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Hello folks, yesterday we posted our first exclusive interview with an AI startup²³⁷, Metal - their founding story, how they built the product, challenges building with AI and looking to the future. Who else should we interview?

Here’s what we have today;

 Our picks 

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OpenAI is currently on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue⁴⁸¹ (paywalled). Compared to its average monthly revenue last year, OpenAI is making 35 times more today ($80M/month). OpenAI generated just $28 million in revenue last year before it started charging for ChatGPT. It lost around $540 million last year as it developed GPT-4 and ChatGPT.

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AI highlights from Google Cloud Next 2023³⁵²

• Performance upgrades for existing models and adding external models like Llama 2 and Falcon within Google’s Vertex AI.

• Watermarking in images generated by Imagen with Deepmind’s SynthID.

• Duet AI is available across Google Workspace and other cloud products like cybersecurity tools.

• AlloyDB AI for building generative AI applications with PostgreSQL.

• Cloud A3 Supercomputer, based on NVIDIA H100 designed for generative AI, to be available next month. Also, Google announced fifth generation of their TPUs.

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Ideogram - The AI images startup by ex-Google researchers⁹⁹⁶ has made an Instagram-like product publicly available. You can set your usernames, generate images and display them on your profile.

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 From the community 

• Hackhers^218† - The top womxn hackathon in Silicon Valley.

• State of AI Report Compute Index²¹⁰ - Tracking the size of public, private, and national HPC clusters.

• Runway Creative Partners Program¹⁶² - This program provides a select group of artists and creators with exclusive access to new Runway tools and models, Unlimited plans, 1 million credits, early access to new features and more.

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Claude-2 is now on Perplexity Pro.⁵⁴⁶

• Autoblocks²⁰⁷ - Helping teams improve & differentiate their LLM products.

• Centari¹⁹⁹ - Accelerate data-driven deals and transactions with secure legal AI. Backed by Jack Altman, South Park Commons, and others. (news release⁵²)

• Mori³⁹² - Collaborative genealogy software for family trees.

• Junior⁵⁶¹ - AI copilot for consultants to structure expert call insights.

• Spext Youtube summariser^482† - All YouTube videos with chapters, key takeaways & a summary.

• Spacebar⁴⁵⁴ - Playful take on voice-to-text, designed to capture daily convos and ideas. Conversations are private by default.

• Lida by Microsoft⁶⁷⁹ - Automatic generation of visualizations and infographics with LLMs.

• Loom AI^372† - Suite of powerful new AI features in Loom, transcripts, captions in 50+ new languages, and more.

• Gradient³²⁰ - Developer API for building private LLMs that you own.

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

• Snapchat releases AI selfie³¹⁴ features dubbed as Dreams.

• Rockset is redefining search and analytics¹⁵¹ for the AI era with raising $44M in a new round.

• Quora’s Poe launches bot search¹⁴⁷, announces enterprise package.

• Inside Google's plans to fix healthcare⁴⁴¹ with generative AI.

• SayTap ¹⁰³by Google - Language to quadrupedal locomotion.

• General Motors is using Google’s AI¹⁰⁴ chatbot to handle simple OnStar calls.

• CoTracker from Meta AI¹²⁰ - A model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video.

• Semianalysis has done a piece on the ²⁹⁷training setup of Google’s Gemini,²⁹⁷ where they predict that it’ll smash GPT-4

• Ginkgo Bioworks partners with Google Cloud to build a generative AI platform for engineering biology and biosecurity.⁸⁶

• Can we contain artificial intelligence?¹⁷¹ - with Mustafa Suleyman.

• ControlRooms AI raises $10M ⁹¹for an industrial manufacturing troubleshooting platform.

• The contrarian strategy of OpenAI.⁴¹⁸

• OpenAI API base models are not sycophantic¹³³ (i.e., agreeing with a user's stated view), at any size.

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