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Daily Digest #323

Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. I’m writing a series exploring AI’s impact on specific jobs.⁴⁵ Today I’m breaking down what AI is changing for front-end engineers and how these lessons apply to other roles.

2. OpenAI’s GPT store is finally live.⁸²⁶ We all knew that was coming. But what’s OpenAI without surprise releases? We now have a ChatGPT for teams⁴³⁸ plan at $30/month/user ($25 if annual). GPTs are getting more personalized too. (Not out to everyone yet but hopefully soon!)🍿Our Summary²⁸ (also below)

3. Alexa gets AI skills: ⁴²⁴characters, music and 20-questions⁴²⁴. Amazon announced new generative AI capabilities for Alexa at CES 2023. Three developers - Character.AI, Splash, and Volley - introduced Alexa skills powered by LLMs.🍿Our Summary²⁷

4. Sam Altman and Bill Gates^1,026 chat about AI, atomic energy and other things.

TOP TOOLS

• Corgea³⁴⁹ - Fix vulnerable code automatically.

• Mercor⁶⁹⁹ - Redefining hiring with AI.

• MoAIjobs⁶¹⁷ - Find a job in AI.

• Pretend⁴³⁷ - iOS app to swap your face with AI.

• Clarity State^233† - Catch issues and blindspots in your data arguments.

Tools for GPTs:

• lil GPTs⁶¹¹ - Tiny GPTs, for not so tiny tasks.

• ChatCollect^296† - Collect emails from your GPT users.

• GPT Auth^234† - Authentication and analytics for GPTs.

• Free link shortener²⁵² for your Custom GPTs.

Few quirky/unique GPTs:

• Hogwarts Sorting Hat⁵²³ - Where do you belong? Your face and your mind tell it all.

• Gift Whisperer¹⁸⁸ - Share IG grid screenshot, get gift ideas.

• CrewAI assistant³⁰⁹ - GPT to get started with building agents using CrewAI.

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NEWS

Startups and incumbents:

• Leap AI raises $1.4M²²⁴ round led by Founders Inc.

• Photoroom AI is raising $50-60M²⁹³ at a $500-600M valuation.

• 12 startups battling for a slice of Nvidia’s pie.¹⁶³

• Steam allows AI¹⁴³ content in games with disclosures.

• Walmart adds Gen AI²¹² search to its iOS app.

• Not even Notepad is safe²⁵⁴ from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows.

The outside world:

• London and Wales judges can use AI¹⁶⁸ but have to be responsible for what it writes.

• State employees in Pennsylvania government¹³⁵ will use ChatGPT enterprise.

• Chinese companies are modding Nvidia’s gaming chips for AI.¹¹²

• SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with Replica Studio regarding using AI replicas of voice actors¹⁴⁷ in video games.

• Sal Khan on the future of K-12 education.³⁶²

Research and tutorials:

• MagicVideo V2 by Bytedance²⁹² - Multi-stage, high aesthetic video generation.

• Deepseek announced a 16B mixture of experts¹⁶⁴ model.

• Build LLM apps with Langchain³¹⁶ - 1 hour course.

• Live building an app²²⁶ with ChatGPT during a podcast.

• A mere mortal's visual guide to AI vector embeddings.³²⁴

• Notebooks and tutorials to fine-tune Phi-2²⁰⁶ by Brev Dev.

• Install Stable Diffusion XL locally on MacOS³³² and use it for free.

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QUICK BITES

OpenAI has launched the GPT Store⁸²⁶ and ChatGPT Team⁴³⁸ plan to expand access to large language models for creators and businesses.

What is going on here?

OpenAI has launched the GPT store and a new Teams plan for ChatGPT subscriptions.

What does this mean?

Reminder: 2 months back OpenAI launched custom chatbots inside ChatGPT, calling them GPTs. These GPTs can be shared publicly or have restricted access.

With the new GPT store, you can find all public GPTs in a single place. OpenAI will highlight trending GPTs and top GPTs for several categories every week. The big deal about the GPT Store is the promised revenue share program but we gotta wait for more info on that (not too much, OpenAI says rollout in Q1 2024).

ChatGPT Team is the new plan on ChatGPT for shared workspaces where you can share chats, private GPTs and a dashboard to manage it all. It is pricier: $25/user/month if billed annually ($30 if monthly). You get more messages with GPT-4, longer context lengths and training on your data is default OFF. (a note: you can disable it on simple ChatGPT Plus too, it’s just on by default there)

Why should I care?

Repeating Sam’s statement from Dev Day: GPTs are the first step to agents or assistants that will do everything for you. And in that case, chat does feel like the universal interface for interacting with agents. I find optimism in believing that this is an app store moment (and not the end of work 😅) and even if it is we have a transition stage to cross. Also, more improvements in GPTs about learning continuously, and getting more personalized are also underway.¹²⁴ So, get building.

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