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🤖 Amazon's ChatGPT rival
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Amazon is reportedly spending millions on 'Olympus,' a massive 2 trillion parameter model aimed at rivaling OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Is Amazon’s AI titan set up to become a top contender in the AI frenzy? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Amazon training massive ‘Olympus’ ChatGPT competitor
Samsung infusing products with new ‘Gauss’ LLM
10 new AI tools to try
How to master ChatGPT prompting with a 6-step formula
Google’s AI search features expand to 120 new countries
DeepMind researchers create tier list for AGI progress tracking
NVIDIA’s lightning-fast Eos sets AI training record
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AMAZON
📦 Amazon dedicates team to 'Olympus' AI model
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The Rundown: Amazon is reportedly investing millions in training a massive language model codenamed 'Olympus' to rival AI leaders like OpenAI, as well as eventually incorporating it into its Alexa speakers and online platform.
The details:
Olympus is reported to have 2 trillion parameters, which could make it one of the world's largest AI models (GPT-4 had 1 trillion).
The project is led by former head of Alexa Rohit Prasad, now Amazon's head scientist for AGI.
Amazon believes homegrown, state-of-the-art models could provide an edge for its AWS offerings against competitors.
Its previous LLM ‘Titan’ was delayed following ChatGPT’s impressive launch, which Amazon execs felt was ‘far superior’ to their model.
Our thoughts: Though currently lagging behind, Amazon has the resources and the reach to catch up quickly. Integrating a massive LLM into a product like Alexa could be another mass adoption moment for AI consumer tech.
They also have some interesting data for their LLM to train on that others don’t: What you buy.
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SAMSUNG
📱 Samsung releases new ‘Gauss’ LLM
The Rundown: Tech giant Samsung just threw its hat into the LLM ring at the company’s AI Forum, teasing a new generative model called ‘Gauss’, which boasts language, coding, and image generation capabilities.
The details:
Samsung says the on-device AI will be implemented in future products, with speculation around the upcoming Galaxy S24 phone.
Samsung has an AI Red Team focused on responsible development, along with on-device processing for privacy.
Language can generate emails, summaries, and translations, Code is specialized for coding tasks and workflows, and Image can create new visual content and modify existing images.
The relevance: While Samsung’s entry into the LLM space was inevitable, it’s unclear what benefits this model offers over current leaders. But like Amazon, the potential for consumer integration within Samsung’s products is massive.
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AI TRAINING
📶 Master ChatGPT prompts with a 6-step formula
Want to take your ChatGPT usage to the next level and get the best possible outputs? Follow this structured framework to master the art of the prompt:
Task: Clearly define the objective, and be concise yet detailed. Simple vs complex examples: Simple: "Generate a 3-month diet program." Complex: "Analyze collected user feedback, summarize top 3 takeaways for improvement, and categorize rest by importance."
Context: Provide relevant background info to frame the request. More context helps ChatGPT understand you and your needs.
Examples: Including examples to guide structure and style can dramatically improve output quality. Examples allow ChatGPT to mimic the style, structure, and tone of almost anything.
Persona: Adopt a specific viewpoint and get responses from a particular perspective. Ex: therapist, business CEO, math tutor, etc.
Format: Specify desired output format like table, bullets, email, code blocks — ChatGPT is great at providing content in unique ways.
Tone: Set the mood of the output — casual, formal, enthusiastic, etc. to ensure your content resonates emotionally.
While not every step is always needed, focusing on key elements in order to produce the best results. Happy prompting!
QUICK HITS
🔎 Google Search AI goes global
Google just expanded its AI-powered Search Generative Experience to 120+ new countries, broadening the reach of the tech’s infusion into the company’s core product. Slowly but surely, AI is revolutionizing how the world finds info.
🧠 DeepMind researchers define AGI stages
Researchers from Google DeepMind have proposed a framework of "Levels of AGI" based on performance and generality, aiming to standardize and track progress toward human-like AI. The tier list comes on the heels of DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg predicting a 50% chance of AGI by 2028 last month.
🏆 NVIDIA smashes own AI training record with Eos
NVIDIA's upgraded Eos supercomputer now trains a 175 billion parameter AI model in just under 4 minutes, breaking the company’s own speed record set six months ago by 3x. The system leverages 10,000+ GPUs to pull off training models in a fraction of the time, touting lightning-speed results.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Partnerships Manager, Cloud Partnerships at Anthropic
Cloud Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
Research Engineer (Generative AI) at Anyscale
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⚡️ New self-healing plastic tech
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
In a potential plastics breakthrough, researchers created an innovative resin that can self-repair, be recycled, and biodegrades into nutrients for marine life.
