure fiction. A company spokesperson confirmed this to The Verge but promised more technology to come.

Insights for you:

• OpenAI has announced a series of twelve livestreams titled "12 Days of OpenAI" to showcase new developments, starting tomorrow, despite speculation about potential new models like GPT-5 or "Orion".

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and a company spokesperson have confirmed that a GPT-4 successor will not be released this year, refuting a report by The Verge about a supposed December release of a new AI model named Orion.

• Potential candidates for release include the full version of the o1 model, which briefly appeared online and is expected to have significantly improved mathematical capabilities, and the Sora video model, which OpenAI has been testing with selected artists and was announced to arrive this year by former CTO Mira Murati.

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Amazon
🙂 Amazon releases Nova AI model family

Amazon just announced Nova, a new family of AI models with text, image, and video generation capabilities, marking the retail giant’s biggest push into the consumer GenAI space.

Insights for you:

• The Nova lineup includes four text models of varying capabilities (Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier), plus Canvas (image) and Reel (video) models.

• Nova Pro is competitive with top frontier models on benchmarks, edging out rivals like GPT-4o, Mistral Large 2, and Llama 3 in testing.

• The text models feature support across 200+ languages and context windows reaching up to 300,000 tokens — with plans to expand to over 2M in 2025.

• Amazon’s Reel model can generate six-second videos from text or image prompts, and in the months ahead, the length will expand to up to two minutes.

• Amazon also revealed that speech-to-speech and “any-to-any” modality models will be added to the Nova lineup in 2025.