OpenAI's New Trademark Hints at Humanoid Robots and Smart Jewelry

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Hey everyone,

Just a quick heads-up: OpenAI is making moves towards wearable tech. I will not be surprised if they launch VR headsets in the coming months or years.

What’s inside today’s newsletter:

• 🌐 Tech Pulse: DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech

• 📁 Unfold AI Tricks: How to install DeepSeek locally

• 5 New Tools on the Block

• 🔎 Spotlight: OpenAI's New Trademark Hints at Humanoid Robots and Smart Jewelry

• 🤝 Who is getting funded?

• ✅ To-dos

🌐 Tech Pulse: What’s happening now

• DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech

• The Beatles won a Grammy last night, thanks to AI

• Spotify reports its first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users

• China Is Investigating Google Over Trump’s Tariffs

• Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

• OpenAI rebrands itself

📁 Unfold AI Tricks: How to install DeepSeek locally

Overview: Want to run DeepSeek R1 locally? Ollama makes it easy to deploy AI models on your machine with minimal setup, keeping your data private and improving performance.

Duration: 10-20 minutes
Skill Level: Beginner

Steps😀

1. Set Up Ollama:

• Install Ollama from the Ollama website or via Homebrew:

• Follow platform-specific instructions for Windows and Linux.

brew install ollama

2. Fetch DeepSeek R1:

• Pull the DeepSeek R1 model by running:

ollama pull deepseek-r1

• To download a smaller variant (e.g., 1.5B), specify the size:

ollama pull deepseek-r1:1.5b

3. Run Ollama Serve:

• Start the service in a new terminal window:

ollama serve

4. Run DeepSeek R1:

• Run the model:

ollama run deepseek-r1

• For a specific variant, use:

ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b

Pro Tip:

• Automate tasks by wrapping commands in a script, or integrate DeepSeek R1 with your IDE for code assistance or real-time AI responses.

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🔎 Spotlight: OpenAI's New Trademark Hints at Humanoid Robots and Smart Jewelry

Summary:

OpenAI's recent trademark application reveals ambitious plans for future product lines, hinting at a significant expansion beyond software. The application lists a wide range of hardware, including AI-assisted wearables and even humanoid robots, reflecting the company's foray into physical product development and potentially signalling partnerships with hardware manufacturers. Furthermore, the filing mentions the development of custom AI chips and the exploration of quantum computing for enhanced model training, illustrating their commitment to advanced technological infrastructure. However, the application's broad scope emphasizes that these are potential avenues of exploration, not confirmed future products.

Why it matters:

• The trademark application by OpenAI suggests the company is exploring a wide range of potential products beyond just software, including hardware like headphones, smartwatches, and robots, and even custom AI chips and quantum computing. This indicates a significant expansion of OpenAI's ambitions, potentially leading to new types of AI-powered devices and services. The fact that they are trademarking these ideas shows they are at least considering them, even if they may not all come to fruition.

• The application hints at OpenAI's interest in custom hardware including AI chips and robots. This signals a move toward greater control over the entire AI development process, potentially allowing for more efficient and powerful AI systems in the future. For instance, the development of quantum computing resources to optimize AI model performance would be a major technological leap, even though it may be years away.

Source: TechCrunch, Business Insider

🤝 Who is getting funded?

1. Riot raises $30 million for its cybersecurity product suite focused on employees (TechCrunch)

2. Tana snaps up $25M as its AI-powered knowledge graph for work racks up a 160K+ waitlist (TechCrunch)

3. Ontario cancels, then restores, $68 million Starlink contract after protesting US tariffs (TechCrunch)

4. SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim (TechCrunch)

5. AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed (TechCrunch)

6. Egypt’s Khazna banks $16M for its financial super app and expansion into Saudi (TechCrunch)

7. Archive raises $30M to solve fashion’s pollution problem with online resales (TechCrunch)

8. Canada’s StackAdapt snaps up $235M for its AI-based programmatic platform (TechCrunch)

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✅ To-dos

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