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🤖 Meta open-sources ChatGPT competitor
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Happy Wednesday!
We had one of the biggest days in AI since the announcement of GPT-4.
Brace yourself!
In today’s AI rundown:
🤖 Meta and Microsoft team up and release Llama 2
⚡️ Microsoft announces AI for enterprises
🗞️ OpenAI’s $5m partnership to support local news
🛠️ 8 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
META
🤖 Meta and Microsoft team up and release Llama 2
Image source: Meta
The Rundown: Meta open-sourced their large language model LlamA 2 (ChatGPT competitor), authorized commercial use, and announced a shocking partnership with Microsoft.
Key points:
Llama 2 outperforms GPT3 and performs on par with ChatGPT in terms of chat model quality (lacks in coding, though)
Meta has conducted extensive safety evaluations and has incorporated context distillation and RLHF for safety purposes
Available for commercial use unless a product has more than 700 million monthly active users
As part of the Meta and Microsoft partnership, it will be available through Microsoft’s Azure platform
Qualcomm is also collaborating with Meta to integrate Llama 2 into laptops, phones, and headsets from 2024 onward
Llama 2 will also be available through AWS, Hugging Face, and other providers
A few sites are already hosting Llama, but this one by Perplexity is currently The Rundown favorite
Why it matters: The open sourcing of Llama 2 will shake up the entire LLM market. This will compete directly against ChatGPT and other major LLMs AND massively threaten open-source startups such as Mosiac and Red Pajama. The AI games have just begun.
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MICROSOFT
⚡️ Microsoft announces AI for enterprises
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The Rundown: Microsoft has announced its AI-powered Copilot will be integrated into Microsoft Teams for phone and chat as part of Microsoft 365 Copilot for an additional $30 per month (on top of existing commercial subscriptions).
Key points:
The announcement caused Microsoft stocks to surge as much as 6%, adding as high as $154 billion to Microsoft's market value
Functionalities include real-time summarization and generation of key information from calls and chats
Microsoft is testing Microsoft 365 Copilot with about 600 customers before a broader rollout
The full launch date hasn't been specified yet
Why it matters: As Microsoft continues to push its AI-centric strategy, it'll be intriguing to see how many Microsoft 365 users truly integrate Copilot. Nonetheless, investors seemed to love it.
OPENAI
🗞️ OpenAI’s $5m partnership to support local news
Image source: OpenAI
The Rundown: OpenAI and the American Journalism Project (AJP), a leading venture philanthropy working on rebuilding local news, have formed a new partnership to explore ways AI can support local news organizations.
Key points:
OpenAI is committing $5 million to the American Journalism Project to support the expansion and up to $5 million in OpenAI API credits
The partnership aims to build a support structure for local news organizations
Sam Altman believes that AI should benefit everyone and enhance work
Why it matters: By leveraging AI, local news organizations could enhance the analysis of public data, improve user experiences, and counter misinformation.
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QUICK HITS
💌 Superhuman AI is officially here
Superhuman, a powerful email tool that helps users save “10 million hours every year,” just launched their AI features, including writing emails in your voice, summarizing long thread conversations, and even doing research in your email.
We’ve been playing around with it, and it’s safe to say it gets The Rundown stamp of approval. Use our ‘Rundown Exclusive’ link to get a free 1-month trial.
☠️ Major investor says 85% of AI startups will fail
Ken Smythe, CEO of Next Round Capital Partners, predicts that 85% of AI startups will fail within three years due to competition from larger tech firms, despite the booming interest in AI technologies sparked by innovations like OpenAI's ChatGPT. After the news from Meta today, we might have to agree.
🤝 Mckinsey enters AI with Cohere partnership
To enhance AI capabilities for its enterprise clients, consultancy juggernaut McKinsey partners with AI startup Cohere, tapping into the global AI surge ignited by language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, aiming to refine customer engagement and automate workflows.
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🤖 The SEC warns of major AI risks
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Happy Tuesday!
We woke up this morning to find out that even Gary Gensler is pivoting from crypto to AI.
Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
🚨 SEC warns AI risks ‘financial stability’
🧬 Human-aware AI accelerates scientific discoveries
🖥️ Wix unveils an epic AI website generator
🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION
🚨 SEC warns AI risks financial stability
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The Rundown: Gary Gensler, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair, stressed the need for a regulatory overhaul on AI, stating that it could increase financial instability.
Key points:
Gensler states that AI is "the most transformative technology of our time"
Companies must ensure their use of AI doesn't breach securities rules
Publicly traded companies must not mislead investors through their statements and disclosures about the risks/opportunities of AI
The SEC reportedly plans to consider new rules on these issues as early as this fall
Why it matters: Just within the last few days, we had FTC investigating ChatGPT for potential impacts on consumer data privacy, and now the SEC is coming for AI. Regulation is most definitely coming, folks.
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NATURE
🧬 Human-aware AI accelerates scientific discoveries
Image source: Nature Human Behaviour
The Rundown: A new study published in Nature explores how AI can aid and expand scientific discoveries by predicting and generating hypotheses that humans might not consider.
Details:
Researchers built models that generated scientifically promising "alien" hypotheses that are unlikely to be considered by humans until the distant future
Demonstrations suggest that AI is aware of human activity and can help push scientific understanding
The AI could predict future discoveries with a 400% improvement over models focused only on research content
The AI predicted with over 40% precision the actual people who would make these discoveries based on their experiences or relationships
Why it matters: The study shows how AI can turbocharge our scientific explorations, helping us make faster discoveries and even come up with brilliant ideas humans wouldn't naturally think of.
WIX
🖥️ Wix unveils an epic AI website generator
Image source: Wix
The Rundown: Wix, a popular template-based website builder, just unveiled their conversational AI website generator, which will let you create entire websites by typing a description into a box and answering a few questions.
Details:
Allows users to create a complete website, filled with text, images, and business solutions within seconds
Leverages OpenAI's ChatGPT for text creation, along with Wix's proprietary AI models for other aspects
More new features to be introduced include the AI Assistant Tool, the AI Page and Section Creator, and an Object Eraser feature
Wix CEO, Avishai Abrahami, emphasized commitment to leveraging AI power to advance website creation and grow businesses
Our take: Wix is taking no-code to the next level. And the crazy part? It’s probably only scratching the surface of what will be available in the next few years.
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🧠 Promp enables people to discover, innovate and monetize AI prompts
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QUICK HITS
📉 Jasper AI trims staff amid market challenges
AI content platform startup Jasper AI, which raised $125M in a Series A round nine months ago, has laid off an unspecified number of employees, according to CEO Dave Rogenmoser.
This is amid intense competition in the generative AI market and declining website traffic. It turns out not all GPT wrappers are sunshine and rainbows.
🏥 Benchmarking AI in Healthcare
MLCommons just launched MedPerf, a new platform designed to benchmark and evaluate medical AI models using diverse real-world data, aiming to enhance the effectiveness of AI, reduce bias, and build public trust in AI's use in healthcare.
🎨 AI-generated art allowed at Colorado Fair
Following massive controversy over an AI-created winning art piece at the 2022 Colorado State Fair, organizers have confirmed that AI-generated art WILL be accepted in the Digital Art category in the 2023 competition (but must be labeled as such).
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🤖 Hollywood goes on STRIKE against AI
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Happy Monday!
Hope you took some time over the weekend to relax from the pace of AI.
For us? AI customer service bots, but more on that in a minute.
In today’s AI rundown:
😡 Hollywood goes on strike against AI
Ⓜ️ Meta releases a new AI image generator
🤖 AI customer service agents have arrived
🛠️ 7 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
HOLLYWOOD
😡 Hollywood goes on strike against AI
Image source: Sky News
The Rundown: More than 170,000 Hollywood actors and writers have gone on strike due to demands that AI will not replace jobs, along with increased pay and work guarantees.
Details:
The strike impacts major studios like Disney, Netflix, Amazon, and Sony
Movies affected by the strike include Beetlejuice 2, Deadpool 3, Gladiator 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Venom 3, and more
George Clooney, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Margot Robbie, Florence Pugh, Jason Sudeikis and Susan Sarandon are supporting the strikes
Industry experts warn that a long-term strike will significantly impact the entire internet
Why it matters: Multiple industries are already feeling the heat of AI, and we’re only just scratching the surface.
