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Our first expert workshop (How to build and use AI Agents) was yesterday, and you can view the recording, summary, and transcript here¹⁵⁵.

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• How to repurpose content using AI¹⁰⁵

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   • Create a fundraising pitch deck³⁴⁰ from your business plan in just a few prompts.

   • Edit your videos³⁴⁰ with Canva’s Magic Studio and see them come to life.

2. Talking ChatGPT gets into the hands of early users.²²³ OpenAI begins alpha rollout of ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode. It doesn’t have video and screen-sharing capabilities yet but OpenAI claims it’s more like talking to a friend than an AI bot.🍿Our Summary² (also below)

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• Airtable acquires Dopt¹⁵⁵, which offered product onboarding with AI.

• Meta scraps celebrity AI chatbots¹⁴⁰ that fell flat with users.

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QUICK BITES

OpenAI is finally letting people use its HER-like voice chatbot. Not all users get access to this advanced voice mode but the alpha is now up and running.¹⁰²

What is going on here?

OpenAI rolls out the alpha program to test ChatGPT’s Advanced voice mode.

What does this mean?

Didn’t ChatGPT have a voice mode earlier too? Yes, but this new “advanced mode” is different. Here’s how:

Earlier, ChatGPT used to simply read the text output from its AI model. Now, the model outputs audio from scratch.

That means the voice outputs are faster and have a wider range of speed, tone and emotions (as OpenAI demoed in May).

The video and screen-sharing capabilities from those demos are not available in this alpha program either. OpenAI says that all ChatGPT plus users will have access to the advanced voice mode by fall.

Why should I care?

OpenAI’s getting a lot of flak for being slow in rolling out these latest batch of demos. Advanced voice mode was demoed in mid-May, more than 2 months ago. this is an eternity in the current AI scene.

Alpha rollout means the capabilities are really getting into users’ hands and we’ll get to see it in the wild (not just curated sample videos). Let’s see if it delivers on the hype.

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