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Daily Digest #251

WOAH - Sorry for the dedicated email about Meta this morning - Our email provider changed their delivery section which was super confusing and meant we hit the wrong button. Our apologies!

Also, we heard your feedback from yesterday so tweaking the email again - skimmable stuff up top, summaries down below.

Here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. Meta AI, is a general-purpose assistant⁶³⁷ available on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and more. They also launched 28 AI characters. In addition to the assistant and characters, there are AI stickers and image editing tools. 🍿Our summary³⁶⁶ (also below)

2. ChatGPT can browse the web (again)⁵¹⁴ - The Browse with Bing plugin is back with some changes: it now respects robots.txt for crawling websites, and provides links to its sources.

3. Cloudflare is launching Workers AI²⁷² - Cloudflare is partnering with HuggingFace to make AI inference easy and accessible for all developers. Workers AI provides serverless GPU-powered inference on Cloudflare’s global network for popular AI models. 🍿Our summary²²³ (also below)

4. Exclusive: The Inside Story of Building Glean⁷⁸⁷. The billion-dollar company built by ex-Googlers gave us a peek inside the company in this exclusive interview.

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• Collato^260† - Chat with your tools, find info, summarize, & create content.

• Be My Eyes²³⁰’ AI assistant for the visually impaired starts rolling out.

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NEWS

• Multi-modal AI is a UX problem⁵⁴⁵.⁵⁴⁵

• Vector databases explained⁴⁹¹ - A guide by Vercel.

• GitHub CEO talks AI²⁰², supercharging productivity, and the future of software.

• Ex-Tinder CEO new app Meeno³⁹⁶ uses AI to help users build stronger romantic and platonic relationships.

• First Impressions with GPT-4 Vision.⁴⁹⁶

• What the Hollywood writers²⁵⁹ have agreed with the studios about AI

• VC firms working with D.C. to "self-regulate" AI startup investing.⁸⁸

• Superagent.sh on Replit²²⁵ - An open-source framework for creating AI assistants.

• The Llama ecosystem²³¹ - Past, present, and future.

• Google was accidentally leaking Bard AI chats¹⁷⁵ into public search results.

• Mistral AI drops Mistral 7B¹⁸¹, which outperforms all currently available open models up to 13B parameters on all standard English and code benchmarks. They literally dropped it with this X post—it’s iconic.⁴²⁹

• Emu: Enhancing Image Generation¹⁹⁷ Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystack.

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QUICK BITES

Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta AI⁶³⁷, a general purpose assistant at their annual Connect conference yesterday. They have also launched 28 AI characters played by folks like SnoopDogg, Mr. Beast and Kendall Jenner. In addition to the assistant and characters, there are AI stickers and image editing tools.

What’s going on here?

Meta adds AI chatbots and features to its apps—some are helpful, some are sassy.

What does this mean?

Meta AI is available on WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram in the US. It is coming to Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and Quest 3. It is hooked to the internet via Bing from the get-go. Typing /imagine will also let you generate photorealistic images.

The AI characters each have a different personality. For eg: MrBeast is Zach, the big brother who will roast you—because he cares. They will have IG and FB profiles but are not connected to the internet.

AI stickers are added to all Meta apps. With upcoming AI editing tools named Restyle and Backdrop, you can change the styles and backgrounds of your photos. These are made possible by Meta’s new image generation model called Emu.¹⁹⁷

Why should I care?

Meta has the biggest social distribution in the world and they are meeting their users on these familiar platforms. It’s similar to what YouTube aimed at with their launch last week. Users won’t care if the AI sticker has one finger messed up, if the alternative is going to another app and breaking the chat flow with their pal. With this increased adoption, you will now have more AI-generated content in your feeds, if there wasn’t enough already.

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QUICK BITES

Cloudflare partners with Hugging Face⁸⁸ to make AI models more accessible and affordable.

What's going on here? 

Cloudflare is launching Workers AI to make AI inference easy and accessible for all developers.

What does this mean?

Workers AI allows developers to run popular AI models with just a few lines of code, without needing to manage infrastructure. It is powered by Cloudflare's global network of GPUs and provides curated pre-trained models like text generation, translation, image classification and more.

Why should I care?

This makes it incredibly simple for any developer to start building with AI, even with zero machine-learning expertise. Now you can deploy an AI-powered app in minutes. For those already using other services, Workers AI is platform-agnostic so you can still access it via API. Cloudflare is also prioritizing developer experience, privacy and global reach. The models are private by default, learning only from your prompts. Cloudflare plans to expand to 100 data centres this year for low latency worldwide. It's currently in open beta so developers can try it out and provide feedback to improve the product before launch.

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