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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• The AI Marketing Cookbook: Where to share and promote your new AI-powered business for maximum growth

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URTOPIA

⚡️ E-bikes are now infused with ChatGPT

Image source: Urtopia

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

Image source: Google

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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🌩️ 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

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Happy Friday!

It’s been another crazy week in AI, and today’s no exception.

Robots, self-driving cars, a ChatGPT update, and more!

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🦾 Advanced humanoid robots can now draw

• 🚗 Volkswagen starts testing self-driving vans

• 💻 Code interpreter coming to ChatGPT Plus users

• 🛠️ 7 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

ENGINEERED ARTS

🦾 Advanced humanoid robots can now draw

Image source: Engineered Arts, YouTube

The Rundown: Researchers at Engineered Arts have equipped Ameca (an advanced humanoid robot) with Stable Diffusion giving it ‘the power to imagine drawings.‘

Key points:

• Developed in 2021, Ameca is an advanced humanoid robot equipped with microphones, cameras, and facial recognition software.

• Engineered Arts upgraded Ameca's software using Stable Diffusion, a deep-learning model for generating images based on text prompts

• Ameca skillfully sketched a cat on its canvas and even signed the drawing

• For interactions, Ameca utilizes both GPT-3 and human telepresence, featuring motorized articulation in its arms, fingers, and neck.

• The company previously showcased Ameca's ability to express human emotions and speak in multiple languages

Why it matters: While Ameca’s drawing was not exactly Picasso-level, this development showcases that AI and robots are becoming significantly more human-like.

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• 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

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VOLKSWAGEN

🚗 Volkswagen starts testing self-driving vans

Image source: Volkswagen

The Rundown: Volkswagen has launched an autonomous vehicle test program in Austin, partnering with Mobileye and utilizing a fleet of 10 all-electric ID Buzz vehicles.

Key points:

• Volkswagen has created a new subsidiary called Volkswagen ADMT to lead its autonomous driving efforts (in the United States)

• Volkswagen plans to expand testing to at least four more American cities over the next three years and aims to launch commercial operations in Austin by 2026

• Its autonomous vehicle program in Austin will initially involve data collection through the equipped vehicles

• Human safety operators will be behind the wheel during testing

• This move comes nine months after the shutdown of Volkswagen's previous autonomous vehicle technology partner, Argo

Why it matters: Tesla and Mobileye are neck-and-neck in the current automated-driving car space. If this Volkswagen test program goes well, it will be a huge step up for Mobileye.

OPENAI

💻 Code interpreter coming to ChatGPT Plus users

Image source: OpenAI, Twitter

The Rundown: Over the next week, all ChatGPT Plus users will gain access to the Code Interpreter beta feature.

Details:

• It allows ChatGPT to run code, optionally with access to files you’ve uploaded.

• You can request ChatGPT to analyze data, edit files, and solve math problems—and that’s just the start

• As with all ChatGPT beta features, you must enable it in your profile settings

Hot tip: We’ve tried it, and our favorite use case is getting it to create visuals such as graphs and plots. It’s a game changer for people who work with lots of data.

Just remember to disable chat history and model training if you don’t want to feed ChatGPT all your precious information.

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🎤 Verble allows you to write persuasive speeches with the help of AI

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QUICK HITS

🏆 ChatGPT passed the biggest hedge funds investment test

ChatGPT passed Bridgewater's investment associates test, performing at the 80th percentile, which is equivalent to a first-year associate. According to Greg Jensen, the firm's co-CIO, using ChatGPT is the equivalent of having "millions" of investment associates working at once.

💰 Paperspace gets acquired for $111M in cash

DigitalOcean, a cloud hosting company, has officially announced its acquisition of Paperspace, a New York-based startup specializing in cloud computing and AI development. The acquisition amount of $111 million will be paid in cash.

🚫 Adobe limits employee use of AI

Adobe is limiting employee use of AI, with the company instructing its workers not to use their “personal email accounts or corporate credit cards when signing up for AI tools, like ChatGPT.”

