Figma makes ChatGPT visual

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 Our picks 

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Say hello to Jambot in Figma. It is a FigJam widget that lets you ideate, summarize, and riff in Figma. Born out of an internal hackathon from Figma, Jambot turns idea exploration with ChatGPT into a visual exercise (rather than just chat) and adds multiplayer flavor to it. More from the team that built it.

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Naver unveils its generative AI product HyperCLOVA X. Naver is the Google of South Korea (it is the biggest search engine there). Now, Naver is also dipping its hands in the gen AI space and has launched a chatbot app CLOVA X in beta. Another AI search service, Cue, will launch in beta in September. Also, Naver is working with Samsung to produce AI-efficient chips.

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Lex raises $2.75M for its AI writing tool that helps writers get past blocks. I’m an investor. Nathan is a friend, and I couldn’t be more excited to back him in building Lex. Lex is also spinning out of Every (Nathan and Dan’s media company) and getting a new sleek logo.

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A few other funding highlights:

• Hugging Face raises fresh funds from Salesforce at a valuation of over $4 billion.

• Modyfi announces $7M in seed funding to launch full public beta for AI design platform.

• Ideogram launches with $16.5M seed funding to state of the art creative tools.

• Wand.app raises $4.2M to scale its AI-powered creative tool for artists.

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• Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking.

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 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• Stephen King responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence.

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• Newsguard analysis finds 37 sites that are using AI chatbots to rewrite news articles without credit.

• Nvidia’s Q2 earnings prove it’s the big winner in the generative AI boom.

• Google plans to bring AI-fueled security enhancements to Google Workspace.

• Microsoft to add AI in apps like Paint and Photos on Windows 11.

• Twilio Segment teams with Amazon SageMaker on new customer predictions product

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