Is this new material the future of sustainable plastic? Let’s dig in…
In today’s tech rundown:
New plastic can self-heal, be recycled, and feed marine life
Bill Gates-backed startup reimagines wind power with new system
10 New products
7 quick stories
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
FUTURE MATERIALS
♻️ New plastic can self-heal, be recycled, and feed marine life
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The Rundown: Japanese scientists just developed an impressive new plastic that self-repairs when heated, can be broken down for recycling, and biodegrades into food for marine organisms.
The details:
The material, called VPR, is a modified epoxy resin that can completely heal scratches and remember past shapes when heated.
When discarded into seawater, 25% of VPR is biodegraded within 30 days into nutrients.
VPR is also over 5x more resistant to breaking than typical epoxy resins and can be chemically recycled 10x faster than normal plastic.
Potential uses include infrastructure, vehicles, electronics, and more.
The relevance: VPR seems to resolve multiple problems posed by plastics, like durability, recyclability, and environmental impact. Since it doesn’t seem like the world’s reliance on plastic is ending any time soon, this might just be the pivot we need.
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ENERGY TECH
💨 Bill Gates-backed startup reimagines wind power
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The Rundown: AirLoom Energy, backed by Bill Gates' climate fund, has developed a novel "tracks and wings" wind system that claims to slash costs versus conventional turbines.
The details:
AirLoom's small Wyoming prototype harnesses the wind to propel wings along a track, generating power at lower cost and height.
The startup raised $4 million, hired a Google veteran as CEO, and is aiming to scale up to larger operations.
Benefits include more flexibility with structure requirements, less materials use, and lower landfill impact versus traditional wind farms.
The relevance: Less restrictive building requirements than typical massive wind turbines could unlock more scalable wind solutions — with the potential to expand the sector’s impact across the globe.
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SNIPPETS
Airbnb's winter 2023 update integrates smart lock functionality, simplifying access for guests and code management for hosts.
SoftBank paid $1.5 billion to WeWork's lenders, including Goldman Sachs, just days before WeWork's bankruptcy filing.
ChatGPT experienced a significant outage lasting over 90 minutes, impacting both the chat service and OpenAI's API services, but has since been restored.
WhatsApp introduces an optional feature to hide IP addresses during calls for enhanced privacy, with a possible trade-off of reduced call quality.
The UK government's national security concerns prompt the sale of Britain's biggest chip plant to US firm Vishay for $177 million.
Elon Musk's Neuralink is set to embark on its pivotal moment with the commencement of its inaugural human clinical trial.
The journal Nature has retracted a second superconductivity paper by Ranga Dias amid concerns over data accuracy and experimental representation.
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🤖 YouTube's new AI video chatbot!
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
YouTube is quietly testing some promising new AI features — including a chatbot to explain videos and AI to categorize comments.
Is this the start of a broader AI experience for the platform’s nearly 3 BILLION users? Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
YouTube experiments with AI integrations for chatbots, comments
Figma launches new AI features to boost visual collaboration
10 new AI tools to try
How to unlock an AI agent in your inbox with Mindy
IBM launches $500M venture fund for generative AI development
Xbox building AI copilot to create in-game assets, smart NPCs
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
YOUTUBE
🎥 YouTube experiments with new AI integrations
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The Rundown: YouTube is testing two new AI tools — a chatbot that can summarize videos and answer questions and a new AI feature to categorize video comments by topic.
The details:
The chatbot aims to provide more info on videos, recommend related content, and even quiz users on educational videos.
The comment summarization groups comments into topics using AI, helping creators better understand discussions on their content.
It's currently limited to English, Android, US, and Premium subscribers only, and comes as part of a broader push by Google to integrate AI across its products.
Why it matters: The new features to YouTube showcase Google’s continued push for AI (as we patiently wait for Gemini) — helping both fans and creators cut through the noise to have a better experience. Will every piece of content on the internet one day have its own chatbot?
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FIGMA
🎨 Figma launches AI features to boost visual collaboration
The Rundown: Figma just integrated AI into its online whiteboard FigJam, helping users instantly visualize ideas and plans with customizable templates.
