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Hollywood's new AI narrators
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Hollywood’s golden age just got a digital resurrection with AI, and your favorite books are about to get a heavy dose of star power.
With late celebrities like James Dean and Judy Garland getting into the narration game — are human voice actors getting a final curtain call in the process? Let’s dive deeper…
In today’s AI rundown:
ElevenLabs launches ‘Iconic Voices’
Leaks reveal Google Pixel AI upgrades
Create talking photos with just a selfie
Meta’s new text-to-3D AI
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
ELEVENLABS
🗣️ ElevenLabs launches ‘Iconic Voices’
Image source: ElevenLabs
The Rundown: AI audio company ElevenLabs just announced a new ‘Iconic Voices’ feature for its recently released Reader App, allowing users to have text read by AI-generated voices of famous Hollywood stars.
The details:
The initial lineup includes AI-recreated voices of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier, with more being added in the coming months.
ElevenLabs reached licensing agreements for the voices with CMG Worldwide, which manages the estates of late-featured celebrities.
Users can have the AI voices read books, articles, PDFs, and other text content available within the Reader App.
The voices are only useable within the Reader App itself, and cannot be selected to create shareable content on the platform.
Why it matters: If you’re a voice actor, the competition just got a whole lot fiercer. ElevenLabs is not only showing off the powerful future of AI-generated voice clones, but also setting a strong licensing precedent for the industry by working directly with the estates of the late Hollywood stars.
TOGETHER WITH RETOOL
📊 AI insights from 700+ tech pros
The Rundown: Retool just launched its new State of AI report, packed with data from 700+ devs and tech leaders to help you cut through the hype and learn how to leverage AI for real impact.
The comprehensive report includes:
The good, the bad, and the ugly of the AI stack
How much ROI builders are actually seeing from their AI use
The real AI use cases builders and businesses love most
📱 Leaks reveal Google Pixel AI upgrades
Image source: Android Authority
The Rundown: Newly leaked details have emerged regarding a suite of new AI features for the upcoming Google Pixel 9 — including a privacy-focused take on Microsoft’s controversial Recall tool.
The details:
‘Pixel Screenshots’ will allow users to search and summarize manually captured screenshots, without being ‘always-on’ like the Copilot Plus’ Recall feature.
‘Add Me’ is a new AI feature designed for group photos, while ‘Studio’ will reportedly bring new creative capabilities to editing and sticker creation.
The AI features will all be grouped under the ‘Google AI’ branding, with the new Pixel line set to be unveiled at a launch event on Aug. 13.
The Pixel 8 line has already introduced several existing AI features, including Circle to Search, summarize and transcription tools, Audio Magic Eraser, and more.
Why it matters: Between Apple Intelligence, Google AI, and Microsoft’s Copilot line, the next device reveals feel like the first true step into the AI era. Billions of users are about to get very familiar with how to use basic AI tools as they get added to every device.
AI TRAINING
🗣️ Create talking photos with just a selfie
The Rundown: Hedra Labs now transforms static photos into dynamic talking images, bringing your selfies to life with synchronized speech and facial animations.
Step-by-step:
Visit Hedra Labs' website and create a free account.
Upload a high-quality, clear photo of yourself facing the camera directly.
Generate audio by typing text (up to 300 characters) or import your own audio file.
Click "Generate video" to create your talking photo.
Preview, download, or share your animated selfie!
Pro tip: For best results, use photos where you're not smiling, and there's high contrast between you and the background.
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AI RESEARCH
🧊 Meta’s new text-to-3D AI
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The Rundown: Meta just announced Meta 3D Gen, a new AI system that can generate detailed, high-quality 3D assets from text descriptions in less than a minute.
The details:
Meta 3D Gen combines two components — Meta 3D AssetGen for the initial object generation and Meta 3D TextureGen for texture refinement.
The system generates 3D assets with high-resolution textures and physically-based rendering (PBR) materials 3-10x faster than existing options.
3D Gen can also understand and apply complex ideas, like artistic styles or specific materials, to the objects it creates.
In tests, 3D Gen outperformed state-of-the-art rivals in both visual quality and prompt adherence.
Why it matters: 3D object creation had previously been a painstaking process — but AI is opening new possibilities for anyone to quickly and easily generate assets for sectors like video games, VR, product design, and more.
NEW TOOLS & JOBS
Trending AI Tools
📱 Motiff - AI-powered UI design for professionals
🔒 GPT4All 3.0 - Run powerful LLMs locally on your computer
📈 Quill - AI-powered SEC filing, access reliable information from public investment material
👩🎤 Rapport - Animate and deploy virtual avatars of ChatGPT and other AIs
🎨 RunDiffusion - A cloud platform for generative art that allows you to run open-source models
New AI Job Opportunities
QUICK HITS
Figma temporarily disabled its newly launched ‘Make Design’ AI feature following a viral post showing the tool directly reproducing Apple’s Weather app design.
Runway is reportedly in talks for a new $450M funding round, which would bring the company’s value to nearly $4B.
Google reported a 13% increase in emissions for 2023, falling short of its ‘net zero’ climate goal set for 2030 — citing growing AI power demands as a key factor for the setback.
Anthropic launched an initiative to fund third-party organizations in developing new advanced AI model evaluations, focused on AI safety assessments, capability metrics, and evaluation infrastructure.
Microsoft’s AI partnership with UAE firm G42 is facing scrutiny from U.S. officials over national security concerns, potentially jeopardizing plans for AI projects in emerging markets like Kenya.