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Happy Thursday!

OpenAI just announced they’re assembling the dream team of AI researchers to address the alignment of future superintelligent AIs.

Let’s dig in…

In today’s AI rundown:

• 💻 Inflection AI develops a $880M AI supercomputer

• 🤖 OpenAI introduces Superalignment

• 🚀 ChatGPT’s growth has finally slowed down

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

INFLECTION AI

💻 Inflection AI develops a $880M AI supercomputer

Image source: WCCF TECH

The Rundown: Inflection AI, known for creating a ‘personal AI for everyone,’ has developed an AI supercomputer equipped with 22,000 NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs to enhance its Inflection-1 model.

Details:

• Despite the high demand and scarcity of H100 GPUs, Inflection AI was able to acquire 22,000 units (currently worth approximately $40,000 each)

• NVIDIA, a potential investor in Inflection AI, possibly facilitated the company's access to such a large number of GPUs

• The supercomputer will contain 700 four-node racks of Intel Xeon CPUs

• The supercomputer will contain 700 four-node racks of Intel Xeon CPUs

• The supercomputer will utilize an astounding 31 Mega-Watts of power

• Inflection AI has raised $1.5 billion ($4 billion valuation)

Why it matters: Inflection anticipates that through this supercomputer, the AI model "Inflection 1" is expected to improve significantly, especially in coding.

Elon Musk, however, thinks it ‘won’t be long’ before are many other supercomputer clusters at this scale.

Won’t be long before there are many such clusters, some considerably larger

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
1:08 AM • Jul 6, 2023

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OPENAI

🤖 OpenAI introduces Superalignment

Image source: OpenAI

The Rundown: OpenAI is dedicating 20% of its secured compute to address the superintelligence alignment problem over the next four years and assembling a new Superalignment team.

Details:

• The team will be co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike (some of the smartest AI researchers in the world)

• Superintelligence can help solve global issues, but it also holds risks, including human disempowerment and extinction

• The goal of the team is to build a human-level automated alignment researcher which can be used to scale efforts and align superintelligence

• The team will share its research and, alongside aligning superintelligent AI, continue improving the safety of current models and mitigating other AI risks

Why it matters: 20% of compute for ‘AGI’ alignment is a big deal. OpenAI has made it clear they recognize the risks of AI and are taking the necessary proactive initiatives.

CHATGPT

🚀 ChatGPT’s growth has finally slowed down

Image source: SimilarWeb

The Rundown: For a while, it seemed that ChatGPT’s growth would never slow. However, we’ve finally reached that point, with traffic declining by approximately 10 percent from May to June 2023.

Details:

• Since the end of November 2022, ChatGPT grew from zero to more than 1.5 billion visits in March 2023

• Visits to OpenAI’s developer site increased by 3.1 percent from May to June

• The release of plugins and web browsing in May did not result in explosive growth

Bottom line: The growth had to slow down at some point. As AI slightly cools off for the summer (ironic), it gives us time to prepare for what’s coming.

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QUICK HITS

💸 Spotify CEO's startup for AI preventive healthcare raises $65m

Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek, raised $65 million in a funding round led by Lakestar and joined by Atomico and General Catalyst.

The Swedish health tech startup aims to provide preventative healthcare through AI-powered full-body scans to detect conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.

🎓 AI-related classes have doubled at Stanford

Student enthusiasm for generative AI at Stanford University has surpassed the crypto hype, leading to a significant increase in enrollment for existing AI classes and a doubling of AI-related courses in the past five years.

🌐 UN security council to hold first-ever meeting on threats of AI

The United Nations Security Council, led by the UK, will hold a historic meeting to address the potential threats posed by AI to global peace and security, with discussions centered around concerns about AI's application in autonomous weapons and nuclear weapons control.

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Happy Wednesday!

Today we’ve got some disappointing news for ChatGPT, controversial news from Google, and revolutionary news from Japan.

