Stay Ahead on AI.

In today's rundown:

🔥 OpenAI enables plugins to ChatGPT+ users
🤖 JIZAI ARMS turn humans into cyborgs
⚡️ Amazon’s secret AI robot codenamed ‘Burnham’
🚀 Epic Games introduces Unreal Engine 5.2

Read time: 4 minutes

🔥 OpenAI Enables Plugins to ChatGPT+ Users

OpenAI just announced a massive update to all ChatGPT Plus users, allowing access to web browsing and 70 beta plugins. The beta plugins include a vast range, from text-to-audio conversions to real-time data on stocks and crypto. However, the Web Browsing feature is our favorite by far.

To access these updates, launch ChatGPT, click on your username in the bottom left corner, select 'Settings,' then 'Beta features.' From this menu, activate the features you wish to use.

Note: The 'Beta features' tab is being gradually introduced to ChatGPT Plus users, so don't worry if you don't see it yet - it's on its way!

Making a ChatGPT plugin right now is probably the equivalent of the opportunity of creating an app for the iPhone App Store at inception. You should probably join the plugin developer waitlist ASAP with this link.

🤖 JIZAI ARMS Turns Humans Into Cyborgs

JIZAI ARMS, a Japanese robotics company, designed a system of six spider-like robotic limbs that the user can fully control, essentially turning humans into cyborgs.

The arms can be attached, detached, or replaced, aiming to transform how humans interact with robots and AI. The company envisions these "digital cyborgs" to enable social interaction between multiple wearers, creating a society where humans and machines coexist seamlessly.

Some use cases of these robotic arms include working in warehouses to hospital surgery rooms. However, the most significant impact could be improving the lives of people with disabilities.

Pretty soon, you’ll be able to read our newsletter and eat breakfast at the same time. The future is weird.

⚡️ Amazon’s Secret AI Robot Codenamed ‘Burnham’

A leaked internal document by Insider reports that Amazon is working on a secret AI project named Burnham, aimed at enhancing the intelligence of Amazon’s Astro robot with AI.

The new tech promises to add a ‘conversational interface’ and a deeper understanding of household contexts, allowing Astro to accurately remember and respond to situations.

This might include alerting homeowners about a stove left on, calling 911 in emergencies, or finding lost keys. While the advancements in AI are exciting, the notion of a highly intelligent robot in our homes might give one pause for thought.

🚀 Epic Games Introduces Unreal Engine 5.2

Epic Games has unveiled its Machine Learning Deformer on Unreal Engine 5.2. The sample showcases Unreal Engine's ML technology's potential in crafting insanely high-quality, next-gen characters complete with muscle, flesh, AND cloth simulations.

The development signifies an exciting leap forward in character creation, pushing the boundaries of realism in gaming and beyond. It’s only a matter of time before AI integration with this tech can auto-generate hyperrealistic characters in video games such as the highly anticipated GTA6.

🗓️ Kalender AI (Sponsor)

KalendarAI sales agents generate revenue on autopilot by reaching your potential customers and booking meetings through live AI chat sessions from 200+ million companies globally.

Get your agents today starting $83/m (exclusive for The Rundown Community) that can sell for you whether you are selling, investing, fundraising, freelancing, or recruiting.

KalendarAI is now live on the ChatGPT plugin store!

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

Dexa- Free early access to chat with your favorite podcasts (exclusive to The Rundown readers) (link)
Paperclips- Autogenerate flashcards from your PDFs (link)
Chord- Generate consensus-informed articles with personal recommendations (link)
Toolbuilder- Create customized AI tools and chatbots (link)
Story Scape- AI-crafted stories and make choices that shape your adventure (link)
AI CV- Create a cover letter in seconds using AI (link)
Expired AI- Search 2000+ expired .ai domains (link)
Roam Around- Personal travel planner AI app (link)
Shownotes- Summarize, and transcribe Youtube and Audio (link)
PDF AI- Chat with any document (link)
Aizzy- Move faster with AI assistants (link)
Lord of the Rings, but it’s AI-generated (link)
Why Google is having a tough time catching OpenAI (link)
100k context windows are now available on Poe (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter:

Have cool resources to share? Submit a tool or reach us by replying to this email.

