Tesla's Robotaxis 🚕, Meta's new AI 🦙, Notion AI available to everyone 🤖, and more! ✨
Tesla's Robotaxis 🚕, Meta's new AI 🦙, Notion AI available to everyone 🤖, and more! ✨
Tesla's Robotaxis 🚕, Meta's new AI 🦙, Notion AI available to everyone 🤖, and more! ✨
Hi and welcome to another week of Augmented Rarity! 👽
Although I've covered other topics in the past weeks, such as Biotech and Space, this week I'm going to focus on XR and AI, because I want to bring you only relevant updates, no unnecessary bluffs 🤝. Let’s begin!
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
Even robots are scared of layoffs 🫣 - at least the ones that used to clean Google's cafeterias, and thus all the human workers that made the project possible 😐
Remember Amazon's robot taxi from last week? Well, here's Tesla to remind us that they were also working on a robotaxi 🚕 - something they kind of lost focus on because the release date was supposed to be last spring, with a new release date of 2024 🗓️
If you thought there were enough new AI models, here's another one from Meta, LLaMA 🦙, which is not like Bing or ChatGPT, but more focused on research 🔬
Notion AI has finally been released to everyone ✍️! Good news for them and to the ones that didn’t get through the waitlist, but bad news for those who have been using it for free, as it will now cost $10/month. Don't get me wrong, I totally support it, but I haven't used it enough to judge its value 🧐
🥽 Extended Reality
Apple will finally release their first XR headset in June 🥽 and it will be expensive (around $3k), so they are partnering with Foxconn to release a cheaper one as well 😇
Since Mojo Vision put on hold the production of their AR contact lenses in January I thought that would be it for a long time, buuuut we have interesting updates! The Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) is working on 3D printed AR contact lenses 👁️, currently controlled with an Arduino Uno.
🗃 Resources
Read, watch, listen
📺 Google’s immersive view presentation (I know this is like 2 weeks old but i’m still catching up)
To try/download
Add yourself to Gen-1 waitlist to generate incredible videos with AI
Scribbler, an IOS free app to get incredible drawings from scribbles
And that's it for today! I'm still struggling to get back into the swing of things and deliver Augmented Rarity every Friday, so sorry for the one-day delay 👾
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