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TECH T@LK

Google releases Android 14 API for ChatGPT announced by OpenAI

Developer Preview 2 following Microsoft integration

hen Microsoft embedded English translation of what was said.
merican tech giant Google last to the UI styling of the account se- OpenAI’s ChatGPT prod- This has the potential to significantly
month released the first De- lector, along with changes to the API Wuct in Bing and Edge as upset Siri and Google Assistant, both
Aveloper Preview of Android based on feedback to DP1, reported well as Skype and in the OS’ taskbar of which can only handle a few lan-
14, and now the company is back with GSM Arena. too, it was only the beginning as Ope- guages.
the second Developer Preview. Apps targeting Android 14, nAI has announced that ChatGPT Companies can use OpenAI’s
According to GSM Arena, a which will be a very small subset ini- and Whisper are now available to de- APIs to create new chatbots; some
tech news-related website, the new tially, will need to grant privileges to velopers through its APIs. have already done so; Microsoft is
release comes with additional en- start activities in the background. According to GSM Arena, a not alone.
hancements to privacy, security, and DP2 comes with optimizations to tech news-related website, after These are a few examples like
performance, and continues to refine Android’s memory management sys- some extensive optimizations, using Snapchat, which introduced My AI
the experience on tablets and fold- tem, improving resource usage while ChatGPT costs 90 per cent less than for Snapchat+ this week and Insta-
ables. Google’s official timeline sug- apps are running in the background. it did in December. This means that cart’s ChatGPT-based bot that can
gests that following this Developer There will also be fewer non-dismis- the gtp-3.5-turbo model now costs help customers by automatically cre-
Preview, the first Beta release will ar- sible notifications in Android 14, and USD 0.002 per 1,000 tokens. Put an- ating the shopping list they need.
rive in April, followed by three more there are improved APIs for app other way, you can get 500K tokens Similarly, ChatGPT is being
in subsequent months. stores too. for a dollar. This new price makes it adopted in learning apps as Quizlet
Android 14 Development Pre- As per GSM Arena, the second much cheaper for companies to build recently introduced Q-Chat, a “fully
view 2 includes support for enabling Developer Preview is still, as the their own chatbot. And for those, adaptive AI tutor”.
apps to access only specific photo- name implies, only recommended for who want its bot to answer voice Dedicated instances are avail-
graphs and videos, or access to all of app developers to use for app testing. commands and not just text, there’s able too for companies that want a
them, or no access at all. Once the first beta hits next month, Whisper, a model that can transcribe more reliable experience, otherwise,
In Android 14, Credential Man- consumers will get easier access too. speech into text at a cost of USD the model runs on a shared instance
ager is a platform API, and this allows Android 14 Developer Preview 2 is 0.006 a minute. whose performance will vary de-
apps to sign in using passkeys. In the installable on the Pixel 4a 5G and lat- Whisper not only understands pending on server load, as per GSM
second DP, there are improvements er Google devices. 99 languages but can also provide an Arena.

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