Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

If you’re a developer, it’s time to strap in. You’re about to get some new shiny tools from the AI demigods.

In today’s rundown:

• 💻 Google reveals “Project IDX"

• 🧪 AI is building unimaginable antibodies

• 🛠️ 9 New AI tools

• 📝 How to write better ChatGPT prompts

• 🤖 3 Quick AI updates

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

💻 Google reveals “Project IDX"

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Google has introduced Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based development environment for building web and multiplatform apps.

Details:

• It aims to help developers write code faster and higher-quality code by leveraging AI innovations.

• The platform integrates with Google's Codey AI model for smart code completion and a chatbot.

• The IDX chatbot assists with coding questions but has room for improvement in direct code manipulation and context awareness.

Our take: AI is already supporting developers to speed up work at blazing speeds and Google is here to join the party. While no one has actually tried it yet (it’s on waitlist), it feels like this one is going to be big.

TOGETHER WITH MINDVALLEY

🔥 How to shave 1.5 days off your work week with AI

The Rundown: Mindvalley’s AI Summit training can free up HOURS every day, meaning you can do more in less time and have a huge advantage at work.

Here's what you can expect:

• Save 1-2 days a week with AI-optimized workflows

• Create compelling brand-aligned visuals in minutes

• Boost your social media following to new heights

• Accelerate market research with Generative AI

And a whole lot more.

Besides, you will not be replaced by AI, you will be replaced by someone who uses AI. Get ahead of the curve.

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LABGENIUS

🧪 AI is building unimaginable antibodies

The Rundown: Scientists found AI capable of building antibodies designed in a way unintuitive to the human process.

Key points:

• The human approach to protein engineering involves making tiny changes until you find something that works.

• The problem is that, sometimes, this leads to a scientist endlessly optimizing for something that only works a little.

• Introducing AI to this process has led to discovery of unconventionally designed molecules that would never have been found by a human.

Our thoughts: All these AI-powered healthcare advances are stacking up pretty fast. How soon until the compounding effect kicks in and the healthcare as we know it is transformed for the better?

TRENDING TOOLS

🎧 Recast- Turn your reading list into bite-sized audio summaries (link)

👋 Threado- Your AI sidekick for online communities (link)

✨ Magic Studio- Create amazing product photos in minutes (link)

🎙️ Spinach.io- Instant meeting summaries, including action items (link)

🖥️ Super- Create a website from your Notion database in minutes (link)

📆 CleverContent- Complete your social media content calendar in seconds (link)

🪄 Framer AI- Generate a website in minutes from prompts (link)

🕹️ Taylor- Tweak open-source LLMs in seconds (link)

🔮 Supertools- Organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot (link)

AI TRAINING

📝 How to write better ChatGPT prompts

Have you ever been stuck with wondering how to prompt ChatGPT for a particular question?

Well, there’s even a prompt to help you prompt ChatGPT better.

It’s pretty simple. You literally just ask ChatGPT how to prompt itself.

Step 1- Prompt ChatGPT: "What's the best prompt for ChatGPT to have it learn my writing styles and respond to my emails for me?"

*ChatGPT response*

Step 2- Prompt ChatGPT: “Show me examples for the prompts I would type in for [your question]“

Step 3- Choose the best prompt from the examples ChatGPT provided, and continue your conversation!

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✈️ AI helps pilots avoid vapor trails

Google and American Airlines conducted an experiment using AI-guided altitude adjustments for flights, reducing aircraft contrails by 54%, which contributes to global warming.

🏛️ White House offers money for hacker-thwarting AI

The White House launched a competition offering $18.5 million in prize money for creating innovative AI systems that can quickly identify and fix vulnerabilities in critical software, such as electric grids and subways, to protect against hacking.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Huge AI models can now work around the clock for lower costs thanks to NVIDIA’s latest chip release. Let’s get to it!

In today’s rundown:

• ⚙️ AI models come to life with NVIDIA’s new chip

• 🎧 Google and UMG negotiate AI in music

• 🛠️ 9 New AI tools

• ✍️ Boost your writing with AI using this trick

• 🤖 3 Quick AI updates

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

NVIDIA

⚙️ AI models come to life with NVIDIA’s new chip

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The Rundown: Nvidia continues to bring heat to the AI chip game. The company unveiled a new blazing-fast processor called GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip designed for massive AI models at SIGGRAPH 2023.

