🔄 OpenAI adopts Anthropic's MCP 🔄
Collaboration reshapes AI landscape

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the company will integrate Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its ecosystem. This protocol allows AI models to securely access and process external data sources, significantly improving contextual accuracy. The implementation will begin with the Agents SDK, followed by integrations into the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API.

📊 Anthropic's Economic Index 📊
AI reveals macro trends

Anthropic has released economic insights generated by Claude 3.7 Sonnet, demonstrating how advanced AI can analyze complex economic data. The AI-powered index examines trends across markets, employment, and consumer behavior, providing nuanced perspectives on economic indicators that might be missed by traditional analysis. This approach showcases AI's growing capacity to contribute valuable insights for economic forecasting and policy considerations.

🤖 ElevenLabs adds real-time RAG 🤖
Knowledge-grounded voice responses

ElevenLabs has introduced real-time RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to their service, allowing access to large knowledge bases for more accurate and contextually grounded responses. RAG works by processing user queries to retrieve only the most relevant information, which is then used to generate precise answers. This approach not only expands the knowledge base capacity but also naturally reduces hallucinations by referencing source material.

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💼 ChatGPT connects to internal knowledge 💼

OpenAI is rolling out internal knowledge integration in beta for ChatGPT Team customers. This highly-requested feature allows ChatGPT to connect directly to an organization's Google Drive workspace, pulling in internal knowledge in real-time to provide more personalized responses. The system gradually learns each organization's unique language—including project names, acronyms, and team-specific terms—while respecting user permissions. OpenAI is already working on expanding support for additional connectors, including collaboration tools, project management platforms, data analytics, and CRMs, with these enhancements coming soon for both Team and Enterprise customers.