A new Meta job listing hints at the company’s plan to infuse AI into its metaverse gaming efforts, detailing AI-powered consumer experiences like games that “change every time you play”.
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The best AI video since Sora
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
After weeks of viral AI-generated video demos, Runway’s stunning Gen-3 Alpha is now out and ready for the masses.
But is the hyped model the new leader in the AI video boom, or just another appetizer while the world anxiously waits for Sora? Let’s dive deeper…
In today’s AI rundown:
Runway opens Gen-3 Alpha access
Motorola hits the AI runway
Visualize projects with Claude Artifacts
New AI framework optimizes LLM usage
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
RUNWAY
🎥 Runway opens Gen-3 Alpha access
Image source: Runway
The Rundown: Runway just announced that its AI video generator, Gen-3 Alpha, is now available to all users following weeks of impressive, viral outputs after the model’s release in mid-June.
The details:
Runway unveiled Gen-3 Alpha last month, the first model in its next-gen series trained for learning ‘general world models’.
Gen-3 Alpha upgrades key features, including character and scene consistency, camera motion and techniques, and transitions between scenes.
Gen-3 Alpha is available behind Runway’s ‘Standard’ $12/mo access plan, which gives users 63 seconds of generations a month.
On Friday, we’re running a free, hands-on workshop in our AI University covering how to create an AI commercial using Gen-3, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney.
Why it matters: Despite impressive recent releases from KLING and Luma Labs, Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha model feels like the biggest leap AI video has taken since Sora. However, the tiny generation limits for non-unlimited plans might be a hurdle for power users.
TOGETHER WITH CODEIUM
🤝 Your AI coding partner is here
The Rundown: Codeium is a free AI-powered coding assistant that helps developers ship high-quality code faster than ever.
This powerful tool offers:
Intelligent autocomplete for faster coding
Prompt-based code generation for complex tasks
Full repo context awareness for more accurate suggestions
Chat support for instant coding insights and problem-solving
Ready to revolutionize your coding workflow? Try Codeium now — it's free and always will be.
MOTOROLA
📸 Motorola hits the AI runway
Image source: Motorola
The Rundown: Motorola just launched its ‘Styled By Moto’ ad campaign, an entirely AI-generated fashion spot promoting its new line of Razr folding smartphones — created using nine different AI tools, including Sora and Midjourney.
The details:
The 30-second video features AI-generated models wearing outfits inspired by Motorola's iconic ‘batwing’ logo in settings like runways and photo shoots.
Each look was created from thousands of AI-generated images, incorporating the brand's logo and colors of the new Razr phone line.
Tools used include OpenAI’s Sora, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Krea, Magnific, Luma, and more — reportedly taking over four months of research.
The 30-second spot is also set to an AI-generated soundtrack incorporating the ‘Hello Moto’ jingle, created using Udio.
Why it matters: This is a fascinating look at the AI-powered stack used by a major brand, and a glimpse at how tools can (and will) be combined to open new creative avenues. It’s also another example of the shift in discourse surrounding AI’s use in marketing — potentially paving the way for wider acceptance and integration.
AI TRAINING
💻 Visualize projects with Claude Artifacts
The Rundown: Anthropic Claude’s new ‘Artifacts‘ feature lets you run and visualize code directly in your chat window, revolutionizing how we interact with AI-generated code.
Step-by-step:
Access Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Claude AI and enable Artifacts in Future Preview settings.
Start a new chat. To see its potential, write: “Demonstrate some Artifacts you can make.”
Request code generation for your specific use case (e.g., React components, websites)
Interact with the generated Artifact - preview, modify, and expand on it!
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👩🏻💻 Build a data analytics platform for business users
The Rundown: Intent agent. Context agent. Tool agent. Numbers Station brings a multi-agent architecture to data analytics—using LLMs to disrupt traditional data workflows one hyper-specialized agent at a time.
Key features include:
A semantic layer so your business users can speak to it in high-level language
Seamless integration with your existing data warehouse
An agent for each node of the data stack
Skip the waitlist and request a demo.
AI RESEARCH
♻️ New AI framework optimizes LLM usage
Image source: Lmsys
The Rundown: Lmsys researchers just published new research detailing RouteLLM, an open-source framework for cost-effective routing between large language models.
The details:
RouteLLM learns to route queries between a stronger, more expensive LLM and a weaker, cheaper LLM to optimize cost and performance.
The system acts as a filter to determine which LLM a message is sent to, using human preference data to determine correct routing.
In tests routing between GPT-4 and Mixtral-8x7B, RouteLLM achieved significant cost savings while maintaining 95% of GPT-4's performance.
Why it matters: As LLMs grow more powerful, intelligent routing can help significantly reduce the often expensive costs while maintaining quality outputs. Routers may eventually also make sense for filtering user queries to the most capable or specialized LLMs — taking advantage of different models’ strengths and weaknesses.
NEW TOOLS & JOBS
Trending AI Tools
🎥 Runway Gen-3 - The most high-fidelity, fast, and controllable video generation
🎨 Plus AI Powerpoint Maker - Generate PowerPoint presentations in minutes
🎓 MagicSchool - Streamline teacher lesson planning, communication, feedback, and more
💡 Walling - Organize and present your idea with AI
🗣️ Fluently - Refine English speaking skills with an AI language coach
⚡Gumloop - Skip the learning curve, automate any workflow with AI
New AI Job Opportunities
👨💻 OpenAI - Engineering Manager, Supercomputing
💼 UiPath - Acquisition Account Executive
📊 Palantir - Deployment Strategist
🔧 Databricks - Sr. Solutions Engineer
QUICK HITS
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is facing backlash after claiming that all publicly available online content is ‘freeware’ for AI training during an interview with CNBC.
