Daily Digest: A new llama and a shopping bot

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Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. New tutorials:

   • Edit images with Canva’s Magic Studio - Use Canva’s AI to change image colours, move objects, or remove image elements altogether.

   • Write copy for your new website - How to write website copy that resonates using ChatGPT and a handful of prompts.

   • Conduct interviews for non-technical roles - Use ChatGPT to prepare interview questions, set evaluation criteria and assess candidates.

   • Create a sales research agent - Learn how to create a sales research AI agent with Leap AI workflows.

   • Build your own AI image generator - Learn how to create your own no-code image generator workflow with Leap AI and Stable Diffusion.

2. Meta is dropping the biggest Llama soon. Llama 3 405B will likely launch on 23rd July. This is the first multimodal Llama model, handling both text and images. Will Meta release it as open-weights? and does that actually matter? 405B means a huge model that can’t run on local PCs.

3. Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant, is now available to all U.S. customers! It can answer product questions, compare options, provide recommendations, and give info about specific orders. It also answers generic, non-shopping-related queries in the context of “what should you buy.” Let’s see how this fares.

4. Some spicy details: Reuters report a secret OpenAI project codenamed Strawberry is increasing the reasoning capacity of its models. LMsys has some new models in testing (one of them, eureka, is likely from Google). Gemini is supposed to get some updates this week, with a launch of Gems (Google’s version of custom GPTs).

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• KushoAI - Fastest way to test your API.

• Dropbase - Prompt-based python web app builder.

• Vocabuo - Learn languages with images and audio, not just text.

• Phaie by Creatr - Create, edit and renew design systems and fix files.

• Gutenberg by Listenly - Buy audiobook versions of Project Gutenberg books.

• Rabbit Holes - Dive deep into any topic with curated content from across the web.

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NEWS

• SpreadsheetLLM by Microsoft - Encoding spreadsheets for large language models.

• EU’s AI Act gets published in bloc’s Official Journal, starting clock on legal deadlines.

• OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say.

• Outspent by Big Tech, universities don’t want AI research to leave them behind.

• Talking with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington about their new AI health coach.

• Fine-tune Llama-3 8B on your own data.

• The future of knowledge assistants by Jerry Liu.

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