🐦 Tweet of the day

How to turn a PDF into a chatbot you can talk to:

This is the biggest productivity cheat code for students right now.
You can turn any PDF into a chatbot expert you can ask anything to:
(This is ChatGPT for your PDFs)
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
6:02 PM • May 13, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

🤖 Anthropic's massive 100,000 context window

In today's rundown:

🤖 Anthropic revolutionizes Claude AI
🦄 Stability AI’s text-to-animation tool
Ⓜ️ Meta unveils generative AI for advertisers
🚀 Airtable joins the AI frenzy

Read time: 4 minutes

🤖 Anthropic Revolutionizes Claude AI

Anthropic, an AI research startup founded by former members of OpenAI, has made a significant breakthrough in text-generating AI. They've revolutionized Claude, their AI model, by expanding its context window from a mere 9,000 tokens to a whopping 100,000 tokens.

Does "The message you submitted was too long" ring a bell? Thanks to Claude's new expanded context window, that's quickly becoming a thing of the past. The modification enables Claude to analyze and interpret not just a few pages but hundreds.

To put it into perspective, the model could digest and analyze the entire text of “The Great Gatsby” in less than a minute. It's a game-changing leap forward, leaving OpenAI’s GPT-4 and its 32k context window (that’s currently in beta) in the dust.

How do you get Claude’s new upgrades? Well, as of now, Claude has only made this available to our business partners, and all you can do is request for API access on their website.

🦄 Stability AI’s Text-To-Animation Tool

Stability AI, a global front-runner in open-source artificial intelligence, unveiled a powerful text-to-animation tool called Stable Animation SDK.

This tool, intended for developers and artists, supports all Stable Diffusion models, including Stable Diffusion 2.0 and Stable Diffusion XL. Users can now generate animations from text, images, or video combined with text.

This tool will be a massive game-changer in the animation industry and for content creators.

Ⓜ️ Meta Unveils Generative AI For Advertisers

Meta just introduced the AI Sandbox, a playground for advertisers to try new generative AI-powered ad tools. The suit of the tools include:

Alternative text copy variations
Generating various backgrounds
Image cropping for Facebook and Instagram ads

These features empower brands to craft diverse ad copies tailored to different audiences, effortlessly generate unique assets for campaigns, and design visuals that fit various formats, from social posts to short videos.

Currently, Meta is working with a select group of advertisers to refine these tools based on their feedback. However, the tech giant plans to broaden access to more advertisers come July.

🚀 Airtable Joins The AI Frenzy

Airtable is breaking into the AI market with its new product, Airtable AI. This product aims to streamline the deployment of AI-powered applications for businesses, requiring no prior AI or coding knowledge.

With its broad range of functions, from managing marketing campaigns to planning product development, it integrates AI into various workflows. In addition, it includes customizable components and templates to suit different user needs.

Early access is available now, with a full launch in about three months. Airtable AI could be a game changer in revolutionizing the ease of AI integration in businesses.

🤖 Deepgram (Sponsor)

Introducing Deepgram’s next-generation speaker diarization and automatic language detection models trained on over 100K voices.

Deepgram now offers:

❇️ Language-agnostic diarization that’s 10X faster (than nearest competitor) ❇️ Revamped automatic language detection with <4% error rate

These features are available at no additional cost.

Learn how to get started: here.

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

MealPractice- Effortless meal planning with AI-generated recipes (link)
Personal AI- Supercharge your memory with your personal AI messenger (link)
PPTX.ai- Generates PowerPoint slides, speaker notes and individual images for each slide (link)
Mottle- Build your own custom chatbot for your business (link)
Auxworld- AI text-to-gameplay engine to "dream" video games (link)
AIMyRide- Turn your car into a dream car using AI (link)
AI Diary- Daily diary powered by AI (link)
ByeBlankPage- Seamlessly Integrated AI+text editor (link)
Vurvey- AI Insights Infrastructure for innovation, insights and marketing (link)
RasaGPT- First headless LLM chatbot platform built on top of Rasa and Langchain (link)
GitGab- Connect your Github repos to ChatGPT (link)
Outboundly- Analyze LinkedIn profiles / websites and generate a personalized cold outreach message (link)
AutoInfra- Automate DevOps and talk to your servers with language (link)
ArXiv Summarizer- Searches papers and summarizes the abstract in simple English using ChatGPT (link)
AI Girlfriend- This influencer is making $1/minute with a bot trained on her voice (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter:

Have cool resources to share? Submit a tool or reach us by replying to this email.