Key points:

• Packed with 141GB of next-gen memory, GH200 can handle huge AI models for nonstop predictions and content creation.

• Nvidia says the cost of powering LLMs will ‘drop significantly’.

• The new chip will help Nvidia flex on rivals like AMD, Google, and Amazon trying to take a bite of the lucrative AI silicon market.

• Nvidia also announced major upgrades to its Omniverse platform, a new AI Workbench for custom enterprise models, and partnerships with Hugging Face and Adobe.

Our thoughts: With the AI frenzy growing, the battle for the best AI chips is on— and Nvidia's GH200 is an absolute beast.

TOGETHER WITH NARRATIVE BI

🔮 Your marketing analytics, on steroids

The Rundown: Narrative BI is a new AI analytics platform that provides insights on all your marketing and advertising data automatically. 

It connects all your data sources in one place, transforming your data chaos into clear narratives.

Narrative BI can:

• Connect seamlessly with your Google Analytics, Facebook, and Google Ads data

• Convert your complex metrics into easy-to-understand, actionable insights

• Reveal high-performing campaigns and pinpoint areas for improvement

Join thousands of successful growth teams leveraging Narrative BI.

GOOGLE & UMG

🎧 Google and UMG negotiate AI in music

The Rundown: Google and Universal Music Group are discussing whether to license artists’ melodies and vocals for AI-generated music.

Key points:

• They’re working to develop a tool that allows users to create AI-generated music using an artist's voice, lyrics, or sounds.

• The proposed deal would involve paying copyright holders for the right to create music while giving artists the choice to opt in.

• Warner Music Group is also reportedly discussing a similar product with Google.

Why it matters: This is a make-it-or-break-it moment for AI-generated music. If the deals fall through and labels decide to exclude their property from training datasets, it’ll be much longer before we see high-quality AI music.

TRENDING TOOLS

🗂️ Archive Super Search- AI search for images & videos. Uses NLP & neural network breakthroughs to help 25K brands find content in seconds (link)*

🎙️ VocalReplica- Clone any voice with just a YouTube video (link)

✔️ Oppwiser- Automate lead research and prioritization with AI (link)

💻 Dora- Design 3D animated sites with no-code (link)

👾 Dante- Custom GPT chatbots trained on your data (link)

🗻 Heights- Autonomous coach that’s always learning and helping you get better (link)

📹 Vizard AI - Transforming videos into social-ready snippets with a touch of AI magic (link)

🤰🏻 Soula- AI-powered pregnant, birth, and postpartum advisor (link)

🔮 Supertools- Organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot (link)

AI TRAINING

✍️ Boost your writing with AI using this trick

Struggling to write clearly and persuasively? Use AI to lend a hand. Here's a simple method to get thoughtful writing feedback, fast:

Step 1: Copy your draft text and paste it into a ChatGPT prompt.

Step 2: Add the following text: "Please edit the passage to improve clarity, flow, and impact. Fix any errors and suggest ways to make it more engaging."

Step 3: ChatGPT will provide an enhanced version with concrete advice for improving your work.

Step 4: Review the changes and feedback. Iterate as needed.

With AI's help, you can punch up your writing quickly. No more staring blankly at a draft, trying to self-edit. Let the bots boost your writing skills!

QUICK HITS

🧠 GPT-4 can’t reason, study finds

Despite big improvements over GPT-3.5, new research argues GPT-4 still can't actually reason logically. After testing it on 21 reasoning problems, analysts found it lacks true analytical abilities despite occasional bright spots. It seems we’ll have to wait a bit longer for true AGI!

⌨️ Is AI listening to you type?

Research shows AI can guess which keys you're tapping based on keyboard sounds in Zoom calls. A new system identified keys with over 90% (!) accuracy using recordings.

This news comes at a tenuous time for Zoom, which is already dealing with heated privacy concerns around AI and customer data.

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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

OpenAI just launched a web crawler that automatically scrapes data from the internet, and people are pissed. Let’s get to it…

In today’s rundown:

• ⚡️ OpenAI launches GPTBot to improve AI models

• 🥳 Microsoft celebrates 6 months of Bing AI

• 🛠️ 7 New AI tools

• ✨ A ChatGPT prompt to help you learn faster

• 🤖 3 Quick AI updates

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

⚡️ OpenAI launches GPTBot to improve AI models

Image source: OpenAI

The Rundown: OpenAI just launched GPTBot, a web crawler that automatically scrapes data from the internet for improving future AI models (GPT-5, we’re looking at you).

