A Charter School in Arizona Will Teach Its Academic Curriculum Entirely by AI

A charter school in Arizona, Unbound Academy, received official approval to offer next year a fully online experience from through to eighth grades, giving students two hours of academic instruction taught entirely by AI. The Arizona State Board for Charter Schools greenlighted the initiative. Unbound Academy proposed in its application an "AI-driven adaptive learning technology that condenses academic instruction into a two-hour window." Unbound’s approach leans on edtech platforms like Khan Academy and IXL, with students engaging with "interactive, AI-powered platforms that continuously adjust to their individual learning pace and style." Guides, rather than traditional teachers, will provide "targeted interventions and coaching" for each student. Academic instruction will be whittled down to just two hours. The remainder of the student’s day will include "life-skills workshops" about critical thinking, creative problem-solving, financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, and entrepreneurship. The school promised a learning experience without frustration or boredom, ensuring optimal engagement and progress. Supported by major players like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Unbound aims to refine its model for broader adoption across states like Arkansas and Utah. "The founders of Unbound Academic Institute began with opening a high-end private school, Alpha, for the same reason Elon Musk started with higher-end Teslas: to create a product that generates insights and funding for future research and development," the company wrote in its application. Arizona’s Bold Step into AI-Education. So it begins Arizona has approved an unprecedented educational model: a charter school where students will receive two hours of daily academic instruction directed entirely by AI. Unbound Academy, launching next year, is a fully online… pic.twitter.com/6ZAd4bPYFX — Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) December 22, 2024

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Google Announced Gen AI Experimental Video Tool Veo 2

In an effort to beat OpenAI's Sora, Google's DeepMind research lab announced Veo 2 this month. This is a video-generation AI model that, according to the company, can create two-minute-plus clips in resolutions up to 4k (4096 x 2160 pixels), reportedly four times the resolution and six times the duration of Sora. VideoFX, where Veo 2 is now exclusively available, is behind a waitlist. However, Google will make Veo 2 available via its Vertex AI developer platform as the model becomes ready for use at scale. Like Veo, Veo 2 can generate videos given a text prompt or and a reference image. DeepMind said that Veo 2 can produce more realistic and cinematographic models with human expressions, fluid dynamics (like coffee being poured into a mug), and properties of light (such as shadows and reflections). These are some examples shared by Google:  

Meta AI Unveiled a New Llama Model

Meta announced its text-only AI model Llama 3.3 70B. Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta, said in a post on X that Llama 3.3 70B delivers the performance of the largest Llama model, Llama 3.1 405B, at lower cost, with improvements in areas like math, general knowledge, instruction following, and app use. Al-Dahle published a chart showing Llama 3.3 70B outperforming Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Amazon’s newly released Nova Pro on several industry benchmarks, including MMLU, which evaluates a model’s ability to understand language. Llama 3.3 70B is available for download from Hugging Face and the official Llama website. Meta’s latest move is to dominate the AI field with “open source models, which can be equally used and commercialized for various applications. Meta AI's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said the company has nearly 600 million monthly active users on Llama models. However, training generative AI models is a costly business. The company announced this month that it would build a $10 billion AI data center in Louisiana — the largest AI data center Meta has ever built. Meta has procured a cluster of more than 100,000 Nvidia GPUs for model development, rivaling the resources of competition like xAI. Introducing Llama 3.3 – a new 70B model that delivers the performance of our 405B model but is easier & more cost-efficient to run. By leveraging the latest advancements in post-training techniques including online preference optimization, this model improves core performance at… pic.twitter.com/6oQ7b3Yuzc — Ahmad Al-Dahle (@Ahmad_Al_Dahle) December 6, 2024

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Introduced ChatGPT Pro, a $200 Monthly Subscription With Unlimited Access to GPT-4o

OpenAI introduced on December the full version of its flagship reasoning model, o1, for its paid customers. This model was initially released as a limited preview in September. The company also launched ChatGPT Pro, a new $200 monthly subscription tier with unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. The company also said it includes a version of o1 exclusive to Pro users "that uses more compute to provide the best possible answer to the hardest problems (called o1 pro mode)." OpenAI continues to offer a Plus tier for $20 a month. It also announced a ChatGPT Pro Grant Program that awards ten grants of ChatGPT Pro to medical researchers at leading institutions, with plans for additional grants across various disciplines.

U.S. Colleges Advise International Students to Return Ahead of Trump Inauguration

Harvard, MIT, Cornell, UPenn, Wesleyan, and U.S.C. Cornell are among several American colleges advising their international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated on January 20, The New York Times reported. During his last administration, President Trump imposed restrictions on entry to the U.S. from seven Muslim countries, a policy that stranded thousands of foreign students. “A travel ban is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration,” Cornell’s Office of Global Learning warned students on its website last month, advising them to return to the United States before spring-semester classes on Jan. 21. “The ban is likely to include citizens of the countries targeted in the first Trump administration: Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Sudan, Tanzania, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia. New countries could be added to this list, particularly China and India,” said this institution. Colleges are also warning all students to prepare for possible delays at the border and in the processing of paperwork. However, the policies of the new Trump Administration remain uncertain. Over 1.1 million students from outside the United States were enrolled in American colleges and universities in the 2023-24 academic year. India, China, and South Korea have the highest number of students.

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