🐦 Tweet of the day

10 prompts to learn anything faster:

ChatGPT has changed the world.
It does lack in some areas, but my favorite use case is leveraging it to teach me things twice as fast.
Here are the 10 best prompts to learn anything faster:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:34 PM • May 11, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

🤖 Google reveals massive AI updates

In today's rundown:

🤖 Google goes all-in on AI
🤗 HuggingFace releases Transformers Agent
🔮 Scale AI releases Donovan and EGP
🎥 Synthesia Research releases HumanRF

Read time: 4 minutes

🤖 Google Goes All-in on AI

Google's recent I/O event was a thrilling showcase of AI-centered innovations. The tech giant made it clear that it is evolving as an "AI-first" company.

Here’s the rundown: (sign up for those sweet waitlists ASAP)

Duet AI for Google Workspace enhancements, including AI in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides [link]
Google Maps to offer an 'Immersive View for Routes' [link]
Google Photos is getting a 'Magic Editor' feature [link]
Google Search will become interactive, responding to questions in a conversational manner like ChatGPT [link]
PaLM 2, Google’s powerful new LLM that will power over 25 new Google products [link]
Bard upgrades: waitlist removed, available in 180 countries, moved to PaLM 2 [link]
Partnership with Adobe Firefly, making image-to-text available directly in Bard [link]
Med-PaLM, A LLM from Google Research, designed for the medical domain [link]
MusicLM, describe a musical idea and hear it come to life [link]
StudioBot, an AI coding bot for developers [link]

Some interesting facts from the event: Google mentioned “AI“ 143 times in today’s presentation (check it out), and Google stock increased by $56 Billion.

Talk about putting on a show. Watch the recap videos here.

🤗 HuggingFace Releases Transformers Agent

HuggingFace just launched the Transformers Agent, a coding language model that can generate other HuggingFace models on-the-fly for multimodal tasks.

This is a game-changer. By using Hugging Face tools to develop new ones, you make the code accessible to others, essentially increasing its power with every use. This is a step towards enabling open-source to grow and get better indefinitely.

Not only does this remove the barrier of entry to machine learning, but it’s a true testament to the power of open-source right now.

🔮 Scale AI Releases Donovan and EGP

Scale AI recently unveiled two groundbreaking platforms tailored for governments and enterprises: Scale Donovan and Scale EGP.

Scale Donovan serves as an AI copilot for defense, streamlining decision-making processes for operators by condensing weeks of analysis into mere minutes.

Meanwhile, Scale EGP provides a full-stack solution for enterprises and government agencies to leverage LLMs without disclosing data to third-party AI companies.

Of note: Fox Corporation and Koch Industries already utilize Scale EGP in their operations.

🎥 Synthesia Research Releases HumanRF

Synthesia Research, the research team behind the powerful text-to-talking head/video generation tool, just released HumanRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields for Humans in Motion.

Essentially, this technology captures a human movement from multiple angles and allows playback from unseen perspectives while compressing data and preserving high-quality details.

The recent rapid improvements in NeRF technology will significantly improve applications like movies, video games, video calls, and even the so-called "metaverse" that everyone has been discussing these days.

🔥 Silic (Sponsor)

Prompt-To-Design is here.

Create a prompt of what you’re imagining, press generate, and your design will be ready in under 10 seconds.

Design real clothes, create collections using AutoGPT agents, and earn up to 50% profit share.

Use promo code RUNDOWN for half of your first order.

Get started here.