Key points:

• GPTBot filters out paywall-restricted and policy-violating sources but allows site owners to choose whether to grant access.

• Website owners can restrict GPTBot by modifying their robots.txt file.

• This raises legal and ethical concerns regarding the use of scraped web data for training AI systems, copyright infringement, and model degradation.

Our thoughts: OpenAI just launched a web crawler working 24/7 scraping the internet. Expected, but still slightly concerning.

TOGETHER WITH DEEPGRAM

🔥 Unlock Language AI at scale with an API call

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The Rundown: Convert speech into text with unmatched accuracy, speed, and cost with Deepgram.

Plus, go beyond transcription to extract insights from conversational data with Natural Language Understanding (NLU) built via domain-specific language models (DSLMs)

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MICROSOFT

🥳 Microsoft celebrates 6 months of Bing AI

The Rundown: It’s officially been 6 months since Bing made its (unexpected) comeback and released its AI-powered search engine. Watch the official celebration video here.

Details:

• In the past 6 months, Bing has completely changed its business, adding several AI tools to its products.

• Bing Image Creator generates images with AI, the mobile app makes AI search capabilities available in your pocket, and more.

• The team shares a positive outlook on the future and says a lot more can be expected in the next 6 months.

Our take: Not even my grandma used Bing 7 months ago, and now it’s the coolest kid (browser) on the block. Things like this really provide perspective on just how fast AI is moving.

TRENDING TOOLS

📚 STORI AI- Create on-brand content with AI (link)

🪄 Clay HQ- The first AI navigator for your entire network (link)

🔍 Modify- The most extensive AI image editor yet (link)

🧠 Taskade- Five AI-powered tools in one to supercharge your team productivity (link)

📂 Relume Library- Create marketing websites in seconds using tools you already have (link)

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

🔮 Supertools- Organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot (link)

AI TRAINING

⭐️ A ChatGPT prompt to help you learn faster

Tried and tested, this is the one ChatGPT prompt that will be useful for almost anyone in the world.

From complex AI terms to superconductors, it can help you understand anything (except math).

Here’s the prompt:

• “Break down [topic] into smaller, easier-to-understand parts. Use analogies and real-life examples to simplify the concept and make it more relatable."

QUICK HITS

🚙 Cruise’s self-driving vehicles are here

Cruise has begun testing its self-driving vehicles in Atlanta, continuing its plan to expand robotaxi services into multiple cities, with the company's expansion strategy including initial data collection and testing across the country.

🎥 Zoom AI is NOT stealing your content

Zoom's chief product officer, Smita Hashim, clarified in a blog post that the company does not use customer audio, video, or chat content to train its AI models without consent. The statements were made just after the company decided to call all remote workers to come back into the office. Ironic, isn’t it?

💿 2023: the year of the GPU frenzy

Similar to the crypto boom that caused a severe spike in PC graphics card prices throughout 2020 and 2021, the AI boom is causing an insane increase in demand for GPUs, and prices are skyrocketing. 2023 is the year of the GPU frenzy.

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Our guess is the AI frenzy is just getting started after today’s announcements.

We’re also debuting our first-ever AI Training, where we’ll be sharing daily tutorials on how to actually apply AI to your life. Let us know what you think!

In today’s rundown:

• 🍎 Apple and Amazon go ‘all-in’ on AI

• 🎧 Study shows deepfake audio is getting scary realistic

• 🛠️ 7 New AI tools

• 🪄 How to create AI-generated QR code art

• 🤖 3 Quick AI updates

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

APPLE & AMAZON

🍎 Apple and Amazon go ‘all-in’ on AI

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The Rundown: Tim Cook just said that Apple is “building AI into every product it’s building”, while Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said, “Every single team at Amazon is now working on AI”. Big tech is going all-in on AI.

Key points:

• Apple has been researching generative AI for years and is increasing its investment in these technologies, Cook emphasized.

• Every business within Amazon has multiple generative AI initiatives revealed Jassy.

• Both companies are increasing their R&D spending on AI, indicating a strong commitment to future advancements in the field.