Robinhood acquired AI investment platform Pluto, with plans to integrate advanced data analytics and personalized strategies into its trading app.
Elon Musk revealed that Grok-2 will be released in August, and will improve on the problem of LLMs being trained on data from other models.
Meta updated its AI content labeling from ‘Made with AI’ to ‘AI info’ following complaints from photographers of incorrect flagging and a lack of context.
French antitrust regulators are reportedly set to charge Nvidia with anti-competitive practices, marking the first regulatory action against the AI chip giant.
K Health raised $50M for its AI-powered primary care platform, bringing the company’s valuation to $900M as it aims to expand its U.S. market presence and AI capabilities.
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The best AI video since Sora
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
After weeks of viral AI-generated video demos, Runway’s stunning Gen-3 Alpha is now out and ready for the masses.
But is the hyped model the new leader in the AI video boom, or just another appetizer while the world anxiously waits for Sora? Let’s dive deeper…
In today’s AI rundown:
Runway opens Gen-3 Alpha access
Motorola hits the AI runway
Visualize projects with Claude Artifacts
New AI framework optimizes LLM usage
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
RUNWAY
🎥 Runway opens Gen-3 Alpha access
Image source: Runway
The Rundown: Runway just announced that its AI video generator, Gen-3 Alpha, is now available to all users following weeks of impressive, viral outputs after the model’s release in mid-June.
The details:
Runway unveiled Gen-3 Alpha last month, the first model in its next-gen series trained for learning ‘general world models’.
Gen-3 Alpha upgrades key features, including character and scene consistency, camera motion and techniques, and transitions between scenes.
Gen-3 Alpha is available behind Runway’s ‘Standard’ $12/mo access plan, which gives users 63 seconds of generations a month.
On Friday, we’re running a free, hands-on workshop in our AI University covering how to create an AI commercial using Gen-3, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney.
Why it matters: Despite impressive recent releases from KLING and Luma Labs, Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha model feels like the biggest leap AI video has taken since Sora. However, the tiny generation limits for non-unlimited plans might be a hurdle for power users.
TOGETHER WITH CODEIUM
🤝 Your AI coding partner is here
The Rundown: Codeium is a free AI-powered coding assistant that helps developers ship high-quality code faster than ever.
This powerful tool offers:
Intelligent autocomplete for faster coding
Prompt-based code generation for complex tasks
Full repo context awareness for more accurate suggestions
Chat support for instant coding insights and problem-solving
Ready to revolutionize your coding workflow? Try Codeium now — it's free and always will be.
MOTOROLA
📸 Motorola hits the AI runway
Image source: Motorola
The Rundown: Motorola just launched its ‘Styled By Moto’ ad campaign, an entirely AI-generated fashion spot promoting its new line of Razr folding smartphones — created using nine different AI tools, including Sora and Midjourney.
The details:
The 30-second video features AI-generated models wearing outfits inspired by Motorola's iconic ‘batwing’ logo in settings like runways and photo shoots.
Each look was created from thousands of AI-generated images, incorporating the brand's logo and colors of the new Razr phone line.
Tools used include OpenAI’s Sora, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Krea, Magnific, Luma, and more — reportedly taking over four months of research.
The 30-second spot is also set to an AI-generated soundtrack incorporating the ‘Hello Moto’ jingle, created using Udio.
Why it matters: This is a fascinating look at the AI-powered stack used by a major brand, and a glimpse at how tools can (and will) be combined to open new creative avenues. It’s also another example of the shift in discourse surrounding AI’s use in marketing — potentially paving the way for wider acceptance and integration.
AI TRAINING
💻 Visualize projects with Claude Artifacts
The Rundown: Anthropic Claude’s new ‘Artifacts‘ feature lets you run and visualize code directly in your chat window, revolutionizing how we interact with AI-generated code.
Step-by-step:
Access Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Claude AI and enable Artifacts in Future Preview settings.
Start a new chat. To see its potential, write: “Demonstrate some Artifacts you can make.”
Request code generation for your specific use case (e.g., React components, websites)
Interact with the generated Artifact - preview, modify, and expand on it!
PRESENTED BY NUMBERS STATION
👩🏻💻 Build a data analytics platform for business users
The Rundown: Intent agent. Context agent. Tool agent. Numbers Station brings a multi-agent architecture to data analytics—using LLMs to disrupt traditional data workflows one hyper-specialized agent at a time.
Key features include:
A semantic layer so your business users can speak to it in high-level language
Seamless integration with your existing data warehouse
An agent for each node of the data stack
Skip the waitlist and request a demo.
AI RESEARCH
♻️ New AI framework optimizes LLM usage
Image source: Lmsys
The Rundown: Lmsys researchers just published new research detailing RouteLLM, an open-source framework for cost-effective routing between large language models.
The details:
RouteLLM learns to route queries between a stronger, more expensive LLM and a weaker, cheaper LLM to optimize cost and performance.
The system acts as a filter to determine which LLM a message is sent to, using human preference data to determine correct routing.
In tests routing between GPT-4 and Mixtral-8x7B, RouteLLM achieved significant cost savings while maintaining 95% of GPT-4's performance.
Why it matters: As LLMs grow more powerful, intelligent routing can help significantly reduce the often expensive costs while maintaining quality outputs. Routers may eventually also make sense for filtering user queries to the most capable or specialized LLMs — taking advantage of different models’ strengths and weaknesses.