Let’s get into it.

In today’s AI rundown:

• ⚡️ OpenAI disables ChatGPT Web Browsing

• 🤖 Google now collects public data to improve AI

• 🇯🇵 Japan is prioritizing educating AI comprehension

• 🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

⚡️ OpenAI disables ChatGPT Web Browsing

Image source: Twitter @OpenAI

The Rundown: OpenAI has temporarily disabled the ‘beta‘ web browsing feature for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, which allows users to browse the real-time internet using ChatGPT.

Key points:

• OpenAI claims the shutdown is due to its recently discovered ability to bypass paywalls on websites (covered on The Rundown here)

• Some see OpenAI's move to disable the browsing feature as self-protection due to potential violations of content ownership rules

• Alternatives include Perplexity Copilot, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard

Our take: While it does suck that Web Browsing is disabled (it was great for research), the feature was in beta and OpenAI did say that it’s temporary. Regardless, it’s nice to see swift communication.

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• The AI Business Model Matrix: How to combine your skills, interests, and advanced AI tools in unique and exciting ways

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• The AI Marketing Cookbook: Where to share and promote your new AI-powered business for maximum growth

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GOOGLE

🤖 Google now collects public data to improve AI

Image source: Search Engine Journal

The Rundown: Over the long weekend, Google updated its privacy policy to allow the collection of any publicly shared online information, which will be used to enhance its AI models.

Key points:

• Google can use any information people post publicly online, not just data provided directly

• This shifts from Google's previous focus on improving "language" models to enhancing all its "AI" models

• Analyzing people’s online posts using AI system poses privacy concerns

Ways to protect your data:

• Use alternative services that prioritize user privacy (DuckDuckGo for search, ProtonMail for email, Vimeo for video sharing, and Brave for web browsing)

• Use incognito or private browsing mode

• Be mindful of the information you post publicly

JAPAN

🇯🇵 Japan is prioritizing educating AI comprehension

Image source: Japan Times

The Rundown: Japan's Education Ministry released new guidelines emphasizing the need for students to understand artificial intelligence.

Details:

• Students are advised against presenting AI-generated work as their own

• AI is promoted for use in English learning and for teaching fact-checking skills

• The guidelines recommend AI tools to reduce teachers' workloads

• A survey revealed about 70% of parents believe regulations for AI chatbot use by children are necessary

Why it matters: In a world where AI is not just the future but the present, Japan's move to integrate it into education while also mitigating potential pitfalls isn't just smart; it's absolutely essential.

Many other countries will likely follow Japan’s lead shortly.

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QUICK HITS

💸 Celestial AI secures $100M for Photonic Fabric

Celestial AI has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round for its Photonic Fabric platform. The investment, led by IAG Capital Partners, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and Temasek’s Xora Innovation fund, will help address the "memory-wall" challenge faced by AI models.

🌩️ AI revolutionizing weather forecasting

Artificial intelligence is promising significant advancements in weather prediction, with the potential for faster, cheaper forecasts of extreme conditions, though integration and trust hurdles persist.

✨ Co-star aims to use AI for astrology readings

Technology company Co-Star has developed a machine that uses artificial intelligence to provide astrological readings, challenging traditional methods but raising questions about trust and personalization.

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Good morning AI enthusiasts!

Happy 4th of July to our U.S. readers.

Remember to take some time to enjoy some fireworks!

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Midjourney launches “Panning“ feature

• 🌍 AI tackles climate change

• 📝 AI deciphers ancient languages

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MIDJOURNEY

🤖 Midjourney launches “Panning“ feature

Source: @KamaniMadeThis on Twitter

The Rundown: AI image generator, Midjourney just rolled out its new "Panning" feature. Similar to their recently launched “Zoom out“ feature, it allows you to extend your images up, down, left, and right by clicking arrow keys.

