Daily Digest: GPT-4o gets 50% cheaper, again.

PLUS: Amazon Music's AI topics, meeting documents from Zoom

August 07, 2024

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Here’s what we have today;

New tutorial:
- Use AI to generate press mention reports for your business - Monitor and analyse press mentions for your brand.
OpenAI guarantees Structured Outputs in API responses. A new version of GPT-4o’s latest version follows the provided schema with 100% accuracy (something that JSON mode earlier had missing). This new version is again 50%/33% cheaper for inputs and outputs—bringing it below Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s pricing.
Amazon Music launches Topics to make podcast discovery easier with AI. It analyzes transcripts to tag episodes by subject matter. The number of topics and content under this feature is still limited. It’s now available in the US on iOS and Android.
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AssemblyAI x Zapier - Transcribe audio and extract data from the rich transcripts without needing to code now.
Zoom Docs - Transform content from Zoom Meetings into actionable documents.
SpreadSite - Turn spreadsheets into interactive dashboards.
Rosebud - Thoughtful journal partner that helps you work through your problems. (review by Fast Company)
Stormy - Dynamic notifications to keep you focused at work.
Me bot - Turn your ideas into an AI life coach.
Delphi - Scale 1-1 personalized video calls with your audience.

HF0‘s next batch for repeat founders is accepting applications. It now invests $1 million uncapped in every team.
S&P Global is paying Accenture to upskill 35K employees in AI. Can someone let them know about Ben’s Bites?
The AI founder exodus across the industry.
South Korea will introduce AI-powered digital textbooks to 5M students next year.
Hollywood’s divide on artificial intelligence is only growing.
American Bar Association releases its view of the growing use of Gen AI in law.
Amazon launches Trusted AI Challenge - A global university competition focused on responsible AI and LLM coding security.
Gartner predicts 30% of Gen AI projects will be abandoned after proof of concept.

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