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AI for professionals (400K readers!) 👉 @SFPublicLibrary , prev @airtable / @mckinsey . All thoughts my own.

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I'm excited to launch The Neuron's podcast! And give away $500 to a lucky winner :) After shipping 300+ newsletters to 400K+ readers, we're going deeper with a pod. TLDR: It’s still about AI, but we’ll dive deeper and cover more than we normally do in the newsletter: extra
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🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft is releasing Copilot for Microsoft 365: - Word - Powerpoint - Excel - Teams Here's the summary:
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Stanford just released a MASSIVE 386-page report on the state of AI. Here are the 12 most interesting trends that you should know.
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JUST IN: Canva announces a suite of new AI tools. This follows just after Adobe Firefly yesterday. What's with the timing!? Here's what's new for Canva's 125 million users:
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AI is letting you create 3D worlds in seconds. This will transform gaming and AR/VR. Here are 6 unbelievable demos you need to see:
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The Microsoft <> OpenAI news is much bigger than we first thought: - $10 billion investment in the works, with Microsoft getting 75% of revenue until it recoups all $10b - GPT in Office, not just Bing
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This is amazing. From iPhone recording to high-quality 3D animation in 1 minute.
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Text to video. It’s so over.
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Absolutely insane that this is a game. Looks like real footage.
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As you type, a 3D world emerges. This is super cool.
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JUST IN: NVIDIA dropped new text-to-video research. While still far from Hollywood quality, it's pretty damn impressive how fast this is moving. "a storm trooper vacuuming a beach"
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Wow. ChatGPT just got even more interesting. Plugins now available, including one that allows ChatGPT to browse the Internet! It's not just about writing poems and blog posts anymore. It's about DOING stuff. Some of my favorite examples:
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Update on OpenAI/Microsoft deal terms: Once $92 billion in profit plus $13 billion in initial investment are repaid [to Microsoft and once the other venture investors earn $150 billion, all of the equity reverts back to OpenAI
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Big batch of announcements today from Amazon, Stability AI, Google and Meta. Here's what happened and how to make sense of them:
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Everyone pay very close attention to what's happening here. Google is absolutely dead. Dead.
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BREAKING: Microsoft is dropping a big set of updates to Bing Chat today. - Bing Chat Plugins - Multimodal answers - Persistent chat + chat history - No more waitlist to use Let's take a closer look:
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Google's new music model MusicLM is the breakthrough of the week. Here it is in action. Just describe the music and it'll generate the track:
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1. Blockade Labs @BlockadeLabs • Generate virtual world via a text prompt • Remix the styling, scene, weather
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Emergency ChatGPT API Hackathon kicking off!
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This isn't drone footage?! It's a NeRF?! Progress here has been totally underhyped.
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BREAKING: Google announces "Help me write" in Gmail. Goodbye to the dozens of Chrome extensions doing "GPT in Gmail".
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Search (dot) ChatGPT (dot) com May 9th.
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Lol next level: ChatGPT + 3D printer = handwritten homework
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You don't understand, Dad. All I have ever wanted in life is to partner with cross-functional leadership to deliver on high-impact initiatives.
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Westworld lured millions of us into a fantasy of human-like robots in a Wild West-themed world. Could it be real one day? Stanford/Google researchers just told us how they used AI to make "generative agents". Here's what they did 👇
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Every OpenAI launch is 30 minutes of raw excitement then 2 hours where I can't physically do any work because I'm overwhelmed by how much the world will change
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A podcast where I interview the early hires that made a mark on successful startups No lessons, just honest and crazy stories of creating out of nothing Would you listen?
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Every AI hobbyist needs to realize how soon your laptop and smartphone will have a ChatGPT on it. It's happening soon and way faster than you think. Here's what you need to know (the non-technical version):
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Damn. @elonmusk has purchased 10,000 GPUs and hired 2 ex-DeepMind engineers. Elon, please tell me you're naming it Open AI.
