Daily Digest: Did open source just beat GPT?

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Hello folks, next week we have our first expert workshop with Sully Omar - ‘How to build AI agents to automate your work’. He’ll share how he uses Claude and ChatGPT, using various tools to build AI agents and how you can automate repetitive tasks.

Here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. New course on Ben’s Bites: Building mini apps with Claude Artifacts. Projects inside include:

   • Spinning up an interactive data dashboard.

   • Creating a new hire onboarding bot.

   • Building an interactive decision-maker bot.

2. Leaked benchmarks for Meta’s Llama 3.1-405B signal that Llama has beaten GPT-4o—OpenAI’s flagship model. If Meta continues on its promise of open-sourcing models, the best LLM in the world will be actually open. The countdown on PH is set for 12:15 PM ET today.

3. Condé Nast slaps Perplexity AI with cease-and-desist! The magazine giant demands the AI search engine stop using its content, following Forbes' similar move. Perplexity, now valued at $3B, is facing growing legal challenges over its content use.

4. ZAP’s flagship flavor, Wild Kiwi Workflow, is perfect for those looking for an AI-powered jolt to help build workflows with ease.

   • Activate Zapier’s AI copilot to build workflows and simplify complex tasks

   • Add advanced AI actions across 7,000+ apps

   • Automate processes as fast as you can type

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TOP TOOLS

• Liminal* - Workflow productivity tools provide secure access to gen AI anywhere work gets done. Enterprise-grade data security & governance.

• Vozo - Transform viral videos into new stories with prompts.

• Orch - Rust framework for LLM orchestration.

• Gobi - A new way of wellbeing.

• Airy - Reflection journal that grows with you.

• Study Map - Learn any skill with the power of AI.

• ChartFast - Get your own AI data analyst to do your data work.

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NEWS

• Japan’s copyright rules draw AI groups—and alarm from creators.

• Shaped raises $8M for a self-serve platform for AI search and recommendations.

• The uneven distribution of AI’s environmental impacts.

• Why do AIs need to stop and think before they answer?

• Confronting impossible futures - predicting and planning them.

• NeuralGCM by Google - Climate AI model that simulates a week in less than 10 seconds.

• Stability AI releases research paper for Stable Audio Open, trained with Creative Commons data.

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Unclassifieds - short, sponsored links

• Prompt Engineering for Generative AI - O'Reilly book based on principles that worked for GPT-3, still work for GPT-4, and (hopefully) GPT-5

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