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Daily Digest #305

Hello folks, the first post for Ben’s Bites Pro²⁰⁰ goes live tomorrow. I’ve written 3.5k words (so far) on the story of Mistral, the $2Bn startup that’s less than a year old, with $600M+ in funding.

Here’s what we have today;

PICKS

There’s a trend among the updates. Legends in the field are starting up new companies & raising high rounds, while The Information reported that the money flow is slowing down.

• Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries start Answer AI⁸¹⁷, a new AI R&D lab to create practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.

• Essential AI raises $56.5M⁵⁴⁴ to build enterprise brain. The founders, Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar were authors of the initial Transformers paper “Attention is all you need”.

• Some AI startups find the money no longer so easy.⁴⁸⁸ They compare claims from the past few months and the current numbers in the market. You can dismiss it by saying “correlation is not causation” but it is a nice analysis to check out.

TOP TOOLS

• Unschooler⁸¹³ - Video courses you can talk to.

• Hi Santa⁵⁶¹ - Talk to Santa and friends.

• Hydra by Rightsifty⁵⁶¹ - Music generation for all.

• Nunu AI³⁹² - Building the first multimodal gameplay agents.

• Brickify⁷⁸⁴ - Your unique lego avatar.

• Ideaflow notes⁸²² - A note-taking app that augments your intelligence.

• Solo by Mozilla^1,054 - An AI website builder for solopreneurs.

• Anyscale adds JSON mode and function calling²⁰³ to its API endpoints. Available in preview for Mistral 7B.

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NEWS

• Legaltech X AI:⁴³⁷ The Lightspeed view.

• Real-time AI & the future of AI hardware²³⁶ with Gavin Uberti of Etched AI.

• Meta-Rayban glasses can now see⁴⁸³ - new features are coming faster than expected.

• Microsft releases Phi-2³¹⁷ showing the power of small language models.

• notdiamond-0001²⁴⁹ - Automatically determine whether to send queries to GPT-3.5 or GPT-4.

• Mamba-3B-SlimPJ¹⁵⁵ - State space model (different architecture than transformers) by Cartesia AI and Together AI.

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