Daily Digest: a lot of money flying around

Hi folks, I hope you’re enjoying the holidays! As a reminder, Ben’s Bites Pro will go from $100/year to $150/year on Jan 1st. Two posts I’ve written so far; How Mistral AI, an OpenAI competitor, rocketed to $2Bn in <12 months and How Deel uses AI in its business.

Here’s what we have today;

1. Sam Altman’s OpenAI to be second-most valuable U.S. startup behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX based on early-talks funding round at $100 Billion valuation

2. Anthropic Projects At Least $850 Million in Annualized Revenue Rate Next Year

3. Son uses AI to ‘resurrect’ late father for moving Christmas gift: ‘I got chills’

4. 71% of enterprises experimenting with real use cases for GenAI

TOP TOOLS

• Composer - Build trading algorithms with AI

• TokenCost - calculate the cost of using LLM APIs

• Pay me for my AI - Monetize your custom GPT

• musicgen-remixer - Remix music into other styles

• Inbox Zero - Clean Up Your Inbox In Minutes

• Doclime - Get answers from your documents

• Study Pack - state-of-the-art AI learning assistant

• Search+ - Chat with any PDF documents

• Design Buddy - Catch every design flaw, before it’s too late.

• Zocket - AI social media ad platform

• AI Employe - GPT-4 Vision-powered browser automation

• Spiritime - Create personalized videos with digital avatars.

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NEWS

• Will scaling work?

• AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now

• AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition

• Nvidia closes in on chip revenue crown as AI booms

• OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts AI will deflate the economy over the next 25 years

• Microsoft Copilot is now available as a ChatGPT-like app on Android

• OpenAI Passes the Hat (raising at a $100Bn valuation); Midjourney Takes the Cake

• Big Tech outspends venture capital firms in AI investment frenzy

• OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs

• Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Jony Ive, Sam Altman to Work on AI Devices

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