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 Our picks 

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Google’s Gemini might come sooner than expected.^1,572 The scoop from The Information says that some companies are getting early access to a large version of Gemini. It is reported to have lesser hallucinations, better coding power, and other features such as chart analysis.

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Anthropic partners with Boston Consulting Group⁴³⁹. Anthropic will provide access to Claude 2 to a) the internal teams of BCG and b) enterprise customers of BCG. That’s a big customer base with multiple use cases: market research, fraud detection, report generation, business analysis and more.

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Databricks has raised $500M in its series I with a valuation of $43B.³²⁷ It’s previous valuation was $38B when it raised $1.5B in August 2021. Nvidia, a16z, and Tiger Global are part of this funding round.

psss: a bunch of funding-related news today in the news section.

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 From the community 

• Making the AI engine and language¹⁹⁰ of the future with Chris Lattner of Modular

• Retrieval augmented generation⁵³² (RAG): What, why and how?

• A comprehensive guide for building RAG based LLM applications.⁴⁰⁴

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Kick⁷¹⁴ - Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner.

• Portfolio Magic by Contra³⁸⁰ - AI-powered portfolio builder for freelancers with payments, analytics, and more.

• Chronicle AI from Granica¹⁶⁶ - Deep data visibility for Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage customers.

• v0 by Vercel Labs⁷³⁴ - Generate UI with simple text prompts. Copy, paste, ship.

• Perplexity collections³³⁷ - One place for multi-player search threads.

• Slite⁵⁹¹ - Your company knowledge base, on autopilot.

• Wave⁷¹¹ - AI note taker with intelligent summaries and transcriptions.

• Snapy⁵⁶² - Auto edit and generate your videos with AI.

• HelpKit AI³⁶⁹ – Supercharge your Notion knowledge base with AI.

• Astrocyte⁴⁴⁶ - Create and chat with 3D AI characters.

 From the network 

• Vectara’s integration¹¹⁰ with LlamaIndex.

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

• Medusa - A straightforward framework for enhancing LLM generation¹³⁶ with multiple decoding heads.

• Touring Capital launches⁹⁵ to invest in AI companies at early growth stage (series B and C).

• Microsoft open sources EvoDiff¹⁵², a novel protein-generating AI.

• Patronus AI launches with $3M¹³⁹ to automate evaluation for LLMs.

• LastMile raises $10M^127† seed to build a cohesive developer environment for working with AI.

• What if AI treats humans²⁶⁴ the way we treat animals?

• TSMC bets on silicon photonics¹⁷¹ to enable more powerful ChatGPT.

• Why Japan is building²⁵¹ its own version of ChatGPT.

• AI-powered full-stack marketing platform Pixis raises $85M.²²⁶

• Agents³³⁶ - An open-source framework for autonomous language agents.

• a16z invests²¹⁷ in game studio series AI.

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