Daily Digest: Here we go again.

Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. I’m writing a series exploring AI’s impact on specific jobs. Today I’m breaking down what AI is changing for front-end engineers and how these lessons apply to other roles.

2. OpenAI’s GPT store is finally live. We all knew that was coming. But what’s OpenAI without surprise releases? We now have a ChatGPT for teams plan at $30/month/user ($25 if annual). GPTs are getting more personalized too. (Not out to everyone yet but hopefully soon!)🍿Our Summary (also below)

3. Alexa gets AI skills: characters, music and 20-questions. Amazon announced new generative AI capabilities for Alexa at CES 2023. Three developers - Character.AI, Splash, and Volley - introduced Alexa skills powered by LLMs.🍿Our Summary

4. Sam Altman and Bill Gates chat about AI, atomic energy and other things.

TOP TOOLS

• Corgea - Fix vulnerable code automatically.

• Mercor - Redefining hiring with AI.

• MoAIjobs - Find a job in AI.

• Pretend - iOS app to swap your face with AI.

• Clarity State - Catch issues and blindspots in your data arguments.

Tools for GPTs:

• lil GPTs - Tiny GPTs, for not so tiny tasks.

• ChatCollect - Collect emails from your GPT users.

• GPT Auth - Authentication and analytics for GPTs.

• Free link shortener for your Custom GPTs.

Few quirky/unique GPTs:

• Hogwarts Sorting Hat - Where do you belong? Your face and your mind tell it all.

• Gift Whisperer - Share IG grid screenshot, get gift ideas.

• CrewAI assistant - GPT to get started with building agents using CrewAI.

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NEWS

Startups and incumbents:

• Leap AI raises $1.4M round led by Founders Inc.

• Photoroom AI is raising $50-60M at a $500-600M valuation.

• 12 startups battling for a slice of Nvidia’s pie.

• Steam allows AI content in games with disclosures.

• Walmart adds Gen AI search to its iOS app.

• Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows.

The outside world:

• London and Wales judges can use AI but have to be responsible for what it writes.

• State employees in Pennsylvania government will use ChatGPT enterprise.

• Chinese companies are modding Nvidia’s gaming chips for AI.

• SAG-AFTRA signs a deal with Replica Studio regarding using AI replicas of voice actors in video games.

• Sal Khan on the future of K-12 education.

Research and tutorials:

• MagicVideo V2 by Bytedance - Multi-stage, high aesthetic video generation.

• Deepseek announced a 16B mixture of experts model.

• Build LLM apps with Langchain - 1 hour course.

• Live building an app with ChatGPT during a podcast.

• A mere mortal's visual guide to AI vector embeddings.

• Notebooks and tutorials to fine-tune Phi-2 by Brev Dev.

• Install Stable Diffusion XL locally on MacOS and use it for free.

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QUICK BITES

OpenAI has launched the GPT Store and ChatGPT Team plan to expand access to large language models for creators and businesses.

What is going on here?

OpenAI has launched the GPT store and a new Teams plan for ChatGPT subscriptions.

What does this mean?

Reminder: 2 months back OpenAI launched custom chatbots inside ChatGPT, calling them GPTs. These GPTs can be shared publicly or have restricted access.

With the new GPT store, you can find all public GPTs in a single place. OpenAI will highlight trending GPTs and top GPTs for several categories every week. The big deal about the GPT Store is the promised revenue share program but we gotta wait for more info on that (not too much, OpenAI says rollout in Q1 2024).

ChatGPT Team is the new plan on ChatGPT for shared workspaces where you can share chats, private GPTs and a dashboard to manage it all. It is pricier: $25/user/month if billed annually ($30 if monthly). You get more messages with GPT-4, longer context lengths and training on your data is default OFF. (a note: you can disable it on simple ChatGPT Plus too, it’s just on by default there)

Why should I care?

Repeating Sam’s statement from Dev Day: GPTs are the first step to agents or assistants that will do everything for you. And in that case, chat does feel like the universal interface for interacting with agents. I find optimism in believing that this is an app store moment (and not the end of work 😅) and even if it is we have a transition stage to cross. Also, more improvements in GPTs about learning continuously, and getting more personalized are also underway. So, get building.

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