Our thoughts: With nearly every single major tech company prioritizing AI, we’re in for a wild next couple of years. We’re truly just at the tip of the iceberg.

TOGETHER WITH CIRCLEBACK

❤️‍🔥 Use AI to NEVER take meetings notes again

The Rundown: Circleback is the hottest AI notetaker on the market. It focuses on giving you the most useful and accurate meeting notes.

In addition to accurate meeting notes, Circleback:

• Automates action items to increase accountability

• Gives you answers to questions using the context of your meetings, i.e. “Which client mentioned they’re going to a conference in Chicago?”

Try it for free and start actually paying attention in your meetings.

UCL

🎧 Study shows deepfake audio is getting scary realistic

The Rundown: A study by University College London found that humans can only detect deepfake speech 73% of the time.

Details:

• Researchers used 50 deepfake speech samples in multiple languages and tested them on 529 participants.

• Familiarization treatments and repeated exposure did not significantly improve recognition accuracy for deepfake speech.

• Combining multiple human judgments, known as “crowd performance,” was most effective in spotting the deepfake speech.

From the study: "Our results suggest the need for automated detectors to mitigate a human listener's weaknesses."

Scammers are on the rise, folks. And with AI deepfake audio improving over time, they’re only going to get more realistic.

TRENDING TOOLS

🧠 Guidde- An AI platform for business, enabling teams to create video documentation 11x faster (link)*

🔥 YouLearn- Learn any YouTube video with AI (link)

💻 Dora- Design 3D animated sites with no-code (link)

👾 Dante- Custom GPT chatbots trained on your data (link)

🎙️ Voiceling- Dub YouTube videos in seconds (link)

🧱 Code Blocks- Build native applications with AI (link)

🔮 Supertools- Organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot (link)

AI TRAINING

🪄 How to create AI-generated QR code art

AI-generated QR codes have been gaining all the hype recently, and we’re here to show you how to create your very own… completely free.

Step 1: Generate and download your (regular) QR code here

Step 2: Access Stable Diffusion by going to RunDiffusion and signing up to get 7 minutes of free credits

Step 3: Choose the settings displayed in the video here followed by the settings here

Step 4: Enter your prompt, and generate your QR code

That’s it! Try generating multiple versions by clicking generate again.

Try scanning this image, and see where it takes you!

QUICK HITS

💻 IBM offers free AI courses for developers

IBM has introduced a new page to teach AI skills, offering free resources on generative AI and tips on using their platform, WatsonX. They also provide courses and content on popular open-source tools like Hugging Face, PyTorch, and KubeFlow.

🔗 Alibaba open-sources ChatGPT competitor AI

Alibaba is opening its LLM, Tongyi Qianwen, to third-party developers, allowing them to create their own AI applications without training their own systems. This move puts Alibaba in competition with Meta and may challenge OpenAI's ChatGPT.

🔐 Nightfall AI launches AI security platform

CISOs and organizations are divided on the use of generative AI like ChatGPT due to the risk of data leaks, leading to discussions on AI governance and risk management. To address this, Nightfall AI has introduced a data security platform for generative AI that aims to protect sensitive data.

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Happy Friday!

ChatGPT just got some beautiful upgrades and is scheduled to get more over the weekend. Let’s get to it!

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🧠 New ChatGPT updates to enhance user experience

• 🏥 AI helps quadriplegic man move and feel again

• 🌎 IBM and NASA tackle climate change using AI

• 🛠️ 6 New tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🧠 New ChatGPT updates to enhance user experience

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The Rundown: OpenAI released an epic new feature for ChatGPT, allowing it to show suggested follow-up prompts at the bottom of outputs. They also just tweeted that they’ll be rolling out more updates over the weekend.

Here’s what’s coming:

• Plus users can upload multiple files for analysis with the Code Interpreter beta.

• Keyboard shortcuts, such as ⌘ (Ctrl) + Shift + C to copy code blocks, introduced to improve efficiency.

• Staying logged in for more than two weeks, and defaulting to GPT-4 for ‘Plus’ users.

Our thoughts: The attention to detail by the OpenAI team here is admirable. Amidst all the AI chaos, they’re still honing in to user feedback.

But a message to OpenAI (if they’re reading): when can I get my precious Browsing mode back?!

