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2. OpenAI adds new features for data analysis in ChatGPT.⁶⁵³ ChatGPT will soon roll out a major upgrade to its data analysis features, making it easier to add files, work with large datasets, create charts, and gain insights directly within the platform.🍿Our Summary⁶ (also below)

3. OpenAI also announced a partnership with Reddit.¹⁹² OpenAI will get access to Reddit’s data for ChatGPT and “new products”. Reddit will build tools for moderators using OpenAI’s platform. OpenAI is also becoming Reddit’s advertising partner.

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• How OpenAI stole Google’s thunder.⁴⁰⁶

• Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute¹⁶⁵ with developers.

• Sony Music warns AI firms¹⁰⁹ over training: “Permission is required in advance.”

• Hollywood at crossroads: "Everyone is using AI²⁹³ but they are scared to admit it.”

• Replit cuts of 20% staff²¹⁷ and shifts its focus to enterprise sales.

• Recall AI raises a $10M series A¹³⁰ for simplifying the development of meeting bots.

• Microsoft offers to relocate China-based AI staff.¹⁴¹

• John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder)²²³ - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI.

• Perplexity is building an advisory board¹⁰³ with Emil Michael (Uber), Rich Miner (Google) and Mikhail Parakhin (Microsoft).

• Snowflake is in talks to buy Reka AI for $1B.¹⁵⁹ (Context: Reka also released a multimodal model like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro a few weeks back).

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QUICK BITES

ChatGPT is rolling out a major upgrade to its data analysis features⁶⁵³, making it easier to add files, work with large datasets, create charts, and gain insights directly within the platform.

What is going on here?

OpenAI is adding new features in ChatGPT for data analysis.

What does this mean?

This starts with a new feature “Connected Apps”: you can now upload files directly from Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, eliminating the hassle of downloading and re-uploading.

Right now, as you analyze these files, you get boring text answers or markdown tables that you can’t easily copy-paste. OpenAI is changing that. You'll get an interactive table view that updates in real time as you work, allowing for easy exploration and follow-up questions. Need a pivot table categorized by expense type? ChatGPT has you covered.

And for those presentation-ready visuals, you can customize charts directly within the conversation. Hover over elements, ask questions, change colours – it's all there.

Why should you care?

If you're a data analyst, ChatGPT becomes an even more powerful tool in your arsenal, simplifying complex tasks and freeing up time for more strategic work. This update makes data analysis more accessible than ever for non-experts too. No more getting lost in spreadsheets or struggling with Python code.

This will roll out to Plus users in the upcoming weeks. I expect other updates in a similar direction to create a distinction between the free and paid plans of ChatGPT (remember OpenAI made most features free earlier this week). This also puts OpenAI a bunch of steps ahead of Google who announced file uploads and data analysis this week (and hasn’t shipped them yet).

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