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✖️ X unveils Grok
🍴 10 AI news bites
🗣️ OpenAI’s DevDay updates
⚙️ 5 crunch-certified AI tools
💰 9 recent AI investments
🔍 2 key AI reports
📸 1 AI-Generated video
📝 1 prompt engineering insight
News
X Unveils Grok for Witty AI Interaction
Recently released by X, meet Grok: an AI with attitude, ready to tackle any query with a dash of humor. Despite its nascent stage after two months of training, Grok is primed to outsmart existing AIs with users' help, engaging questions others might dodge. It's powered by Grok-1, which impresses with top-notch benchmarks, only outpaced by giants like GPT-4.
Behind Grok's quick wit is xAI's robust engineering, leveraging cutting-edge tech for peak efficiency. xAI's researchers are honing Grok's intelligence, eyeing multimodal and robust AI futures. Grok is one of the first AI models that has access to real time data, in this case pulling X’s vast and constantly updated tweet archives.
Eager to join the revolution? Sign up for early access and help shape Grok's evolution.
News
🍴Quick Bites
Apple Bets Big on AI Health Monitoring: Apple plans hypertension and sleep apnea AI-Powered detection for next watch
LinkedIn Releases AI Job Hunter: The tool aims to match job candidates with openings and prep for interviews
Instagram Spotted Developing ‘AI Friend’: Feature that users would be able to customize to their liking and then converse with
Stability AI has Unveiled Stable 3D: An AI-driven app aimed at simplifying 3D model creation for modeling and game development
Runaway Unveils Physical Editing for AI Videos: It anticipates a post-camera future where anyone can generate movie-quality video as AI advances
Microsoft to Bring AI Characters to Xbox: To make a "fully integrated character engine" that can produce characters based on input text descriptions
Zapier Introduces AI Actions: AI Actions enables AI systems to execute workflows and automations
Andrew Ng Accused Tech Giants of Overblowing AI: The AI visionary believes large players want stricter rules to crush open-source rivals
Alibaba Launches Improved AI Model: Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 aims to compete with global tech behemoths
The Bletchley Agreement Signed: A landmark agreement on the responsible and secure development of advanced AI technologies signed by 28 countries
News
OpenAI DevDay Unlocks New AI Horizons
This past week at OpenAI's DevDay, a suite of advanced AI tools were launched, democratizing access to next-gen AI functionalities. GPT-4 Turbo now packs updates up to April 2023 and improved performance, available for developers to preview. The Assistants API revolutionizes task automation by enabling Python execution and integration of external knowledge.
Additionally, the forthcoming GPT Store will allow users to share and monetize their custom GPTs, while businesses can customize Enterprise GPTs to their needs. Enhanced multimodal capabilities have been introduced, including image processing and text-to-speech, alongside Whisper v3 for improved transcription.
With GPT-4 fine-tuning in experimental stages and a Custom Models program for large datasets, OpenAI is paving the way for widespread AI integration in practical applications.
AI Tools
⚙️ Crunch-Certified AI Tools
Tweet Hunter: Grow your Twitter audience and monetize it
Nintee: Your personal growth coach
Sponsor
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Funding
💰 AI Investments
Shield AI: Which builds AI military tech raised $200M
Guidde: An AI tool for creating video documentation raised $12M
Connectly: Raised $8M to accelerate AI-Powered conversational commerce
Dashtoon: Raised $5M to deploy generative AI for comic creation
Nowsta: Raised $35M to revolutionize the staffing gig economy
Neurophet: Raised $15M to launch AI dementia treatment solutions
Sprout: Raised $5M to grow its AI insurance claims automation globally
Prepared 911: Raised $16M to grow its public-safety infrastructure
Covera Health: An AI-enabled diagnostic technology company raised $50M
Research
🔍 AI Reports, Presentations, and Papers
AI Better Zero-Shot Reasoning with Self-Adaptive Prompting: Paper detailing high-quality prompt reasoning
State of AI in 2023: Hubspot’s general AI report / presentation
Visuals
📸 AI-Generated Art / Videos of the Week
This is the pivotal moment in generative AI.
Runway text-to-video AI just got a MASSIVE update.
Here are the best 8 examples and use cases I’ve found 🧵👇
— Barsee 🐶 (@heyBarsee)
7:31 AM • Nov 4, 2023
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