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1. New tutorials posted:

   1. Using ChatGPT for data visualization⁹¹⁰. Interact with, customize and download charts using ChatGPT’s expanded view.

   2. Create a GTM brief and presentation for your team⁴¹⁵. Craft compelling GTM presentations and briefs with ChatGPT for successful product launches.

   3. Create a go-to-market plan⁴¹². Develop a go-to-market strategy with ChatGPT, from research to launch planning and execution.

2. Anthropic released a new model⁹²⁴ outta nowhere and Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now the best LLM out there. Period. It’s more intelligent and faster than Claude 3 Opus, GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro. It’s available at 4-5x cheaper than all of those models.🍿Our Summary¹⁰ (also below)

3. Claude.ai⁷²² - Anthropic’s chatbot has a new feature called Artifacts and it’s insane. It’s similar to ChatGPT’s code interpreter—it writes code and creates interactable previews (but doesn’t run it like a code interpreter). You can create diagrams, games²⁹⁶ and one-off apps that play sound⁶¹⁹ too.

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• The end of software and where technology won’t go.⁴⁴¹

• Optimizing AI Inference¹⁷⁷ for 20,000 queries per second at Character AI.

• She built an AI product manager⁵⁹⁹ bringing in six figures—as a side hustle.

• 𝜏-bench by Sierra AI³⁶¹ - Benchmarking AI agents for the real world.

• Results and continuation of cybersecurity grants¹²² from OpenAI.

• Cohere and Oracle¹⁰⁴ partner to make Command R/R+ available on OCI.

• Pocket FM partners with ElevenLabs¹²³ to convert scripts into audio content quickly.

• Nvidia challenger Cerebras files for IPO¹⁵⁶ confidentially

Friday funds:

• HeyGen raises $60M Series A²³¹ to scale visual storytelling for businesses.

• Superagent raises $1.6M¹⁵⁹ seed to transform web research with AI.

• Day AI raises a $4M³⁰² seed from Sequoia to build the CRM for the AI age.

• Julie Bornstein’s Day Dreaming raises $50M¹⁵² for an AI fashion search startup.

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QUICK BITES

Anthropic released a new model outta nowhere and Claude 3.5 Sonnet⁹²⁴ is now the best LLM out there. Period. It’s more intelligent and faster than Claude 3 Opus, GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro. It’s available at 4-5x cheaper than all of those models.

What's going on here?

Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the first release in their upcoming 3.5 model fam. And let's just say, it's raising the bar big time.

What does this mean?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic’s first entry into a new category of models. It is crushing benchmarks left and right. We're talking grad-level reasoning, undergrad-level knowledge, and some seriously slick coding skills. It's twice as fast as Claude 3 Opus but just as affordable, making it perfect for complex jobs like customer support or multi-step workflows.

The vision capabilities got a major boost too. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a whiz at stuff like reading charts and transcribing text from wonky images. This opens up a whole new world of insights for industries like retail and finance.

But wait, there's more! "Artifacts" just dropped on Claude.ai³⁹⁴, letting you create interactable previews with code. Think diagrams, games, one-off apps, and whatnot. It's like having an AI collaborator right there with you.

3.5 Sonnet is also immediately available via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

You want more? Anthropic says they have more stuff in the works with Claude 3.5 Haiku and 3.5 Opus coming later this year and features like memory for Claude the chatbot. They are not working on voice mode though (like OpenAI’s GPT-4o).

Why should I care?

It’s simple. OpenAI (and ChatGPT) is no longer the king of the ring. Claude 3.5 Sonnet blows OpenAI’s GPT-4o out of the water and I see Claude (the chatbot) becoming a much more delightful product to use as well. Reminder: Anthropic has recently hired Instagram’s co-founder Mike Krieger as their CPO.

If you're using AI to get work done, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is about to become your new BFF. The combo of high intelligence, speed, and reasonable pricing is a productivity dream.

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