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May 16, 2024

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New tutorial: Use ChatGPT to Create a PPC ad copy strategy
Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer. FYI, Mike is the co-founder and ex-CTO of Instagram. Recently, he built Artifact a news-sharing app which got acquired by Yahoo. Anthropic is focusing on building Claude into an everyday app for the workspace.
OpenAI and Google have made big announcements this week but most of the features are yet unreleased. We gotta make do with the demos. Pietro made an Astra-like voice assistant using Gemini 1.5 Pro Flash and Greg Brockman shared an image generated by GPT-4o.

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Receipt AI - Manage receipts with AI and SMS, for busy travelling teams.
ElevenLabs Reader - Read aloud web pages, PDFs and other documents in 11 different voices.
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Gamma raised $12M Series A led by Accel.
LanceDB has raised $11M in total for its database for multimodal AI.
PolyAI secured $50M at near $500M valuation to make voice assistants for call centres.
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“Bridging the AI Expectation Gap” report reveals significant gaps between leadership vision and on-the-ground implementation.
Nvidia is hosting a NIM hackathon on May 22nd.
Stability AI is discussing sale with a buyer as it faces a cash crunch.
Google will ‘sort it out’ if OpenAI misused YouTube for AI training.

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