Details:

• Clicking an arrow extends your image in the corresponding direction

• The "/settings" command and selecting "Remix mode" allows you to change your prompt as you extend your image

• You can pan multiple times on the same image

Current limitations: 

• No support for variations on panned images

• Resolution decreases when zooming out

• Inability to pan both horizontally and vertically

• Possible repetition when panning

Our take: Another epic update from the highest-quality AI image generator in the market. It’s incredible how the Midjourney team continues to ship huge updates with a tiny team of 11 people.

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• Compatible with Python frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow

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NVIDIA

🌍 AI tackles climate change

Source: NVIDIA

The Rundown: At a keynote speech in Berlin, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlighted that accelerated computing, AI-augmented simulation, and interactive digital twins could help climate researchers achieve their goals.

Key points:

• NVIDIA's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, designed for AI and HPC applications, can accelerate the work of climate researchers

• EVE initiative is an international collaboration focusing on digital infrastructure for climate science, HPC, and AI

• NVIDIA Modulus, an open-source framework for machine learning models, and FourCastNet, a data-driven weather forecasting model

• NVIDIA's technologies promise to make climate knowledge more accessible with digital twins

• NVIDIA's Earth-2 initiative aims to support climate researchers and policymakers

Why it matters: There’s a lot of talk about tackling climate change, but results are hard to come by. NVIDIA’s fusion of AI and high-performance computing is taking climate research to the next level.

OXFORD ACADEMIC

🏺 AI is deciphering ancient languages

Source: Decrypt

The Rundown: A new Oxford Academic report details how data scientists are using AI to translate Cuneiform into English, one of the earliest writing systems in recorded human history.

Details:

• AI developers are using NLP to translate cuneiform tablets from Akkadian into English

• The oldest surviving literary work, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in the Akkadian language using cuneiform script

• The researchers developed The Babylonian Engine, a website demonstrating their technology, starting with translations of the Akkadian language

• The training model for the Babylonian Engine AI, Akkademia, is open-sourced and viewable on the project's GitHub

Why it matters: Understanding these writings using AI will provide a true picture of the past. Who knows what we’ll truly uncover.

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🤝 EU and Japan explore AI collaboration

The European Union aims to strengthen its alliance with Japan in technology sectors, including artificial intelligence and semiconductors, to lessen its dependence on China.

🍏 View a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly

With the power of artificial intelligence, it’s now possible to observe the complete neural map of a fruit fly's brain, including 130,000 identified neurons and tens of millions of categorized synapses.

♻️ AI enters the recycling arena

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Happy Monday!

Hope you took some time this weekend to relax from the pace of AI.

For us? Digging into the first wearable AI… but more on that in a minute.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Humane unveils wearable AI projector

• 🐦 Twitter adds paywalls due to AI data scraping

• 🔥 Microsoft begins introducing Windows 11 AI Copilot

• 🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

HUMANE

🤖 Secret AI startup unveils wearable AI projector

Source: Humane

The Rundown: An AI startup founded by ex-Apple designers called Humane unveiled the ‘Ai Pin,’ a mini projector that attaches to clothing and aims to replace smartphones.

Details:

• Humane has been stealing talent from Apple since 2018- while keeping its product a secret

• Designed to clip to a breast pocket and aims to use voice to provide summaries of emails, language translation, and calendar invites

• Features a camera and computer vision software that can recognize objects, like food nutrition labels

• Can project an interactive interface onto nearby surfaces, such as the user's hand or a table

• Collaborating with Qualcomm to develop the internal hardware

Noteworthy: We last saw this device demoed at the TED conference in April, and everyone was freaking out. Will it really replace smartphones, though? We’ll see.

TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI

💡 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

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TWITTER

🐦 Twitter adds paywalls due to AI data scraping

Source: TAYLOR HILL/GETTY IMAGES; GETTY IMAGES

The Rundown: Elon Musk and Twitter have instituted viewing limitations, forcing non-paying users to view a maximum of 600 posts per day due to data scraping by AI companies.

