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I’m interviewing people who use AI at work and this week I interviewed a solo-founder building an AI company, with AI. It’s fascinating to see how efficient people can be by leveraging AI.
Gemini 1.5 Pro is now open to all in Google’s AI studio. It’s soon coming to API as well. This is Google’s model with 1M context length.
Sakana AI releases its report on merging foundational models similar to natural evolution. Sakana AI was founded by two authors from Google’s transformer paper. It is focused on making nature-inspired LLMs.
Ben’s Bites Marketing Digest - False claims get fined. SEC fines misleading AI marketing, Copy AI now powers end-to-end GTM execution, and creator marketing budgets are changing with AI.

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AI Wedding Toast - Generate a personalized wedding speech to create a heartfelt moment.
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a16z’s benchmarks for retention for consumer AI products.
How people are really using GenAI.
Nvidia and Hippocratic reveal AI nurses that cost $9/hour.
White House proposes up to $8.5B to fund Intel’s domestic chip manufacturing.
The Mormon Church’s guiding principles for the use of artificial intelligence.
OpenAI is sprinting to keep up with startups on AI-generated video.
Researchers who developed Stable Diffusion are leaving Stability AI.
Cohere wants a $6B valuation despite just $13M in ARR.

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