NEW TOOLS & JOBS
Trending AI Tools
🎥 Runway Gen-3 - The most high-fidelity, fast, and controllable video generation
🎨 Plus AI Powerpoint Maker - Generate PowerPoint presentations in minutes
🎓 MagicSchool - Streamline teacher lesson planning, communication, feedback, and more
💡 Walling - Organize and present your idea with AI
🗣️ Fluently - Refine English speaking skills with an AI language coach
⚡Gumloop - Skip the learning curve, automate any workflow with AI
New AI Job Opportunities
👨💻 OpenAI - Engineering Manager, Supercomputing
💼 UiPath - Acquisition Account Executive
📊 Palantir - Deployment Strategist
🔧 Databricks - Sr. Solutions Engineer
QUICK HITS
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is facing backlash after claiming that all publicly available online content is ‘freeware’ for AI training during an interview with CNBC.
Robinhood acquired AI investment platform Pluto, with plans to integrate advanced data analytics and personalized strategies into its trading app.
Elon Musk revealed that Grok-2 will be released in August, and will improve on the problem of LLMs being trained on data from other models.
Meta updated its AI content labeling from ‘Made with AI’ to ‘AI info’ following complaints from photographers of incorrect flagging and a lack of context.
French antitrust regulators are reportedly set to charge Nvidia with anti-competitive practices, marking the first regulatory action against the AI chip giant.
K Health raised $50M for its AI-powered primary care platform, bringing the company’s valuation to $900M as it aims to expand its U.S. market presence and AI capabilities.
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Apple Intelligence + Vision Pro
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Apple Intelligence is supposed to be the magic cure-all for the tech giant’s slumping iPhone sales — but can it infuse life into the Vision Pro as well?
The new suite of AI features is now reportedly coming to the company’s emerging headset line, but will it be enough to push users to take the pricey leap? Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
Apple’s AI ambitions spread to Vision Pro
Humanoid robots head to the warehouse
How to try Stable Diffusion 3 Medium
Google Translate adds 110 languages
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
APPLE
🥽 Apple’s AI ambitions spread to Vision Pro
Image source: Apple
The Rundown: Apple is reportedly working on bringing its new AI features from its Apple Intelligence push to the Vision Pro headsets, according to a new report from Bloomberg.
The details:
Apple Intelligence was announced for Mac, iPhone, and iPad during WWDC, but is now being adapted for the Vision Pro headset as well.
Bloomberg said the capabilities are not expected on the device this year, despite the company looking for ways to boost sales for the product line.
The Apple Intelligence suite will include an improved Siri, writing tools, and an OpenAI-powered chatbot, among other AI-infused features.
The report also expanded on the WSJ’s rumored Apple-Meta partnership, saying Apple has ‘zero interest’ in the deal.
Why it matters: The futuristic capabilities of the Apple Vision Pro and the advanced workflows unlocked with AI are a match made in heaven — assuming anyone is willing to pay the high price tag. Users might need to see a significant price cut to come around to the new tech, regardless of what AI is infused into it.
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🧠 Learn AI theory & coding skills
The Rundown: CodeSignal’s ‘AI Theory and Coding’ learning path is designed to help master the underlying algorithms of Machine Learning.
Gain in-depth knowledge of AI theory
Build ML algorithms from scratch (e.g. implement your own gradient descent)
Learn ensemble methods, unsupervised learning, and more
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DIGIT
🤖 Humanoid robots head to the warehouse
Image source: Agility Robotics
The Rundown: Agility Robotics just signed a multi-year deal with GXO Logistics to bring the company’s Digit humanoid robots to warehouses, following a successful pilot in Spanx facilities in 2023.
The details:
The agreement is being hailed as the first Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) deal and ‘formal commercial deployment’ of the humanoid robots.
Agility's Digit robots will be integrated into GXO's logistics operations at a Spanx facility in Connecticut, handling repetitive tasks and logistics work.
The 5'9" tall Digit can lift up to 35 pounds, and integrates with a cloud-based Agility Arc platform to control full fleets and optimize facility workflows.
Digit tested a proof-of-concept trial with Spanx in 2023, with Amazon also testing the robots at its own warehouses.
Why it matters: Is RaaS the new SaaS? Soon, every company will be looking to adopt advanced robotics into their workforce — and subscription services could help lower the financial and technical barriers needed to scale without the massive upfront costs.
AI TRAINING
🎨 How to try Stable Diffusion 3 Medium
Image source: Stability AI
The Rundown: Stability AI recently released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a new text-to-image model with exceptional quality, photorealism, and typography — now available for free on Hugging Face.
Step-by-step:
Visit the Stable Diffusion 3 Medium page on Hugging Face.
In the "Enter your prompt" text box, write a detailed prompt describing your desired image.
Refine your output using advanced settings like negative prompt, seed, guidance scale, width, and height.
Click "Run" to generate your image and view the results in the image display area.
🌎 Google Translate adds 110 languages
Image source: Google
The Rundown: Google just announced its largest-ever expansion of Google Translate, adding support for 110 new languages enabled by the company’s PaLM 2 LLM model.
The details:
The new languages represent over 614M speakers, covering about 8% of the global population.
Google's PaLM 2 model was the driving force behind the expansion, helping unlock translations for closely related languages.
The expansion also includes some languages with no current native speakers, displaying how AI models can help preserve ‘lost’ dialects.
The additions are part of Google’s ‘1,000 Languages Initiative,' which aims to build AI that supports all of the world's spoken languages.
Why it matters: We’ve talked frequently about AI’s coming power to break down language barriers with its translation capabilities — but the technology is also playing a very active role in both uncovering and preserving languages from lost and endangered cultures.