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You can earn up to $25-45/hour right now helping to train AI models. You don't need a technical degree! You just need some relevant topic experience and an Internet connection. Here's how:
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We hosted #emergencychatgpthackathon this past Sunday for the new ChatGPT and Whisper APIs. It all came together in just 4 days, but we had 250+ people and 70+ teams demo! Here’s a recap of our winning demos:
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Salesforce departures last few days: - Bret Taylor (co-CEO) - Mark Nelson (CEO, Tableau) - Stewart Butterfield (CEO, Slack) - Tamar Yehoshua (CPO, Slack) - Jonathan Prince (SVP, Marketing/Comms)
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Ok, this is nutty. AI agents navigating the web for you. Watch this one order a pizza:
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If you are non-technical, you absolutely must - and I cannot stress this enough - learn SQL.
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Feb 7th: Bing + ChatGPT event Feb 8th: Google Bard event All gas no brakes in AI
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EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes at OpenAI HQ
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BREAKING: After raising $225 million, @inflectionAI has launched Pi, a personal AI. You can try it at .
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If I were approached with an opportunity to be an early employee again, here's how I would do it. A thread 👇
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Hey SF-based techies I wrote your resolutions for you: - Delete ride-hailing and food-delivery apps - Learn 3 bus lines - Walk the Crosstown Trail - Google who your Supervisor is - Volunteer with your time, not your skills - Pick a cause that is not effective altruism
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SEO is about to change forever. Above the fold in Google search results will be completely filled by generative AI result.
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Search engine market share in the US for April 2024 What????? Historically closer to 88-90% for Google
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Where the $10b investment sits relative to Microsoft's largest *acquisitions*: 1. Activision Blizzard ($68.7b, pending) 2. LinkedIn ($26.2b) 3. Nuance ($19.7b) 4. OpenAI $10b investment 5. Skype ($8.5b) 6. ZeniMax Media ($8.1b) 7. GitHub ($7.5b)
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4. Opus @OpusAIInc • Creates a virtual world as you type out the description
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Microsoft new Copilot+ PCs: - Powered by new NPU (40+ trillion operations per second) - Rearchitected Windows 11 - 58% faster than Macbook Air M3 - Copilot shipping with Windows - Copilot built into Settings, files, notifications - Powered by GPT-4o
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Copilot in PowerPoint looks sick. Here it is turning a word doc into a slide deck:
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Writing email in ChatGPT is THE most popular use case. Most people are having trouble prompting the tone - something direct but professional but also friendly but also not too enthusiastic. Here's the hack for you: "tone: conversational, 50% spartan"
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2. Unakin • Go from chat to video game in <1 minute
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You don't need 1,000 AI tools. You need the ones that actually work. We spent the last weeks trying every tool we can find to find the ones you should actually pay attention to. Here are the first 20 tools we recommend and why:
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OpenAI's developer day is on Nov 6. What the f*ck is even left to announce? Video? AGI?
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Midjourney prompt: indian man, black frame glasses, black shirt, professional headshot, forlorn, realization his company is falling behind, only announces waitlists, bard sucks, always gets frontrun by microsoft Oh wait
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5. Meta open sources "Animated Drawings" - Project brings sketches to life - This continues an effort from 2021, when they first released this project and started collecting data from the public Access:
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BREAKING: Google is bringing AI to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides via new product, Duet AI for Workspace What they're demo'ing:
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Magic Edit: Replace an element with an AI-generated image
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3. Spline @splinetool • Create and edit 3D objects using AI • Like the Figma for 3D
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OpenAI didn’t ship the Windows app for ChatGPT because Microsoft is doing it
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BREAKING: Google is officially announcing PaLM 2, which is already in production. 25 products/features powered by PaLM 2 today.
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You can read the full report here:
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The funniest part about this launch is that the website is extremely confusing: As this comment says:
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Sorry, your 2-month MBA internship at Google does not make you an “operator”
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You should be in the US if you're starting an AI company
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This is an insane video. Copilot for Figma 🤯
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Magic Design: Turn an image into a completely personalized design template
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Soon, the AI tinkerers on Twitter will be building stuff that the average American finds outright terrifying. That's going to be one hell of a public debate.
