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Hey folks, today we have Snowflake and NVIDIA partnering for their enterprise customers. Then MDN is releasing an AI chatbot for web development and again NVIDIA excelling on ML benchmarks.

Also, there are a bunch of funding highlights in the misc. section today.

Let’s get to it.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Snowflake—the data cloud company—is on cloud nine right now. It acquired Neeva and Streamlit just a few weeks ago, and now Snowflake partners with Nvidia. Its customers can now build AI models using their own data using Nvidia’s NeMo framework in Snowflake Data Cloud.

From my POV, Snowflake is partnering and buying companies left and right to keep their enterprise users within their system. That means expanding from just storing data for them and bringing tools to build something useful with that data.

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I’ve been playing with actual code a little for some time now, and I’ll honest, getting stuck with ChatGPT is not rare. And some of you smart coders from the community have told me to use MDN’s guides.

And that got a whole lot easier. MDN just launched an AI chatbot for their guides in partnership with Supabase (disclaimer: I’m an investor in Supabase).

It uses the good old embeddings to find the relevant guides and then GPT 3.5 to answer your questions from those pages. It’s currently limited to 5 questions a day, but I can’t wait to try it out.

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Another one from NVIDIA. So the big guns, AKA its H100 GPU clusters, beat records on all 8 MLperf benchmarks, including one new benchmark for generative AI.

It completed the GPT-3 based benchmark in 11 minutes with the GPU accelerator company CoreWeave. It’s hard to see anyone catch up to NVIDIA in the GPU game soon.

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🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos
  • Kor - A half-baked prototype that "helps" you extract structured data using LLMs. (link)

  • SuperCoder by SuperAGI - Build working software apps using autonomous AI agents. (link)

  • UserStudy – Get deeper insights from users, in hours not weeks. (link)

  • Slated – AI scheduling platform built for 3+ attendee meetings. (link)

  • HelpLook - Free to build help centre, knowledge base, or blog support. (link)

  • Hyperwrite’s personal assistant - AI that can operate your browser to complete nearly any task. (link)

  • Dust - LLM integrations from the ground up with ensuring safety for company data (link) — with €5M in seed funding. (link)

  • Loora - Generative AI with an audio interface to help you learn English (link) — with $9.25 million in seed funding. (link)

  • theGist – A unified AI workspace to supercharge humans. (link)

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🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc
  • Language models are weak learners. (link)

  • Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress. (link)

  • Market map and analysis - Gen AI business productivity companies. (link)

  • 4 VCs illustrate why there’s good reason to be optimistic about the machine learning startup market. (link)

  • A look at Newark Public Schools' test of AI chatbot Khanmigo - is the tool doing too much of the students' thinking. (link)

  • Unifying image-caption and image-classification datasets with prefix conditioning. (link)

  • Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash. (link)

  • Unity introduces Unity Muse and Unity Sentis, AI-powered creativity. (link)

Recent funding recap:

  • Zenarate raises $15M - agent coaching platform. (link)

  • Augmedics gets $82.5M - Spinal surgery using AR and AI. (link)

  • CalypsoAI raises $23M - Guardrails for generative AI models. (link)

  • Brilliant Labs raise $3M - Tiny open-source AR lenses. (link)

  • Reka announces $58M funding coming out of stealth to Build Generative Models and Advance AI Research. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources
  • How I built a no-code AI lead generation chatbot. (link)

  • How to turn text to SFX with the Audio LDM model. (link)

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