Details:

• AI startups, such as ChatGPT, have been collecting Twitter data without permission leaving Elon unimpressed

• Unverified accounts can now only view 600 posts per day, new unverified accounts can view 300, while verified accounts can see up to 6,000 posts.

• Viewing limitations will soon increase to 8,000 tweets for verified users, 800 for unverified, and 400 for new unverified accounts

Why it matters: It seems like Elon is doing everything in his power to stop AI companies from stealing his precious data. Or maybe Elon just wants us Twitter trolls to touch some grass again.

MICROSOFT

🔥 Microsoft begins introducing Windows 11 AI Copilot

Source: Microsoft

The Rundown: Microsoft has begun rolling out early previews of their AI-powered personal assistant for Windows 11 to insiders in the Dev Channel.

Key points:

• To use Copilot, users must have Windows Build 23493 or higher in the Dev Channel and Microsoft Edge version 115.0.1901.150 or higher

• Allows users to issue commands and have the AI automatically modify settings or perform actions in the operating system

• While not replacing the search feature, Windows Copilot takes over from Cortana as the built-in Windows personal assistant.

Why it matters: Microsoft is completely dominating the AI space. First, they made a major comeback through Bing (who would’ve thought), and now they are integrating AI into the OS.

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QUICK HITS

🧠 AI transforms early detection of dementia

Researchers have developed an AI tool called CognoSpeak which streamlines the diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer's through cognitive tests, achieving a 90% accuracy rate in early trials.

🇻🇳 Vietnam Government demands big tech to deploy AI filters

Vietnam has mandated international social media platforms to deploy AI algorithms to automatically detect and remove "toxic" content, enhancing its strict regulation of such companies and echoing efforts across Southeast Asia to establish AI governance and ethics guidelines.

🦾 Arnold says the Terminator has become a reality

Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of the "Terminator" series, claims that the artificial intelligence world predicted in the films has become a reality, with widespread fear about its future implications.

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Goodmorning AI junkies!

The weekend is upon us, but the AI train isn’t slowing down.

Time to catch a ride.

In today’s rundown:

• 📱 Meta talks AI's impact on Facebook & Instagram algorithms

• 🛍️ AI powered shopping released within Bing

• 🚀 Character AI's growth has been insane (too good to be true?)

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

META

📱 Meta talks AI's impact on Facebook & Instagram algorithms

Source: Meta

Meta is giving a sneak peek into its AI's content-curation magic for Facebook and Instagram with 22 'system cards.'

These handy guides spill the beans on how Meta ranks content using its algorithm, user customization, and the factors or 'signals' that influence AI predictions.

Plus, the expansion of the "Why Am I Seeing This?" feature lets users see previous activity that may have informed Meta’s machine learning models.

Transparency: unlocked.

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BING

🛍️ AI powered shopping released within Bing

Source: Bing

Microsoft's newly released shopping tools in Bing and Edge employ AI to simplify your entire online shopping journey, from inspiration to purchase.

Offering AI-generated buying guides and summarized reviews, these tools aim to eradicate shoppers from becoming overwhelmed. Price Match even monitors item costs post-purchase, potentially saving shoppers big bucks.

Microsoft's turning shopping stress into joy.

CHARACTER AI

🚀 Character AI's growth has been insane 

Source: Twitter @zackhargett

There’s only one word to describe Character AI’s growth to date: insane.

Check out these stats: 280 million web visits last month, growing 60% month-over-month, and a nearly 30-minute average session duration.

Of note: a 30-minute average session duration is longer than YouTube’s 20-minute average. This almost sounds a little too good to be true.

