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It’s been a busy day in AI.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🛒 Shopify unveils its AI ‘Sidekick’

• ⚡️ Musk reveals xAI, rival to ChatGPT

• 📝 Google’s Tailwind now NotebookLM

• 🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

SHOPIFY

🛒 Shopify unveils its AI ‘Sidekick’

Image source: Twitter, @tobi

The Rundown: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke just revealed Shopify's AI vision and new commerce-specific AI digital assistant, Sidekick.

Key points:

• Enhances productivity and optimizes workflows, facilitating more time for business growth rather than operational tasks

• Understands and interprets questions or prompts, so users can generate new ideas in seconds

• Ask clarifying questions or prompt Sidekick to shorten, rewrite, or give feedback

• Lütke strongly believes that people building businesses have the most to gain from AI technology

• No official release date has been shared

Why it matters: The age of AI-powered businesses is emerging, and Shopify is paving the way.

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XAI

⚡️ Elon Musk reveals his new AI company, xAI

Image source: xAI

The Rundown: Elon Musk just announced the creation of his new AI company, xAI, to “understand the true nature of the universe.”

What we know:

• The team has experience at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto

• Advised by Dan Hendrycks, who serves as director of the Center for AI Safety

• xAI is a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission

• You can meet the team/ask questions on a Twitter spaces chat on Friday, July 14th @xAI

Why it matters: The launch of xAI contradicts Musk’s recent statements about pausing AI development to avoid "civilization destruction." Regardless, xAI has a roster of brilliant people, and we’ll be watching the development closely.

GOOGLE

📝 Google’s new notes app trained on your documents

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Google's AI-backed note-taking tool, previously known as Project Tailwind, has been rebranded to NotebookLM and is launching to a select group of users in the US today.

Details:

• Google is trying to give users their own personal AI, trained on their data and notes

• Beginning in Google Docs, users can select multiple documents and ask questions or create new content through the app

• Features include the automatic summarization of long documents and the conversion of video outlines into scripts

• Citations are integrated. However, Google acknowledges that the model might currently produce incorrect results

• NotebookLM is accessible via a waitlist on Google Labs

Why it matters: Google is pushing AI hard. The tool could potentially reshape the future of Google Drive, similar to how the Search Generative Experience feature could potentially change Google Search.

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QUICK HITS

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👶 AI helps fertility docs choose embryos for IVF

AIVF, a reproductive technology company in Tel Aviv, Israel, aims to enhance the probability of successful embryo selection using its AI-powered embryo evaluation software, EMA.

🗣️ Resemble AI secures $8M Series A round

Resemble AI, a company specializing in creating realistic-sounding voice clones through generative AI, has secured $8 million in a Series A funding round, with Javelin Venture Partners leading the way.

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