NEW TOOLS & JOBS
Trending AI Tools
🧠 Briefy - Turns lengthy content into concise, structured summaries
💻 ApyHub Fusion - A Notion-like API client powered by AI
🎥 DeepMake - AI Image generation in Adobe After Effects
🎵 Jamahook - Sound assistant that finds royalty-free musical elements
⚖️ Legaliser - Simplifies legal contract analysis and drafting with AI
New AI Job Opportunities
💻 Databricks - Consumption Program Manager
🤝 Glean - Enterprise Customer Success Manager
🛡️ Shield AI - Principle Product Manager
🧠 Meta - Data Scientist, GenAI
QUICK HITS
Amazon is hiring executives from enterprise AI startup Adept onto the company’s AGI Autonomy team, also licensing its automation tools to build agents for software workflows.
Andrew Ng’s AI Fund is aiming to raise $120M for its second venture fund, focused on early-stage AI startups, coming in significantly lower than the initial $175M fund.
The Center for Investigative Reporting filed a new copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging use of its journalism in AI training.
Meta’s anticipated Llama-3-405B model is reportedly displayed in a recent WhatsApp update, indicating the new version may be close to launching.
Amazon is planning to spend over $100B on data centers over the next decade, shifting its investment focus towards AI infrastructure.
Actor Morgan Freeman posted a thank you to fans for calling out the use of AI to replicate his voice in an apparent scam.
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Google's major AI upgrades
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
It's been a quiet Summer for Google since May's I/O event — but the tech giant just released an impressive double-feature blockbuster.
With the launch of Gemma 2 and several new Gemini upgrades, is Google about to steal the AI spotlight once again? Let's investigate...
In today’s AI rundown:
Google launches Gemma 2, Gemini upgrades
TIME strikes major deal with OpenAI
Use ChatGPT to turn docs into spreadsheets
OpenAI’s critics train smarter AI systems
6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
🚀 Google launches Gemma 2, Gemini upgrades
Image source: Google
The Rundown: Google just launched Gemma 2, the next generation of its open lightweight AI model series — alongside new upgrades to its Gemini 1.5 Pro model including a 2M token context window and enhanced coding capabilities.
The details:
Gemma 2 comes in two sizes, a 9B parameter model and a larger 27B parameter model — with a 2.6B parameter lightweight version teased for the future.
The 27B model offers competitive performance to models more than twice its size, while the 9B significantly outperforms similar-class models like Llama 3 8B.
Alongside Gemma 2, Google also opened access to Gemini 1.5 Pro's 2M token context window, allowing for processing of much longer inputs.
New code capabilities for Gemini Pro and Flash enable the models to generate and run Python code to improve accuracy on math and data reasoning tasks.
Why it matters: Google’s Gemma upgrades send a new open-source powerhouse to the top of the rankings while running efficiently (and affordably) on a single GPU. Not to be overshadowed is Gemini’s 2M context window release, which opens up a mind-blowing number of new capabilities to users.
TOGETHER WITH GUIDDE
💡AI-powered video workflows in a single click
The Rundown: Transform the way you create and share complex workflows with Guidde, an AI-powered platform that helps users produce engaging video documentation instantly.
With Guidde’s GPT-powered extension, you can:
Design stunning visuals like a pro with no prior experience
Take advantage of AI-generated step-by-step descriptions and voiceovers
Capture workflows effortlessly with Guidde's efficient browser extension
Experience the magic of AI-powered documentation and try Guidde’s free extension today.
OPENAI & TIME
🤝 TIME strikes major deal with OpenAI
Image source: OpenAI
The Rundown: TIME just announced a new multi-year licensing agreement and partnership with OpenAI, infusing the media giant’s library of content into ChatGPT, AI model training, and other products.
The details:
TIME’s 101-year archive will be used to train OpenAI’s models, with both past and current content also available for more accurate responses to news queries.
ChatGPT and other OpenAI products will surface TIME content in responses, including citations and links back to the articles.
TIME gains access to OpenAI tech to develop new features for readers — with the company already integrating several AI-powered tools on their website.
TIME joins media giants like AP, NewsCorp, and Vox in striking a deal with OpenAI, which comes despite ongoing lawsuits from NYT and others.
Why it matters: ‘If you can’t beat em, join em’ seems to be the theme of the current state of AI and journalism — and it’s getting lonelier on the side of publishers still trying to fight against the current. With the recent news of MTV’s archives being deleted, maybe AI models can not only inform but also act as a preservation tool for years of content currently fading from the Internet.
AI TRAINING
📊 Use ChatGPT to turn docs into spreadsheets
The Rundown: With a simple prompt, ChatGPT can analyze documents, answer questions, perform calculations, and create a downloadable spreadsheet — all in one conversation!
Step-by-step:
Log in to ChatGPT and upload your document to the chat (remember to remove any sensitive data before submitting).
Ask questions about it, e.g., "How much is the security deposit?"
Request calculations, like the total first month's costs, including deposits and fees.
Simple prompt ChatGPT to “create a downloadable budget spreadsheet”, specifying the time frame and desired columns.
Note: Only share documents you're comfortable with. Be cautious with sensitive information and consider redacting critical details before uploading.
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AI RESEARCH
🔎 OpenAI’s critics train smarter AI systems
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The Rundown: OpenAI just published new research exploring how to improve model training using AI ‘critics’ that help human trainers spot errors in AI outputs more effectively.
The details:
OpenAI developed a model called CriticGPT to assist human trainers in evaluating and catching errors in code written by AI systems like ChatGPT.
