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Daily Digest #463

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Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. Tutorial picks:

   • Code your first app using Replit’s AI copilot³⁹⁹. Beginner or non-coder? Quickly code an app with Replit’s built-in AI.

   • Financial modeling with ChatGPT's interactive charts³⁷¹. Create dynamic financial models and forecasts using ChatGPT's data visualization capabilities.

2. Bing has an answer to Google’s AI overviews.²⁵⁹ It’s called Bing Generative Search. The AI-generated answer takes the main spot on the search results page with the blue links pushed to the right side. Bing says they have taken extra care for accuracy (don’t wanna see people eating rocks now, do we?).

3. Airtable is launching an app builder⁴⁴⁷ - The new Cobuilder tool lets you create custom apps instantly using AI. Just use your data in tables, give a prompt and get a custom app. Build, customize and share the apps with your team, without thinking about code or design.

4. Mistral AI unveils Mistral Large 2¹⁵⁹, a 123B parameter model with 128k context. It’s stronger in code, math, and reasoning, and supports a ton of languages (both human and code). It is open-source and available on La Plateforme too.🍿Our Summary¹ (also below)

5. Try Llama 3.1 7B, 70B, and 405B for Free on OctoAI³¹⁰

   Meta’s new models are game-changers for moving from black box LLMs to a data-secure open source strategy. Get fast/affordable inference for the whole Llama herd on octoai.cloud¹²⁸ and OctoStack in your environment. See Llama vs. GPT4/Claude here³¹⁰, and evaluate for free with OctoAI. (sponsor)

ps: Gemini has a Twitter account now: @geminiapp¹⁶⁷

TUTORIALS

• Create a comprehensive employee handbook⁶⁹⁶.⁶⁹⁶ Use ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting in creating a handbook for new employees.

• Create social media assets with Canva’s Magic Studio.⁶⁹⁶ Generate and edit posts and stories in just a few prompts

• Create a musical script and songs⁶⁹⁶. ⁶⁹⁶Learn how to create a script outline and songs for a musical.

• Create your professional digital voice clone¹⁵⁸. Produce professional voiceovers and audio content with ElevenLabs.

• Transform product feedback into roadmap features¹⁰⁴. Turn feedback into detailed feature descriptions and add to your roadmap.

• Run an exit interview⁹³. Take successful exit interviews and turn the process into an SOP with AI.

• Competitor traffic analysis¹⁹⁸. Gain deep insights into competitor websites using Similarweb Pro and Claude.

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TOP TOOLS

• Kling AI⁴¹⁸ is available worldwide now. No Chinese number is needed. Create cinematic AI videos easily. (more details¹²⁷)

• X (Twitter) is testing a “more about this account” feature powered by Grok.

• Tern³⁵⁴ - Streamline weeks of travel planning in seconds.

• Tempest AI³²⁸ - Build a game in 10 minutes with no coding.

• Hey AI²³⁴ - AI to AI universe for dating, build AI cupid for everyone.

• Hemingway Editor Plus²⁵³ - Edit writing faster with AI.

• StockBot²⁶⁸ - Live stock charts, financials, news, and screeners at lightning-fast speed (Llama w/ Groq).

• MrScraper⁴⁵¹ - Data scraping made simple with AI agents.

• Mermaid AI²⁹³ - Fast and efficient prompt-to-diagram generation.

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NEWS

• Adobe adds new Firefly AI features in Photoshop^111† and Illustrator^49†.

• Stability AI steps into a new-gen AI dimension with Stable Video 4D.¹⁸³

• How Dwarkesh Patel uses AI³¹⁷ tools to learn everything and compound his own intelligence.

• 10 AI business ideas³⁹⁰ from the queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo.

• Why OpenAI could lose $5B¹⁶⁶ this year.

• A win for Harris could mean a smooth runway for AI companies.¹⁴⁹

• 77% of employees report AI has increased workloads and hampered productivity.²⁷³

• What are early adopters of Microsoft Copilot²⁷³ saying about it?

• First steps for creating a ChatGPT-based data analyst.¹⁵²

• Pearl raises $58M¹⁴⁰ at $400M valuation to bring AI to dentists.

• Lakera raises $20M⁸⁷ Series A to deliver real-time GenAI security.

• Reworkd pivots to web-scraping¹¹⁸ AI agents with $4M seed.

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• How is your company adapting to AI disruption? This new book can help. Culture Change Made Easy: Find Your Hidden Culture Patterns and Get Unstuck³⁶

QUICK BITES

Mistral AI just unveiled its new Large Language Model (LLM), Mistral Large 2⁵³, and it's packing some serious punch. Think better at coding, math, and reasoning, plus it speaks a bunch of languages. Oh, and it's apparently more cost-effective than the competition.

What's going on here?

Mistral AI released a new, more capable AI model called Mistral Large 2.

What does this mean?

Mistral Large 2 has 123B parameters with a 128k context window. That's techspeak for "it's big and can handle long conversations." This bad boy excels at coding, math, and logical reasoning. We have another open-source model that is giving top dogs like GPT-4o a run for their money.

It's multilingual AF. We're talking dozens of languages, including the biggies like Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi. Mistral has beefed up its ability to follow instructions and it's less prone to making stuff up (hallucinating, in AI lingo).

You can download the open weights, use it on Mistral's "la Plateforme" or through cloud providers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Some other deets buried in the post:

• Mistral is also consolidating the models on its platform with two general-purpose models, Mistral Nemo and Mistral Large, and two specialist models, Codestral and Embed.

• Older models are still available for deployment and fine-tuning using Mistral’s SDK. Fine-tuning via La Plateforme covers Nemo, Large and Codestral.

Why should I care?

Open-source models have almost caught up to the “frontier models”. These huge models are not usable for individuals yet but businesses can host/fine-tune these instead of going to OpenAI and other close AI providers and paying for their APIs.

Mistral Large 2 is supposedly more cost-effective than other top-tier models. With its multilingual chops, it could also power apps that work well across different languages and markets.

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