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 Our picks 

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AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs.^1,048 CAPTCHAs have acted as the identifier of humans vs bots on the web for a long time, but it’s time for their fall. This new paper³¹⁵ has ML bots outperforming humans on all CAPTCHAs across the board. These bots take less time to solve and achieve higher accuracy.

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Meta is preparing to release Code Llama⁹⁰⁷. Code Llama will be a free open-source code-generating AI model. It could be released as soon as next week.

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Top Google AI experts pick Japan to set up their own startup.²⁶⁰ Llion Jones (co-author of Google's transformer paper) and David Ha (former head of Google's AI research arm in Japan) launch Sakana AI in Tokyo. The word is Sakana’s research is inspired by concepts from nature, such as evolution and collective intelligence. Unpaywalled article here.⁵³⁶

 From the community 

• Creating an “agent”⁸³⁸ using OpenAI’s functions API.

• How to build an app for your business⁴²¹ - demo invoice storing app using Glide AI.

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Flythrough by Luma Labs⁷⁴⁹ - Create 3D virtual tour of your space with NeRFs as easily as recording a video.

• Human generator^1,465 - Turn god mode on, create people with AI in real-time.

• EchoHQ^341† - Redefining customer care, 24/7.

• Instant Insight⁷⁵⁶ - Company research powered by AI.

• SayData²⁷⁹ - Build truly self-serve customer facing analytics using AI.

• InsightIQ⁴¹⁹ – Only way to run influencer marketing if you care about ROI.

• AI voice cloning by Wavel⁶⁴⁵ – High-quality voice clones with just 60 seconds of audio.

• Vanna AI⁴⁰¹ - Python-based AI SQL agent.

• Consensus⁴⁶⁸ - Use AI to find insights in research papers.

• AutoStartup⁶⁴⁵ - A Llama 2 agent that plans and builds your startup ideas.

• DreamDecoder⁵²³ - Understand your dreams by chatting with them.

 From the network 

• The presentation revolution³⁴³ - with the founder of Gamma, Jon Noronha.

• Weekend Fund’s market map for the enterprise AI stack.²⁹¹

• No Priors pod with Sal Khan²⁰⁴, Khan Academy’s creator.

• Understanding attention and the transformer.³⁰¹

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• Microsoft’s AI recommends the Ottawa Food Bank²⁴² as a tourist destination.

• AI use rising in political influence campaigns¹⁰⁶ online, but impact limited - US cyber firm Mandiant.

• AI startup Elemental Cognition raised $60M¹⁷⁶, founded by previous team lead of IBM Watson.

• Arthur releases open source tool to help companies find the best LLM for a job.³⁰⁸

• Replit CEO Amjad Masad on empowering the next billion software creators.²⁰⁷

• DeciCoder 1B²¹⁷ - Local no-cloud AI LLM that writes code for you.

• Perplexity AI goes for a rebrand⁴⁹⁷ - now presents itself as the world’s research assistant.

• Why every company needs a chief AI officer.⁴⁷⁹

• Microsoft plans AI service with Databricks that could hurt OpenAI.²²³

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