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🤖 Humane's AI Pin wants to replace smartphones

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Humane revealed its new $699 smartphone-disrupting AI Pin, delivering AI assistants and apps without the need for a screen.

But can this emerging AI hardware actually put a dent in our screen addictions? Let’s get into it.

In today’s AI rundown:

Humane releases details on smartphone-disrupting AI Pin
Study: AI can detect diabetes through voice recordings
10 new AI tools to try
How to make your own custom GPTs with ChatGPT’s update
Custom GPTs now live for ChatGPT+ subscribers
Hackers damper new OpenAI rollouts with DDoS attacks
Snapchat powering new AR lenses with ChatGPT

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

HUMANE

📍Humane’s smartphone-disrupting AI Pin is here

Image source: Humane

The Rundown: Humane has officially released more details on its hotly-anticipated $699 AI Pin, a wearable device for accessing AI hands-free through voice, gestures, and a built-in projector — with preorders set to begin on Nov. 16.

The details:

The lightweight gadget magnetically attaches to clothing and has no screen, instead controlled via touchpad, camera, laser, and built-in speakers.
Humane's AI mic software provides access to LLMs like ChatGPT and Microsoft models and aims to simplify AI use without downloading apps, settings, or always-on listening.
Demoed features include messaging, summaries, music, visual Q&A, photos, real-time translation, and nutrition analysis via food images.
Humane sees the device as a hands-free replacement to phones, and the subscription comes with its own number and service via T-Mobile.

Our thoughts: We first wrote a piece on Humane’s device in July, but these new details shed some serious light on one of the first pieces of consumer AI wearable hardware available on the market (startup since 2018).

Is it weird that of all the features mentioned, we’re most excited about the health and nutrition feature? (Demo’d at 5:55 in full launch video here)

TOGETHER WITH CONVEYOR

🔥 Automate security questionnaire answering with AI

The Rundown: There’s nothing more tedious than answering security questionnaires all day. We’d rather fight Bowser in Super Mario Bros.

So, Conveyor got AI to do it (the questionnaires, not fight Bowser 🙃).

And, they created a fun 8-bit video game to show you how it works.

Check out the interactive adventure about how you can use Conveyor’s GPT-security questionnaire automation software to destroy pesky ‘questionnaire villains’.

(It's really fun, we promise)

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

🎤 AI detects diabetes through subtle voice changes

Image source: DALL-E 3

The Rundown: Researchers have developed an AI system that can detect type 2 diabetes with up to 89% accuracy just by analyzing characteristics of a smartphone recording of a person's voice.

Key points:

The AI studied pitch, strength, vibration, and shimmer (breathiness/hoarseness) in 18,000 voice recordings from 267 people.
It flagged subtle differences imperceptible to humans but correlated with diabetes, with 89% accuracy in females and 86% in males.
The cause of why diabetes changes a voice is unclear — but may relate to vocal cord neuropathy and muscle weakness.
Broader trials are needed to validate accuracy — but If proven, voice screening via smartphones could enable low-cost diabetes detection.

Why it matters: With half of adults with diabetes going undiagnosed and 86% in low and middle-income countries, a test that requires just a voice recording would be a game changer for getting diagnosis and treatment to the masses.

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AI TRAINING

⚙️ How to make your own custom GPTs

Custom GPTs are now available for ChatGPT+ subscribers — making it easier than ever for you to create your very own chatbot. Follow the steps below to access the new tool:

Craft your builder profile: Navigate to settings → Builder profile and update your information to enable the creation of publicly shared GPTs.

Open GPTs: Click on your name to open the menu, and select ‘My GPTs’.

Describe your creation: Talk with ChatGPT conversationally to describe what you’d like to build.

Knowledge, capabilities, and actions: ChatGPT will suggest conversation starters and more in the ‘configure’ area — which is where you can also make updates like uploading relevant files, selecting which models the GPT should use (Browsing, Code Interpreter, DALL-E), and adding API integrations.

Save and publish: Once satisfied with your creation, you can save, share, and make the GPT public with the drop-down menu.

Happy creating! While future tutorials will dive deeper into specific use cases, here are some awesome ones that have already been built since Monday’s DevDay.

QUICK HITS

🤝 Custom GPTs now live for ChatGPT+ subscribers

Sam Altman just announced that the new custom GPTs feature is now available to all ChatGPT+ subscribers after the company showed off the new builder at Dev Day earlier this week. We went deeper into the new features in Tuesday’s newsletter.

🤳 Snapchat lenses get a ChatGPT boost

Snapchat is tapping ChatGPT to power a new wave of AR lenses, the company announced at its annual developer event. The lenses will now be able to respond to questions and queries on the fly, create filters, and generate 3D masks with the AI chatbot integration.

🤖 Hackers damper new ChatGPT rollout with attacks

Outages plagued OpenAI systems this week after hackers slammed its servers in a massive DDoS attack. OpenAI blamed "abnormal traffic patterns," but hacking group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the issues — which forced delays in new offerings like customizable GPTs.