Hot tip: Force yourself to use AI tools every day and try a new tool every week. The more you use them, the more you will find systems to speed up your workflows.
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🥷 Become a low-code AI ninja
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Innovating with AI launched 2 successful AI products in 2 months and created a free cheat sheet to help you do the same.
Here’s what’s included:
Tools to launch AI-powered apps without code to quickly launch and validate ideas
How to use low-code AI to communicate flawlessly with software developers
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META
Ⓜ️ Meta releases a new AI image generator
Image source: Meta
The Rundown: Meta just released CM3leon, their new generative AI model that performs both text-to-image and image-to-text generation.
Key points:
It can generate sequences of text and images conditioned on any given sequence of other image and text content
Performance for text-to-image generation uses 5x times less compute power than previous transformer-based methods
Generates captions and answers any image-related question
It’s the first multi-modal model trained using a method from text-only language models
Noteworthy: Despite being trained on a smaller dataset (3B tokens), performance is comparable to larger models. Meta has been on AI fire lately.
AIR AI
🤖 AI customer service agents have arrived
Image source: Air AI
The Rundown: Caleb Maddix just introduced Air AI on Twitter, a conversational AI that can perform full 5-40 minute long sales and customer service calls that sound replicable to humans.
Details:
Can autonomously perform actions across 5,000 unique applications
Adaptable to various roles such as sales development representative, customer service agent, account executive, and more, based on creative input
Currently being utilized on live calls, serving real people and businesses daily
Companies can request beta access to deploy an AI sales or customer service team
Why it matters: Unlike humans, AI does not take days off and never gets tired. The harsh reality is that some human jobs, such as customer service agents, will struggle to compete against AI.
Watch how realistic the demo video is.
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🦸 Albus AI for Chrome empowers your browsing experience with GPT-4
🎨 AI Text Styles by Stockimg AI creates fantastic text designed by AI
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QUICK HITS
🚀 Gradient Labs launches AI residency program in London
Gradient Labs is launching an Applied AI Scientist residency program specifically targeting early-career AI researchers who want to experience what day 0 at an AI startup is like.
Join the program in London and help redefine customer support in complex, risk-averse environments*
🎤 Will.i.am launches an AI app to co-pilot creation
Rapper and entrepreneur will.i.am just launched an AI-powered productivity tool, FYI, designed to streamline tasks for creatives, from file management to AI-assisted "creative co-piloting."
🚨 Israel embeds AI systems into military ops
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are integrating artificial intelligence in military operations, using AI systems to select targets for air strikes and plan logistics. Proponents argue AI could minimize casualties, but there are serious concerns about accountability and the risks of autonomous decision-making in warfare.
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🤖 Big upgrades to Google's ChatGPT rival
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Happy Friday!
It’s been a massive week for AI, and today is nothing short.
Let’s get to it.
In today’s AI rundown:
🤖 Google’s ChatGPT rival launches new features
🎨 Stability AI releases sketch-to-image
🗞️ OpenAI to train AI models on AP news
🛠️ 7 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
🤖 Google’s ChatGPT rival launches new features
Image source: Google
The Rundown: Google is making their ChatGPT competitor, Bard, available in more than 40 languages and bringing it to the European Union after initial delays due to data privacy concerns.
Key features:
Listen to Bard's responses in all 40+ languages (text-to-voice)
Integration with Google Lens, enabling users to upload images with prompts (multimodal)
Adjust the tone and style of responses, choosing between simple, long, short, professional, or casual tones
Responses can be shared via links, allowing for broader collaboration and sharing of ideas
Available in over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, and Spanish, and in countries like Brazil and across Europe
Why it matters: Having Bard talk and respond to visual prompts feels like we’re living in the year 2050. Bard’s range of possibilities easily just doubled.
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STABILITY AI
🎨 Stability AI releases sketch-to-image
Image source: Stability AI
The Rundown: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, just released ‘Stable Doodle,’ a new tool that turns your sketches into images.
