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 Our picks 

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Say hello to Jambot in Figma.^2,374 It is a FigJam widget that lets you ideate, summarize, and riff in Figma. Born out of an internal hackathon from Figma, Jambot turns idea exploration with ChatGPT into a visual exercise (rather than just chat) and adds multiplayer flavor to it. More from the team that built it.^1,197

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Naver unveils its generative AI product HyperCLOVA X²⁰⁸. Naver is the Google of South Korea (it is the biggest search engine there). Now, Naver is also dipping its hands in the gen AI space and has launched a chatbot app CLOVA X in beta. Another AI search service, Cue, will launch in beta in September. Also, Naver is working with Samsung to produce AI-efficient chips.

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Lex raises $2.75M⁶⁸⁴ for its AI writing tool that helps writers get past blocks.⁶⁸⁴ I’m an investor. Nathan is a friend, and I couldn’t be more excited to back him in building Lex. Lex is also spinning out of Every (Nathan and Dan’s media company) and getting a new sleek logo.

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A few other funding highlights:

• Hugging Face raises fresh funds²⁵⁰ from Salesforce at a valuation of over $4 billion.

• Modyfi announces $7M in seed funding²³⁹ to launch full public beta for AI design platform.

• Ideogram launches with $16.5M²⁴¹ seed funding to state of the art creative tools.

• Wand.app raises $4.2M²⁵⁷ to scale its AI-powered creative tool for artists.

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• Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT⁹⁸⁰ reveal that AI demand is already shrinking.

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

• Stephen King responds⁶¹⁸ to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.

• Supply chain shortages¹¹⁹ delay tech sector’s AI bonanza.

• ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool.”³⁴²

• Giraffe - Open source 32k context length model¹⁵⁴ finetuned from LLaMA2. (paper⁵⁹)

• Newsguard analysis finds 37 sites that are using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles²¹⁰ without credit.

• Nvidia’s Q2 earnings prove it’s the big winner⁷⁹ in the generative AI boom.

• Google plans to bring AI-fueled security enhancements⁸⁷ to Google Workspace.

• Microsoft to add AI in apps like Paint and Photos¹¹⁵ on Windows 11.

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