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 Our picks 

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Google launches Bard extensions and double check.^1,521 You can use Google Apps within Bard, and, Double Check - highlights Bard’s responses based on info on Google.

🍿 Read our quick summary here.^1,157

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OpenAI hustles to beat Google to launch ‘Multimodal’ LLM⁸⁴⁰ (paywalled). With all the reports of Gemini being released soon and potentially better than GPT-4, Open AI is trying to keep its lead intact. The multimodal features will be launched under the name “GPT-vision.”

🍿 Read our quick summary here.^1,159

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Microsoft researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of private data⁶³¹, including personal computer backups of Microsoft employees. It contains secrets, passwords, and 30,000 internal messages. The culprit? Misconfiguring access controls when publishing open-source training data on GitHub.

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 From the community 

• How Gamma gained 3 million users⁹⁶⁷ in just 3 months.

• Gamma is hiring²⁰⁴ a backend software engineer in San Francisco.

• Replit’s biggest virtual hackathon¹⁷⁶ yet: Build using Replit ModelFarm to win 1 free year of Pro and more.

• Build, break, test LLM apps - Hackathon by AGI House ¹⁵⁰on 7th Oct.

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Dialme⁴⁸⁷ - Build our own voice-enabled AI interviewers in under 2 mins.

• Briefy⁶¹³ - AI-powered content summarizer.

• Understand Better^541† – Finally understand native speakers.

• CodeWiz³²² - Your coding challenges solved with AI, one chat at a time.

• Simon³¹⁹ - LLM chat and semantic search with Postgres and 10 lines of code.

• Tabby⁴¹¹ - AI coding assistant that runs on Apple M1/M2 GPU.

• Klu AI³⁵² - Your data, unified and interactive.

• AI search engine⁶²⁷ - ChatGPT plugin to search and browse the web from inside ChatGPT.

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

• AI startup Writer raises $100 million³⁸¹ to pen corporate content.

• Registration to attend OpenAI DevDay in-person¹³⁹ is now live.

• Betterleap launches with $13M¹⁵³ in seed funding to leverage AI for revolutionizing recruitment.

• Commercializing AI in healthcare³¹¹ - The jobs to be done.

• Those trying to pick AI winners³⁰⁰ should remember the dotcom days.

• Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen²⁰⁵ from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI.

• UK antitrust watchdog sets out seven principles for regulating AI.¹⁵¹

• TikTok debuts new tools^235† and technology to label AI content.

• GPT 3.5 vs. Llama 2 fine-tuning^348† - A comprehensive comparison.

• Runway Gen 48²⁰⁵ - A 2-day short film competition.

• Scott Belsky on VC sobriety, getting started with AI²⁹⁸, and other challenges.

• Custom maps⁴⁹⁴ with Stable Diffusion.

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