Details:
Accepts both a sketch and a descriptive prompt to guide the image generation process,
The quality of the output depends on the detail of the initial drawing and the prompt
Utilizes the latest Stable Diffusion model and the T2I-Adapter, a "conditional control solution"
Designed for both professional artists and novices, offering more precise control over image generation
Stability AI was last valued at $1 billion and reportedly aims to quadruple that value within the next few months
Our take: Not only is this really cool, but Stable Doodle will have real-world applications in various verticals, including real estate, in the future.
OPENAI
🗞️ OpenAI to train AI models on AP news
Image source: Daily Beast
The Rundown: OpenAI has reached an agreement with The Associated Press (AP) to train its AI models on AP's news stories for the next two years, including content in AP's archive dating back to 1985.
Details:
AP will have access to OpenAI’s technology and product expertise, although specifics are not yet clear
AP has been utilizing AI since 2014, with applications in automated reporting about company earnings, Minor League Baseball, and college sports
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap notes that AP's feedback and access to its high-quality, factual text archive will help improve OpenAI’s systems
Noteworthy: Despite the partnership, AP has clarified that it will not use AI technology in its news stories. Phew.
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QUICK HITS
🚨 FTC investigates OpenAI's ChatGPT
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly investigating OpenAI, probing whether its AI, ChatGPT, has made false or misleading statements about individuals, potentially causing "reputational harm."
💰 Google’s $4B missed opportunity
Eight Google researchers developed one of the most revolutionary systems in AI, Transformer, but left to build their own startups, now valued at $4.1B, as Google grappled with turning the innovation into usable services.
🇨🇦 Canada excluded from Google Bard
Amid regulatory tensions with the Canadian government, Google has excluded Canada from the launch of its AI chatbot Bard, placing it among a few nations, including Russia and China, without access to the service.
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🤖 The age of AI-powered businesses
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Happy Thursday!
AI-powered businesses, using AI to understand reality, and AI-powered notes.
It’s been a busy day in AI.
In today’s AI rundown:
🛒 Shopify unveils its AI ‘Sidekick’
⚡️ Musk reveals xAI, rival to ChatGPT
📝 Google’s Tailwind now NotebookLM
🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
SHOPIFY
🛒 Shopify unveils its AI ‘Sidekick’
Image source: Twitter, @tobi
The Rundown: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke just revealed Shopify's AI vision and new commerce-specific AI digital assistant, Sidekick.
Key points:
Enhances productivity and optimizes workflows, facilitating more time for business growth rather than operational tasks
Understands and interprets questions or prompts, so users can generate new ideas in seconds
Ask clarifying questions or prompt Sidekick to shorten, rewrite, or give feedback
Lütke strongly believes that people building businesses have the most to gain from AI technology
No official release date has been shared
Why it matters: The age of AI-powered businesses is emerging, and Shopify is paving the way.
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🤖 Become a low-code AI ninja
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Innovating with AI created a free cheat sheet to help you speedrun the entire process.
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XAI
⚡️ Elon Musk reveals his new AI company, xAI
Image source: xAI
The Rundown: Elon Musk just announced the creation of his new AI company, xAI, to “understand the true nature of the universe.”
What we know:
The team has experience at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto
Advised by Dan Hendrycks, who serves as director of the Center for AI Safety
xAI is a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission
You can meet the team/ask questions on a Twitter spaces chat on Friday, July 14th @xAI
Why it matters: The launch of xAI contradicts Musk’s recent statements about pausing AI development to avoid "civilization destruction." Regardless, xAI has a roster of brilliant people, and we’ll be watching the development closely.
📝 Google’s new notes app trained on your documents
Image source: Google
The Rundown: Google's AI-backed note-taking tool, previously known as Project Tailwind, has been rebranded to NotebookLM and is launching to a select group of users in the US today.
Details:
Google is trying to give users their own personal AI, trained on their data and notes
Beginning in Google Docs, users can select multiple documents and ask questions or create new content through the app
Features include the automatic summarization of long documents and the conversion of video outlines into scripts
Citations are integrated. However, Google acknowledges that the model might currently produce incorrect results
NotebookLM is accessible via a waitlist on Google Labs
Why it matters: Google is pushing AI hard. The tool could potentially reshape the future of Google Drive, similar to how the Search Generative Experience feature could potentially change Google Search.