TOGETHER WITH INCOGNI

🫣 Erase yourself from the web

The Rundown: Data brokers make money off your personal information every day. They buy your data – home addresses, health information, contact details – and sell it to the highest bidder. Incogni scrubs your personal information from the web.

Kick back and worry less about health insurers raising your rates based on info from data brokers, scammers taking out loans in your name, and all the other terrible things bad actors do with personal data.

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NORTHWELL HEALTH

🏥 AI helps quadriplegic man move and feel again

Image source: Northwell Health

The Rundown: Researchers have used AI-powered brain implants to restore movement and sensation for a man who was paralyzed from the chest down.

The story:

• Keith Thomas became quadriplegic after a diving accident in 2020.

• Scientists at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institutes performed a "double neural bypass" with brain microchips controlling movement and touch sensation.

• Brain signals activate electrodes on Thomas' spine and muscles, enabling arm movement when he thinks about it.

• Within four months, he doubled his arm strength.

• Most importantly, researchers believe the bypass could lead to lasting natural recovery.

Our thoughts: Healthcare is one of those fields AI will do wonders in. This is a prime example: before this, there was no cure for quadriplegia.

But that’s not all — just recently, AI improved breast cancer detection rate by 20%, and AI detected signs of Parkinson’s 15 years before other symptoms. And those are just a few examples. AI will save lives.

IBM & NASA

🌎 IBM and NASA tackle climate change using AI

The Rundown: IBM and NASA have teamed up to apply AI in analyzing the Earth's climate, and now they’ve open-sourced the AI model on Hugging Face, making it widely available to the public.

Details:

• The goal is to provide an easier and faster way for researchers to gain insights from large datasets related to Earth's systems.

• Open source is emphasized as essential to accelerate discovery in areas like climate change.

• NASA estimates 250,000TB of data from new satellite missions by 2024.

Why it matters: The open-sourcing of the model allows more researchers to access otherwise inaccessible data, increasing the chances of significant breakthroughs in climate change.

TRENDING TOOLS

🏗️ Graft- Build, deploy, and monitor AI-powered solutions - no coding or ML expertise required (link)

🧑‍💻 HyperWrite- An AI agent that handles tasks from booking flights to conducting in-depth research for you (link)

📷 heyphoto- Tune selfies and group photos with AI (link)

📧 Superhuman- The fastest email experience ever made, with AI-powered features (link)

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

🔮 Supertools- Organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot (link)

QUICK HITS

🔥 Tinder trials AI photo-selection feature

Tinder is testing an AI photo selection feature that picks the best five photos from a user's album for their dating profile, aiming to make the process easier and more accurate. The parent company of Tinder, Match Group, recently revealed their plans to roll out more AI features.

👀 The Nvidia H100 GPU frenzy

Generative AI's increasing demand for Nvidia's H100 GPUs is causing a frenzy in Silicon Valley. Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla and now with OpenAI, suggests that large companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft may require tens of thousands of H100 GPUs each.

👾 Inworld AI raises new round, valued at over $500m (!)

Inworld AI, the leading Character Engine for games, raised additional funding, bringing its valuation to over $500 million. The company's AI-driven NPCs offer realistic behavior, allowing for truly immersive gaming experiences.

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Good morning, AI enthusiasts.

There’s been a ton of GPT-5 gossip floating around on Twitter.

And now, there’s finally some evidence. Let’s get to it!

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 OpenAI files trademark for GPT-5

• 🎵 Meta’s new tool for creating music from text

• 🔎 Google announces BIG AI search updates

• 🛠️ 6 New tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🤖 OpenAI files trademark for GPT-5

Source: Blockchain News

The Rundown: OpenAI has filed an application for the trademark of “GPT-5” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Key points:

• The application was filed on July 18, 2023, and is currently in process.

• It includes artificial speech, conversion of audio data files into text, voice and speech recognition, and machine-learning-based language and speech processing.

• The application also extends to software for developing and implementing artificial neural networks.

Of note: Back in March, Siqi Chen, founder of Runway quoted: “GPT-5 is scheduled to complete training this December and that OpenAI expects it to achieve AGI.”

We’ll see if this timeline remains true. One thing’s for sure: the world is going to look a whole lot different if so.