The details:
New features like Generate and Sort aim to automate tedious design tasks, while FigJam AI summarizes sticky note contents and auto-groups them into themes.
Users can generate templates for workflows, meetings, charts, etc., through simple text prompts.
The new features expand on the existing integration with ChatGPT-based Jambot.
Our thoughts: Design and collaboration are two areas where AI can turbocharge productivity — and automating and consolidating tedious tasks can free up creatives for higher-level work. Figma has been on fire in the AI design space.
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TRENDING TOOLS
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👍 BestGPTs- Top-ranked OpenAI GPTs, ranked and sorted by AgentOps (link)
🎯 Zintlr- The ultimate B2B prospecting tool for seamless operations (link)
🎥 Vidiofy- Convert articles into reels with ease and speed (link)
📚 Contents.com- A generative AI platform designed to create impactful SEO content (link)
📈 RivalFlow AI- Improve your existing content using cutting-edge AI technology (link)
📝 Copy AI- Generate content, such as blog headlines, emails, and social media posts using AI (link)
⚡️ Notion AI- Your notes, on steroids. Access the limitless power of AI, right inside Notion (link)
📊 Sheet AI- Put AI in your Google Sheets (link)
🖼 OpenArt- AI Image Generator (link)
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AI TRAINING
💌 Unlock an AI assistant in your inbox with Mindy
Want to unleash the power of AI on your email? The founding team from PayPal and YouTube just started a company called Mindy, an AI agent that can autonomously do tasks directly in email.
Here’s how to access and utilize it (for free):
Get access: Email the AI agent at m@mindy.com to sign up and start using the AI. It should reply within a minute or two.
Research topics: Ask Mindy to search for info on any subject and it will provide summaries, along with supporting links. The AI can also analyze long documents and files to summarize and highlight key details.
Schedule meetings: Mindy can scan your calendar to organize and schedule events based on open slots.
Generate content: Prompt Mindy in your inbox to write emails, documents, and more.
Now anyone can benefit from powerful AI features like research, scheduling, and content creation — all within an email inbox you already use daily.
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💰 IBM funnels $500M to enterprise AI
IBM just launched a $500M venture fund focused solely on advancing generative AI for business, continuing the tech giant's enterprise AI push. The fund comes on the heels of its $235M investment into generative AI firm Hugging Face in August.
🎮 Xbox embeds AI in game creation
Microsoft's Xbox will let developers use AI for story and character design, and the company is reportedly working with startup Inworld AI to build a copilot to turn prompts into detailed game scripts for game developers. The moves come despite AI backlash in the gaming world both from gamers and studios.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
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Manager, Government Compliance at Shield AI
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🤖 YouTube's new AI video chatbot!
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
YouTube is quietly testing some promising new AI features — including a chatbot to explain videos and AI to categorize comments.
Is this the start of a broader AI experience for the platform’s nearly 3 BILLION users? Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
YouTube experiments with AI integrations for chatbots, comments
Figma launches new AI features to boost visual collaboration
10 new AI tools to try
How to unlock an AI agent in your inbox with Mindy
IBM launches $500M venture fund for generative AI development
Xbox building AI copilot to create in-game assets, smart NPCs
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
YOUTUBE
🎥 YouTube experiments with new AI integrations
Image source: Google
The Rundown: YouTube is testing two new AI tools — a chatbot that can summarize videos and answer questions and a new AI feature to categorize video comments by topic.
The details:
The chatbot aims to provide more info on videos, recommend related content, and even quiz users on educational videos.
The comment summarization groups comments into topics using AI, helping creators better understand discussions on their content.
It's currently limited to English, Android, US, and Premium subscribers only, and comes as part of a broader push by Google to integrate AI across its products.
Why it matters: The new features to YouTube showcase Google’s continued push for AI (as we patiently wait for Gemini) — helping both fans and creators cut through the noise to have a better experience. Will every piece of content on the internet one day have its own chatbot?
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The Rundown: AE Studio is the key to industry dominance, securing AI talent from Havard, Stanford, and MIT to streamline operations.
What AE Studio will do for you:
Turbocharge your business, save hundreds of hours, and WIN!
Have AE build custom your custom software and AI solutions
Hire AE to pinpoint where and why you should be building NOW!
Stop waiting and start winning by scheduling your FREE strategy session with AE Studio today to take control of your future in the AI race. Book now!
