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Amandeep Singh
May 27, 2024

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BREAKING: xAI raises a $6B Series B at a $24B valuation to build advanced AI systems Investors include Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, amongst others

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Oh boy, Google's got itself in another pickle with their fancy AI!

They just rolled out these new "AI Overviews" to give quick answer summaries at the top of search results.

Seemed like a nifty idea, right? Well, not so much.

These AI assistants have been spitting out some real whoppers! Like telling people to top their pizza with glue. Or snacking on rocks for a crunchy treat. I'm not making this up, folks!

Google says most of the overviews are fine, but enough went haywire that people are sharing the bizarre responses all over the internet.
The poor tech giants are scrambling to disable the silliest summaries.

Maybe it's time for Google's AI to take a little summer vacation?
Some beach time could do those chatbots some good before they really go off the deep end!

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AI-Funding

$2B+ raised by AI Startups this week

Praktika - $35.5M Series A

Praktika is a language learning app that uses AI avatars to simulate real-life conversational scenarios.

Kabata - $5M Seed

Kabata is an AI-powered dumbbell. The dumbbells are adjustable from 5 to 60 lbs & are equipped with an AI coach to count reps & analyze form using sensors to ensure proper technique.

QA Tech - $3.25M Seed

QA .tech is building an autonomous QA engineer. Their AI agent performs fully autonomous user-centric testing. This includes tasks like logging in, account creation, and shopping cart interactions.

Unify - $8M Seed

Unify is an LLM router that identifies the best LLM for a use case. The platform provides detailed evaluations of various LLMs based on factors such as performance, accuracy, and resource requirements.

DeepL - $300M

DeepL is a Language AI platform designed for businesses. The platform includes AI-powered translation that is highly accurate and secure across 32 languages.

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Quick Hits

TL;DR: Elon Musk's xAI is planning a supercomputer, called a 'gigafactory of compute,' with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to advance the Grok AI chatbot. Set to be operational by Fall 2025 and potentially in partnership with Oracle, it will be at least four times larger than the current biggest AI clusters. Currently, Grok 2.0 is being trained on 20,000 GPUs. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Microsoft have discussed an even larger 'Stargate' cluster.

OpenAI's non-disparagement agreements for ex-employees have come under scrutiny. Former employees, like Gretchen Kruger and Jacob Hilton, criticized the lack of transparency and ethical concerns. CEO Sam Altman claimed ignorance of the clauses despite approving them. Hilton notes that OpenAI is reconsidering these clauses to better align with their mission of benefiting humanity.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opposes the term "artificial intelligence," believing it anthropomorphizes the technology and prefers "different intelligence." This contrasts with OpenAI's showcase of its GPT-4o model's human-like qualities, which drew criticism, including issues with voice similarities to actress Scarlett Johansson. Nadella emphasizes that AI's capabilities are not comparable to human intelligence and regrets the term "artificial intelligence."  

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Miscellaneous

Canva introduced new AI features, including text-to-graphic capabilities, an AI-powered photo editor, and enhanced video editing tools. 'Magic Media' generates images from text prompts, 'Magic Switch' converts presentations into websites, and 'Magic Write' creates custom text from samples. New video tools, 'Highlights' and 'Enhance Voice,' help streamline clipping and audio enhancement.

The Fanvue World AI Creator Awards (WAICAs) launched the first AI beauty pageant, merging AI-generated images and traditional beauty elements. Contestants compete for $20,000, judged on appearance, AI tool use, and social media influence, and share their global betterment dreams. The top ten finalists will be announced online next month. Prizes include $5,000 and a $3,000 mentorship program for the winner. Co-founder Will Monanage envisions it as the "Oscars of the AI creator economy."

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Tools

An automated competitive analysis tool, swiftly extracts key business insights and generates SWOT tables. It focuses on qualitative analysis, offering customization, structured results, and history tracking.

A content creation tool, enhances YouTube workflows using AI for personalized scripts and text-to-voice conversion. It suggests high-performing content ideas, manages ideas backlog, and optimizes video metadata for improved YouTube visibility.

A ready-to-use AI development platform, enabling easy integration and creation of AI applications without the need for specialized developers, featuring conversational chatbots, time-saving tools, and a continually updated open-source stack.

A free AI tool that generates detailed timelines for any topic, allowing users to combine multiple topics and view overlapping events in a single, cohesive timeline.

A user-friendly tool for extracting data from websites, converting it into JSON or CSV formats. It integrates with OpenAI, offers a Chrome extension for easy scraping, and supports saving data to platforms like Google Sheets, Airtable, and Zapier.

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