TOGETHER WITH MONSTER API

🦙 Fine-tune LLaMA without writing code

The Rundown: Monster API's no-code fine-tuner is a groundbreaking tool that simplifies the complex and time-consuming fine-tuning process of LLaMA.

LLaMA is a remarkable Large Language Model – but it faces challenges in handling specific problems.

Fine-tuning is the solution, turning LLaMA into a specialized powerhouse. Monster API supports fine-tuning in various models, including LLaMA 7B, 13B, Falcon 7B, and more!

Start experimenting with 5,000 free API credits – Available using the code “ROWAN”.

META

🎵 Meta’s new tool for creating music from text

Image source: Meta

The Rundown: Meta has just released a new open-source AI codenamed AudioCraft for generating high-quality, realistic audio and music from text.

Details:

• It consists of three models: MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec.

• The models are now open-sourced, enabling researchers and practitioners to train their own models with their datasets.

• The models were trained on extensive data, including 20,000 hours of music owned or licensed by Meta, and public sound effects.

Noteworthy: Many music artists around the world are lobbying against using AI in music, while others such as Grimes encourage its use.

Where do you stand? Let us know in the poll below:

GOOGLE

🔎 Google announces BIG AI search updates

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Google is adding images AND video to the summary box of AI-powered SGE search results, aiming to create a more colorful and informative experience for those who have enabled this feature in Search Labs.

Key points:

• CEO Sundar Pichai emphasizes SGE as the future of Google Search.

• Specific moments from YouTube videos are now linked in search results.

• Google is adding publish dates to articles in the summary box, and it appears to be testing in-line links within the AI summary.

• According to Google, recent improvements have cut the generation time of AI overviews in half.

Why it matters: Google’s AI endeavors haven’t always gone so smoothly, but it’s clear to see their efforts to continuously improve their AI features.

I, for one, do think they will get it right. Eventually.

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📆 Vimcal- Calendar app on steroids. Assists users in scheduling and organizing events efficiently (link)

🔮 Supertools- Organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot ⭐️ (link)

QUICK HITS

⬆️ Kickstarter demands extra disclosures

Kickstarter is implementing a new policy requiring projects that use AI tools to disclose details about how they'll use AI content, credit content creators, and indicate sources of training data. The policy will take effect on August 29th.

😵‍💫 Researchers produce prohibited AI content

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University discovered a vulnerability in popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Claude from Anthropic. They found that adding specific strings to the prompts can make these chatbots produce harmful and prohibited responses.

📊 Warren Buffet remains cautious about AI

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Happy Wednesday!

While everyone’s been obsessing over LK-99, there’s been some big updates in the world of AI. Let’s get to it!

In today’s AI rundown:

• 💬 Meta prepping AI chatbots with various personas

• 🚖 Uber developing an AI chatbot

• 🤖 Watchdog says Meta’s Llama 2 is NOT open source

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

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META

💬 Meta is prepping AI chatbots with various personas

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The Rundown: Meta is working on the release of chatbots with different personas, which could come as early as next month, according to a report from the Financial Times.

Key points:

• The chatbots will take on various personalities, including a surfer and Abraham Lincoln.

• The launch is aimed to increase engagement on Meta's platforms, enabling search and recommendations.

• During Meta's recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned building new AI-powered products with roles as assistants, coaches, etc.

Why it matters: The way we interact with computers will look completely different in a few years.

With Character AI’s (talking chatbot platform) recent data indicating that they have around a whopping 30-minute avg. session duration, there’s no wonder Meta is making this move.

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UBER

🚖 Uber is developing an AI chatbot

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The Rundown: Uber Technologies Inc. is developing an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to integrate into its app.

Details:

• The purpose of the chatbot is to enhance customer service and automate tasks in the app.

• Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, confirmed the ongoing work on the chatbot without providing specific details on its capabilities.

• DoorDash and Instacart are also developing similar chatbot systems. DashAI speeds up orders, while "Ask Instacart" uses OpenAI's API to answer food prep questions.

Noteworthy: Uber has 118 million daily active users. That’s AI rolled out to ~1.6% of the entire world in one go.

Llama 2

🤖 Watchdog says Meta's LLaMa 2 is NOT open source

The Rundown: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has accused Meta of misusing the term "open source" and argues that LLaMa models' license, like LLaMa 2, doesn't align with the open source definition (OSD).