FIGMA
🎨 Figma launches AI features to boost visual collaboration
The Rundown: Figma just integrated AI into its online whiteboard FigJam, helping users instantly visualize ideas and plans with customizable templates.
The details:
New features like Generate and Sort aim to automate tedious design tasks, while FigJam AI summarizes sticky note contents and auto-groups them into themes.
Users can generate templates for workflows, meetings, charts, etc., through simple text prompts.
The new features expand on the existing integration with ChatGPT-based Jambot.
Our thoughts: Design and collaboration are two areas where AI can turbocharge productivity — and automating and consolidating tedious tasks can free up creatives for higher-level work. Figma has been on fire in the AI design space.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
TRENDING TOOLS
💼 JobsChat- World's first AI chat job search assistant. Engage in dialogue for personalized job suggestions (link)*
👍 BestGPTs- Top-ranked OpenAI GPTs, ranked and sorted by AgentOps (link)
🎯 Zintlr- The ultimate B2B prospecting tool for seamless operations (link)
🎥 Vidiofy- Convert articles into reels with ease and speed (link)
📚 Contents.com- A generative AI platform designed to create impactful SEO content (link)
📈 RivalFlow AI- Improve your existing content using cutting-edge AI technology (link)
📝 Copy AI- Generate content, such as blog headlines, emails, and social media posts using AI (link)
⚡️ Notion AI- Your notes, on steroids. Access the limitless power of AI, right inside Notion (link)
📊 Sheet AI- Put AI in your Google Sheets (link)
🖼 OpenArt- AI Image Generator (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
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AI TRAINING
💌 Unlock an AI assistant in your inbox with Mindy
Want to unleash the power of AI on your email? The founding team from PayPal and YouTube just started a company called Mindy, an AI agent that can autonomously do tasks directly in email.
Here’s how to access and utilize it (for free):
Get access: Email the AI agent at m@mindy.com to sign up and start using the AI. It should reply within a minute or two.
Research topics: Ask Mindy to search for info on any subject and it will provide summaries, along with supporting links. The AI can also analyze long documents and files to summarize and highlight key details.
Schedule meetings: Mindy can scan your calendar to organize and schedule events based on open slots.
Generate content: Prompt Mindy in your inbox to write emails, documents, and more.
Now anyone can benefit from powerful AI features like research, scheduling, and content creation — all within an email inbox you already use daily.
QUICK HITS
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Your website is one of your most valuable assets – and if you're not careful, losing your developer or designer could be a disaster. Grab the free Website Ownership Checklist here and protect your website investment today.
💰 IBM funnels $500M to enterprise AI
IBM just launched a $500M venture fund focused solely on advancing generative AI for business, continuing the tech giant's enterprise AI push. The fund comes on the heels of its $235M investment into generative AI firm Hugging Face in August.
🎮 Xbox embeds AI in game creation
Microsoft's Xbox will let developers use AI for story and character design, and the company is reportedly working with startup Inworld AI to build a copilot to turn prompts into detailed game scripts for game developers. The moves come despite AI backlash in the gaming world both from gamers and studios.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
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Manager, Government Compliance at Shield AI
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⚡️ China's plans to 'reshape world' with robots
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
China just revealed plans to achieve advanced humanoid robot mass production by 2025, a technology it believes will radically reshape society.
Does this roadmap signal the start of a new automation arms race? Let’s find out…
In today’s tech rundown:
China's plan to 'reshape world' with humanoid robots
Duke's brain implant decodes speech from thoughts
10 new products
YouTube's new ad blocker violates EU law
Reddit is testing new features for moderators
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
ROBOTICS
🤖 China to ‘reshape world’ with humanoid robots by 2025
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The Rundown: China just announced plans to achieve mass production of "advanced level" humanoid robots by 2025 in the country’s quest to reshape the world around what it believes is the next major disruptive product.
The details:
China's Ministry of Industry and IT published a strategic roadmap, laying out the goal to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2025.
The doc claimed the robots could have a disruptive global impact comparable to smartphones and electric vehicles.
Chinese startup Fourier Intelligence aims to manufacture thousands of bipedal robots by 2024 that can walk 3 mph and carry over 100 lbs.
The relevance: The accelerated timeline seems ambitious given the state of robotics… But if achieved, it would undoubtedly propel China to the forefront of automation — with major geopolitical and economic implications.