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⚡️ GPT Web App Generator generates your full-stack web app in an instant
💝 Presentations.ai creates presentation decks from nothing more than an idea
🔮 Supertools organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot
QUICK HITS
🧠 Mindvalley AI Summit 2023
Join over 150,000 other participants at the Mindvalley 2023 AI summit to discover real-world applications of AI from innovative CEOs and leading-edge AI experts on July 14th-16th.*
👶 AI helps fertility docs choose embryos for IVF
AIVF, a reproductive technology company in Tel Aviv, Israel, aims to enhance the probability of successful embryo selection using its AI-powered embryo evaluation software, EMA.
🗣️ Resemble AI secures $8M Series A round
Resemble AI, a company specializing in creating realistic-sounding voice clones through generative AI, has secured $8 million in a Series A funding round, with Javelin Venture Partners leading the way.
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🤖 A huge ChatGPT competitor emerges
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Happy Wednesday!
Anthropic just dropped the second-gen version of it’s AI chatbot, and it’s incredible.
Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
🚨 Anthropic launches ChatGPT competitor, Claude 2
🐝 beehiiv launches brand new AI features
🫣 Hidden ChatGPT Code Interpreter feature
🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
ANTHROPIC
🚨 Anthropic launches ChatGPT competitor Claude 2
Image source: Anthropic
The Rundown: Claude 2, Anthropic’s ChatGPT competitor, just debuted its second-gen version of its AI chatbot and is available for public testing in the US and UK. Try it here.
Key points:
Can summarize up to 75,000 words, a massive leap compared to ChatGPT's 3,000-word limit
Claude-2's knowledge cutoff is early 2023, while GPT-4 is September 2021
Outperforms GPT4 on the GRE writing, HumanEval coding, and Bar exam
Has abilities similar to ChatGPT Code Interpreter
Import an entire PDF file and have Claude 2 summarize the entire document.
5x cheaper than GPT-4 for developers
Why it matters: Claude 2 is creating a serious competitor to ChatGPT. With that being said, it’s the consumers who win in the end. More competition = faster AI developments.
TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI
Become a low-code AI ninja
The Rundown: A lack of coding skills shouldn’t stop you from launching your own products. All you need is the right tools and technology.
Innovating with AI created a free cheat sheet to help you speedrun the entire process.
You’ll learn the following:
Tools to launch AI-powered apps without code to quickly launch and validate ideas
How to use low-code AI to communicate flawlessly with software developers
How to connect existing business workflows to powerful AI models, without a single line of code
BEEHIIV
🐝 beehiiv integrates AI to transform newsletters
Image source: beehiiv
The Rundown: beehiiv, a newsletter creator platform, just launched brand new AI features, possibly changing the way newsletters are written forever.
Details:
AI Writing Assistant: Create content based on a user’s desired output, along with other parameters such as length, tone, etc.
AI Text Tools: Change the tone of voice, auto-correct, auto-complete, lengthen, shorten, simplify, and more.
AI Image Tools: Generate images without ever needing to leave the beehiiv editor.
AI Translator: Translates your content into any of the most popular languages in just a few clicks
Why it matters: Being able to translate your newsletter publication into multiple languages might have just unlocked a whole new world of possibilities.
CHATGPT
🫣 Hidden ChatGPT Code Interpreter feature
Image source: Twitter, @DataChaz
The Rundown: A recent find on Twitter exposes that there’s more to ChatGPT’s ‘code interpreter’ than meets the eye. Turns out, it also has facial recognition powers.
Details:
It uses a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) based detector
It’s able to detect faces from different angles and sizes
Check out this Twitter thread on a step-by-step of how to get ChatGPT to detect your face on video
With Code Interpreter enabled, try it using prompts such as “how many people are in this image”
The relevance: With Code Interpreter finally available to the general public, more and more continuously gets revealed. The feature is so good that there’s even a theory that Code Interpreter is GPT 4.5.