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

Raycast Pro- Access AI anywhere in your operating system with one key (link)
Shownotes- Summarize, and transcribe Youtube and Audio. (link)
PDF AI- Chat with any document (link)
Aizzy- Move faster with AI assistants (link)
Chatg- A tool that creates market maps for you (link)
Voice to Notion- Send tasks to Notion with your voice (link)
Octoicons- Create custom SVG icons with AI (link)
Jam- Chrome AI debugging assistant (link)
ChapterMe- AI-powered chapter creator for your videos (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter:

Have cool resources to share? Submit a tool or reach us by replying to this email.

🐦 Tweet of the day

The top 10 AI tools of the week:

Consider me your AI tool-testing guinea pig.
Every week, I test hundreds of AI tools and report the best ones- so you don't have to.
Here are the top 10 most useful AI tools of the week (all new):
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:35 PM • May 10, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

🤖 Wendy's and Google create a drive-thru chatbot

In today's rundown:

Ⓜ️ Meta’s open-sourced multisensory model
👩🏻‍🦰 Wendy’s AI drive-thru chatbot
🤖 IBM launches an AI platform for enterprises
🤯 Humane’s wearable AI device demo

Read time: 4 minutes

Ⓜ️ Meta’s Open-Sourced Multisensory Model

Meta is back (again!) with yet another exciting open-source project. Introducing ImageBind, a new AI research model that understands and combines text, audio, visual, movement, thermal, AND depth data.

This integration of multiple data types unlocks new possibilities, including:

Multimodal search capabilities
Embedding-space arithmetic
Converting audio to image generation

Currently, ImageBind is an open-source experiment. However, it holds enormous promise for multimedia search, virtual reality, and robotics in the future. Meta continues to impress the community by open-sourcing these incredible models.

👩🏻‍🦰 Wendy’s AI Drive-Thru Chatbot

Wendy's is teaming up with Google to develop an AI chatbot that takes your drive-thru orders, aiming to reduce wait times and enhance customer experience.

The "Wendy's FreshAI" will be first tested in a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant in June. Google is customizing its large language model to understand specific Wendy's terminology, such as "Frosty" and "JBC."

Wendy’s says AI will not replace human workers (yet). Instead, employees will monitor the AI-powered drive-thru and assist customers as needed.

We will see how this one pans out. There will be a big challenge here for the chatbot to ignore background noises and customers who change their minds mid-order.

🤖 IBM Launches an AI Platform for Enterprises

At IBM's Think conference, the company unveiled Watsonx, a new AI platform designed to assist businesses in creating and utilizing AI models.

Despite stiff competition from other tech giants and startups, IBM claims that Watsonx stands out by offering pre-trained enterprise models at cost-effective infrastructure.

Following IBM's recent announcement to replace 7,800 jobs with AI and now the introduction of Watsonx, it's clear that the company is heavily investing in AI. The question remains: Can IBM keep pace with tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft? Only time will tell.

🤯 Humane’s Wearable AI Device Demo

Humane, a secretive new tech startup, revealed a shocking wearable AI device designed to replace smartphones at a recent TED event in Vancouver.

Co-founder Imran Chaudhri demonstrated its features, including:

Projecting caller information onto his hand (yes, like a movie projector)
Suggesting nearby shopping options
Translating sentences Summing up emails and messages
Giving personalized dietary recommendations based on allergies

The device appears as a tiny black puck that slips into your breast pocket, takes over your phone's functions, and employs AI to update you on your day.

While undeniably cool, the demonstration sparks concerns about its practicality, privacy, and integration into everyday life. Chaudhri promises more information from Humane in the "next few months."

🎥 Screen Story (Sponsor)

Want more attention to your project and more paying clients? Check out ScreenStory.io !

The MacOS screen recording tool creates dynamic videos for Twitter that engage followers and attract new ones. Announce features, publish demos, and record tutorials with ease.

Get started here!