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MEDICAL RESEARCH
🧠 Duke's brain implant decodes speech from thoughts
Image source: Duke University
The Rundown: Duke researchers just developed a stamp-sized brain implant that can translate signals from the speech center of the brain into the words a person intends to say.
The details:
The prosthetic has 256 sensors and was tested on patients by recording brain activity as they said words out loud during surgery.
A decoding algorithm then predicted the sounds with 40% accuracy from just 90 seconds of speech data.
The team is working on a wireless version and improving decoding speed closer to natural speech.
Why it matters: This remarkable early research highlights the accelerating potential of brain-computer interfaces — which seem to be having a 0 to 1 moment with multiple significant breakthroughs this year.
This implant could someday help those unable to talk due to neurological disorders communicate!
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SNIPPETS
YouTube's new ad blocker detection violates EU privacy law according to campaigner Alexander Hanff, who is taking the issue to the European Commission.
Reddit is testing new add-ons for moderators and live scoreboards through its Developer Platform.
Hollywood studios want to reuse dead actors' AI likenesses without permission, but actors' union SAG-AFTRA rejected the proposal.
The Euclid space telescope has released the first full-color images to map the cosmos and study dark matter and dark energy comprising 95% of the universe.
Waze now alerts drivers if a road has a history of crashes based on community reports and AI analysis.
Apple paused software development to address bugs in upcoming iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS updates.
Google Photos' Magic Editor won't edit IDs, faces or large areas to prevent misuse.
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🤖 EVERYTHING announced at OpenAI's DevDay
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI just rocked the AI world (again) with its epic DevDay releases — including customizable GPT bots, GPT-4 Turbo, and expanded API access.
Sam Altman and co. just reminded the world why ChatGPT sits on the AI throne. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI’s MASSIVE DevDay announcements
xAI unveils PromptIDE for AI development
10 new AI tools to try
How to boost your social media with AI insights
Kai-Fu Lee reveals Chinese open-source ChatGPT rival, Yi-34B
CBS launches a new venture to identify AI Deepfakes
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🤯 OpenAI’s MASSIVE DevDay announcements
Image source: The Rundown, live from DevDay
The Rundown: OpenAI just hosted the company’s hotly anticipated DevDay event, unleashing a series of major announcements, including custom GPTs, GPT-4 Turbo, a GPT builder and store, and more.
Customizable GPT Builder:
GPT Builder will allow anyone to customize and share their own custom AI assistants (GPTs) with natural language.
You can add advanced custom instructions to your GPTs, including files, descriptions, actions, DALL-E 3 profiles, and more.
Alongside GPT Builder, they’re launching a GPT Store, allowing regular people to make money by selling their newly built GPTs.
GPT Builder is rolling out now to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users.
Check out our initial tests of GPT-4 Builder here, where we built an entire X/Twitter post optimizer bot available to chat with here.
GPT-4 Turbo:
GPT-4 Turbo is OpenAI’s new model with an upgraded 128K context window that allows it to read prompts as long as a 300-page book.
The model also has improved performance, an updated knowledge window to April 2023, and is 3x cheaper for developers.
Additional updates:
Brand new APIs for developers to build apps using Vision, text-to-speech, and DALL-E 3 with slashed developer costs.
A new Assistants API helps build customizable goal-driven AI apps, with fine-tuning expanded to GPT-4 and custom models available.
OpenAI’s new ‘Copyright Shield’ will pay the costs incurred, if you face legal claims around copyright infringement while building with tools.
We also discovered ChatGPT’s newly (unannounced) "Builder Profile" which allows anyone to create a profile for the upcoming GPT Builder marketplace. Check out our early access findings here.
Why it matters: OpenAI just changed the AI game again — with its latest updates unlocking a new paradigm of capabilities for builders to create on their platform. While the competition has been heating up, OpenAI just reminded the world who currently sits on the AI throne.
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🚀 xAI unveils PromptIDE for AI development
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The Rundown: Elon Musk's xAI continued to ship new AI upgrades following its Grok release, now launching PromptIDE — an integrated development environment for building prompts and analyzing AI model outputs.
The details:
PromptIDE gives transparent access to the Grok-1 model through a Python SDK, allowing for complex prompting techniques and visualization of model outputs.
Features include a code editor, analytics like token probabilities, uploaded file support, and sharing of prompts.