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💻 Swimm AI generates code documentation from scratch
🛠️ 404 Error Hound finds and fixes website errors with AI
💡 Wisely analyzes Amazon product pages and provides quick insights
🔮 Supertools organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot
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💼 27% of jobs at high risk from the AI revolution
Over a quarter of jobs in OECD countries are at high risk of automation due to advancements in AI, stirring fears among 60% of workers about job loss in the next decade, though some report AI has made their jobs safer and less tedious, as revealed in the OECD's 2023 Employment Outlook.
💰 Sapphire Ventures to invest $1 billion in AI startups
Sapphire Ventures, overseeing $10 billion in assets, intends to invest over $1 billion from its existing funds in AI enterprise startups to boost infrastructure and support AI-powered companies.
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🤖 Google CEO warns about AI deepfakes
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Happy Tuesday!
The whole world seems to be focused on the current duel between Elon and Zuck right now.
In the meantime, we’ve got some juicy AI advancements. Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
🔒 Google intentionally limiting Bard AI's capabilities
🔥 AI wildfire detection startup expands $17M in funding
🤖 Gates-backed venture to unleash robotic geologists
🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
🔒 Google intentionally limiting Bard AI's capabilities
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The Rundown: Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Google is intentionally limiting Bard AI’s capabilities as he warns about the imminent ease of using AI to create deceptive “deepfake” videos of public figures.
Details:
Current AI models can already generate highly realistic images of public figures, blurring the line between fiction and reality
Video and audio fabrications are becoming more sophisticated by the day
Pichai said that Google does not always understand the answers Bard AI currently provides
Why it matters: AI misinformation and scams are already very real and will only worsen as AI continuously advances.
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Gain access to the same tool already in production in world-class products like Freshworks, Gusto, and Hashicorp.
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Personalized assistant: hallucination-free, trained on your content
Natural language command palette: Users can carry out any action with simple prompts
Smart Nudges: Increase user engagement and encourage upgrades with strategically timed nudges
PANO AI
🔥 AI wildfire detection startup expands $17M in funding
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The Rundown: Pano AI, an artificial intelligence startup, just raised a $17 million Series A extension to help save lives by detecting the early stages of wildfires.
Details:
The company mounts high-definition remote-controllable cameras in high-risk areas, with footage monitored by AI
The AI-powered technology can send firefighters to the scene several hours sooner compared to situations without its systems
Just last week, the company sent early warnings of the Kutch Road Fire, which broke out near Kutch Mountain in Yamhill County, Oregon
The extension round was led by Valor Equity Partners, and added a couple of strategic investors too; T-Mobile Ventures and Salesforce.
Our take: This is a prime example of using AI for the greater good of humanity. As the current wildfire crisis in Canada continues to worsen every year, using AI to help with early detection is a huge step in prevention.
GEOLOGICAI
🤖 Gates-backed venture to unleash robotic geologists
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The Rundown: Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) has invested $20 million in Calgary-based mining tech startup GeologicAI to build AI-powered robot geologists.
Key points:
GeologicAI was founded in 2013 to offer “rock analytics for modern mining”
GeologicAI’s technology can analyze rock samples and identify resources well below the Earth’s surface
The world is dealing with a mineral supply shortage due to a growing demand for clean energy technologies
The company's robots will help in the mining of both lithium and cobalt to help enable the clean energy transition
Why it matters: Given that the world will probably soon struggle with a significant mineral supply shortage (due to a growing demand for clean energy), Bill Gates’ funding comes at an ideal time.
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🌍 SpeakAI helps you learn languages by speaking with AI
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☀️ Introducing AI-based weather-forecasting
Two independent teams of AI engineers have created AI-based weather forecasting systems — Pangu-Weather and NowcastNet — matching the accuracy of existing prediction models.
⚖️ Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta over AI-training
Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing Meta and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, claiming their books were used without authorization to train the companies' AI programs.
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🤖 AI shows promise in treating brain cancer
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Happy Monday!
Hope you took some time over the weekend to relax from the pace of AI.
