Daily Digest: Take a deep breath

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Here’s what we have today;

PICKS - a look back

1. More smart and experienced AI folks are starting their own companies and scaling them to hundreds of millions (and even billions). I already put together the journey of Replicate and Mistral. Just yesterday Eleven Labs announced unicorn valuation and more Google Deepmind scientists are planning to create their own startups.

2. But how are smaller startups using AI in their business? I asked Deel and Sandwich Video. We covered how to experiment and find new tools, how to decide where to use AI, and the role of characters and agents in business.

TOP TOOLS

• Qlary AI - Call centre AI made simple.

• Holly - Hiring on auto-pilot.

• Bonkers by Merlin - Simplest ever text-to-image generator.

• Getwebsite.report - Comprehensive webpage audit with tailored insights.

• Whisper API - Transcription with OpenAI Whisper and generous free credits.

• AIDE by Weco - Your AI agent for machine learning pipelines.

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NEWS

• Developer Contest by Nvidia - Gen AI on RTX PCs.

• Avatars, robots and AI - Japan turns to innovation to tackle the labour crisis.

• Applying AI to immune cell networks.

Raise and praise:

• Open source vector database Qdrant raises $28M.

• Raga AI raises $4.7M seed round for comprehensive AI testing.

• Bloomberg reports xAI raised $500M, Elon says: nope, it didn’t.

Election-mania:

• New Hampshire officials to investigate AI robocalls mimicking Biden.

• OpenAI suspends developer for creating a bot of US election candidate Dean Phillips.

• AI is destabilizing the concept of truth in 2024 elections.

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Ben’s Bites Insights

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• All 10k+ links we’ve covered, easily filterable (1 referral)

• 6k+ AI company funding rounds from Jan 2022, including investors, amounts, stage etc (3 referrals)