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Daily Digest #404

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Hello folks, edition #404 today—hope you received it without hiccups. Let’s get into it;

PICKS

1. We now have over 70 tutorials live! that’s over double what we launched with 🫢 here are some of our recent ones:

   1. Use AI to handle missing values, remove duplicates, standardise formats⁵⁵¹, and more.

   2. Create an analyst that uses your real-time consumer data to make smart marketing recommendations³⁴⁴.

   3. Spin up web games easily³⁰⁵ using ChatGPT and Replit - no coding knowledge needed.

   4. Learn how to transform raw data into a format that trains your AI model²³⁵ effectively.

   5. How to use AI to prepare for a job interview³³³

   6. How to transform complex documents into executive summaries ²⁸⁸and detailed insights.

2. OpenAI might be launching a search engine. It’s registering SSL certificates for search.chatgpt.com. The Information²⁴⁷ reported this in February. Sam Altman also talked about search + LLMs²⁹⁰ in his latest visit to Lex Fridman’s podcast. The anticipated date for this launch is 9th May.

3. We’ve got the first official music video made by OpenAI’s Sora.^1,049 The music video for the song titled “The Hardest Part” by Washed Out and directed by Paul Trillio is made entirely with clips from Sora. Is it great? nope. Are we going to see a lot more of this? I think yeah.

4. Ramp has released a report on how its customers are spending on AI.⁴¹¹ AI spending grew 293% YOY, where overall software growth was 6%. Some more trends:

   • New AI adoption is slowing but existing users are doubling down, suggesting clear ROI.

   • Non-tech sectors are not shy. Healthcare, finance, and others are rapidly adopting AI.

   • Narrow AI tools for specific tasks (e.g., sales intelligence) are gaining traction alongside general-purpose AI.

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• Code Interpreter SDK by E2B¹³⁷ - Add code interpreting capabilities to your AI apps.

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NEWS

• Vercel acquires Modelfusion¹⁹⁴ and integrates it into its AI SDK.

• Danti’s natural language search engine for Earth¹³¹ data soars with $5M in new funding.

• Lamini raises $25M^120† to help enterprises build in-house LLMs.

• How to fine-tune LLaVA¹⁴¹ model from your laptop.

• Why AI hardware devices are flopping²⁰⁰—and how they might succeed.

• Microsoft bans US police departments¹⁰⁸ from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition.

• 49 countries sign Japan’s voluntary framework for global regulation of generative AI.¹²³

• How developers gave LLaMA 3¹⁸⁴ more memory.

• Free the chatbot^209† - Intelligence is going to be all around us.

• The AI-generated population³⁵¹ is here and they’re ready to work.

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