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Amazon’s investment in Anthropic could put Claude on the fast track to mainstream success.

And with yesterday’s new AI announcements from AWS, it might happen quicker than many expect. Let’s get to it.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🚀 AWS introduces new generative AI capabilities

• ⚡️ Mistral AI unveils free 7B language model

• 🛠️ 8 New AI tools

• 🗣️ Learn a new language with ChatGPT

• 🤖 3 Quick AI updates

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AMAZON

⭐️ AWS introduces new generative AI capabilities

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The Rundown: AWS just announced a slew of new products and integrations to make generative AI more accessible, including the general availability of its Amazon Bedrock AI service featuring Anthropic's Claude chatbot and Meta's Llama 2 model.

Key points:

• Bedrock provides easy access to top foundation models and customization while ensuring security.

• Anthropic’s Claude is optimized to understand queries, gather info, and execute actions as an AI agent for AWS customers.

• Claude's launch follows Amazon's planned $4B investment in Anthropic for priority access to its models over OpenAI.

Why it matters: Amazon continues to make its presence felt, and its partnership with Anthropic puts it in the ring with the other AI heavy hitters. The added competition will accelerate development for the entire field.

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MISTRAL AI

⚡️ Mistral AI unveils free 7B language model

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The Rundown: Fresh off its massive funding round, French AI startup Mistral has released its first large language model, called 7B, freely for anyone to use and build on via open source license.

The details:

• Mistral released the model under Apache 2.0 license — and claims its performance matches top small models at lower compute cost.

• This pushes generative AI openness, though the model itself remains private — with Mistral's business model involving paid products.

• The startup previously made waves with a record-setting $118M funding round for its mission of "making AI useful" with public data.

The relevance: Mistral’s sky-high valuation and funding had our curiosity, but a 7B parameter-free model really gets our attention (Django Unchained reference, movie buffs!). Will this new model be another major step forward for the open-source AI movement?

QUESTION OF THE DAY

TRENDING TOOLS

🔗 Carbon- Unified API to connect external data to LLMs (link)

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🐦 TweetHunter- All-in-one Twitter growth tool to create content using AI, build an audience, and schedule posts (link)

🧠 Humata- Ask questions and chat with any file instantly using AI (link)

💡Gamma- Generate AI Presentations, Webpages & Docs with AI (link)

🗣 Speechify- transcribe everything into audio for you to listen to (link)

🍜 Noodl AI- AI-powered low-code app development (link)

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Practice conversing: ChatGPT will ask you a question in that language. Respond naturally and it will point out any misused grammar, conjugations, etc. while continuing the dialogue.

Get individualized guidance: ChatGPT will customize its teaching approach based on your ability and progress over multiple back-and-forth exchanges. Ask follow-up questions to go deeper.

QUICK HITS

🤝OpenAI, Ive, SoftBank explore $1B AI device venture

More news just trickled in about OpenAI’s potential hardware plans, with the Financial Times reporting that the company is in talks with Jony Ive and SoftBank to create the "iPhone of AI.” Ive's firm, LoveFrom, would design the consumer device for interacting with OpenAI's tech.

💰AlphaSense hits $2.5B valuation in AI funding surge

AI market intelligence platform AlphaSense announced a $150M raise at a whopping $2.5B valuation. The news came on a busy day for funding, with China chipmaker Enflame pulling in nearly $274M.

🔥 Ex-Tinder CEO fighting loneliness with AI

Is AI the answer to a world that’s getting increasingly lonelier? Meeno, a chatbot aiming to fight loneliness, secured $3.9M led by Sequoia this week. Founded by former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg, it offers a personal mentor for relationships (not a boyfriend/girlfriend) targeted at Gen Z teens.

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