PromptIDE is currently available to members of xAI's early access program.
The relevance: xAI is moving fast — with the training time of their new ChatGPT competitor, Grok of just 2 months. If this insane pace of development is maintained, it could quickly make xAI a household name in the AI race. We’ve got our fingers crossed that more users can get access soon and try it out.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
TRENDING TOOLS
🤖 Freeflo- Jumpstart AI image creation with curated, beautiful and reusable styles for Midjourney, Clipdrop, Firefly or DALL-E (link)*
🌍 Touring- The ultimate app for travelers, discover the world with AI (link)
🎨 LogoPicture AI- Create AI art with your logo in a few minutes (link)
🛍️ Claros- An AI salesperson that helps your customers find what to buy (link)
🎥 ShortVideoGen- A simple text-to-video generator with audio (link)
🧠 Humata- Ask questions and chat with any file instantly using AI (link)
💬 Chatbase- Create a ChatGPT-like chatbot widget for your website (link)
📱 Synthesia- Create professional videos without mics, cameras, or actors using an AI-generated character (link)
🎤 Murf- Make studio-quality voiceovers in minutes (link)
🖍 Palette- Colorize your black and white images within seconds (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
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Want to supercharge your growth on X/Twitter or other social media platforms? Leverage AI to help optimize your posts with these five steps:
Get your insights: Export analytics from your platform or use a third-party tool. Focus on recent data.
Feed it to ChatGPT: Upload the data to ChatGPT's Advanced Data Analysis (Requires paid access). For a free workaround, try Claude.
Ask key questions: Prompt for the best times to post, top keywords, niche recommendations etc based on your stats. Examples: What's the best time to post for max engagement? What are the hottest keywords for my account? What is the best niche I should post about?
Implement advice: Here's the best use case of them all, in my opinion. Ask ChatGPT: "Based on my analytics, how can I improve my account to maximize reach?"
With your actual metrics, ChatGPT can provide tailored recommendations to refine your approach, reach more people, and grow your presence!
QUICK HITS
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🇨🇳 Kai-Fu Lee reveals open-source ChatGPT rival
Renowned AI expert Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.AI venture just launched its first open-source model, Yi-34B — aiming to be China’s answer to ChatGPT. Valued at $1B, 01.AI has moved fast to amass talent and GPUs in wake of U.S. chip sanctions — aiming to build a thriving ecosystem around Chinese AI.
📺 CBS News Confirmed: Identifying AI deepfakes
CBS just launched a new venture to identify AI deepfakes and misinformation, hiring forensic journalists and ramping up new tech to help fact-check reports and media. The news org is racing to maintain credibility as authenticity gets harder than ever to verify in the AI era.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Senior Creative Producer at Synthesia
Fraud Operations Program Manager at Anthropic
Applied AI: Senior Software Engineer, Android Growth at OpenAI
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🤖 EVERYTHING announced at OpenAI's DevDay
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI just rocked the AI world (again) with its epic DevDay releases — including customizable GPT bots, GPT-4 Turbo, and expanded API access.
Sam Altman and co. just reminded the world why ChatGPT sits on the AI throne. Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI’s MASSIVE DevDay announcements
xAI unveils PromptIDE for AI development
10 new AI tools to try
How to boost your social media with AI insights
Kai-Fu Lee reveals Chinese open-source ChatGPT rival, Yi-34B
CBS launches a new venture to identify AI Deepfakes
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🤯 OpenAI’s MASSIVE DevDay announcements
Image source: The Rundown, live from DevDay
The Rundown: OpenAI just hosted the company’s hotly anticipated DevDay event, unleashing a series of major announcements, including custom GPTs, GPT-4 Turbo, a GPT builder and store, and more.
Customizable GPT Builder:
GPT Builder will allow anyone to customize and share their own custom AI assistants (GPTs) with natural language.
You can add advanced custom instructions to your GPTs, including files, descriptions, actions, DALL-E 3 profiles, and more.
Alongside GPT Builder, they’re launching a GPT Store, allowing regular people to make money by selling their newly built GPTs.
GPT Builder is rolling out now to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users.
Check out our initial tests of GPT-4 Builder here, where we built an entire X/Twitter post optimizer bot available to chat with here.
GPT-4 Turbo:
GPT-4 Turbo is OpenAI’s new model with an upgraded 128K context window that allows it to read prompts as long as a 300-page book.