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

Scribe AI- The first GPT-4 powered AI tool for documenting processes so you never waste time writing instructions (link)
Formless by Typeform- Build a form in minutes and aggregate data based on a brief description (link)
Learnt- Build courses, lessons, write assessments, and more (link)
Plumy- AI for your Shopify store (link)
Text Layer- Discover the latest CS papers and research faster (link)
Guidde- AI platform for business that helps your team create video documentation (link)
Sharly AI- Chat with any doc and get 10X faster with AI (link)
Meiro- Tool for creating tests, quizzes, and text-based games (link)
Doogle- Create actionable Quests (forms, checklists, workflows, and recipes) to get anything done (link)
AI Scraper- Say goodbye to the tedious chore of scraping using AI (link)
OpenAI- Language models can explain neurons in language models (link)
Word Sneak- A brand new ChatGPT plugin game (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter:

Have cool resources to share? Submit a tool or reach us by replying to this email.

🐦 Tweet of the day

10 new YC-backed AI companies to watch out for:
(Click to view)

Y Combinator has been quietly building a portfolio of incredible AI startups.
The next wave of AI products are about to change the world.
Here are 10 new YC AI companies to pay attention to: (W23)
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:32 PM • May 9, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

🤖 Elon Musk teases free Tesla FSD

In today's rundown:

🤖 Google’s I/O event anticipation
🚀 Palantir stock goes to the moon
🚗 Elon Musk teases Tesla FSD trial

Read time: 3 minutes

🤖 Google’s I/O Event Anticipation

Google is attempting to make a comeback in the world of AI. This Wednesday, the company is set to reveal significant AI updates at its I/O event.

Here’s what’s being anticipated:

PaLM 2, a powerful LLM successor to PaLM 1, capable of handling over 100 languages
"Generative experiences for search and Bard," potentially infusing Google search with AI capabilities
AI-driven Workspace tools, including generative AI integration in Sheets, Slides, Meet, Gmail, and Docs

This is Google's moment in the spotlight, and millions will tune in to answer one burning question: Can Google make a comeback and reclaim its position as a leading contender in the AI race?

🚀 Palantir Stock Goes to The Moon

Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp announced that they anticipate turning a profit every quarter in 2023, fueled by the overwhelming interest in its new artificial intelligence platform. The result? Palantir stock (PLTR) soared over 20% in extended trading.

The Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) integrates AI into military decision-making, allowing military operators to utilize AI in their operations. The company is known for its contracts with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Karp commented, “The demand I've seen for our AIP platform is like NOTHING I've seen in the past 20 years." The rise of ChatGPT and LLMs has, without a doubt, been good for Palantir’s business.

🚗 Elon Musk Teases Tesla FSD Trial

Elon Musk recently hinted at offering a one-month free trial of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) for all cars in North America once the system is "super smooth (not just safe)."

Musk tweeted that Tesla plans to extend the trial globally after securing local regulatory approvals and ensuring seamless performance on all roads.

Despite the name, FSD does not actually provide full autonomy. The current software version manages some driving tasks on highways and city streets, but drivers must remain aware and ready to take control when needed.

By offering FSD to all North American Teslas for a month, Tesla can generate hype for the software, while simultaneously gathering driving data to improve itself. Love him or hate him, the man knows business.

🧠 Brilliant (Sponsor)

Sharpen your math, data, and CS skills.

Whether you’re a professional getting an edge in your career or a lifelong learner sharpening your skills, Brilliant is the best way to level up in minutes a day.

Brilliant has been shown to be 6x more effective than watching lecture videos. Join over 10 million people worldwide and start building skills in minutes a day.

You can try everything Brilliant has to offer with a 30-day free trial. Plus, right now you can get an exclusive 20% off an annual premium subscription.

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

Text Blaze- Use keyboard shortcuts to eliminate repetitive typing on any website or app. Plus, it’s free forever (link)
Nyric- Text-to-3D AI worlds generation (link)
Recap- Open-source browser extension to easily summarize any portion of any webpage with ChatGPT (link)
Mano- Use ChatGPT anywhere and everywhere (link)
Ghoul City- Demo of a game built using only GPT-4 and Midjourney (link)
Yoya- Build your own generative AI apps with no-code (link)
Lettria- The no-code AI platform for text (link)
ResearchAIde- Your personal AI research assistant (link)
LLM Report- OpenAI analytics dashboard (link)
Unicorn Platform- A drag & drop website and blog builder (link)
Docuask- Ask and chat with your documents in any language (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter:

Have cool resources to share? Submit a tool or reach us by replying to this email.

