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Daily Digest #331

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Here’s what we have today;

PICKS - a look back

1. More smart and experienced AI folks are starting their own companies and scaling them to hundreds of millions (and even billions). I already put together the journey of Replicate²⁰ and Mistral¹³. Just yesterday Eleven Labs announced unicorn valuation and more Google Deepmind scientists are planning to create their own startups.

2. But how are smaller startups using AI in their business? I asked Deel²⁹ and Sandwich Video³¹. We covered how to experiment and find new tools, how to decide where to use AI, and the role of characters and agents in business.

TOP TOOLS

• Qlary AI^541† - Call centre AI made simple.

• Holly⁵³⁰ - Hiring on auto-pilot.

• Bonkers by Merlin⁹³⁹ - Simplest ever text-to-image generator.

• Getwebsite.report⁵⁶⁵ - Comprehensive webpage audit with tailored insights.

• Whisper API⁶¹¹ - Transcription with OpenAI Whisper and generous free credits.

• AIDE by Weco²⁵² - Your AI agent for machine learning pipelines.

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NEWS

• Developer Contest by Nvidia - Gen AI on RTX PCs²²⁵.⁶⁷

• Avatars, robots and AI²⁶⁰ - Japan turns to innovation to tackle the labour crisis.

• Applying AI to immune cell networks.²²⁹

Raise and praise:

• Open source vector database Qdrant raises $28M.¹⁹²

• Raga AI raises $4.7M²¹⁰ seed round for comprehensive AI testing.

• Bloomberg reports xAI raised $500M¹⁷², Elon says: nope, it didn’t.

Election-mania:

• New Hampshire officials to investigate AI robocalls mimicking Biden.¹⁹¹

• OpenAI suspends developer^184† for creating a bot of US election candidate Dean Phillips.

• AI is destabilizing the concept of truth in 2024 elections.^308†

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