TRENDING TOOLS

🔒 Secureframe AI boosts compliance automation, offers 150+ source monitoring, personnel/vendor mgmt, reports, RFP auto & more *

🤖 h2oGPT lets you simultaneously run six open-source AI models for the same prompt

💻 MakeLanding allows you to design a beautiful landing page within seconds

💡 Knibble creates AI powered knowledge bases for business use

📈 Fellow boosts meeting productivity with AI generated summaries

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

QUICK HITS

💸 AI funding frenzy in full swing

Funding, funding, and more funding. Lots of people are throwing lots of cash at AI startups. Inflection received a $1.3B investment to create personal AI for everyone, Runway raised $141M to build the future of creativity, and Typeface pulled in $100M to build generative AI for brands.

🖌️ Playground releases mixed imaging editing

In the words of Playground founder Suhail Doshi, Playground with mixed image editing is “a new way to combine real and synthetic images to create stunning works of art & photorealistic images bound only by your imagination.”

🤝 Light Years Beyond acquired for $233.7 million

It only took Light Years Beyond four months to be acquired for nearly $234 million. Meituan announced that it will acquire Light Years Beyond for $233.7 million in cash. It’s a big step forward for the company that wants to be known as the “OpenAI for China.”

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❤️ Rundown review of the day

Good morning AI enthusiasts!

We’re back with another batch of breaking news, tools, and more.

Who’s ready to talk AI?

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 ChatGPT unleashes mobile search via Bing

• 💊 AI accelerates drug discovery process

• 🎨 Adobe eases AI art fears

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

CHATGPT

🤖 ChatGPT unleashes mobile search via Bing 

Source: 9to5Mac

Big update, folks! ChatGPT now lets ChatGPT Plus users use Bing’s web search on iOS.

For $20 a month, ChatGPT Plus subscribers on iOS can now activate browsing via Bing to get answers on recent topics and events, a leap from the free version's 2021 info cap. Simply turn on Bing browsing under ‘New Features.’

Android users, your time's coming!

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HEALTH

💊 AI accelerates drug discovery process

Source: NVIDIA

Here's some amazing news in the world of AI and healthcare…

Insilico Medicine, a premier member of NVIDIA Inception (NVIDIA’s startup accelerator), is cutting costs and time in drug discovery using generative AI.

Their AI-led candidate, designed to treat a rare respiratory disease, is zipping into Phase 2 trials just 2.5 years after project inception—usually, a feat that takes six years, and a whopping $400M.

AI, biology, and chemistry in one power trio—game on.

ADOBE

🎨 Adobe eases AI art fears

Source: Adobe

The AI art scene has been slowed down recently due to large amounts of fear towards specific legal concerns around permissions.

Adobe has recognized this fear and is now offering to pay copyright claims for works spun by its generative AI tool, Adobe Firefly.

This forward-thinking move could be the catalyst that sparks wider commercial use of AI-generated art.

I guess you could say the art scene is about to get an AI-powered facelift.

TRENDING TOOLS

🖊️ tl;dv transcribes, summarizes, and marks key moments in meetings in 20+ languages*

🗣️ Respeecher Marketplace allows you to speak in another person's voice and preserve emotions, volumes, and emphasis

🕒 Goodmeetings shares AI-curated moments and summaries for more productive meetings

💰 AI-Powered VC Sheet gets investors tuned into your industry so you can receive funding

💬 Double enriches your leads automatically with AI

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

QUICK HITS

🇨🇳 China pushes for AI supremacy

China is aggressively harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, aiming to be the world's leading AI nation. China seeks to capitalize on AI in the areas of daily office work, pharmaceuticals, and meteorology, which would significantly impact production and day-to-day life.

💡 Microsoft launches AI skills initiative

Microsoft announced a new AI skills initiative to bridge the technical skills gap in the workforce by providing free online courses, a global grant challenge, and a teacher training toolkit.

The initiative — connected with Azure, LinkedIn, GitHub, and other Microsoft platforms — will place its technologies at the heart of AI growth.

👩‍⚕️ New AI detects early lung cancer missed by doctors

Scientists at the Mass General Cancer Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have developed a new AI tool named Sybil. The tool accurately predicted an individual's risk of developing lung cancer within the next year, with a success rate of 86% to 94% in one study.

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