The model also has improved performance, an updated knowledge window to April 2023, and is 3x cheaper for developers.
Additional updates:
Brand new APIs for developers to build apps using Vision, text-to-speech, and DALL-E 3 with slashed developer costs.
A new Assistants API helps build customizable goal-driven AI apps, with fine-tuning expanded to GPT-4 and custom models available.
OpenAI’s new ‘Copyright Shield’ will pay the costs incurred, if you face legal claims around copyright infringement while building with tools.
We also discovered ChatGPT’s newly (unannounced) "Builder Profile" which allows anyone to create a profile for the upcoming GPT Builder marketplace. Check out our early access findings here.
Why it matters: OpenAI just changed the AI game again — with its latest updates unlocking a new paradigm of capabilities for builders to create on their platform. While the competition has been heating up, OpenAI just reminded the world who currently sits on the AI throne.
TOGETHER WITH AE STUDIO
🔥 Don’t lose the AI race, hire AE Studio
The Rundown: AE Studio is the key to industry dominance, securing AI talent from Havard, Stanford, and MIT to streamline operations.
What AE Studio will do for you:
Turbocharge your business, save hundreds of hours, and WIN!
Have AE build custom your custom software and AI solutions
Hire AE to pinpoint where and why you should be building NOW!
Stop waiting and start winning by scheduling your FREE strategy session with AE Studio today to take control of your future in the AI race. Book now!
XAI
🚀 xAI unveils PromptIDE for AI development
Image source: xAI
The Rundown: Elon Musk's xAI continued to ship new AI upgrades following its Grok release, now launching PromptIDE — an integrated development environment for building prompts and analyzing AI model outputs.
The details:
PromptIDE gives transparent access to the Grok-1 model through a Python SDK, allowing for complex prompting techniques and visualization of model outputs.
Features include a code editor, analytics like token probabilities, uploaded file support, and sharing of prompts.
PromptIDE is currently available to members of xAI's early access program.
The relevance: xAI is moving fast — with the training time of their new ChatGPT competitor, Grok of just 2 months. If this insane pace of development is maintained, it could quickly make xAI a household name in the AI race. We’ve got our fingers crossed that more users can get access soon and try it out.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
TRENDING TOOLS
🤖 Freeflo- Jumpstart AI image creation with curated, beautiful and reusable styles for Midjourney, Clipdrop, Firefly or DALL-E (link)*
🌍 Touring- The ultimate app for travelers, discover the world with AI (link)
🎨 LogoPicture AI- Create AI art with your logo in a few minutes (link)
🛍️ Claros- An AI salesperson that helps your customers find what to buy (link)
🎥 ShortVideoGen- A simple text-to-video generator with audio (link)
🧠 Humata- Ask questions and chat with any file instantly using AI (link)
💬 Chatbase- Create a ChatGPT-like chatbot widget for your website (link)
📱 Synthesia- Create professional videos without mics, cameras, or actors using an AI-generated character (link)
🎤 Murf- Make studio-quality voiceovers in minutes (link)
🖍 Palette- Colorize your black and white images within seconds (link)
Browse the most popular tools ever featured with our tool database.
* = This is sponsored content
AI TRAINING
⚡️ Boost your social media with AI insights
Want to supercharge your growth on X/Twitter or other social media platforms? Leverage AI to help optimize your posts with these five steps:
Get your insights: Export analytics from your platform or use a third-party tool. Focus on recent data.
Feed it to ChatGPT: Upload the data to ChatGPT's Advanced Data Analysis (Requires paid access). For a free workaround, try Claude.
Ask key questions: Prompt for the best times to post, top keywords, niche recommendations etc based on your stats. Examples: What's the best time to post for max engagement? What are the hottest keywords for my account? What is the best niche I should post about?
Implement advice: Here's the best use case of them all, in my opinion. Ask ChatGPT: "Based on my analytics, how can I improve my account to maximize reach?"
With your actual metrics, ChatGPT can provide tailored recommendations to refine your approach, reach more people, and grow your presence!
QUICK HITS
⚖️ RSVP for free Ethics of AI event with Scott Galloway and Dr. Yoshua Bengio (sponsor)
Join “Godfather of AI” Dr. Yoshua Bengio and NYU Stern professor / AI optimist Scott Galloway for a discussion on the ethics of AI – from the need for regulation to the impacts on job loss. RSVP today!