🐦 Tweet of the day

New advanced ChatGPT prompts:
(click to view)

Proper ChatGPT prompting can save you loads of time and money.
You can now hack ChatGPT as your job trainer, dating coach, tutor, lawyer, therapist, or writer.
Steal these 6 advanced techniques (all new):
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:34 PM • May 8, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

🤖 Text-to-3D printers are coming

Get researched long-form content at the click of a button.

In today's rundown:

🤖 Microsoft and AMD challenge Nvidia
🔥 OpenAI’s new text-to-3D model
🧠 Warren Buffet’s take on AI
💻 Craft Ventures hackathon

Read time: 4 minutes

🎁 Freebie: We just updated our ChatGPT guide with brand new prompts that will blow your mind. Check it out here.

🤖 Microsoft and AMD Challenge Nvidia

Microsoft is challenging Nvidia's dominant 80% market share in the AI processor market by teaming up with AMD on a project codenamed "Athena."

As reported by Bloomberg, Microsoft has dedicated several hundred employees and invested around $2 billion in Athena's development. The collaboration involves Microsoft providing engineering support to AMD while AMD assists Microsoft in developing its in-house AI chips.

Of note: Other tech giants like Google and Amazon have also developed in-house AI chips.

Microsoft's move sends a strong message, showing determination to not only be a major competitor in the AI frenzy but to dominate the entire market.

🔥 OpenAI’s New Text-to-3D Model

OpenAI is back with another massive project. They just released research and code for their new text-to-3D model, Shap-E.

Shap-E produces complex and diverse 3D assets quickly, converging faster and offering better sample quality than its predecessor, Point-E.

At the current state, it’s limited to single object prompts with simple attributes, resulting in pixelated and rougher outputs. However, with AI's sheer speed of development right now, text-to-3D printers might become a real thing very soon.

🧠 Warren Buffet’s Take on AI

At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, Warren Buffett compared artificial intelligence to the creation of the atom bomb, voicing both concern and amazement over AI’s rapid advancement.

The billionaire said that his friend (some guy named Bill Gates) showed him ChatGPT and admitted the technology “Can do amazing things.“

Specifically, Buffet was impressed by the chatbot’s ability to check legal opinions. However, he also expressed his worries, quoting, “I know we won’t be able to un-invent it and, you know, we did invent, for very, very good reason, the atom bomb in World War II.”

These statements put Buffet in the camp of pro-AI-regulation, joining advocates of Elon Musk, Geoffery Hinton, and the US government. It’s clear AI regulation is needed, and world leaders are finally taking notice.

💻 Craft Ventures Hackathon

On a lighter note, we’re excited to announce that we’re supporting Craft Venture’s upcoming HackAIthon.

This free, 3-day event takes place in downtown San Francisco from May 16-18 and offers $20k in prizes for both technical and non-technical builders creating AI-powered products!

Apply here!

📝 Content at Scale (Sponsor)

The Best AI Writer for SEO Blogs

You can generate high-quality, engaging, and fully original research-backed 2,500-word-plus blogs in just five minutes.

Built with a mix of three different AI engines, NLP, and semantic analysis algorithms, the AI parses all the top-ranking content to put entire long-form SEO blog posts together in a few minutes.

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

Recap- Open-source browser extension lets you easily summarize any portion of any webpage with ChatGPT. (link)
Shownotes- Summarize, and transcribe Youtube and Audio. (link)
PDF AI- Chat with any document (link)
Aizzy- Move faster with AI assistants (link)
Kadoa- Scrape websites easily with AI (link)
Sweephy- No-code data-driven decisions (link)
Flow- ChatGPT + no-code financial model for personal finance (link)
Dart- Project management tool crafted to save time using GPT-4 (link)
Avtrs- Talk and interact with your favorite celebrities (link)
HistorianGPT- Use GPT-4 to answer any historical question (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter:

Have cool resources to share? Submit a tool or reach us by replying to this email.