For us, bikes infused with ChatGPT, but more on that in a minute…
In today’s AI rundown:
🧠 AI shows potential in treating brain cancer
⚡️ E-bikes are now infused with ChatGPT
⛑️ Mayo Clinic is using Google’s AI chatbot
🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
CHARM
🧠 AI shows potential in treating brain cancer
Image source: Texas A&M Health
The Rundown: An artificial intelligence tool called Cryosection Histopathology Assessment and Review Machine (CHARM) has demonstrated potential in assisting doctors with aggressive brain tumors by identifying critical characteristics to guide surgery.
Key points:
While not as accurate as current genetic tests, CHARM can predict a tumor's profile almost instantly, potentially allowing doctors to initiate appropriate treatment faster
It can quickly discern the genetic profile of a glioma tumor, a process that currently takes days or weeks
The quick identification could improve patient outcomes and reduce the need for multiple surgeries
Trained using machine learning, using images of samples collected during brain surgery
Can distinguish between malignant tumor cells and benign cells and identify a tumor's grade or aggressiveness
Why it matters: The option for almost instantaneous results is already a game changer. It’s hard to fathom where we’ll be in the next 10 years.
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💡 Find your breakthrough AI business idea
The Rundown: Launching an AI product is hard. But Innovating with AI launched two new AI products in 1 month.
They created a free video lesson and cheat sheet to help you do it yourself throughout the process.
You’ll learn the following:
The AI Business Model Matrix: How to combine your skills, interests, and advanced AI tools in unique and exciting ways
The AI Venture Mindset: How to use rapid experimentation and industry uncertainty to your advantage
The AI Marketing Cookbook: Where to share and promote your new AI-powered business for maximum growth
URTOPIA
⚡️ E-bikes are now infused with ChatGPT
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The Rundown: Urtopia has unveiled its Fusion e-bike at EUROBIKE 2023, the first bike to integrate ChatGPT and built-in speakers to serve as a personal tour guide for riders.
Key points:
Riders can ask ChatGPT for information on potential sightseeing locations, local landmarks, and the history of sites
It currently can’t provide real-time updates or information about current events (since ChatGPT’s data is limited to 2021)
Features built-in GPS navigation, anti-theft measures, and safety and data record systems
Designed to deliver real-time assistance tailored to user needs and to function as a local city guide and a private tour guide
Our take: This is what we like to call a smart bike. Having access to a personal AI-infused tour guide while biking seems like the feature we didn’t know we needed until now.
MAYO CLINIC
⛑️ Mayo Clinic is using Google’s AI chatbot
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The Rundown: Mayo Clinic has reported to be using Google’s medical AI chatbot, Med-PaLM 2, in hospital training since April 2023.
Details:
Med-PaLM 2 is a variant of PaLM 2, announced at Google I/O in May this year
In metrics such as evidence of reasoning, consensus-supported answers, and comprehension accuracy, Med-PaLM 2 has performed comparably to doctors
Customers testing Med-PaLM 2 retain control over their data, which is encrypted, and inaccessible to Google
According to Google's senior research director Greg Corrado, Med-PaLM 2 is still in its early stages and has the potential to expand the beneficial roles of AI in healthcare greatly
Why it matters: The endless possibilities for AI to enhance the healthcare industry are incredible. It’s truly the most exciting time to be alive.
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⚡️ Call Pi lets you have a personal AI to chat with at any time
🌾 FieldDay creates custom vision apps using just your phone
🎥 Veed generates pro-level videos using text
🗣️ Voice Jacket produces quality text-to-speech AI voices
🔮 Supertools organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot
QUICK HITS
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🌩️ Hauwei unveils precise AI weather forecaster
Huawei Cloud researchers have developed an AI-based global weather algorithm, Pangu-Weather, that delivers faster and more accurate forecasts than traditional methods, including parameters such as humidity, wind speed, temperature, and disaster warnings.
🚀 Study reveals acceleration in AI spending
A CNBC survey reveals that 63% of tech executives are accelerating AI spending, with AI being the top tech spending area for 47% of firms, while an Omdia survey shows 55% of companies already have a dedicated AI budget.
🧪 YouTube tests AI quizzes on mobile
YouTube is globally trialing AI-generated quizzes on its iOS and Android mobile apps for select educational videos aimed at enhancing learning and understanding content effectiveness, specifically targeting users engaged with educational videos, with the success of this experiment yet to be determined.
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