🇨🇳 Kai-Fu Lee reveals open-source ChatGPT rival
Renowned AI expert Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.AI venture just launched its first open-source model, Yi-34B — aiming to be China’s answer to ChatGPT. Valued at $1B, 01.AI has moved fast to amass talent and GPUs in wake of U.S. chip sanctions — aiming to build a thriving ecosystem around Chinese AI.
📺 CBS News Confirmed: Identifying AI deepfakes
CBS just launched a new venture to identify AI deepfakes and misinformation, hiring forensic journalists and ramping up new tech to help fact-check reports and media. The news org is racing to maintain credibility as authenticity gets harder than ever to verify in the AI era.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Senior Creative Producer at Synthesia
Fraud Operations Program Manager at Anthropic
Applied AI: Senior Software Engineer, Android Growth at OpenAI
Browse all available AI job positions with our job board.
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⚡️ Electric planes are here...
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
Electric planes are flying successful demo missions, offering an exciting glimpse of sustainable, emission-free aviation in the future.
Can batteries and infrastructure evolve fast enough to enable widespread use? Let’s dive in…
In today’s tech rundown:
Electric planes taking off into the future
New tech making fishing cheaper and greener
10 New products
7 quick stories
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
TRANSPORTATION
✈️ Electric planes taking off into the future
Image source: NY Times
The Rundown: Battery-powered aircraft like the CX300 from startup Beta Technologies are starting to become viable for short flights, offering a vision of future sustainable aviation.
The details:
The CX300 recently flew 1,200 miles down the East Coast over 16 days to demonstrate its capabilities.
Companies like Joby and Archer are also developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Benefits include no emissions, lower noise, and simplified operation and maintenance.
Early uses will likely be cargo transport, connecting rural areas, and replacing helicopters over short routes.
The relevance: This is an exciting step toward decarbonized aviation — but modern batteries still remain a major limitation, not to mention infrastructure and legislation — meaning widespread use is still likely years away.
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SUSTAINABILITY
🎣 New tech making fishing cheaper and greener
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The Rundown: Fishermen are adopting new technologies to improve efficiency and sustainability, including underwater cameras, LED lighting systems, and ocean sensors to reduce fuel costs and waste.
The details:
Colored LED lights attached to nets can attract target species while repelling bycatch like turtles, reducing entanglements by over 60%.
Underwater cameras give fishermen live video feeds to monitor their nets, reducing the guesswork and time needed to check for issues.
Smart sensors collect ocean data like depth and temperature that fishermen can analyze to optimize operations.
Benefits include less time at sea, lower fuel consumption, decreased bycatch and spoilage, and higher quality target catches.
The relevance: Optimizing processes with tech advances clearly serves both environmental and business goals — however, incentives encouraging adoption may be needed to drive industry change.
NEW PRODUCTS
📅 Recatch- Google forms and Calendly combined (link)
📧 MassInbox- Cold email mass sends for agencies and startups (link)
🖥️ Keep React- React-powered web solutions with open-source UI components (link)
❓Quenti- Similar to Quizlet but open-source (link)
💼 Taplio- All-in-one AI-powered tool for creating, managing, and growing your personal brand on LinkedIn (link)
📧 Superhuman- The fastest email experience ever made, with AI-powered features (link)
✍️ Rytr- An AI writing assistant that helps you create high-quality content, in just a few seconds (link)
🎨 Uizard- Design wireframes, prototypes, and mockups quickly and easily (link)
👩🏽🍳ChefGPT- AI digital chef & kitchen companion (link)
⌨️ Quicky AI- Use AI on any website instantly just by selecting text (link)
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SNIPPETS
Attendees of ApeFest 2023 in Hong Kong report vision and skin injuries from suspected UV light exposure.
Tesla plans to manufacture its most affordable car yet, priced at around €25,000, at its Gigafactory in Berlin.
SpaceX's Starlink has reached breakeven cash flow, a significant milestone for the satellite internet business's financial viability.
Apple is set to refresh its full range of iPads throughout 2024, with updates anticipated for the iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini, and the entry-level iPad.
The tech giant is also reportedly developing its own batteries, potentially enhancing future iPhones' battery life.
MediaTek's new Dimensity 9300 chip claims to rival Qualcomm's latest in performance and efficiency.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are set to increase capital expenditure to expand cloud capacities for generative AI, which demands extensive computing resources.
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