🤖First 'Bilingual' Brain-Reading Device Decodes Spanish, English

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Apple Leads AI Startup Acquisitions, Google Second

Apple leads tech giants in AI acquisitions with over 30 startups purchased in the past decade, including WaveOne in 2023. Google follows with 21 acquisitions, having bought Photomath this year. Despite historical trends, big tech acquisitions hit an 18-quarter low in Q2’23 due to stricter regulations and economic caution. However, AI investments remain strong: Microsoft invested in nine AI companies in 2023, and Amazon plans to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic. Nvidia is also actively funding large AI projects. Tech giants continue to bolster their AI capabilities amidst fierce competition.

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OpenAI Signs PwC as First Resale Partner

OpenAI has partnered with PwC, making it the largest customer and first resale partner for ChatGPT’s enterprise tier, covering 100,000 PwC employees in the U.S., U.K., and the Middle East, with potential global expansion. The enterprise tier, launched in August 2023, offers faster interactions, unlimited usage, and customizable models to enhance business operations. PwC sees this move as a strategic step to boost digital transformation without threatening jobs. This partnership helps OpenAI penetrate industry verticals and expand its partner ecosystem, highlighting generative AI's growing role in business transformation.

Mistral's Codestral: New AI model for coding.

• Parameters: 22 billion.

• Languages Supported: Over 80, including Python, Java, C++, and JavaScript.

• Capabilities: Code completion, test writing, partial code filling, codebase questions.

• Performance: Outperforms rivals like CodeLlama 70B and Deepseek Coder 33B on benchmarks.

• Licensing: Non-commercial use only.

• Platform Availability: Hugging Face and Mistral’s Le Chat.

• Integration: With tools like LlamaIndex, LangChain, Continue·dev, and Tabnine.

• Challenges: High computational demand and potential for introducing errors.

Discord Becomes Hub for Generative AI Boom

• Platform: Discord is crucial in the generative AI boom.

• Company Highlight: Viggle, specializing in controllable video generation.

• Functionality: Users upload a video and a photo to create AI-driven videos of people replicating movements.

• Viral Content: AI-generated clips of celebrities and characters performing intricate dance moves.

• Growth: Over 3 million members on Discord, surpassing popular game communities like Valorant and Genshin Impact.

• Uses: Entertainment (memes) and professional applications (game design, visual effects).

• Impact on Discord: Increased user engagement and diversity, with challenges in resource management and content moderation.

• Infrastructure: Discord's robust support aids rapid expansion of AI-focused communities like Viggle.

First 'Bilingual' Brain-Reading Device Decodes Spanish, English

• Breakthrough: A brain implant with AI enables a bilingual stroke patient to communicate in Spanish and English.

• Developer: Edward Chang's team at the University of California, San Francisco.

• Function: Decodes neural patterns into words, allowing real-time translation.

• Accuracy: 88% in distinguishing between languages.

• Impact: Restores speech, offers insights into bilingual brain processing, shows shared language functions across languages.

• Future Goals: Expand applicability to more patients and languages.

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Prompt: A beautiful image of a cat playing in the rain. The cat, with its sleek coat, is engrossed in chasing raindrops, capturing the essence of playful innocence. The background showcases a picturesque scene of a gentle downpour, with a serene atmosphere and a subtle change in color hues due to the rain. The overall ambiance of the photo is soothing, reflecting the harmony between nature and the lovable feline.

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Miscellaneous

• All ChatGPT Free users can now use browse, vision, data analysis, file uploads, and GPTs.

• Mr. Beast released new tools for his ViewStats Pro content platform, including an AI-powered thumbnail search that allows users to find inspiration with natural language prompts.

• Arm released new AI-optimized chip designs and software tools for smartphones, working to speed adoption by working with Samsung and TSMC on manufacturing blueprints.

• The Atlantic and Vox Media have signed separate licensing and product deals with OpenAI. These agreements allow OpenAI to use the publishers' archived and current content to train its AI models.

• Elon Musk and Yann LeCun, two prominent figures in AI, got into a heated debate on X over the weekend. LeCun criticized Musk's management style at his new AI startup xAI, while Musk questioned LeCun's recent scientific contributions.

• Use AI agents powered by different large language models to build various things in Minecraft.

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Tools

Holly AI - Hiring on Autopilot. Automated Candidate vetting with your AI-powered virtual recruiter. Holly helps you source, vet and engage with Candidates.

Video Translation by Akool - Transforms videos with one-click translation, featuring audio-detection, high-quality translations, natural voice dubbing, and synchronized lip movements for global reach, educational accessibility, and enhanced business and content engagement.

Copilotkit - An open-source platform revolutionizes app development with Copilot Portal for in-app AI chatbots and Copilot Textarea for AI-assisted writing. Designed for developers, it simplifies integrating AI features into React apps.

Vizard - An AI-driven tool, repurposes long videos into engaging social media shorts for platforms like TikTok and YouTube. It automates cutting, reframing, captioning, and publishing, streamlining content creation for a broader audience reach.

Walling AI - Transforms ideas into visually rich project walls instantly, offering features like custom domains, password protection, and slide sharing for efficient idea organization and presentation.

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