🐦 Tweet of the day

Testing the new GPT-4 with browsing ChatGPT model:
(Click to view more)

Google is in trouble.
I got early 'Alpha' access to GPT-4 with browsing and ran some tests.
Here are 8 crazy things I found:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:36 PM • May 7, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

🤖 New AI research turns thoughts into video

Invest in Monogram before their planned Nasdaq listing. Fund your investment before 5/10.

In today's rundown:

🤖 Microsoft Bing gets powerful upgrades
🧠 AI can now decode brain signals into video
🏫 US and UK focus on AI regulation
🚨 Leaked internal Google document

Read time: 4 minutes

🤖 Microsoft Bing Gets Powerful Upgrades

Microsoft just dropped massive updates to Bing Chat, including image and video answers, plugins (similar to ChatGPT), chat history, and a better Edge integration.

To top things off- they removed the entire waitlist, meaning anyone with a Microsoft account can access all these features for free. You can access Bing Chat using Edge or download the mobile app on iOS or Android.

Microsoft continues to push relentless updates to maintain the lead in the AI race. Did Microsoft Edge actually just kill Google Chrome?

We’d love to hear your thoughts. Join the discussion by clicking the link below! (Please be kind to each other 🥹)

📢 Join the discussion

🧠 AI Can Now Decode Brain Signals Into Video

AI can officially read minds. In a groundbreaking research paper by Nature, researchers developed a new AI method called CEBRA that translates brain signals into video.

The study involved inputting data from a mouse’s brain and a video to predict movement. The results:

Over 95% accuracy in frame prediction.
Highly similar latent (hidden) variables across different types of neural data (Neuropixels and 2-photon data).
Differences in performance across the visual system of the mouse.

The potential future applications of this research are literally mind-boggling and could open up new frontiers in our understanding of the brain using AI technology.

Read the paper | View code | Visit the site

🏫 US and UK Focus on AI Regulation

The UK and US governments are taking action toward regulation in response to growing concerns over AI's impact on society, such as misinformation and job displacement.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has just initiated a review of the AI sector. At the same time, the US government just had a meeting at The White House with the most important executives in AI, urging tech firms to ensure the safety of their products.

The rapid advancement of AI technology and its potential risks underscore world leaders' urgent need for timely and effective regulation.

🚨 Leaked Internal Google Document

An anonymously shared Google document has just been leaked on a public Discord server. The identity of the Google researcher who authored the document has been verified, but it’s worth noting that it represents their personal opinion rather than the entire company’s stance.

The document highlights the growing influence of open-source AI models, which the source believes are outpacing both Google and OpenAI in terms of innovation and capability. The document quotes: “Plainly put, they [open source] are lapping us.“

In essence, the document calls for a shift in strategy for Google to harness the potential of open-source AI innovations. Who would’ve thought that good-ol’ open source may be one of the biggest competitors to dethroning mega techs’ lead in the AI race.

🦿 Monogram (Sponsor)

Robotic surgery is headed for the Nasdaq.

Dr. Doug Unis founded Monogram believing manual surgery and eyeball measurements wouldn’t cut it forever – still, that’s the majority of the $19.4B joint replacement industry today.

With 100,000 failed joint surgeries every year, we think the market needs an answer.

That’s why Dr. Doug is working to pioneer the first active navigated sagittal-cutting robot and 3D-printed custom implants.

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

Stockimg- An AI image generation tool that lets you instantly create high-quality, custom assets for your brand. Generate logo, poster, illustration, wallpaper, and more (link)
Slack- SlackGPT, the future of AI in Slack (link)
Dream3D- YC-backed new AI-powered 3D design tool (link)
AudioPen- Easy way to convert messy thoughts into clear text(link)
Chatg- A tool that creates market maps for you (link)
Voice to Notion- Send tasks to Notion with your voice (link)
Octoicons- Create custom SVG icons with AI (link)
Alphawatch- AI chatbot used by Hedge Funds for financial research (link)
Evidence Hunt- Ask any medical question based on 35 million medical (Pubmed) articles (link)
Kadoa- Scape websites easily using AI (link)
Snoop Dogg- The famous artist’s take on the state of AI (link)
Charles Liu- The definition of “whatever it takes” to get a job (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter:

Have cool resources to share? Submit a tool or reach us by replying to this email.