In tests, CriticGPT caught 85% of inserted bugs in AI-generated code, compared to just 50% for human reviewers alone.
Human trainers also preferred CriticGPT’s code critics over their own 63% of the time on naturally occurring bugs.
OpenAI said that CriticGPT-type models are already being integrated into the company’s training workflow, helping prepare for advancing AI systems.
Why it matters: As OpenAI states in the research paper, both LLMs and AI critics will continue to scale — human intelligence will not. The limitations of our own puny mortal brains look to be no match for evaluating systems that are continuing to soar, meaning AI is quickly becoming its own trainer.
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A Reddit user shared a clip that reportedly demos early access to OpenAI’s upcoming Voice Mode upgrades, showcasing the ability to weave in background sound effects during responses.
Character AI launched Character Calls, a free feature enabling users to have two-way voice conversations with AI characters across multiple languages on the platform’s mobile app.
University of Tokyo researchers developed a new technique to bind living human skin to robotic faces, potentially enabling more lifelike androids in addition to other medical applications.
Meta is set to begin testing its creator-made AI chatbots on Instagram in the U.S., with a broader rollout expected by August.
Eureka Health introduced Eureka, an ‘AI doctor’ offering personalized care plans, lab orders, and medication adjustments under physician supervision with a specialty in thyroid and diabetes treatments.
New York University researchers published a new paper on MLLMs and vision-centric approaches, also introducing a new Cambrian-1 model family and a new benchmark to measure vision-related tasks.
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The AI model leaderboard
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The AI world’s favorite open LLM scoreboard just got a major upgrade, and Alibaba’s Qwen 2 is on top of the podium (for now).
Hugging Face’s new benchmarks are set to change how we evaluate top models — a task becoming more difficult every day as AI continues to accelerate. Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
Hugging Face updates Open LLM Leaderboard
NBC rolls out AI vocals for Olympic recaps
Enhance videos with Krea AI upscaling
Rabbit R1 hit with major security flaw
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🏆 Hugging Face updates Open LLM Leaderboard
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The Rundown: Hugging Face just introduced a new upgrade to its Open LLM Leaderboard, adding new benchmarks and evaluation methods to help address the recent plateau in LLM performance gains.
The details:
The leaderboard now features six new benchmarks designed to be more challenging and less prone to contamination.
Initial rankings show Qwen2-72B-Instruct leading the pack, followed by Meta's Llama-3-70B-Instruct and Mixtral 8×22b.
A new normalized scoring system adjusts for baseline performance, providing a more fair comparison across different evaluation types.
The upgrade also introduces a ‘maintainer's highlight’ category and community voting system to prioritize the most relevant models.
Why it matters: As LLMs approach human-level performance on most tasks, finding new ways to evaluate them is becoming more difficult — and more crucial. This revamp helps guide researchers and developers towards more targeted improvements, providing a more nuanced assessment of model capabilities.
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THE OLYMPICS & AI
🎙️ NBC rolls out AI vocals for Olympic recaps
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The Rundown: NBC is launching an AI-generated version of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels to narrate personalized Olympic highlight reels on its Peacock streaming service for the 2024 Paris Games.
The details:
Subscribers can customize the 10-minute recap packages based on preferred sports, athletes, and content types, narrated by an AI clone of Michael’s voice.
The AI system was trained on Michaels' past NBC broadcasts to recreate his signature style, with the broadcaster giving his approval for the process.
NBC said they estimate nearly 7M unique variations of recaps generated throughout the Olympics.
Human editors will reportedly review all AI-generated content for accuracy before being released to viewers.
Why it matters: The launch of A.I. Michaels marks a major leap into the tech for a media giant, something we’ve seen reluctance or even outright dismissal of in the past for fear of backlash. The tide is changing — and things like AI-recreated voices are gradually moving from controversial to the norm.
AI TRAINING
🎥 Enhance videos with Krea AI upscaling
The Rundown: Krea AI recently released a new video upscaling feature that allows users to improve the quality of their blurry videos for free.
Step-by-step:
Sign up for free or login to Krea AI.
Click on the "Upscale & Enhance" button in the main dashboard
Upload your video and customize the enhancement settings: Upscaling factor, framerate prompt, mode, AI strength, and resemblance
Click "Enhance", wait a few minutes, and check your new enhanced video 🎉
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RABBIT
🚨 Rabbit R1 hit with major security flaw
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The Rundown: A group of developers just discovered a major vulnerability in Rabbit’s R1 AI assistant device, potentially exposing user’s private data and chat responses.
The details:
A community-led group called Rabbitude uncovered hardcoded API keys in Rabbit’s codebase, which allowed access to all R1 responses.
The group gained access to the codebase in mid-May, saying the Rabbit team was aware of the issue but failed to take action.
Rabbitude said the vulnerability could allow bad actors to disable all r1 devices, alter voices and responses, and access private messages.
Rabbit acknowledged an ‘alleged data breach’ via a Discord post, but claims no customer data was leaked.
Why it matters: Despite massive hype in the first wave of consumer AI standalone devices, the Rabbit r1 has been nothing short of a disaster so far. Already facing major criticism over the companion’s limited capabilities, this security breach only furthers the skepticism surrounding the early AI hardware market entrants.
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Free workshop: AI for Strategic Decision-Making (July 9). If you're still mostly using AI for copy generation, join Section's free workshop on putting it to work as a thought partner. Enroll here.*
Figma unveiled Figma AI, a series of new AI-powered features to its design platform, including Visual and Asset Search, AI text tools, image generation, and quick prototyping.