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New AI models today get MILLIONS times more training than 10 years ago.
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AI research has been heating up for years, with no signs of slowing down
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I'm testing MusicLM, the music generator from Google. Gonna start with some of their sample prompts and then try some of my own.
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AI models are getting big, and fast
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AI-generated worlds are coming to your fingertips
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5. Luma Labs @LumaLabsAI • Turns phone recordings into AR scenes
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1. Bedrock via AWS - Bedrock lets enterprises use and fine-tune base models with their own data. - Base models from Anthropic, AI21 (European languages), Amazon Titan (new language models) and Stability AI (images).
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It makes me so incredibly happy to see LinkedIn profiles that look like this: X Company (5 years, 5 months) - Product Manager (current) - Associate PM - Sr. Product Ops Specialist - Product Ops Specialist - Sr. Customer Support Rep - Customer Support Rep
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It must be so hype to be a Microsoft employee in 2023
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ChatGPT will soon be able to generate entire series of novels at a time. New research that dropped Sunday shows it's possible. Here's the non-technical explainer to make you smarter:
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Big batch of AI product launches today! Here's a roundup of 7 cool products across - Web design - Shopping - Finance ...and more:
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Someone on TikTok also asked AI to create a villain for each US state + DC. Ohio got the short end of the stick...
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By comparison, people in China believe in AI's future way more than people in the US
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It's a good time to have AI-related skills
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6. Nvidia Omniverse • Demo below uses GPT-4 to generate 3 objects
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BREAKING: Google announces Bard will have access to tools! For starters, this includes integrations with Docs and Gmail. Bard will let you control Google Apps from the chatbox.
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Announcing the @beondeck Hot Girl Fellowship: a 10-week program that gathers 150 hot girls and teaches them how to distract engineers
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Governments are sprinting to figure out their approach to AI. Look at the EU. They've been working on their big AI Act for nearly 2 years. Then ChatGPT comes out and throws a big wrench in their framework. Kneejerk reaction from Italy to ban it.
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In just 3 years, language models have gotten way more powerful. This shows performance of language models across subjects like social sciences, humanities, etc.
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With great power comes great responsibility. People are also using these more capable AI models to do questionable things, like deepfaking politicians.
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Magic Eraser: Remove elements from an image
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This man is building the most insane tools Voice to deployed website 🤯
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Insane that people say this shit and even more insane that 3.5K people fell for it
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BREAKING: Microsoft is announcing Copilot, one experience that understands context across multiple surfaces/services.
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GPT-4 Omni was already in beta in early 2023. OpenAI is firmly in control.
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If you're spending $20/month on ChatGPT-4 to code with AI... Use @Replit instead. They just made their AI coding assistant FREE. They're also releasing a state-of-the-art coding model, replit-code-v1.5-3b.
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A lot has happened in January 2023 alone. If this continues, where will we be by end of year?
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1-2 million people are paying $20/month for ChatGPT Plus
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This joins other offerings from NVIDIA, Scale, OpenAI and Microsoft in enterprise land. Everyone is recognizing that enterprises will fine-tune their own models and need to do it without leaking data.
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Claude and Bard ARE IN TROUBLE. OpenAI just released the iOS app for ChatGPT. HERE’S WHY A MOBILE APP WILL WIPE ANTHROPIC AND GOOGLE OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
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Magic Presentations: Generate a slide deck from a prompt
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$MSFT up 8-9% after earnings Highlights from investor call: - Over 2,500 Azure OpenAI Service customers (up 10x QoQ) - Over 10,000 organizations signed up for GitHub Copilot for Business - Teams "intelligent recaps" has "thousands of paid customers just two months in" - Bing
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We (millennials having their lifestyle subsidized by VC) are so back
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This number is going to continue to skyrocket as the world figures out how to adjust to new AI capabilities. Notable ones include the outstanding lawsuit against Stability AI for copyright concerns.
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Finance bros about to have their minds blown: Use AI to copy formatting and styling from one financial model to another
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Web Browser plugs into Bing. ChatGPT will now know when and how to search for information.
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