🐦 Tweet of the day

🎉 Opportunity alert: The Rundown is expanding.
(click the tweet below to see if you’re a good fit)

Huge opportunity: I'm looking for a talented writer/researcher to join The Rundown team.
Come join the fastest-growing newsletter in the world and help write content to over 130,000 dedicated readers.
Ideal candidate:
- Avid reader of our NL (familiar with our unique style)
-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
7:18 PM • May 4, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

🤖 Deepmind CEO says AGI is possible in a few years

Try Plask now and unleash your full creative potential!

In today's rundown:

🏫 The White House calls for AI risks meeting
🧠 Deepmind CEO says AGI is possible in a few years
🤖 Crypto com launches AI chatbot ‘Amy’
💸 A new ChatGPT plugin for investing

Read time: 4 minutes

🏫 White House Calls for AI Risks Meeting

The White House is scheduled to meet with top executives from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to address the risks of AI.

The powerhouse gathering will include Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, aiming for discussions about potential risks and ways to mitigate them.

This comes after several tech leaders signed an Open Letter calling for a halt on AI development beyond GPT-4. Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI," also recently left Google to warn the world of the dangers ahead.

Developing a balanced regulatory approach that safeguards against potential harm while allowing society to benefit from AI's potential is crucial right now.

🧠 Deepmind CEO Says AGI is Possible in a Few Years

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google-owned AI lab DeepMind, predicted that AGI could be within our grasp in just a few years.

At a recent Wall Street Journal conference, Hassabis stated he didn't "see any reason" for AI's progress to slow down. However, he stressed the importance of pursuing AGI "in a cautious manner using the scientific method," involving rigorous experiments and testing.

This underscores the significance of the upcoming White House meeting, where experts will discuss AGI's potential societal impacts and address crucial ethical concerns of AI technology.

🤖 Crypto.com Launches AI Chatbot ‘Amy’

Crypto.com, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency platforms, just introduced its AI chatbot, "Amy."

Amy is an AI user assistant based on ChatGPT built to inform users about the crypto industry, including real-time token prices, projects, and historical events. This move follows Binance’s recent crypto chatbot ‘Sensei.‘

Blockchain companies are working hard to integrate AI tech into making crypto more accessible and engaging for users of all levels.

💸 A New ChatGPT Plugin for Investing

Portfolio Pilot, the first verified ChatGPT plugin for investing, just got released. Supported by hedge fund models, the plugin is already accessible to those with plugin access.

In this short demo, creator Alexander Harmsen goes through its features, including ETF searching, company comparison, portfolio importing, portfolio assessments, portfolio analytics, next investment suggestions, security details, and stock search.

All, of course, are made possible through our beloved ChatGPT. Keep in mind that depending solely on a chatbot plugin for financial advice is probably not advisable (and could earn you the label 'degen').

🅿️ Plask (Sponsor)

Plask is an AI-driven image-generation tool with a browser-based 3D pose editing feature.

It uses Stable Diffusion technology that gives users unparalleled control over AI-generated images. Plask provides customizable styles and cloud-based image generation to generate high-quality content and character designs with ease.

🛠️ Trending Tools & Resources

Memecam- Create custom memes with your photos using GPT. 100% Fun. (link)
Textlayer- Discover, understand and implement the newest CS papers (link)
MosiacML- A cheaper text/image generation API compared to OpenAI models (link)
Jam- Chrome AI debugging assistant (link)
ChapterMe- AI-powered chapter creator for your videos (link)
HeadoutAI- Creates itinerary for any destination and duration (link)
AI-RnD- A centralized hub for accessing and sharing AI research papers (link)
TalkPal- GPT-powered AI language tutor (link)
Kaya- Create and share a personal AI, trained on your knowledge (link)

View our database of all the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter: