📈 How are companies using AI?

➜ Matalan became the UK's first retailer to adopt generative AI for boosting e-commerce in fashion and homewares. The company is using Google's Vertex AI for automated product descriptions on its website, aiming to quadruple productivity.
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➜ Retell AI is building a conversational voice API for LLMs. I recommend playing a live demo with a dental office appointment on their website. Crazy good.

Retell AI 

➜ Northwell, New York's largest healthcare provider, formed a joint venture with startup studio Aegis Ventures to invest $100 million in creating AI tools for patient care.

FierceHealthcare 

➜ SambaNova, a company that builds chips and models for AI solutions, announced Samba-1. A bundle of 56 generative open-source AI models was designed for tasks like text rewriting, coding, language translation, and more. 

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➜ Bestsellers can be produced. Look up Inkitt – the latest attempt at copying Disney’s content engine. The startup’s app lets people self-publish books and – with a little help from AI and data science – picks the most absorbing stories and turns them into blockbusters (that’s the promise at least). And they just got another $37 million in funding.

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➜ Glean, an AI startup enhancing company knowledge base searches, has raised $200 million, doubling its valuation to $2.2 billion since 2022. We’ve built something similar for our purposes – Netguru Memory. Happy to see it’s a growing trend.

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💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ AI worms are coming. Researchers created “Morris II,” a worm capable of forcing interconnected AI systems (think ChatGPT, GPT-3, and generative AI agents) to behave maliciously without human approval. Researchers injected adversarial prompts to show how it could be used to steal data or spread spam.

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➜ People are building apps for Apple Vision Pro which use local LLMs. I’m talking unlimited, private, offline, 24/7, free access to AI. Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S. is here.  

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➜ Emily Campbell spent the entire month cataloging hundreds of screenshots from tools using AI. Why? To begin identifying how UX patterns are evolving in an AI-driven world. Result? Shapeof.ai – a living catalog of emerging patterns and heuristics that shape the experience of AI (AiUX).

Shape Of AI

➜ An appless smartphone's around the corner? Brain.ai demoed its new concept at the Mobile World Congress. TL;DR: generative AI is the backbone of the future smartphone’s OS. See details and pics.

TechCrunch 

➜ Nvidia is building AI-accelerated laptops. New NVIDIA RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPUs will be available in new, highly portable mobile workstations.

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➜ Microsoft is launching an AI copilot for OneDrive. An assistant will be able to dig through files stored in OneDrive and summarize documents, extract information, answer questions, and follow commands.

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➜ Claude 3 > Chat GPT 4? Anthropic has just announced the Claude 3 model family (three models: Haiku, Opus, and Sonnet), outperforming current competitors across a wide range of cognitive tasks.

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