💼 New jobs in the world of AI

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Head of Product Communications at Anthropic

AI Data Trainer - Data Science/Python at Cohere

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⚡️ Phone gauges intoxication through VOICE

Rowan Cheung • 4 minutes

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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.

A new Stanford study found smartphones can potentially detect intoxication with 98% accuracy by monitoring changes in speech patterns.

Will smart devices soon have their own voice-detecting breathalyzers? Let’s dive in…

In today’s tech rundown:

Study: Your voice could reveal how drunk you are
New composite stimulates bone regrowth, prevents bacteria
10 New products
7 quick stories

Read time: 3 minutes

TODAY’S HEADLINES

SAFETY TECH

📱 Your voice could reveal how drunk you are

Image source: Midjourney

The Rundown: A new study from Stanford University shows that smartphones can potentially monitor blood alcohol levels with 98% accuracy by passively analyzing changes in a person's voice.

The details:

18 participants read tongue twisters while drinking, allowing researchers to correlate voice patterns with intoxication.
Voice recordings were taken repeatedly and matched to breathalyzer tests, with machine learning isolating vocal features like frequency and pitch to correlate with intoxication.
The tech could provide non-invasive, real-time alerts against driving or other risky behaviors while intoxicated.

The relevance: As we also highlighted in a separate story in today’s Rundown AI (detecting diabetes from voice recordings) — there is serious untapped potential in analyzing audio. This type of innovation could be standard on future smart devices.

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MEDICAL TECH

🦴 New composite stimulates bone regrowth

Image source: Fraunhofer

The Rundown: Researchers just developed an implantable scaffold made of bioactive glass and polymer that aids broken bone healing by inhibiting bacteria and promoting tissue regrowth.

The details:

The customized scaffolds are designed to fit severe break sites based on CT scans and replace missing bone.
The bioactive glass component raises pH to hamper bacteria and transforms into a bone-like compound called hydroxyapatite.
The polymer provides structural strength, with the scaffold degrading as the bone heals over 6-7 years.

The relevance: This clever composite elegantly combines infection prevention and accelerated healing. If proven, it can greatly benefit many patients — and reduce costly follow-up procedures.

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SNIPPETS

Nature fully retracted a blockbuster paper from physicist Ranga Dias claiming discovery of room-temperature superconductivity, invaliding the purported finding that could have revolutionized energy and computing.

A robot at a Korean food facility fatally crushed a technician after mistakenly identifying him as a box of produce and attempting to lift him.

The Department of Justice reached a $25 million settlement with Apple after alleging the company violated anti-discrimination laws through restrictive hiring for a visa program.

Humane launched its anticipated screenless wearable AI Pin powered by OpenAI, letting users interact via voice, touchpad, and by projection.

Cruise has begun layoffs of contingent workers who supported its driverless operations, which paused after key permits were suspended over a crash.

Disney announced a combined Disney+ and Hulu app will launch in the US in March after a December beta, consolidating the streaming libraries and cutting content costs.

Amazon is reportedly planning to replace the Android core of its Fire OS software with a new homemade Linux-based OS called Vega across Fire TV, Echo, and future devices.

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🤖 Amazon's ChatGPT rival

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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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

Image source: DALL-E 3

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

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Cloud Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face

Research Engineer (Generative AI) at Anyscale

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🤖 Amazon's ChatGPT rival

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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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

Image source: DALL-E 3

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.

They also have some interesting data for their LLM to train on that others don’t: What you buy.

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 Harvard, 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!

SAMSUNG

📱 Samsung releases new ‘Gauss’ LLM

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.

QUESTION OF THE DAY

TRENDING TOOLS

🤖 Kickresume's AI Cover Letter Generator- Chrome extension that instantly generates a cover letter for any given job post - all with a single click (link)*

🤝 HubAI- A new platform for interacting with AIs (link)

🎨 AIphoria.world- An social network for creating and sharing AI-generated content (link)

🍔 Findameal- Find a place to eat with AI (link)

📚 Codebay- Learn Python on your phone with AI tutoring (link)

💡 Attio Automations- Powerful, customizable automations supercharged by AI (link)

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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:

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

🧠 DeepMind researchers define AGI stages

🏆 NVIDIA smashes own AI training record with Eos

💼 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

Rowan Cheung • 3 minutes

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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

Image source: Shota Ando

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

Image source: AirLoom

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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✈️ Flightcontrol- AWS infrastructure for developers (link)

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

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🎙️ Wondercraft AI- Turn existing content such as blog posts, into full podcasts (link)

🎨 Uizard- Design wireframes, prototypes, and mockups quickly and easily (link)

📣 Followr- Automated scheduling, AI content creation & advanced analytics for social (link)

📝 Otter AI- Voice meeting notes & real-time transcription (link)

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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!

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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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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🎨 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.

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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.

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🤖 YouTube's new AI video chatbot!

Rowan Cheung • 5 minutes

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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.

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🔥 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!

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.