YouTube is reportedly in negotiations with record labels to license songs for the company’s AI-powered music generation tools, with plans to launch new features later this year.
Israel announced plans to build its first supercomputer, investing $250M in a national AI program to maintain its global leadership in the tech space.
Formation Bio secured $372M in funding to advance AI-driven drug development, with the Sam Altman-backed startup boosting its valuation above $1B.
Opera launched a new R2 update to its Opera One browser, featuring new AI-powered image generation and recognition, an AI Voice Output, and Page Context Mode for summaries and translations during web browsing.
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The AI model leaderboard
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The AI world’s favorite open LLM scoreboard just got a major upgrade, and Alibaba’s Qwen 2 is on top of the podium (for now).
Hugging Face’s new benchmarks are set to change how we evaluate top models — a task becoming more difficult every day as AI continues to accelerate. Let’s explore…
In today’s AI rundown:
Hugging Face updates Open LLM Leaderboard
NBC rolls out AI vocals for Olympic recaps
Enhance videos with Krea AI upscaling
Rabbit R1 hit with major security flaw
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
🏆 Hugging Face updates Open LLM Leaderboard
Image source: Hugging Face
The Rundown: Hugging Face just introduced a new upgrade to its Open LLM Leaderboard, adding new benchmarks and evaluation methods to help address the recent plateau in LLM performance gains.
The details:
The leaderboard now features six new benchmarks designed to be more challenging and less prone to contamination.
Initial rankings show Qwen2-72B-Instruct leading the pack, followed by Meta's Llama-3-70B-Instruct and Mixtral 8×22b.
A new normalized scoring system adjusts for baseline performance, providing a more fair comparison across different evaluation types.
The upgrade also introduces a ‘maintainer's highlight’ category and community voting system to prioritize the most relevant models.
Why it matters: As LLMs approach human-level performance on most tasks, finding new ways to evaluate them is becoming more difficult — and more crucial. This revamp helps guide researchers and developers towards more targeted improvements, providing a more nuanced assessment of model capabilities.
TOGETHER WITH HEDONOVA
🤑 Simplify alternative investing with Hedonova
The Rundown: Hedonova is simplifying the complex process of investing in alternative assets — enabling investors to access a diverse portfolio media royalties, pre-IPO startups, wine, fine art, and more.
Hedonova’s benefits include:
A simple, single access point to a wide range of alternative assets
SEC regulation and award-winning returns, outperforming the S&P 500 by 200% since 2019
A low minimum investment of just $10k
Get started today and start discovering the power of alternative investments.
THE OLYMPICS & AI
🎙️ NBC rolls out AI vocals for Olympic recaps
Image source: NBC
The Rundown: NBC is launching an AI-generated version of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels to narrate personalized Olympic highlight reels on its Peacock streaming service for the 2024 Paris Games.
The details:
Subscribers can customize the 10-minute recap packages based on preferred sports, athletes, and content types, narrated by an AI clone of Michael’s voice.
The AI system was trained on Michaels' past NBC broadcasts to recreate his signature style, with the broadcaster giving his approval for the process.
NBC said they estimate nearly 7M unique variations of recaps generated throughout the Olympics.
Human editors will reportedly review all AI-generated content for accuracy before being released to viewers.
Why it matters: The launch of A.I. Michaels marks a major leap into the tech for a media giant, something we’ve seen reluctance or even outright dismissal of in the past for fear of backlash. The tide is changing — and things like AI-recreated voices are gradually moving from controversial to the norm.
AI TRAINING
🎥 Enhance videos with Krea AI upscaling
The Rundown: Krea AI recently released a new video upscaling feature that allows users to improve the quality of their blurry videos for free.
Step-by-step:
Sign up for free or login to Krea AI.
Click on the "Upscale & Enhance" button in the main dashboard
Upload your video and customize the enhancement settings: Upscaling factor, framerate prompt, mode, AI strength, and resemblance
Click "Enhance", wait a few minutes, and check your new enhanced video 🎉
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The Rundown: Brilliant's interactive courses demystify AI — helping you stay competitive in today's tech-driven world with just minutes of daily learning.
Brilliant’s platform allows you to:
Unravel the mysteries of AI through expert-designed, interactive lessons
Apply your knowledge to solve real-world tech challenges
Transform learning into a daily habit with bite-sized, gamified content
Join 10 million learners worldwide and start your 30-day free trial today. P.S. — enjoy 20% off a premium annual subscription, exclusive to The Rundown readers.
RABBIT
🚨 Rabbit R1 hit with major security flaw
Image source: Rabbit Inc.
The Rundown: A group of developers just discovered a major vulnerability in Rabbit’s R1 AI assistant device, potentially exposing user’s private data and chat responses.
The details:
A community-led group called Rabbitude uncovered hardcoded API keys in Rabbit’s codebase, which allowed access to all R1 responses.
The group gained access to the codebase in mid-May, saying the Rabbit team was aware of the issue but failed to take action.
Rabbitude said the vulnerability could allow bad actors to disable all r1 devices, alter voices and responses, and access private messages.
Rabbit acknowledged an ‘alleged data breach’ via a Discord post, but claims no customer data was leaked.
Why it matters: Despite massive hype in the first wave of consumer AI standalone devices, the Rabbit r1 has been nothing short of a disaster so far. Already facing major criticism over the companion’s limited capabilities, this security breach only furthers the skepticism surrounding the early AI hardware market entrants.
