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 Our picks 

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Time magazine announces their list of 100 influential people in AI.^1,541 This list includes the leaders from top AI firms, policy shapers, artists and researchers. Many people (including me) are upset about Karpathy not being there but that’s the nature of any top 100 list.

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Anthropic joins the paid chatbot field with Claude Pro.⁴²⁷ Similar to ChatGPT, Claude Pro will cost $20/month (or £18). It comes with priority access to Claude 2 during high-traffic periods and early access to new features. The biggest upgrade is that you can use the service 5x more compared to the free tier which means there are still some limits around it. From the FAQs, it roughly comes out as 500k tokens every 8 hours.

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Imbue raises $200M to build AI systems that can reason.⁵¹⁶ Imbue, (previously called Generally Intelligent) is now valued over $1B. They were previously focused on building AI agents and they say that reasoning is the primary bottleneck for effective AI agents. So they’re going to develop models that can not just code, but can reason logically.

 From the community 

• AGI House and Coframe are hosting a UX/AI Hackathon²³⁶ on 16th Sept.

• The San Francisco Compute Company is hiring for a supercomputing⁸⁹ role.

• Running a 180B parameter LLM³⁷⁸ on a single Apple M2 Ultra.

• My quest to conquer every ChatGPT plugin game⁵⁴⁷ - The top 5 you must try!

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Retool AI⁷¹⁸ - A suite of features to build bespoke AI-powered tools for your business.

• Boolvideo⁸⁴⁷ - Turn your creatives into cinematic videos with AI.

• Dokkio AI⁶¹⁰ - Your AI-powered assistant to organize & manage digital mess.

• M1-project⁸²² - Understand your target audience without weeks of research.

• Cosmos⁴⁰³ - Use AI to organize your videos.

• Fantasaur⁵⁴⁸ - Personalized bedtime stories created by AI.

• Coderabbit²⁸⁵ - Accelerate code reviews with AI. Deep dive blog⁹¹.

• USearch Images^288† - Semantic search server in 200 lines of Python.

• Replit Ghostwriter Chat⁴⁰⁵ now defaults to the most advanced model on the market (currently GPT-4).

 From the network 

• Discover LlamaIndex:²⁰⁵ SEC Insights, end-to-end guide.

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

• Adept is open-sourcing Persimmon-8B¹⁶², a fully permissively licensed language model with <10 billion parameters.

• How Perplexity AI is pioneering the future of search.⁵⁵⁷

• LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI.³⁹³

• Mindtrip wants to become your AI travel agent.³⁷³

• Building enduring enterprise AI products.²⁵⁹

• India’s Reliance partners with Nvidia¹³⁸ to build large language model.

• Nature Machine Intelligence - Federated benchmarking of medical AI.¹¹⁶

• LLMs are not all you need - The LLM ecosystem.⁴⁶⁷

• Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO Podcast⁴²³ on ChatGPT and the Future of AI, GAI and China.

• AI firm Brand Engagement Network to go public⁸⁹ via SPAC deal at $358M valuation.

• Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good,³⁰⁶ actually.

• AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M²²² to bolster child literacy.

• Ghostwriter, who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd releases a new Travis Scott AI song²⁷¹, has met with record labels and Grammy organisers.

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