Key Points:

• LLaMa 2's license “violates” open-source principles by restricting commercial use, certain applications, and denying developers full sovereignty.

• Open-source licenses would have to give developers full sovereignty over the technology used and its benefits.

Our take: If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the past, it’s don’t mess with the open-source community.

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QUICK HITS

🔖 Meta developing labels for AI-generated content

Meta is advancing its generative AI tools, including an unmatched AI image generator called CM3Leon. They're also developing some epic generative AI features for their apps, such as labels indicating images generated by Meta AI.

📲 Apple removes AI apps from App store

Apple has removed multiple generative AI apps from its China App Store ahead of new regulations taking effect on August 15. Chinese developers received notices citing "content that is illegal in China" as the reason for the app removal.

🎥 YouTube experiments AI video summaries

YouTube is testing AI-generated video summaries that appear on watch and search pages for some English-language videos. YouTube emphasizes that video summaries are helpful for a quick overview, but they don't replace video descriptions written by creators.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• 🟢 Google plans to upgrade Assistant with AI

• 🛩️ Palantir CEO advocates for AI weapons

• 🛍️ AI influencers sign million-dollar deals

• ⚒️ 7 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

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GOOGLE

🟢 Google plans to upgrade Assistant with AI

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The Rundown: According to an internal email sent to employees, Google plans to upgrade its Assistant by giving it generative AI capabilities, similar to Bard or ChatGPT.

Details:

• The shift will change how Assistant works for consumers, developers, and Google's employees

• The company is reorganizing teams working on Assistants, and some layoffs will occur as part of the move.

• The revamped Assistant work has already started, beginning with the mobile version of the product.

• Amazon is making similar moves, working on an AI-powered reboot for Alexa.

Our take: The original Google Assistant already had significant backlash over privacy concerns, and I’m assuming adding AI to the mix won’t help. Regardless, it’s still cool to see how fast Google has been pushing AI lately.

PALANTIR

🛩️ Palantir CEO advocates for AI weapons

Image source: Palantir

The Rundown: Alex Karp, the CEO of military technology company Palantir, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times advocating for the incorporation of AI into defense and military technology.

Key points:

• Karp disagrees with the sentiment of pausing AI development, especially in military applications, to protect the United States.

• Karp says the fears of AI are secondary to the benefits of AI.

• Palantir uses AI for target selection, mission planning, and more in its military technology.

Noteworthy: Karp’s statements reflect Marc Andreessen’s recent statement that the greatest AI-related risk is “China winning global AI dominance.“

But AI and military technology? You got to admit that sounds a bit freaky.

AI INFLUENCERS

🛍️ AI influencers sign million-dollar deals

Image source: MUO

The Rundown: Virtual influencers (created using AI) like Lil Miquela, Imma, and Shudu are already raking in MILLIONS of dollars through deals with fashion giants such as Dior, Calvin Klein, Chanel, and Prada.

Details:

• Famous examples of virtual influencers include Lil Miquela (2.7 million Instagram followers), and Bermuda (244,000 Instagram).

• Lil Miquela is projected to earn £9 million this year ($11.5m USD)

• The virtual influencer industry is estimated to be worth £3.5 billion and is expected to grow by 26% by 2025.

Why it matters: The reality is, the trend of AI-generated influencers is just beginning. These ‘influencers’ are already raking in millions, and the line behind what’s real and fake is only getting thinner.  

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📗 NicheBot- Find niche business ideas with AI (link)

🪄 Magic Studio- Create amazing product photos in minutes (link)

🔮 Supertools organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot (link)

QUICK HITS

🌎 ChatGPT Android now supported in all countries

A few days after the initial release of the ChatGPT Android app in the US, India, Brazil, and Bangladesh, OpenAI has expanded the availability of the app to all countries that support ChatGPT. ⭐️

💻 Dell & Nvidia partner on generative AI solutions

Dell Technologies has introduced a new portfolio of Generative AI solutions, including validated designs for deploying AI workloads on-premises with Nvidia, professional services to guide enterprises in adopting generative AI, and new Dell Precision workstations aimed at data scientists developing AI-powered applications.

🏛️ Arizona Law School embraces AI in applications

Arizona State University's law school will allow prospective students to use AI tools to aid in their application preparation. However, students must disclose their use of AI tools and ensure the accuracy of the submitted information.

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