ChatGPT gets ‘Tasks’ feature to schedule AI reminders or tasks

Today’s Highlights:

📰 News: ChatGPT gets ‘Tasks’ feature to schedule AI reminders or tasks + AI announcements from The White House, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and more

💰 Funding: Synthesia raises $180M Series D + Legal AI startup raises $40M+ Series A

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1. OpenAI has introduced "Tasks" in ChatGPT, a beta feature for paying users that allows scheduling of one-time or recurring reminders and tasks, like reminders for passport expiration, daily news briefings, or weekly plans based on weather and location, with notifications across platforms, enhancing ChatGPT's role as a practical digital assistant.

2. François Chollet, the influential AI researcher, has founded Ndea, an AI research lab aiming to achieve AGI by merging deep learning with program synthesis to develop systems capable of invention, adaptation, and continuous self-improvement, driving unprecedented scientific breakthroughs.

3. President Biden issued an executive order allowing private AI companies to lease federal land from the Departments of Defense and Energy to build advanced, clean energy-powered AI data centers, bolstering U.S. infrastructure, sustainability, and national security.

4. Chinese AI company MiniMax, a leading AI company in Asia, has launched three advanced models—MiniMax-Text-01, MiniMax-VL-01, and T2A-01-HD—featuring record-breaking context windows and capabilities in text, multimodal processing, and multilingual speech generation. 

5. Microsoft has released AutoGen v0.4, featuring Magnetic-One, an advanced orchestration system with specialized agents—WebSurfer, FileSurfer, Coder, and ComputerTerminal—designed to coordinate complex, customizable multi-agent workflows with event-driven messaging and developer tools.

6. Microsoft Research launches MatterGen, a generative AI model that revolutionizes materials design by directly generating stable inorganic crystal structures with desired properties, moving beyond traditional search-based methods.

7. Microsoft has launched Copilot Chat, an AI-powered assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and Teams, designed to enhance productivity by assisting with tasks such as drafting content, summarizing information, and answering questions using web and work data.

8. Google has made all AI features in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Meet available to Workspace customers at no additional charge, simplifying access to tools like email summaries and note-taking.

9. Google is partnering with The Associated Press to integrate real-time news feeds into its Gemini chatbot, aiming to improve its ability to deliver timely and accurate information to users.

10. OpenAI has partnered with Axios to expand local news coverage by establishing AI-enabled newsrooms in Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Boulder, and Huntsville, integrating advanced AI tools to enhance efficiency and journalistic reach.

11. Mistral has partnered with Agence France-Presse (AFP) in a multi-year agreement, granting its chatbot, Le Chat, access to AFP’s multilingual archive of 2,300 daily stories dating back to 1983, enhancing response accuracy and diversifying AFP’s revenue amid shifts in fact-checking partnerships.

12. NVIDIA's new NeMo Guardrails, featuring NIM microservices, bolster AI application safety by providing content moderation, topic control, and jailbreak detection, ensuring trustworthy and accurate AI interactions, in an effort to help enterprises deploy secure and reliable AI agents.

13. NVIDIA will host its inaugural Quantum Day on March 20, during GTC 2025, featuring a keynote by CEO Jensen Huang and sessions with executives to explore advancements and future directions in quantum computing.

14. Nvidia announces partnerships with leading healthcare institutions, including IQVIA, Illumina, Mayo Clinic, and the Arc Institute, to revolutionize genomics, drug discovery, and patient care through AI and accelerated computing, driving innovation in the healthcare sector.

15. Mayo Clinic announces collaborations with Microsoft Research and Cerebras Systems in aim to develop generative AI foundation models that enhance personalized patient care by integrating multimodal radiology data and genomic sequencing information.

16. Apple has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium's board, alongside Alibaba and Synopsys, to develop UALink, an open standard aimed at improving connectivity between GPUs and custom AI accelerator chips in data centers, enhancing AI model training and operations.

17. Internal messages and court filings reveal Meta’s intense focus on surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-4, prioritizing aggressive data acquisition, GPU usage, and the development of Llama 3, even leveraging controversial datasets like LibGen despite potential legal risks.

18. Amazon is overhauling Alexa into a generative AI-powered agent capable of advanced tasks, but faces challenges like reducing hallucinations, integrating new models with legacy systems, and ensuring reliability at scale.

19. YouTube creators are earning extra income by licensing unused video footage to AI companies like OpenAI and Google, providing them with the real-world data needed for training machine learning models.

20. Luma Labs has introduced Ray2, a cutting-edge video generative model that creates ultra-realistic videos with coherent motion from text prompts, significantly enhancing AI-driven video production capabilities.

21. Sakana AI's Transformer² introduces a self-adaptive mechanism for LLMs, enabling real-time weight adjustments to enhance performance across diverse tasks by mimicking natural adaptive processes.

💰 Top Funding News:

1. Synthesia, the AI company enabling the creation of lifelike video avatars without traditional production resources, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA, w/ GV, MMC Ventures, FirstMark, WiL, Atlassian Ventures, and PSP Growth, valuing the company at $2.1B.

2. Netradyne, an AI-driven fleet safety platform enhancing driver performance through real-time monitoring and analytics, raised a $90M Series D led by Point72 Private Investments.

3. Eve, an AI platform optimizing workflows for plaintiff law firms by automating case analysis and management, raised a $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, w/ Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures.

4. NEURA Robotics, a German company pioneering AI-integrated cognitive and humanoid robots for diverse industries, raised a €120M Series B led by Lingotto Investment Management

5. Bioptimus, an AI startup creating foundational models to simulate biology and drive discoveries across therapeutic and industrial applications, raised a $41M round led by Cathay Innovation w/ Sofinnova Partners, Bpifrance, Andera Partners, and others.

6. Maki, an AI platform automating recruitment workflows with conversational agents, raised a $28.6M Series A led by Blossom Capital, w/ DST Global, Frst, GFC, and Picus Capital.

7. Overland AI, a company developing advanced autonomy solutions for uncrewed ground vehicles in complex and GPS-denied environments, raised a $32M Series A led by 8VC, w/ Point72 Ventures, Overmatch Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Ascend, Osage University Partners, and Caprock.

8. MetAI, a Taiwanese AI startup creating simulation-ready digital twins for robotics and automation, raised a $4M Seed Round led by Nvidia, w/ Kenmec, Solomon Technology, SparkLabs Taiwan, Addin Ventures, and Upstream Ventures.

9. Boardy AI, an AI-powered networking platform that connects users via intelligent agents, raised an $8M Seed Round led by Creandum, w/ Andy Dunn, Leah Solivan, and Andrew Yeung.

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