GPT-4.1 Now Available In Chat. Perplexity Partners With PayPal. CodeRabbit Automates Code Reviews.

AI News - May 14

GPT-4.1 is now available directly in ChatGPT Perplexity will organise you a holiday and then help you pay for it CodeRabbit assists developers with code reviews and Optimus, the Tesla bot, isn't finished showing off. Here's today's AI news. A month after OpenAI launched GPT 4.1 as an API only model, they have unleashed the shackles and announced that it will now be available in ChatGPT directly.

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GPT 4.1 offers a significant coding performance update and it will be warmly welcomed by many users. It should be rolling out to Plus Pro and Teams subscribers over the coming days. Testing Catalogue News has reported that Perplexity is planning on rolling out a new Travel Experience feature along with dedicated tabs in the Navigation for Shopping and Finance.

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The travel feature will search the web for appropriate places to stay and points of interest based on your desired location and propose an itinerary for you. But how do you pay for the holiday that Perplexity designs for you? Well, Perplexity is planning to help you with that too. Alex Kriss, CEO of PayPal, has announced that they're entering into a partnership with Perplexity, enabling users to make purchases directly within Perplexity's chat interface using PayPal or Venmo.

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This collaboration is part of Perplexity's wider strategy to turn their platform into a service that is great for shopping products of any kind. Perplexity are going all in on trying to steal some of Google's lunch. Coderabbit has unveiled that their AI powered code review tool is now integrated into popular IDEs like VS Code Cursor and Windsurf.

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CodeRabbit aims to deliver real time code review capabilities for developers, providing instant context aware feedback on code and the ability to identify bugs and security vulnerabilities. The objective is to reduce the manual effort and time required for code reviews.

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AI coding is a controversial subject, but tools that reduce the manual labour of processes like code reviews will be welcomed by many. And finally, the Tesla Optimus robot wasn't satisfied with the little teaser that Elon Musk shared yesterday. Today the Optimus showed off even more of its dance moves, going through several different styles including a spot of ballet.

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And this time there was no tether attached. Has the Tesla bot just confirmed its spot as the leader of the robotics race? We think so.