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⚖️ Created by Human - AI rights licensing platform for creators
New AI Job Opportunities
QUICK HITS
Free workshop: AI for Strategic Decision-Making (July 9). If you're still mostly using AI for copy generation, join Section's free workshop on putting it to work as a thought partner. Enroll here.*
Figma unveiled Figma AI, a series of new AI-powered features to its design platform, including Visual and Asset Search, AI text tools, image generation, and quick prototyping.
YouTube is reportedly in negotiations with record labels to license songs for the company’s AI-powered music generation tools, with plans to launch new features later this year.
Israel announced plans to build its first supercomputer, investing $250M in a national AI program to maintain its global leadership in the tech space.
Formation Bio secured $372M in funding to advance AI-driven drug development, with the Sam Altman-backed startup boosting its valuation above $1B.
Opera launched a new R2 update to its Opera One browser, featuring new AI-powered image generation and recognition, an AI Voice Output, and Page Context Mode for summaries and translations during web browsing.
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OpenAI hits pause on Voice Mode
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
After a buzzy May demo, it looked like ChatGPT was about to give the AI world a new voice — but a new delay is hitting the mute button on the hotly anticipated feature.
Is this a broader sign of a safety-first approach, or is something else giving the AI giant cold feet? Let’s dive deeper…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI delays ChatGPT voice upgrade
New AI simulates 500M years of evolution
Create your own AI chatbot
Claude gets new ‘Projects’ upgrade
5 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
⏰ OpenAI delays ChatGPT voice upgrade
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The Rundown: OpenAI just announced that the company is postponing the launch of ChatGPT’s hotly-anticipated Voice Mode feature demoed in May, citing the need for further safety tests and refinements.
The details:
OpenAI previously stated the Voice Mode would roll out within ‘a few weeks’ of May’s Spring Update, with access now expected for paid users by the Fall.
An Alpha test group was initially planned for late June, but is now being pushed back a month to allow for more safety checks.
The initial demo stirred drama following its ‘Sky’ model’s similarity to actress Scarlett Johansson, though OpenAI denied any wrongdoing.
On a lighter note, the company also separately released its ChatGPT desktop app for Mac users, allowing for broader integration across files, screen-sharing, and conversations.
Why it matters: While it’s disappointing after already missing the previous launch timeline, a delay is better than putting out an under-delivered product — particularly given the hype. But overpromising and underdelivering is a risky business, especially given OpenAI’s ever-increasing competition (see Anthropic’s latest developments below).
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🦸♂️ Harness LLM superpowers with JSON mode
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn:
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EVOLUTIONARYSCALE
🧬 New AI simulates 500M years of evolution
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The Rundown: Biotech startup EvolutionaryScale just introduced ESM3, a new AI model capable of designing and simulating new proteins in ways that mimic millions of years of natural evolution.
The details:
ESM3 is a frontier language model that can reason over protein sequences, structures, and functions simultaneously.
In tests, ESM3 generated a new fluorescent protein 58% different from other known structures — a leap that typically takes nature 500M years of evolution.
The largest version of ESM3 has 98B parameters, and was trained on approximately 1.8T tokens of biological data.
EvolutionaryScale was created by former META researchers, and has already secured $142M in seed funding from tech giants like Amazon and Nvidia.
Why it matters: ESM3 is bringing us closer to a future where we can ‘program’ biology as easily as we write computer code — potentially revolutionizing fields from healthcare to environmental science and unlocking completely new areas of knowledge across fields.
AI TRAINING
🤖 Create your own AI chatbot
The Rundown: D-ID is an AI tool that allows you to create a fully customizable conversational AI avatar in just a few simple steps, no coding required.
Step-by-step:
Head over to the D-ID website and log in/sign up to get free credits.
Click "Create" and select "AI agent" to access the creation tool.
Choose your AI agent's appearance from pre-generated avatars or upload your own and configure its name, language, voice, and knowledge sources.
Select “Create Agent” once it’s ready, and start a conversation!
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ANTHROPIC
⚙️ Claude gets new ‘Projects’ upgrade
Image source: Anthropic
The Rundown: Anthropic just launched a new feature for its Claude AI assistant called ‘Projects’, allowing users to better organize files, chats, and info within a single location for more personalized conversations.
The details:
Projects allows users to curate documents, code, and more in a shared 200K context window, giving Claude quick access to organizational needs and context.
Users can share individual Projects, with a new activity feed available to collaborate with teammates across conversation snapshots.
Custom instructions (similar to ChatGPT) are also now available for each Project, allowing for quickly tailoring the AI’s responses.
Why it matters: While Anthropic’s models have consistently been at the top of the industry, the platform has lacked the additional customization features of ChatGPT (to varying degrees of success). With updates like Projects and Artifacts, Claude is gaining all the tools needed to be an enterprise AI powerhouse.
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Toys R Us debuted a short promotional film at the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival, which was created by the retailer’s creative agency using early access to Sora.
ElevenLabs launched its Reader iOS app, enabling users to listen to podcasts, news, and more using the company’s AI-generated voices.
Etched secured $120M in funding for the development of its transformer-specific ‘Sohu’ chip, claiming an ‘order of magnitude’ of improvement in speed and affordability compared to Nvidia’s Blackwell chips.
Beehiiv announced the acquisition of AI website builder Typedream, with plans to upgrade the platform’s web builder, templates, analytics, and more.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet moved into the second overall spot in the Lmsys Chatbot Arena behind GPT-4o while taking the top ranking in specific categories like coding and hard prompts.
OpenAI is reportedly set to restrict access to its API and platform in China and other unsupported regions, with the new measures set to take effect on July 9.
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